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
andre blocked came foul guy kept looked shot stretching
Andre made the big block. He looked like he was going to foul the guy but he kept stretching out his arms. He blocked the shot and came away with the ball.
destroy fight good sort tremendous
They're a good team. They sort of destroy your will to want to play. But we did fight back and I think that's tremendous on our part.
ball bit hesitates needs shoot
He just needs to shoot the ball when he's open. When he's done that, he's fine. When he hesitates a little bit on it, he has a little bit of a problem.
moments played
For the most part, ... he's had his moments where he's played pretty well.
ball kept throw
He kept us under control, and didn't throw the ball away. He had one turnover . . . That's what we need, so we can get into an offense.
bear darn kick watching
The Bear was pretty darn funny. I got a kick out of watching him.
great shots wonderful
He was terrific. He made his shots and he's just a wonderful player. I think we're intimidated by him a great deal.
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.
dallas gets good guys hard inside pass playing shoot stop whatever
I thought our guys were playing hard tonight. I really thought we were playing hard. Dallas gets to it and they get whatever they want and go inside and really take it to you. They've got guys that can put it on the floor, they got a lot guys that can pass and they got guys that can shoot it out on the floor. You have to be really good to try to stop them.
assignment ball complement guys terrific tough
He is a tough assignment for anybody. He's a terrific player. He can put the ball on the floor. And they've got the right complement for him: They've got guys that can make 3-point shots.
half harder hustled played second tonight turned
I thought we played a lot harder tonight than we have been playing. They out hustled us in the first half, but we got after them in the second half and turned it up defensively.
happen tough trying win wonder
It's tough on Jeff. He's trying to win and doing everything he can. You wonder what's going to happen to you next.
bearing guys move none people start
None of this has any bearing on who will start the season. I told them that today. I've got to move a lot of people around. I've got to see how different guys play off the bench, see how they play with other people.
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.