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 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.
head maybe
Maybe I'll have 12 captains, ... I've got a lot of things going on in my head with that right now.
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.
again distance guy happen shoot top tracy
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.
learned smart
(Miami) is a smart team, they execute. We haven't learned to do that in an offense. We can't do it one-on-one.
begin comfort front playing shut zone
We just couldn't keep them in front of us. We couldn't keep them from penetrating to the basket. They got about everything they wanted tonight. They were playing in such a comfort zone that we couldn't even begin to shut them down.
block boards difference guys line missing second shots trying understand win
We just couldn't do anything with them in overtime. I can understand guys missing shots, but I don't understand not being able to block them off the boards and give them second shots while we're trying to win a ballgame. They got to the free-throw line and we didn't. That was the difference in the game.
figure itself
That will figure itself out at the end of the year.
took
That was pretty big for us. It took away their momentum.
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.
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.
along defend four life line people played somewhere three
We only had about three or four possessions where we got up and played people. That was the only life we had. Somewhere along the line we need to defend people so we can compete.