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One-on-One with Jerry Sloan
By Travis Heath
for HOOPSWORLD.com
Jan 8, 2007, 15:37
Jerry Sloan is the longest tenured coach in professional sports, and with his
closest competitor the Pittsburgh Steelers' Bill Cowher resigning earlier
this week, the magnitude of just what an amazing accomplishment his lengthy
tenure with the Utah Jazz has been was thrust back into the limelight. It
just doesn't happen in professional sports. So what's allowed Sloan to stand
the test of time? Find out that and more from Sloan in this Basketball News
Services' exclusive interview.
Coach, you are over a third of the way through the season. How do you assess
your team's performance so far?
I think it's been up and down. I still don't know who we are. If you ask me
who we are, I'm really not sure. We've had moments of playing well and
moments where we've struggled. It's kind of a roller coaster ride that has
something to do with my coaching I'm sure. We've not been a consistent
48-minute team like you'd like to see if we're going to try and compete for a
playoff spot and move forward.
How do you think you've matched up with the upper-echelon teams in the West
-- like San Antonio, Dallas, and Phoenix?
We haven't matched-up well with them when they're healthy. I guess we'd
rather play them when they've got all of their players hurt (laughs). When
they get healthy somewhere along the line we've got to be ready to play.
That's where young players have a problem. And we don't have a guy --
that's the thing that probably hurts us as much as anything -- we don't have
a guy who can get you 15-18 free-throws a night. Usually the teams that are
really good have that guy who can do that, and that's a tough thing to defend
against -- especially with young guys who don't have a lot of NBA experience.
That's the pressure that those kind of guys can put on you.
What about a guy like Carlos Boozer? He may not get 15-18 free-throws a
night, but he's been a rock for you guys.
He's been healthy for us. He's been terrific the last two years to get
himself in great shape, and then he got hurt. There’s nothing we could do
about that. He in time needs to learn how to get to the free-throw line with
his body and put pressure on people that way. Most of our guys have been
support players. They have to work and develop into being frontline players
in this league, and that's not an overnight thing with a lot of guys. Some
guys have it right off the bat, and some guys have to work for it. Or, we
have to do it well as a team.
What are your thoughts about the new look and division rival Denver Nuggets?
I know they are shorthanded now, but how good do you think they can be when
they get everyone back?
I think they'll be very, very good. Allen Iverson is a tough guy, he plays
hard everyday, and he's a tough guy to guard. Plus, he can get on the
free-throw line 18 times, and then you put Carmelo Anthony with him and
you're looking at 30 free-throws to start the game. Now how do you defend
against that? I'm serious. You talk about the teams around the league who
are really good, they've got a guy on their team who can do that. Well,
Denver's got two of them. That's tremendous pressure they can put on a team.
They have the ability to win close games because of that. That's what you
have to have.
So many people -- and in fairness, myself included -- counted you out over
the last couple of years. We said the NBA game had past you by . . .
Yeah, it has. It's passed me by (laughs). I have to give you guys a little
credit, you were right!
In all seriousness, though, you are 24-10. You are coaching as well as you
have at any point in your career. What's allowed you to have that staying
power?
Well, it's just basketball. I've always thought it's important you try and
play as a team. When we had John (Stockton) and Karl (Malone) our guys
played pretty well as a team, and that's all I've ever tried to teach. It
may not look as good as a team like Phoenix or a team that can get up and
down the floor, but you've still got to defend the basket and you've got to
try to get to the basket. And if you've got guys who can maybe get some
baskets inside, if they take that away, you make a basket on the outside once
in awhile and try to keep them honest. It hasn't changed since I got in the
league in '65. We don't look as pretty as some of the other teams, never
have looked that pretty, really -- except Karl and John were terrific
players, but our team has never really been a pretty team. We never drew a
lot of fans because we were on the highlight films (laughs). To me it's
basketball, and I don't know how else you do it. I've been in this situation
for a number of years, I played in it, and my assistant coaches and all the
people who have worked with us believed in it. I mean, I'm not saying we're
right and anybody is wrong, because you have to have some kind of philosophy
to go by. That's all we've ever tried to do, just have some semblance of
order and not a lot of B.S.
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If there has ever been a line that captured the essence of Sloan, it's
probably that last line. And no doubt, the coach has accomplished his goal
of maximizing order while simultaneously minimizing B.S. en route to winning
many, many NBA basketball games.
Coach Sloan has also taught this writer a great lesson over the course of the
past year: Never bet against consistency and success. Sloan has laid a
foundation from which he has never wavered, and his philosophical approach
combined with his ability to get the most out of his players has stood the
test of time. Although Sloan would probably never admit it openly, the only
thing missing from his illustrious career is a championship ring. With his
coaching career in its twilight, this new generation of Jazz players have
provided him with one final chance to get the ring which has eluded him for
so long.
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