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
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.
hard life since worked
Greg has never worked as hard in his life as he's worked since he's been back here.
earn fights gave good starting works
I don't know if it's good or bad, but we kind of gave him the starting job. He didn't really earn it. He'll be just fine. It's good for him to see different things and for us to see how he works through it, how he fights back.
call hard leadership toughness work
I don't know if you call it leadership or what have you. But he's just got some toughness about him. He's had to work hard and those are the things you can't make someone do. You have to want to do that.
league sell somewhere work
If you don't like this business, you can always go work somewhere else. We've got to try to sell this league any way we can, if it's a positive.
asking best bit cause deal great harsh hold karl players policy tendency work
I'm not asking them to be Karl Malone, but I think I have a right to hold players accountable. If I do that, then I'm being a little bit too harsh on them at times. But we have a tendency to think that no work is the best policy and that will cause you a great deal of trouble.
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.
fought guys looked points running second seven six within
We kind of fought back a little in the second half. We got to within six or seven points and then they just annihilated us. Our big guys just looked like they were running in mud.
ball gave looked running
We had 23 turnovers and gave away 28 points. They went after the ball hard, and we looked like we were running in mud.
bit
We started to play a little bit at the end of the ballgame, but it was a little bit too late.
compete fight shown stay though
This team, they've shown the willingness to try to fight back and stay in there and compete even though we've been short-handed.
great team
This team is going to be a great, great team.
ball game
This was a winnable ball game on our part.