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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Twenty agonizing years this chase has lasted. Twenty years of trying to stay ahead of his inevitable dismissal as coach of the Utah Jazz, because everybody in the business gets fired and surely his time was coming soon. Jerry Sloan has thought that all along, sweating out all but the last four or five years, with the sleepless nights to prove it. He finally grew more secure, for whatever...
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Jazz Notes (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
After 20 years on the job, Jazz coach Jerry Sloan has a frame of reference to deal with everything. But Sloan admitted to us Friday that he couldn't remember the last time the Jazz had ever played a back-to-back set of home games. It last happened in February 2001, plus a couple of times in the lockout-shortened 1998-99 season. You'd have to go back to March 1983 after that to...
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USA Today (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
By George Frey, ReutersJerry Sloan, hired in 1988, won his 1,000th game with the Jazz earlier this month. STAYING IN ONE SPOTMost coaching wins with one NBA team:CoachWinsTeamSeasonsJerry Sloan1,005Utah1988-presentRed Auerbach795Boston1950-66Gregg Popovich640San Antonio1996-presentRed Holzman613New York1967-82John MacLeod579Phoenix1973-87Al Attles557San Francisco-Golden...
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Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
The milestone anniversary will come next week, when Jazz coach Jerry Sloan celebrates 20 years on the job with Tuesday's game at Minnesota, but another significant date passed this week almost unnoticed.
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Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Jerry Sloan put his all of his faith in several of his subs Tuesday night, and it proved to be well worth the risk.
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Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday
... on for a 93-89 victory. Asked if he was confident at halftime that the Jazz would still win, coach Jerry Sloan said, "I thought we would be all right if we came out and executed. But we didn't get it done. So give them credit." During the decisive stretch, the Jazz made just one of their 11 shots. "We weren't executing," said Sloan, who talked to reporters with a noticeable...
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Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday
... shot a season-worst 39.7 percent and committed 17 turnovers. The only bright spot in coach Jerry Sloan's view was Paul Millsap, who had 20 points and 13 rebounds in 44 minutes. "We can't just say, 'We'll get them next time,'" Sloan said. "This stuff rolls in front of you real fast. Pretty soon you'll wake up and say, 'Wow, we've dug a hole for ourself and now's the time to...
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Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | yesterday
... just showed a great more deal of desire to try to win the ballgame than we did," said Jazz coach Jerry Sloan, whose still injury-hampered club was playing for the second time in a stretch with four in five nights that continues Friday at home vs. Toronto."A tough situation for us tonight," Sloan added. "We tried to get back in the game and made a few hustle plays, but that's...
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Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday
... season, Almond effectively is auditioning for teams around the NBA at the same time Jazz coach Jerry Sloan is giving him greater and greater opportunities. "It's not like we've sentenced him to exile a month ago. We made a decision to be able to have options," Jazz general manager Kevin O'Connor said. "He's responded and competed and that was the big thing that we wanted him to be...
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Can't Stop the Bleeding (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Mitchell was in his fifth season as Raptors coach. If you’re not Phil Jackson or Gregg Popovich or Jerry Sloan (Lawrence Frank might join this group), you’re not immune to the fickle opinions of fans and the local media — not to mention the GMs that need to deflect blame to protect their own reputations. No matter what you think of Sam Mitchell, it was time for him to go. My biggest...
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Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
After an outing like the one the Jazz had last Saturday night, when they followed a showy win over Sacramento with a blowout home loss to New Jersey, coach Jerry Sloan might be inclined to practice his club longer, harder and much more frequently in the near future.
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Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
... the Jazz in Tuesday night's game without Carlos Boozer or Andrei Kirilenko? So much so that coach Jerry Sloan cobbled together a lineup out of those five players at the start of the second and fourth quarters. The second team more than did its job, though, in setting the stage for a final act by Deron Williams as the Jazz beat the Sacramento Kings 99-94. It was the Kings' seventh...
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LA Times (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
... Lakers' Eastern trip this week will be televised live on Channel 9. . . .Among NBA coaches, only Jerry Sloan of the Utah Jazz and Gregg Popovich of the San Antonio Spurs have been in their current jobs longer than the Clippers' MikeDunleavy, the only one of the three with a record below .500. . . .Double shot: When he accidentally shot himself in the right thigh Friday night, Plaxico...
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Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
... on Nov. 19 against the Milwaukee Bucks.Though still practicing and playing shorthanded, Jazz coach Jerry Sloan said he isn't going to feel sorry for himself — and he expects the same attitude from his available players "who get paid" to perform."That's just part of the game. That's basketball," Sloan said. "If you like to play. (If) I'm sitting there on the bench, I say, 'OK,...
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Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
... after all, they fared much better, going 13-4 in 2006-07 and 11-5 last season.As a result, coach Jerry Sloan's club will be looking to make up some ground in what now becomes a most-critical December — a month, incidentally, in which they went a disastrous 5-11 in 2007-08."It's real important," point guard Deron Williams said of a 31-day stretch that includes just 15 games, four of...
