Probably deserves its own thread.
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/29209339/long-jazz-coach-jerry-sloan-dies-age-78
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/29209339/long-jazz-coach-jerry-sloan-dies-age-78
Outstanding player too. Sloan and Norm Van Lier formed a bad-ass backcourt in Chicago.I didn’t realize he was dealing with all that. Great coach. RIP.
I'd say probably Bob Love, but Sloan is an underrated player as most fans remember as a coach.Greatest Bull of all time pre Jordan and Pippen?
I remember reading during one of the Bulls-Jazz series that the Bulls training gym had a big photo of Sloan as a Bulls player on the wall that the (then) current players walked past every day to get to the gym.
RIP
Artis Gilmore, Chet Walker, and Bob Love were better Bulls. Sloan had more seasons there.Greatest Bull of all time pre Jordan and Pippen?
I remember reading during one of the Bulls-Jazz series that the Bulls training gym had a big photo of Sloan as a Bulls player on the wall that the (then) current players walked past every day to get to the gym.
RIP
I have a problem with guys that take charges beibg called flops, but I only have limited video of Jerry the player.Jerry Sloan brought flopping to an art.
RIP
Sloan was a very good hard-nosed defensive player who had an outsized willingness to take charges. He was known for this particular talent. He was a proficient practictioner and may have been a pioneer in that respect. I did see him play and noting that he brought "flopping" to an art form was a compliment. As I recall Johnny Most used to refer to Sloan's and his exaggerated acting as "Stanislavsky"I have a problem with guys that take charges beibg called flops, but I only have limited video of Jerry the player.
He is underrated as a coach that changed the game. He brought back the pick and roll and took it to a new level. I think every team the last 20 years has run some ball screen play they called Utah. The idea the ballscreen was the beginning of a play rather than the end or the scoring play itself. A few of us old guys roll our eyes whenever Steve Kerr or Pop is given credit for the standard play today where the guy comes off the screen with shooters spread in front. In many ways the volution to more anmore options seem like the growth in Stockton(turning the corner, going off the rescreen,to gasp! shooting 3s when they went behind) and Malone's (rolling to the hole for dunks, popping for the jumper, becoming the passer) game (and it is) but is also evolution of a system and the game itself.