193 Quotes by Jerry Sloan

We've always had a rule in the last second or so: get next to your man. We weren't even close to the guy.

Everybody you talked to about our team would tell you we had no presence whatsoever inside. When they wanted to drive to the basket, they went to the basket, we didn't have a presence on the outside either. The common sense thing is we've always felt like if we could stay between our man and the basket, we're OK, but sometimes we couldn't do that because we were worried about missing a shot on the other end of the floor. There has to be a commitment to do that.

When we did go inside, it was kind of like an adventure in there with the way we shot the ball a few times to see if we could get it up on the glass. They did a terrific job standing us up and taking us out of our offense and we settled for that.

As soon as you whip yourself but shaking your head and feeling sorry for yourself, you're a whipped pup. I'm sorry, but that's the way it is. Guys on the other team love seeing that. They love to see you shake your head and say, 'Oh my goodness, now what am I going to do?'

We're feeling a little bit sorry for ourselves,

We're still in the playoff picture. I know we don't play like it sometimes because we give away easy baskets, but we are still right there.

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.

We're still alive and that's the important thing.

We were totally intimidated by the guy to start with because he had such free roam. We never got a hand in his face. He's a terrific player.