If Jerry Sloan were coaching this team...
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vslice02
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This.
A few other examples of Sloan w/rookies:
-played Shandon Anderson during crunchtime of Game 6 of the 1997 NBA Finals.
-started Scott Padgett in the beginning of the 1999-00 season (Padgett was horrible so that move didn't last)
-started both Andrei Kirilenko and Jarron Collins in 2001-02
-regular minutes for Raul Lopez and Sasha Pavlovic in 2003-04
-and while everyone thought DWill should've been starting from Day 1, Deron did start 47/80 games as a rookie
-and again rehular off-the-bench minutes for Millsap in 2006-07
SojoDave
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There would be a lot less jack potting going on. Here are the changes I think Jerry would make if he were coaching.
*No way he lets Hayward sit outside and continually miss 3's. He would have CJ in that spot.
*CJ would have played better this year under Jerry. He felt more confident under Jerry.
*Jerry would probably play Hayward at the 2.
*We would have won the first Laker game. He would have called time out and set up a good play.
*Devin Harris would probably have played better under Jerry. The offense would have been more disciplined.
*Jerry would rather call John Deere the devil than change the defense.
*No way he lets Hayward sit outside and continually miss 3's. He would have CJ in that spot.
*CJ would have played better this year under Jerry. He felt more confident under Jerry.
*Jerry would probably play Hayward at the 2.
*We would have won the first Laker game. He would have called time out and set up a good play.
*Devin Harris would probably have played better under Jerry. The offense would have been more disciplined.
*Jerry would rather call John Deere the devil than change the defense.
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We were blown out in our first Lakers game, are you referring to the second?
NAOS
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Jerry would have had a ****fit last night even though we put up a lot of points. There were SEVERAL instances when players just ran down the court and stopped in a spot, sort of lazily waiting for the offense to begin. I'm still a full-on supporter of the idea that your wings should run through the baseline. Constant motion, hard screens set early in the clock. We're not doing this. Frustrating.
vslice02
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IMO one big difference is Jerry valued possessions much more than Ty does. Jerry stressed running through our offensive sets virtually every single possession with the exception of transition opportunities. If a player broke away and did something stupid Jerry would let them know about it - if not bench them...players like Greg Foster, Gordan Giricek, and DeShawn Stevenson come to mind (oh and of course Deron I guess but let's not go there). Ty gives his players more freedom to go 1-on-1 if they think the opportunity is there - and as a result you see a little more standing and watching.
NAOS
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It's fairly easy to imagine a happy medium. I'd shade more to Jerry's side on the philosophy of offense, with one-on-one opportunities occurring in the context of an established flow that players have bought into. I wouldn't be as draconian as he was (at times), but I'd stop players from making assumptions about what one of their teammates was going to do and breaking the play in lieu of running the appropriate route with the appropriate vigor. It's a delicate line, I suppose, and there is definitely a hierarchy of who has the longer leash to do stuff (which depends on the play).
...if that makes sense...
freakazoid
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Also, I'm sick of seeing our players get down on themselves and quit after the other team goes on a run. Jerry would have never allowed this. There is no quit in Jerry...