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
difficult everybody fairly good guys happy order playing
I think they've always been fairly responsive. Everybody has their own way of playing and everybody has their strengths. In order to get 12 guys happy in that situation, it's kind of difficult at times to do. But I think for the most part they've done a pretty good job.
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He's got his head on his shoulders pretty well.
good practice terrific worker
He's been terrific. He's been a terrific worker in practice and a good person to his teammates, and I think those things are very important.
confidence confident floor fought great grew guys knowledge level spell threw time watched
He's a very confident guy, but I probably got into his confidence level a little bit. The important thing to me was he fought threw that little spell we had and his confidence grew and grew. He can see a lot of things on the floor not many guys can see. I've been around a long time and watched a lot of different guys play this game. He has great knowledge of basketball.
change committed seems staying totally
He seems to be totally committed to staying out. That could change if he's been out for a while and he doesn't go too far.
again guys job wants whatever
He should be upset. I was upset, too ? but my job is to try to get these guys to go play again (tonight). He always has the right to do whatever he wants to do. I know that.
biggest confidence gives hopefully
Hopefully this gives us some confidence to try to get better. That's the biggest thing.
couple great hung situations
We made some mistakes, but we also had some situations where I think we could've hung in there a little better if we'd had a couple of things go our way. I'm not going to take anything away from them because they're a great team, but it's frustrating.
best players three
Our three best players . . . were like 8-for-22.
couple plays win
Fortunately Andrei made a couple of big plays to win the ballgame.
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Give (the Heat) credit, because they're a great team. They've got guys who can get to the basket and get to the free throw line. We don't have a guy who can get 20 free throws a night. So how are we going to play? We've got to do it from a team concept, by passing the ball and being ready to pass it.
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He was the one that really wanted to be traded. I mean I wasn't looking to trade the guy. But if a guy wants to get out and is probably not happy here, what else can you do?
confidence pass shoot trying wants whatever
He has confidence to go where he wants to go, to get us into whatever we're trying to do. He's a passer first. He'll pass first and shoot second.
block finish middle top tremendous
Greg Ostertag had a tremendous finish for us. He was able to block up the middle and keep them from getting on top of the basket.