A farm boy and a fighter, Jerry Sloan embodied foundational qualities like consistency, reliability and longevity. As michaelgrange writes, he leaves behind a basketball legacy we’ll almost certainly never see again.
“No one was every jealous of Jerry,” said Casey. “He was always supportive. I remember talking to him about our team in Toronto and how much he admired the way we played. He was always building up other people and giving credit to other people. He was a coach’s coach and a man’s man.”
“There more to it than the wins and losses. These jobs encompass a lot of things. Evaluating the talent, dealing with the pressures, the toughness of the schedule, media – there’s a lot that goes into them other than Xs and Os,” said Nurse. “The bottom line you gotta win, or you’re not going to be long for it – and the guys [like Sloan] that are able to coach in this league for a long time have a lot of things figured out, not just basketball or Xs and Os.
“I’ll never forget I was watching practice and a guy yelled out ‘help’ on defence and Jerry just stopped practice cold. And he said ‘look, help is the weakest word in the defensive vernacular. If you can’t guard your guy, I have to find someone else.’ It was about accountability. I asked him after ‘do you believe that’ and he said ‘that’s how I was demanded to play and I’m not going to demand any less from these guys.’”Sloan never left his roots behind.
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