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
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.
alive bit keeps win
This win keeps us alive a little bit longer. Without this win, we would be dead.
alive
We're still alive and that's the important thing.
alive fighting games mean offense playing season until
I thought we executed our offense pretty well. We're still alive and that's the important thing. The games mean something ... You just keep fighting and playing until the season is over and see what happens.
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.
wrong
I just thought he was in the wrong spot.
head shoulders
He's got his head on his shoulders pretty well.
mentally team tougher
They were the tougher team mentally all the way around tonight.
league sell somewhere work
If you don't like this business, you can always go work somewhere else. We've got to try to sell this league any way we can, if it's a positive.
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.
couple great hung situations
We made some mistakes, but we also had some situations where I think we could've hung in there a little better if we'd had a couple of things go our way. I'm not going to take anything away from them because they're a great team, but it's frustrating.
bit feeling sorry
We're feeling a little bit sorry for ourselves,