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
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.
call hard leadership toughness work
I don't know if you call it leadership or what have you. But he's just got some toughness about him. He's had to work hard and those are the things you can't make someone do. You have to want to do that.
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.
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.
farther game kept matter next people step team year
People think it's pretty easy, but it's pretty difficult. A year ago, this team just kept going farther and farther down. They didn't step up and try to make a change. We were 11-21, I think, a year ago and the next game didn't matter probably.
wrong
I just thought he was in the wrong spot.
break concept executing guys hard instead shoot team time touch
Guys are not getting enough shots. Shoot every time they touch it. Instead of executing the play, they break every play down. It's pretty hard to have any kind of team concept with that.
chance garbage good guys playing trying win
I think it's been pretty good for most of our guys here because they got a chance to play some. They're not playing garbage minutes. We're trying to win ballgames with them.
alive second tonight took
I never took him out the second half. Usually I take him out, but he was so alive tonight that I didn't take him out at all.
blocked came couple full hands needed plays seven shots smaller terrific
Andrei was terrific for us tonight. He had his hands full with a couple smaller players, but he came through with seven blocked shots and made plays when we needed him to.
worthwhile
I would think it would be something that would be worthwhile for him.
determined guys played rather
Guys played a lot harder. They played a lot more determined to try to win, rather than the way we have been.
basketball
I would think those things would make you a better basketball player.
admire fight good guy run younger
I just feel it is important for a guy if he is struggling, especially younger guys, to know what it's like, on their own. Not run to them every minute. Let them fight through it. He did that. That's why I admire what he did. I think it'll be good for him 10 years down the line.