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Sloan hasn't ruled out returning to the bench...

I hate to post this because I see how personal anecdotes are so eviscerated here, but I imagine someone might find it interesting. It also somewhat disagreed with my initial thoughts of how things probably went down.

My brother's boss is friendly/acquaintances with Jerry. Jerry often visited my brother's work and became pretty good friends with my brother's boss due to the business (the boss would call Jerry when they would get items in that the boss thought Jerry would be interested in).

Well a week or two after Jerry quit, Jerry went into my brother's work. The boss asked Jerry why he quit. Jerry told the boss that he was sick of the player's attitudes (including Deron's) and the lack of respect. He went to management to try and get them to do something/get control back, but they didn't do anything so he was sick of it and quit.

I realize this is third hand (from my brother who heard it from his boss), but take it for what it's worth. If this is true though, then I would not be surprised to see Jerry return if the situation was right. Larry and Gail were always loyal to Jerry, not necessarily KOC and Greggy. I don't think it would be incongruous for Jerry to go somewhere else. Even Larry approved of Malone leaving didn't he? (I really don't remember).

tl;dr - My bro valets the best buy parking lot and heard jerry's favorite fruit is apples.
 
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I hate to post this because I see how personal anecdotes are so eviscerated here, but I imagine someone might find it interesting. It also somewhat disagreed with my initial thoughts of how things probably went down.

My brother's boss is friendly/acquaintances with Jerry. Jerry often visited my brother's work and became pretty good friends with my brother's boss due to the business (the boss would call Jerry when they would get items in that the boss thought Jerry would be interested in).

Well a week or two after Jerry quit, Jerry went into my brother's work. The boss asked Jerry why he quit. Jerry told the boss that he was sick of the player's attitudes (including Deron's) and the lack of respect. He went to management to try and get them to do something/get control back, but they didn't do anything so he was sick of it and quit.

I realize this is third hand (from my brother who heard it from his boss), but take it for what it's worth. If this is true though, then I would not be surprised to see Jerry return if the situation was right. Larry and Gail were always loyal to Jerry, not necessarily KOC and Greggy. I don't think it would be incongruous for Jerry to go somewhere else. Even Larry approved of Malone leaving didn't he? (I really don't remember).

tl;dr - My bro valets the best buy parking lot and heard jerry's favorite fruit is apples.

Sounds legit. If this "I'm just going to wake up one day and decide that I don't want to coach any more," stuff was true, Jerry would not be listening to any other offers. TroutBum and I were right about coach killer. The rest of you, which was most of this board, were wrong, as usual.
 
We've been had! We were all sold the "Sloan is honest to a fault" line to trust what he was saying in those day after incident interviews. Not that anybody was buying the "it was just time to leave" crap anymore.

I say good for Sloan. I hope he coaches and wins a championship as long as he isn't beating the Jazz on the way there. I love that guy.
 
Sounds legit. If this "I'm just going to wake up one day and decide that I don't want to coach any more," stuff was true, Jerry would not be listening to any other offers. TroutBum and I were right about coach killer. The rest of you, which was most of this board, were wrong, as usual.

Well, all your wrongness about bozzer negates all your correctness about anything else on this board... ever...
 
Yes, the Jazz have been so much better since Boozer left.

Particularly, the difference on offensive execution and rebounding has been night and day.

On another note, it's interesting how many blind panhandlers have access to the internet.
 
Well, why had he lost their respect? Because the other teams were calling out their plays as they were starting them because they had seen them all for at least 10 years? Devin Harris said he didn't need any time at all to get up to speed on the plays when he came over, he knew them all real well.

Maybe he lost their respect because he didn't know a thing about coaching defense, including defending the 3 ball. Maybe he was just too stuck in his old ways, they weren't working, but he wasn't changing.

Maybe the players had some legit reasons to be losing respect.
 
Well, why had he lost their respect? Because the other teams were calling out their plays as they were starting them because they had seen them all for at least 10 years? Devin Harris said he didn't need any time at all to get up to speed on the plays when he came over, he knew them all real well.

Maybe he lost their respect because he didn't know a thing about coaching defense, including defending the 3 ball. Maybe he was just too stuck in his old ways, they weren't working, but he wasn't changing.

Maybe the players had some legit reasons to be losing respect.

Which player are you again? I don't remember.
 
Maybe he lost their respect because he didn't know a thing about coaching defense, including defending the 3 ball.

In several of the past ten years, the jazz were in the upper third in opponent 3-pt. percentage. Were they just lucky?
 
Sloan would be a great assistant coach to bring in just for him to put his offensive schemes in. Defensively he is terrible at coaching how to properly defend how teams play nowadays.
 
Yes, but my memory was not that good. They were top-ten in the season ending 2001 and 2008, so not several, just two. Every year between 2007 and 2010 was 16th or better. So until this year, they were average of better in 3pt %.

So, were they just lucky for four seasons?
 
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