Is Sloan getting tired?
So, I'm watching Jerry Sloan on the Jazz bench during Game 2 against the Rockets.
It is a tense, tight battle. It is the kind Sloan usually loves - leaping to his feet, exhorting his players, questioning the officials.
Normally, watching Sloan compete from his position along the sideline is thoroughly entertaining.
On Monday, however, Sloan mostly sat - analyzing the game and contemplating his strategy from a seat next to long-time assistant Phil Johnson on the Jazz bench.
From what I could tell, Sloan was most animated early in the fourth quarter, when Houston center Yao Ming turned and went face-to-face against Memo Okur.
Yao stuck the ball straight out and Okur easily knocked it away. But official Sean Corbin called a foul and Sloan was incensed, like he usually is 100 times during a game like this.
In Game 2, though, his reaction to that play was unusual. It stood out. And that made me ask myself a question: I wonder if Sloan is growing weary of fighting some of the battles he has fought so ferociously over the years.
What battles?
Maybe ones like Andrei Kirilenko's tearful interview with the media at Sunday's practice and the sideshow it created.
Or maybe ones that are less obvious.
Maybe Sloan is tiring of these battles, which have already made this what he has described as his most difficult season. - Steve Luhm
It is a tense, tight battle. It is the kind Sloan usually loves - leaping to his feet, exhorting his players, questioning the officials.
Normally, watching Sloan compete from his position along the sideline is thoroughly entertaining.
On Monday, however, Sloan mostly sat - analyzing the game and contemplating his strategy from a seat next to long-time assistant Phil Johnson on the Jazz bench.
From what I could tell, Sloan was most animated early in the fourth quarter, when Houston center Yao Ming turned and went face-to-face against Memo Okur.
Yao stuck the ball straight out and Okur easily knocked it away. But official Sean Corbin called a foul and Sloan was incensed, like he usually is 100 times during a game like this.
In Game 2, though, his reaction to that play was unusual. It stood out. And that made me ask myself a question: I wonder if Sloan is growing weary of fighting some of the battles he has fought so ferociously over the years.
What battles?
Maybe ones like Andrei Kirilenko's tearful interview with the media at Sunday's practice and the sideshow it created.
Or maybe ones that are less obvious.
Maybe Sloan is tiring of these battles, which have already made this what he has described as his most difficult season. - Steve Luhm
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4 Comments:
Good, what he's done with Kirelenko has been a travesty, and I'm a Nuggets fan!
Kirilenko, Brewer, Stevenson...insisting on signing Collins over Mikki Moore in 2004, then Collins over Pavlovic in the expansion draft the next year...not appreciating Mo Williams. This list could on for pages.
He simply does not know how to develop the modern athlete. The only player he has been successful in grooming appropriately has been Boozer, the man who is literally a Karl Malone stalker.
The NBA has passed Sloan by.
Jerry, it's time to start fixing some tractors.
Larry -- please meet with Jerry and nudge him into hanging it up. For his own good. Please.
> insisting on signing Collins over Mikki Moore in 2004, then Collins over Pavlovic in the expansion draft the next year...
I think your confusing the coach with the GM. Sure Sloan has input but, the buck stops with the GM.. or at least thats how its supposed to work normally..
You really think that after 19 years, Sloan doesn't play a role in those decisions?
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