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
asking compete game guys hard
All I'm asking for from these guys is for them to compete hard ... If you like the game enough, this is what you want.
almost anyone burn fought
Greg didn't burn any bridges, ... Greg and I fought almost every day (but) I apologized to Greg more than anyone I've ever coached.
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.
aware maybe time
I just thought it was an opportune time to do that because maybe he had something in his head, or something was going on that I wasn't aware of.
took
That was pretty big for us. It took away their momentum.
assignment break certain floor four guys offensive remains supposed
If you're supposed to be on a certain place on the floor defensively, you've got to get there. You can't just go crazy. And if you've got a certain assignment on the offensive end of the floor, that all remains the same. But if we break it down because we've got something else in mind, then the other four guys don't have any idea what we're doing. It's just basketball. But we have to play it together.
caused confused exhibition form knowing looked offense season
They did everything they wanted to do tonight. They looked in mid-season form and we looked like we were in exhibition season not knowing what we're doing. Too many times we were confused as to what we wanted to do on offense and that caused us a lot of problems.
played purpose tonight
I thought we played with a lot more purpose tonight than we did the other night.
biggest confidence gives hopefully
Hopefully this gives us some confidence to try to get better. That's the biggest thing.
basketball
You see what championship basketball is all about.
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.
feeling
I kind of got that feeling after a while. If I'm being discussed, I kind of want to be there.
brought caused harder played pressure quarter second third tougher worn
In the second half, they played harder and caused us to take tougher shots. We shouldn't have been worn down in the third quarter when they put pressure on us. You have to give them credit. They brought it to us.
begin game hard shot time took
He took off like the game was all his, to begin the ballgame. He shot every time he got it. And, fortunately, he made it. So it's hard for you to say too much in that situation.