Jerry Sloan
Jerry Sloan
Gerald Eugene "Jerry" Sloanis an American former National Basketball Association player and head coach, and a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame. Former NBA commissioner David Stern called Sloan "one of the greatest and most respected coaches in NBA history." Sloan had a career regular-season win–loss record of 1,221–803, placing him third all-time in NBA wins at the time he retired. Sloan was only the fifth coach in NBA history to reach 1,000 victories and is one of two...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth28 March 1942
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Anything can happen in this business. We're competing and we're going to fight through to the end.
difficult game looked night outside
The way we started the game was atrocious. It looked like we wanted to play outside (on the perimeter) all night and that made it very difficult for us.
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They showed a little bit of an attitude about what's going on out there. When you play that way, it kind of gets back at you sometimes. It's kind of upsetting that those things crop up when we still have a chance to get to the playoffs.
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I thought we executed our offense pretty well. We're still alive and that's the important thing. The games mean something ... You just keep fighting and playing until the season is over and see what happens.
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I thought we played a lot harder tonight than we have been playing. They out hustled us in the first half, but we got after them in the second half and turned it up defensively.
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I think we do believe in the offense now. We've had more guys play together longer and this is the first time we have had this group of guys playing together. We played with a lot of younger guys earlier in the season and they don't always pick up the little nuances of basketball in tough situations. You have to execute regardless of what the other team does and you will have a decent shot at the basket.
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I thought our guys were playing hard tonight. I really thought we were playing hard. Dallas gets to it and they get whatever they want and go inside and really take it to you. They've got guys that can put it on the floor, they got a lot guys that can pass and they got guys that can shoot it out on the floor. You have to be really good to try to stop them.
bags guys looked
Our guys looked like they had their bags packed at halftime.
business guys hope huge kept learned
Our guys kept thinking, 'We have a chance. We have a chance.' That is so huge in this business. I hope we learned something from that tonight.
basketball
I would think those things would make you a better basketball player.
worthwhile
I would think it would be something that would be worthwhile for him.
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I think it'll happen again because of the three-point line. Tracy McGrady is a guy who could do something like that, because he can shoot from a distance and also get on top of the basket.
chance garbage good guys playing trying win
I think it's been pretty good for most of our guys here because they got a chance to play some. They're not playing garbage minutes. We're trying to win ballgames with them.
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It gives him a tremendous advantage, because good players have the ability to do different things. Teams can scout you, but that scouting report doesn't do you much good if you tend to play (defense) just one way.