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It's about time Sloan got his due

By Sean Deveney - SportingNews Feb 6, 11:45 am EST

Anybody else stick around after the Lakers-Celtics overtime slugfest last
night? Because there was a second nationally televised game. Anyone?
Mavericks and Jazz? No?

There are quite a few reasons behind the greatest running embarrassment for
modern NBA journalists—the failure of us, as a group, to vote for Jerry
Sloan as Coach of the Year at any point in his 20 years as Utah Jazz coach.
The obvious reason behind Sloan's snubbing is that he had John Stockton and
Karl Malone for most of his coaching career, and those of us in the keyboard
fraternity long said to ourselves, “Anybody could win with those two.”

That's probably part of the problem. But Stockton and Malone have been gone
for more than five years now. That excuse is gone. Now, the reason Sloan
does not get more attention is probably demonstrated by the fact that there
were very few of us who stuck around for the second part of the national
doubleheader last night. The Jazz just do not get much attention, the
consequence of being in a small market and playing late games. If more folks
had watched last night, they'd have seen the Jazz, still playing without
Andrei Kirilenko, C.J. Miles and Carlos Boozer, wallop the Mavericks—winners
of four straight—by 28 points.

The Jazz have played 50 games. Point guard Deron Williams, the team's best
player, has missed 14 games. The second-best player, Boozer, has missed 38
games. Kirilenko, arguably third-best, has missed 12. Take a stab at guessing
how many times Utah has had its full starting five—Williams, Ronnie Brewer,
Miles, Boozer and Mehmet Okur—healthy at the same time?

Yep, zero. At various times this year, Sloan has been forced to start guys
like Kyrylo Fesenko, Jarron Collins, Morris Almond, Ronnie Price and rookie
Kosta Koufos. And yet, they're 28-22 and hanging in the West's playoff
picture with the No. 8 seed.

That's a credit to the coach, and just another sign that those of us who
vote on these things need to undo an injustice that has been perpetrated for
far too long. We love to give the award to the coach of the year's biggest
surprise team, which very often has nothing to do with coaching. We have
voted for Mike Schuler, Don Chaney, Del Harris, Sam Mitchell and Avery
Johnson. None stuck around very long. Several of the Coaches of the Year
we've chosen have gotten fired within the next couple of seasons.

Enough, I say. It's time to put a stop to 20 years of absurdity. If you want
to look at giving Sloan the Coach of the year as some kind of career
achievement award, that's fine. But he deserves it for what's happened this
year. The fact that the Jazz are able to withstand such a dizzying litany of
injuries and remain in the playoff hunt is a credit to Sloan, a credit to
the system he runs and the demands he makes on all his players to know that
system. The Jazz win, year after year, because of their coach.


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