Chapter 506: A Different World of Basketball and Jerry Sloan's Dream
"Jerry, are you still watching the supersonic game tape?"
"The kids are out playing now?"
Jerry Sloan, who was watching the supersonic game video intently, saw that it was Phil Johnson who walked in, so he put his eyes on the laptop in front of him again.
It was as if the big screen in front of him had a supreme attraction for him.
Seeing Jerry Sloan like this, the expression on Phil Johnson's face was also a little helpless.
This is not the first day.
Since last week, Jerry Sloan has been frantically studying the Seattle SuperSonics for two seasons.
It's really hard to imagine that Jerry Sloan would have to study a team, a player to that extent during the regular season.
In the NBA, this kind of targeted research usually doesn't appear until the playoffs.
And now, Jerry Sloan for the sake of hypersonic for the sake of Yes, and now it is already like this.
Looking at Jerry Sloan, who was now staring at the laptop screen with his brows on his brow, Phil Johnson could really only sigh now except sigh.
Now Jerry's pressure is just too much!
He has been an assistant coach for the Utah Jazz since 1982, has been elsewhere for four years, and has been with the Utah Jazz for two decades from 1982 to now.
No one may believe that Jerry Sloan came to the Utah Jazz in the first place.
Both he and Jerry Sloan were disciples of Dick Motta.
When Dick Motta was coaching the Bulls, he was an assistant coach and Jerry Sloan was a player.
Jerry Sloan loved coaching when he was a player, and he has been learning from Dick Motta's side like him.
Dick Motta left the Bulls for the Washington Bullets after Jerry Sloan's retirement, and Jerry Sloan became the head coach of the Chicago Bulls.
When Jerry Sloan was head coach with the Bulls, he was Jerry Sloan's assistant coach.
Jerry Sloan's three years with the Bulls were terrible, and he was fired by the Bulls in his third year of coaching before the regular season was over.
After Jerry Sloan's fire, Jerry Sloan chose to rest, and he left the Bulls to join the Jazz as an assistant coach.
As a native of Utah, he recommended Jerry Sloan to the team as a scout for the Jazz after he stabilized.
A former NBA head coach, no matter how bad his coaching performance is, it is a very humiliating thing to go to another team to be a scout.
It was the hardest time in Jerry Sloan's life.
A man who was born, raised in Illinois, and made a name for himself in Illinois ends up leaving his hometown to work in a job that seems to be quite cheap.
If he hadn't known that Jerry Sloan hadn't given up on basketball and his dream of coaching, he would never have invited his best friend and best brother to Utah.
Jerry Sloan's coaching accomplishments in Utah proved him right.
In the 25 years from 1983 to 2008, Jerry Sloan has grown from a small scout to the most respected head coach in Utah.
And he also followed Jerry Sloan's side and became the best assistant coach in the NBA now.
During these twenty-five years at Jazz, they have witnessed a lot together.
Add to that the time of the Chicago Bulls, and they have been together for more than thirty years, and they have been through a lot together.
In all his experiences and testimonies, he had never seen Jerry Sloan's anxiety like this.
Even when he was out of class from the Chicago Bulls and faced with a broken basketball career and coaching dream, Jerry Sloan was never so anxious.
As Jerry Sloan's closest comrade-in-arms, he can understand Jerry Sloan's mood now.
This season's Utah Jazz record is really unexpected.
Before the season begins, even the most demanding media for the Utah Jazz will rank the Utah Jazz in the top five of the most terrifying West in history.
The Jazz played seven games against the Spurs in the playoffs last season.
In the regular season last season, the Jazz defeated Yes, which led the team to the Western Conference Finals.
As long as the Jazz can improve step by step this season, the team's fighting power in the West can be expected.
However, the end result is that all these prospects and expectations are dreams!
Now the Utah Jazz are not in the top five in the West, not even in the top eight in the West.
Now the Utah Jazz are ranked 10th in the West!
A very bad ranking.
The Utah Jazz have not had a good record in the past few seasons since the breakup of the Utah Twins.
Otherwise, it would not be possible to have a lottery pick to select Deron Williams.
In previous seasons, the Jazz were even worse off in the regular season than they were in 10th place in the West.
It's just that the ranking at that time can be the same as the ranking this season?
He knows exactly what Jerry Sloan expects from the team this season.
Aside from the illusory goal of winning a championship, Jerry Sloan's goal this season has always been to lead the team to win a series!
Lead a team to win a series in what is known as the scariest Western season ever!
Jerry Sloan is well aware that winning a series is the first step for a team that is looking for a championship, and if you don't even try the taste of a series victory, shouting for a championship is really just a slogan.
As long as Jerry Sloan can lead the team through the first round of the playoffs this season, he can lead the team to shout the championship slogan next season.
At this time, what Yes, what Supersonics, Jerry Sloan and the Jazz really never considered.
What can a team that was killed five by them last season have anything to consider?
But this season, the Jazz have been double-killed by the Seattle SuperSonics!
Tomorrow's high-profile game against the Seattle SuperSonics is the third battle between the Utah Jazz and SuperSonics this season.
Before this game, the top 10 teams in the West, the Suns ranked first with 47 wins and 4 losses, the Rockets ranked second with 46 wins and 5 losses, the SuperSonics ranked third with 42 wins and 8 losses, the Lakers ranked fourth with losses, the Spurs and Nuggets ranked fifth and sixth respectively, the Grizzlies ranked seventh in the West, the Thunder ranked eighth, the Mavericks ranked ninth, and the Utah Jazz ranked tenth with losses.
Why is this game so concerned by the strong teams in the West?
As one of the best assistant coaches in the league, Phil Johnson certainly knows that.
The stakes between the outcome of this game and the sprint after the All-Star break are a lot of things.
Fight for three, fight for six, fight for eight......
All of this has a lot to do with this game!
Phil Johnson can be sure that the Lakers, Spurs and Nuggets must be hoping that the Jazz, the former Yes killer, can beat Yes and the Supersonics in this game.
And the Thunder and Mavericks are definitely hoping that the SuperSonics can beat the Jazz in this game.
As long as the Jazz lose this game, the Jazz will no longer pose a threat to them.
For the sake of the team's playoff hopes, for the team's upward stance, the Jazz have the pressure to win this game.
The Jazz are a young team right now.
What a young team needs most is the attitude of always improving and moving forward.
When a team is full of hope, the team's young players will have goals and expectations, and will improve faster.
When a team is hopeless, the team's young players are the most explosive, these young people are active in thinking, their ideas are jumping, no one knows what they will do, no one knows if they will hurt the team.
For those powerhouses in the West, this game is a turning point for them this season, and it is a game for them to strategize the next step of the season.
And for the Jazz, this game will be the game that will determine the team's future coaching career for the next ten years!
Phil Johnson has always been clear about what Jerry Sloan's dream is.
That golden NBA championship trophy!
If this generation of Jazz players loses their way forward because of this game, then Jerry Sloan is not capable of cultivating a new generation of Utah twins.
It can be said that Jerry Sloan pinned all his dreams and hopes on Deron Williams.
If this dream is finally shattered...... Phil Johnson couldn't imagine what would happen to Jerry Sloan.
Because the result of this imagination was so terrible, so terrible that he was already trembling a little now.
"Phil, the supersonics' changes this season are too big......"
Just when Phil Johnson thought about the consequences of the possible defeat of this game and felt extremely terrifying, Jerry Sloan's faint voice came.
"Compared to last season, Yes lifted his pass seal and when he took the ball back half of Rondo's hands, we couldn't win the SuperSonics again......
Phil Johnson could hear the bitterness in his dark voice.
Phil Johnson had a shocked look on his face after listening to this bitter speech.
Is this the result of Jerry Sloan's round-the-clock research for more than a week?
"Phil, basketball now, has really changed...... Because of Yes, basketball is no longer what we once thought it was......"
Jerry Sloan seemed to be speaking to him, and it was as if he was talking to himself, and what made Jerry Sloan sound such powerless, bitter, and desperate was a game playing on his laptop right now.
The last game between the Phoenix Suns and the Seattle SuperSonics!
The game in which the Phoenix Suns used the 'Yes rule' in the game.
Phil Johnson, of course, watched the game.
The Suns' defense against Yes has reached the limit in this game.
If the Suns still want to win, that's the strongest defense.
It is difficult for ordinary players to get statistics under such defense.
But Yes almost hit a double 20 in this game.
And not only did Yes come close to a double-20 stat, but Durant scored a career-high 65 points on his strongest pass in history.
In this game, Yes showed the world how terrible his three-point ability is, scoring 21 points on 6 shots, and also showing the world how terrible his passing is.
Under the siege of the Suns' three players, he can still pass those passes that others can't pass, without transitioning, and go directly to Durant, which seems to be a fantasy, Yes did it in this game!
Before Yes, no one would have believed that a team like the Suns could win a championship, and no one would boast that a team like the Suns could be the best team in history.
Before Yes, no one would have believed that a player was that dangerous from the three-point line, and no one would ever believe that a man could take a team to such a level with his speed and quick offense!
Even he and Jerry Sloan, as the inheritors and successors of small-ball tactics, would not believe it.
Many people may not believe it.
He and Jerry Sloan are the inheritors of small-ball tactics.
Their teacher, Dick Motta, was a pioneer of small-ball tactics in the NBA.
It is the 'small ball pioneer' that even the old Nelson is extremely sought after.
In the world's perception, he and Jerry Sloan should be defensive and iron-blooded, but in reality, their origins are offensive and flashy.
This is not a contradiction.
If they hadn't really seen the weakness of offense and flamboyance in the NBA, how could they have given up their origins?
They're not the same as old Nelson.
Nelson Sr.'s dream was to see more of the scenery, and Nelson Sr. never pursued a championship.
Because the championship is not at all attractive to the old Nelson, who is a disciple of the Cardinal, at least not as attractive as those unknown basketball landscapes.
And what about them?
They don't have the luxury of old Nelson, and they want a championship to leave their name in basketball history.
When offense and flashiness don't bring them that, they can only look for change.
has changed to the present, when they have almost forgotten their origins, the world suddenly tells them that basketball is not the same as before......
This sense of despair, this sense of powerlessness, this sense of bitterness, how painful it is.
Phil Johnson looked at the supersonic No. 35 on the computer who broke through Stoudemire with the ball and completed the violent dunk, and Phil Johnson's scalp was numb.
He had never seen a championship team give another team such a big chance in a game.
The game between the SuperSonics and the Suns showed them that defense may still be important in the latest basketball philosophy, but it is not that important.
What really decides the outcome of the game has become the score.
If you can score more points than your opponent in every game, you're the overall champion!
"Phil, this game is probably the one we say goodbye to the last twenty-five years."
Jerry Sloan's voice was still faint, but Phil Johnson could no longer hear any bitterness or despair.
"I don't want to mess up this match that says goodbye to my past!"
Linhe envy fish said
The second is to ask for a monthly pass and a recommendation!!!