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
basket front half huge job letting staying top
We did a better job of staying in front of them and not letting them get on top of the basket every time. And that was a huge thing because the first half was atrocious.
basket defense good guys job keeping matter played shoot top tough
I thought he (Palacio) played pretty well. He played defense well, which is tough no matter which of those guys you put him on. The important thing is we did a good job of keeping them on top of the basket and made them shoot over the top of us.
basketball great help hurt job keeping kinds nelson people shots strong
Nelson did a great job keeping us off balance. I thought his play was terrific. He's strong ... he can score, he was able to get people the basketball and help them get the kinds of shots they wanted. That's one of the big things that hurt us.
guys hungry job responsibility sure takes team tougher toughness whatever
I had said it would be a big disappointment if the team didn't make the playoffs. I'm not sure that we have enough guys that are hungry enough to want to be in the playoffs. The toughness to be able to get there sometimes doesn't show up. I take responsibility for that. That's my job to make them tougher or whatever it takes for them to be able to play.
ball felt four fourth game gave guys job left minutes needed took win
We gave (Sacramento) everything they needed to get their game going and win the ball game. I took the timeout with four minutes left in the fourth because I felt like the guys that were in just weren't going to get the job done.
anybody finishing job leave open
We've got to do a better job finishing the ballgame. We don't want to leave anybody open on a 3-point shot.
altogether defend job terrible trying
We did a terrible job altogether trying to defend them.
good job looked moving
They did a good job of getting after us. We looked like we were moving in mud.
block job offensive poor trying
We did a very poor job in trying to block them off of the boards. They just killed us on the offensive boards.
adventure ball few job offense settled shot standing taking terrific
When we did go inside, it was kind of like an adventure in there with the way we shot the ball a few times to see if we could get it up on the glass. They did a terrific job standing us up and taking us out of our offense and we settled for that.
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.
basic came glad guys happened involved job karl ready
I'm really glad for what happened to Karl Malone, but these guys weren't involved in that that much. Their basic job is to get ready and play basketball, and I didn't think we came out with that intention.
alive ball job passing second shot terrific tonight took
Andrei was terrific. He was all over the place. He was terrific defensively, he shot the ball well and did a terrific job passing the ball. I never took him out the second half. Usually I take him out, but he was so alive tonight I didn't take him out at all.
basic basketball came job ready whatever
Their basic job is to get ready to play basketball and I didn't think we came out with that intention, whatever the situation. There are a lot of distractions in basketball.