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 good
Those were some pretty good shots. But they didn't go in the basket ? and you have to be able to make them in this league.
ball guys hard last lost night played waxed
We were in the ball game. I thought our guys played pretty hard. We got waxed pretty hard last night (a 110-85 lost to Cleveland), but I thought our guys played pretty hard tonight, but that's the way it goes.
beginning defended fought half playing scoring second time tough
We fought at the beginning of the second half and then they just annihilated us. They defended us well and we had a very tough time scoring inside. If we keep playing like that, we won't get into the playoffs.
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.
seem
We didn't really seem to have any life.
deal great tired
We didn't show a great deal of toughness. We were tired out there and we have to get into better shape.
bit feeling sorry
We're feeling a little bit sorry for ourselves,
bit
We started to play a little bit at the end of the ballgame, but it was a little bit too late.
alive bit keeps win
This win keeps us alive a little bit longer. Without this win, we would be dead.
ball came game gave needed pressure turned win
We gave them everything they needed to get their game going and win the ballgame. They came up and put the pressure on us, and we turned the ball over a little bit, and then we got real casual. There was no execution.
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.
alive
We're still alive and that's the important thing.
easy playoff
We're still in the playoff picture. I know we don't play like it sometimes because we give away easy baskets, but we are still right there.
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.