RIP Jerry Sloan
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️The mailman
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2020: It’s a nasty one.
Sloan probably opposed it.
So why would they do it now?
candrew
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Because, at least when he was lucid, he would have had to been there and I'd guess he was too modest for that type of idolatry.
homeytennis
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When Sloan was the Jazz coach he ran "the Weber State offense" which was the offense that Dick Motta used with the Bulls when Sloan was a player there. This article is about Motta but there is quite a bit of mention of Jerry and Phil Johnson and where the Weber offense really came from. https://vault.si.com/vault/1971/10/25/beware-little-big-man-is-here
prodigy
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Some great stories here. I never met Jerry but my brothers friend had a story where he saw him on a plane once and was really nervous about approaching him, but when he did Jerry couldnt have been nicer about it and he got a sweet picture with him. And from everything I've read that was Jerry. He may have been the toughest SOB and admitted that he had a little bit of crazy in him but he had a huge heart too.
This hit me like a sack of bricks. He was a great man. And is a big loss to our jazz fandom. If there is a mount rushmore of jazz its gotta be Jerry, John,Karl, and LHM(I wish I could fit Hot Rod on there but what can you do). Their run was just incredible, I know it didnt end in a championship despite being oh so close, but to be that good for that long is something that will likely never happen again in our lives. John's assist record is something that may last forever as well.
This hit me like a sack of bricks. He was a great man. And is a big loss to our jazz fandom. If there is a mount rushmore of jazz its gotta be Jerry, John,Karl, and LHM(I wish I could fit Hot Rod on there but what can you do). Their run was just incredible, I know it didnt end in a championship despite being oh so close, but to be that good for that long is something that will likely never happen again in our lives. John's assist record is something that may last forever as well.
Not following during that time of my life is probably my greatest regret in fandom.
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Yes, and that year Harpring had probably his best season up to midseason, but then he got injured. As a result, I think the Jazz just missed the playoffs. That was a team, prognosticators pegged to win about 20 games.
JimLes
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Harpring's advanced numbers that year actually suggest that he had quite the drop off from the year before and actually wasn't that good. The Jazz were 17-15 when he went down and they went 25-25 the rest of the year.
If you're going to look for a reason the Jazz didn't make the playoffs that year, it was that Kirilenko missed 4 games in January after he sprained his ankle in a tough OT loss against the Cavs where the Jazz were up 14 at the beginning of 4th. Harpring had already gone down for the season a few weeks earlier. The Jazz lost the Cavs game with a hobbled Kirilenko and then promptly lost all 4 games without him by an average of 14 points. The starting lineups in those 4 games were something to behold. One of those, the Jazz started Arroyo, Stevenson, Pavlović, Ruffin, and Ostertag. Oof!
If he doesn't roll his ankle against the Cavs, Jazz win that one and probably at least 1 of the 4 he missed. At that point, Jazz would've been 8th seed and playing the Wolves.