193 Quotes by Jerry Sloan

He's progressed a great deal. The biggest thing was understanding what we're doing. He's a lively guy. A little wild sometimes. But he's becoming more under control, doing more things that really help his teammates.

We just couldn't do anything with them in overtime. I can understand guys missing shots, but I don't understand not being able to block them off the boards and give them second shots while we're trying to win a ballgame. They got to the free-throw line and we didn't. That was the difference in the game.

He's probably saying, 'Why haven't I played all year? I was asking the same thing.

We couldn't do anything in overtime. They made their shots, and we just couldn't make any of ours.

I don't know if it's good or bad, but we kind of gave him the starting job. He didn't really earn it. He'll be just fine. It's good for him to see different things and for us to see how he works through it, how he fights back.

We couldn't seem to do too much against their zone, but we kept playing hard.

I don't know if you call it leadership or what have you. But he's just got some toughness about him. He's had to work hard and those are the things you can't make someone do. You have to want to do that.

Well, we're still alive and that's the important thing, the games mean something. It's not like you just throw it out there and you don't care whether you win or lose.

We hang or heads over missed shots just so much it is like we are grade school again. You can't let those things take you out of the game.