WTF...we are on a roll here now....here are some Sloan facts and some Nuggets on how he has imparted his philosophies on his players and the delusional biased fans in Salt lake City...just for you whiners...and for my kid there, too:
2:01 PM Fri, Apr 18, 2008 Butch Alsandor
The first thing I noticed talking to the Rockets about their opening playoff series vs Utah , is that Rick Adelman has nothing but love for Jazz coach Jerry Sloan. The two men have a history. They were teammates back in the 70's with the Chicago Bulls. Adelman got to see Sloan's tenacity up close and personal and he never saw a more hard nosed player. "If you played with Jerry you respected how hard he worked, if you played against him you hated him," said Adelman.
Back in the day, Sloan and Chicago guard Norm Van Lier were the "Bruise Brothers". Sloan was consistently on the N.B.A. All-Defensive First Team leaving the competition black and blue along the way.
"He was a 6'6 guard who lead our team in rebounding , the guy was the tougest competitor I every saw." "He was a mean guy who intimidated players, He got after Pete Maravich so bad one day all Pete would do was shoot 30 footers ." According to Adelman that's just the way Jerry was , and it's the way he wants the Utah Jazz to play . "He would not back down from anyone , he would do whatever it took to take someone out of their game."
Physical play has become the trademark of the Utah Jazz , its been their style for 20 years . But now you know where it comes from.
Sloan has built the Jazz in his own image, so for the Rockets to have a shot they must not get pushed around. Shane Battier says , "its like dealing with a bully if you hit him in the mouth first he'll think twice before he comes back."
http://www.beloblog.com/sports/2008/04/jerry-sloan-as-player-fine-lin.html
Jazz fans, who booed Dirk every time he touched the ball after the mugging, might not be willing to forgive Dirk. But Utah coach Jerry Sloan, one of the NBA's great enforcers during his playing days, isn't crying foul about Dirk's flagrant foul.
"I really didn't think it was something that flagrant," Sloan told reporters. "I know it may have looked that way, but I don't think Nowitzki is that kind of guy. It's part of basketball."
http://mavsblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/03/dirks-sort-of-sorry-about-flagrant-foul.html
Indeed, Sloan had a deep influence on Adelman.
"He was the perfect teammate," he said. "When I played against him, I thought he was a really dirty player. When I played with him, I loved him.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/5713946.html
The last thing anybody should complain about is a hard file taken by a Jerry Sloan coached team. Come on, this is the guy who's reputation is built upon fouling the opponent in that type of fashion.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie/post/Dirk-Nowitzki-clobbers-Andrei-Kirilenko?urn=nba,69897&cp=2
The Warriors just moan and groan. The Jazz do it too (Sloan complains about everything)
http://www.goldenstateofmind.com/story/2007/5/14/233711/004
to jerry sloan's team, yes it is.
utah's tactics: foul on defense EVERY TIME. if the refs don't call all of them, which they don't, then we benefit.
Jerry Sloan: (talking to Kirlinko) "Sweep the leg. You got a problem with that?"
http://bbs.clutchfans.net/showthread.php?t=147416&page=1
For a long time Malone's primary move was to take a couple of dribbles into the lane and then both arms up into the air as if he'd been grievously fouled. Replays always showed it was a joke.
But then he'd miss the free throws, especially with the game on the line.
Stockton got almost all of his assists on the same simple pass. Did he ever create his own shot?
They were both dirty, having been schooled by all-time dirty player Jerry Sloan. How many people did Malone badly injure with his elbows? It happened quite a few times.
http://galleyslaves.blogspot.com/2005/05/miller-time-now-with-stockton-malone.html
"My hatred of the Jazz continues with a fervor that is almost religious. I am a Mormon, I have family in Utah, and I still hate the Jazz! Don't lump all Mormons [in] with the brand of dirty ball that Sloan has been espousing for his entire career. There are some there who know them for what they truly are!"(Utah resident)
"They've been doing that for the last 17 years. Time and time again they create foul situations, and the refs call it. We (the coaching staff) used to get furious in my earlier days with Chicago, but we just laugh at it now."
-- Phil Jackson, coach of the Los Angeles Lakers
"MVPs do not need to flop."
-- Hakeem Olajuron, MVP center for the 1994 NBA Champion Houston Rockets
"In the nursing home, I hope children run up and kick away their canes, then cry and point at the 'bad old men' who 'touched them funny'."
-- pasox2
I love this too:
They flop like trout out of water. Although never awarded any acting awards, the Jazz, led by Stockton and Malone, are the league's best actors. Their defensive scheme is to fall down and have the refs call charging. They have invented a whole new field of physics in which momentum is not conserved — one need only see the 265 pound Malone fly through the air after incidental contact from a 165 pound point guard to see this new form of physics in action. In its list of the worst floppers in basketball history, Foulshots.com gave special mention to the entire Jazz team: "The entire Jazz team has been flopping for so long that it almost seems like they work on it in practice." Hopefully, Jerry Sloan won't hurt himself falling down when John Stockston walks in to practice in the morning.
Elbows, illegal picks, dirty play -- Jerry Sloan, known for being a fighter in his youth, has taught them to be the dirtiest players ever. That's not just us fans talking. ESPN had a poll last year and Malone and Stockton topped the list convincingly with 60% of the votes. Jerry Sloan was the dirtiest coach, as well. Years ago, SI ran an article on the ten dirtiest players in the league at that time. Among the "winners" were Rick Mahorn, and Vernon Maxwell, who once stabbed a teammate at a team dinner, and ... none other than John Stockton. Stockton is fsmous for setting illegal picks on big men's kidneys and how often he elbows other guards. And that is not including his flops. He is smart, he is great player, but he is one of the dirtiest players of his time On Malone, well, just remember he once sent two opposing players to the hospital in one month! The funny thing is that the gutless bastard never picks on a man his size. I remember how he backed away from Otis Thorpe and hit Othella Harrington from behind.
http://www.makingpages.org/hoops/jazzholes-2002.html
Hey, I could go on and on all day with you delusional whiners..laughing my butt of at you fans of the flopping cheaters...but just like everone else here, I know you are in extreme denial and will never accept the truth anyhow.
