193 Quotes by Jerry Sloan

They didn't look like they had any energy and I think they were upset with me more than anything else. They had a little bit of an attitude about what's going on out there. It's kind of disappointing that those things would crop up now when you have an opportunity to get into the playoffs.

I don't know what's going on. (But) it's very obvious something's going on.

Carlos is playing pretty strong. He should probably start to be about at the level he's playing at now after being out for a long period of time. He's finding a rhythm. He played extremely well tonight. He's played extremely well for a couple weeks now.

They finally played a little in the third quarter but we weren't able to come all the way back. We turned it over 23 times and gave them 28 points.

They executed, they got on top of the basket. If you made a mistake defensively, they took care of it. They made us turn the ball over if we messed up our spacing on the floor. They used us on the pin down. Guys couldn't get up and get over screens. It was kind of a revealing experience for our players. You see those things and talk about those things, but we aren't able to get to that point where we can stop that sort of thing.

I had said it would be a big disappointment if the team didn't make the playoffs. I'm not sure that we have enough guys that are hungry enough to want to be in the playoffs. The toughness to be able to get there sometimes doesn't show up. I take responsibility for that. That's my job to make them tougher or whatever it takes for them to be able to play.

There may be times when we use him like that. He can guard some guys bigger than him.

Fortunately Andrei made a couple of big plays to win the ballgame.

This is the same thing that happened in Salt Lake. They ran us off the floor and they defended us. As I'm looking at the box score, I'm seeing they pretty much manhandled us.