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
effort stop
They pretty much manhandled us all the way around. We didn't have much of any kind of effort to stop them.
happy
They're happy just being close. But it doesn't make me very happy.
basketball
You see what championship basketball is all about.
fourth league third
As long as Greg was here, we were always third or fourth in the league in (defensive field-goal percentage),
competing fight happen
Anything can happen in this business. We're competing and we're going to fight through to the end.
difficult game looked night outside
The way we started the game was atrocious. It looked like we wanted to play outside (on the perimeter) all night and that made it very difficult for us.
beat beginning dominated four seem
They dominated us right from the beginning of the ballgame. We didn't really seem to have any life. ... They beat us all four quarters.
attitude bit crop energy opportunity upset
They didn't look like they had any energy and I think they were upset with me more than anything else. They had a little bit of an attitude about what's going on out there. It's kind of disappointing that those things would crop up now when you have an opportunity to get into the playoffs.
finally gave played quarter third turned
They finally played a little in the third quarter but we weren't able to come all the way back. We turned it over 23 times and gave them 28 points.
ball care experience guys messed mistake pin point revealing sort stop talk took top turn
They executed, they got on top of the basket. If you made a mistake defensively, they took care of it. They made us turn the ball over if we messed up our spacing on the floor. They used us on the pin down. Guys couldn't get up and get over screens. It was kind of a revealing experience for our players. You see those things and talk about those things, but we aren't able to get to that point where we can stop that sort of thing.
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 bit keeps win
This win keeps us alive a little bit longer. Without this win, we would be dead.
half mistake pull second seemed talked
We've talked about it and talked about it and this second half they seemed to have the idea that if we make a mistake then we pull for each other and we play through it.
duress himself learns sure
Those are things he can learn, but he has to put himself under a little more duress to make sure he learns it, ... Because I think he can do some things out there. He can run, he can jump.