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Utah Jazz, Sloan appear headed for extension
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1. He seems to be experimenting more with combinations. They don't always work but he is trying to play match ups and keep the best combinations on the floor. He deserves credit.
2. He is slow to develop players but he is good at taking low round players and turning them into decent players. But his projects cap the progress of the Jazz as they are still flawed but average (sometimes above) players.
3. There needs to be more players with athletic ability. The Jazz are to slow. Sloan has a bias in favor of work ethic over talent.
4. He is not a very good game coach. He could call more timeouts. Sometimes he refuses to adjust when he should.
5. His bias against using the outside shot as a weapon hurts the Jazz. If he recruited players who could shoot and designed plays for them the outside efficiency would go up.
6. He has more game experience than any other coach. However, his biases prevent him from adapting and innovating when he should.
7. If he ever gets the right combination of players he may win a ring.
8. His player management needs improvement.
My prediction for this year is that the Jazz will be in the 3rd Spot and the reason will be Sloan, because D-Will, believes in this system and the others will follow.
Go Jazz!
huh?
To Season Ticket Holder: I doubt Greg Miller is worried about your threat. Even if you and your 30 buddies don't renew as a result of this, he's losing far less business than he will when Jerry leaves and the franchise spends 3 or 4 seasons in the lottery as a result. I'm not worried either because I only manage to go see a couple games each season and I'd much rather not sit in the company of "fans" like you.
I hope Jerry keeps coaching until he has to ride a Jazzie along the sidelines, good to know he's coming back.
There is a lot to this that gets overlooked, not thought out and not analyzed which supercedes all other comments.
I respect Jerry and his accomplishments with basketball and has said worthy Hall of Fame and he should be there.
Having said that, yes I feel it is time very soon for a change.
The issue that "changed all of this" was the luck or bad luck that 2009 was the year he and Stock got voted in together at Springfield, MA
Outside of end of this season coercing Jerry to retire, now they have no choice but basically say
"you have basically a lifetime contract until you leave,
See Bobby Bowden and Joe Paterno.
Reasons are obvious"
In the world it is right thing to respect your elders and the NBA fraternity, media, coaches, gms scouts-a lot of them are from 60s, 70s, 80s
If O Connor and Millers "fired" Jer and the "sloanaholics"
1) Lot of media would rip them all over the country Audio, and Video
2) other gms likely would not trade with O Connor even worse
3) 5k season ticker holders walk
Sloan is pretty good. Who can take this team and get more wins out of it? There are a few coaches but they are all well paid at decent teams. Why would they want to move to Utah and replace Sloan's system?
I think management is afraid to replace Sloan's system. It is like a security blanket. It provides playoff teams (not championships).
I would give Stockton a try when Sloan goes.
Sloan's continuity argument irritates me a lot (with several other quirks). He is right, continuity will give more wins. It will not fix the problems that make the Jazz mediocre.
That seems to be the problem. Sloan is unwilling to take the risks and make the changes that are necessary.
SA is cut throat. They will use your last drop of blood and then kick you out. Utah is based on family. Players are family. They are nurtured. They are over paid. They are kept past their usefulness.
Utah can't move up. It's culture is based on winning enough not winning it all.
I disagreed with overpaying Millsap but if Sloan can turn him into an effective 3/4 tweener then he is worth it. The Jazz need to sign Fez and Koufos to longer term cheap contracts before their value goes up.
They may or may not replace Korver and Brewer. However, the fan base is well aware that the wings are deficient.
Part of the reluctance for change comes from the idea that it takes years to learn the Sloan system.
The real question is whether the Jazz should keep the Sloan system or do something new? Sloan, Stockton and maybe the assistants know Sloan's system. The rest of the country uses one of 4 major approaches depending on players and coaching preferences.
That is why the Jazz win in the regular season with the system but lose in the playoffs. Other teams do not adjust much for the Jazz until the playoffs. Then they exploit the weaknesses and win.
what is the point?
Yes I would being the lottery for 2 or 3 years if it meant gettting the players you NEEED to win a championship.
all sloan has realy accomplished is whatever is good for the franchise, business wise.
If it is about winning enough to keep selling tickets and t-shirts, then sloan is great,
if it about winning championships, sloan is bad.
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