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
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.
altogether defend job terrible trying
We did a terrible job altogether trying to defend them.
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We just couldn't do anything with them in overtime. I can understand guys missing shots, but I don't understand not being able to block them off the boards and give them second shots while we're trying to win a ballgame. They got to the free-throw line and we didn't. That was the difference in the game.
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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.
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He has confidence to go where he wants to go, to get us into whatever we're trying to do. He's a passer first. He'll pass first and shoot second.
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I understand guys missing shots and that sort of thing. But I don't understand not being able to block them off the boards and give them second shots right when we're trying to win a ballgame.
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It's tough on Jeff. He's trying to win and doing everything he can. You wonder what's going to happen to you next.
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I didn't know who was still trying to make the playoffs. They looked like the team that wants to be in the playoffs and we looked like we don't want to be there.
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I didn't know (which team) was still trying to make the playoffs. They knocked us around. They put us on the floor when we went in (the paint). They were terrific defensively. They played as hard as anyone's played us all year long.
business care draft games lose trying wanting
The games are important. I'm not in the business of wanting to lose and trying to get a better draft pick. I really don't care about the draft pick.