Sloan definitely lost some energy, but the entire screaming and berating of officials is down across the league since then (it's mostly whining instead of yelling). Since Stockton and Malone retired I felt that while alot of Jerry's energy was still there he clearly didn't go after the officials as aggressively as he used to.
FWIW, just looked it up and in the 1999-00 regular season Sloan had 24 technicals and 6 ejections in the playoffs (10 games) an additional 4 techs and 1 ejection. Last year, Sloan had 4 techs, 1 ejections and 1 T in the playoffs. As a team, the Jazz had 55 technicals in 99-00 (last year they had 21, this year 41 but that's largely due to the league cracking down).
that vid made me forget how good stockton/malone/hornacek were... and how awful that bench was... IF only that team had a legit bench they would have won a championship
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