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
free guy hand start terrific totally
We were totally intimidated by the guy to start with because he had such free roam. We never got a hand in his face. He's a terrific player.
close last next rule second
We've always had a rule in the last second or so: get next to your man. We weren't even close to the guy.
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.
bit feeling sorry
We're feeling a little bit sorry for ourselves,
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.
ball defensive drove game looked productive reason top
When we started the ball game it looked like a lay-up drill, the way they drove around us and over the top of the basket. For some reason this lineup hasn't been real productive on the defensive end of the floor.
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.
alive
We're still alive and that's the important thing.
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.
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.