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
bit certain everybody perform ways worried
What I'm worried about is what's out here on the floor. That's all I'm worried about. Everybody has to perform out here on the floor, and we have to perform it a certain way. Not that my way is right. There are a lot of different ways to play basketball. But we have to have a little bit of order. Otherwise, I've got a cesspool.
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.
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.
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.
main played
We played a lot harder. That's the main thing. That was interesting that we did that.
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.
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.
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.
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.
ball came game gave needed pressure turned win
We gave them everything they needed to get their game going and win the ballgame. They came up and put the pressure on us, and we turned the ball over a little bit, and then we got real casual. There was no execution.
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.