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Classic Jerry Sloan moments

i tried (and failed) to find video of that game 2 years ago in Orlando when Jerry got ejected in the first 2 minutes of the game. I was living in Orlando at the time, and it's the only jazz game my wife and I have been to together. The game sucked besides that, but Sloan getting ejected that quickly was worth it. I think he called a ref a "m*****f*****" or something like that.
 
No video (there was video many moons ago on YT), but the day Sloan pushed an official during the Jazz-Kings game back when Stockton and Malone were playing.

https://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/news/2003/01/28/jazz_kings_ap/

This gold:

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I guess this isnt really a classic Jerry moment, but it's a look into the man he is, the player he was, and how good of a coach he became for the Jazz.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q79hZ3v8RiE
 
royzzz said:
Will there be a movie about Ol' Jer? I recommend Al Pacino as Sloan. Nice!
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Yes, it's already in the works.

"Even Grumpier Old Men" will feature Sloan and Don Nelson as two gruff, but lovable and often-misunderstood old codgers who, despite unparalleled success in the regular season, never won NBA championships as coaches. As both are married, the plot naturally varies from the previous films featuring Lemmon and Matthau and their pursuit of aging, ummm...treasure.

Sharing common midwestern roots and a love of tractors and fishing, the film also explores their contrasting careers as players in the early-NBA: Nelson as a role player for the mighty Boston Celtics and Sloan as a star on the less-successful Chicago Bulls.

The most memorable scene in the movie, and a microcosm of their philosophies and successes and failures as NBA head coaches is the Great Lakes fishing tournament. "Nellie" catches small fish after small fish, insisting that the sleeker, faster trout are way better to catch than the big old slow ones. Jerry on the other hand, spends most of his time experimenting with different bait and rods, often becoming tangled in his own line and cursing like a drunken sailor. And some of his combinations leave even the average fisherman scratching his head, like the time he puts a worm on the end of a fly-fishing rod.

While Sloan and Nelson share the protagonist roles in this comedic drama, neither of them comes even close to winning the tournament. The Great Lakes title, as usual, is won by the movies antagonist, a tall white-haired gentlemen who simply casts his line in the lake while he sits on the bank reading his philosophy books. Often called the "The Zen Master," this champion fisherman is a master baiter who prefers worms over artificial lures, asserting it is his unique relationship with nature that wills the big trout onto his line. His aloofness, huge ego and continual spouting of his philosophies makes him either the most-hated or most-admired man among his fellow competitors and those who follow the sport. Never mentioned is the special deal he cut with the tournament commissioner to trade some of his old, unwanted tackle in return for securing the most coveted fishing spot.

"Even Grumpier Old Men" is sure to become a sports classic, right up there with "Hoosiers" and "White Men Can't Jump."
 
royzzz said:
Will there be a movie about Ol' Jer? I recommend Al Pacino as Sloan. Nice!
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The Scarface as Jerry Sloan! Hell yeah. There is one little issue though, Al Pacino is what, Like 5'7? He would need some damn high heels to at least resemble a basketball player and not a midget I guess.
 
GlassEater said:
Yes, it's already in the works.

"Even Grumpier Old Men" will feature Sloan and Don Nelson as two gruff, but lovable and often-misunderstood old codgers...
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Good Post, Glass. Kinda funny how anything "different," which is creative and entertaining, won't draw the slightest comment round this here jont, eh? Unless maybe the poster is a "favorite," in which case 30 posters will trip all over themselves telling him that what he just wrote would put Hemmingway to shame, ya know?
 
GlassEater said:
Yes, it's already in the works.

"Even Grumpier Old Men" will feature Sloan and Don Nelson as two gruff, but lovable and often-misunderstood old codgers who, despite unparalleled success in the regular season, never won NBA championships as coaches. As both are married, the plot naturally varies from the previous films featuring Lemmon and Matthau and their pursuit of aging, ummm...treasure.

Sharing common midwestern roots and a love of tractors and fishing, the film also explores their contrasting careers as players in the early-NBA: Nelson as a role player for the mighty Boston Celtics and Sloan as a star on the less-successful Chicago Bulls.

The most memorable scene in the movie, and a microcosm of their philosophies and successes and failures as NBA head coaches is the Great Lakes fishing tournament. "Nellie" catches small fish after small fish, insisting that the sleeker, faster trout are way better to catch than the big old slow ones. Jerry on the other hand, spends most of his time experimenting with different bait and rods, often becoming tangled in his own line and cursing like a drunken sailor. And some of his combinations leave even the average fisherman scratching his head, like the time he puts a worm on the end of a fly-fishing rod.

While Sloan and Nelson share the protagonist roles in this comedic drama, neither of them comes even close to winning the tournament. The Great Lakes title, as usual, is won by the movies antagonist, a tall white-haired gentlemen who simply casts his line in the lake while he sits on the bank reading his philosophy books. Often called the "The Zen Master," this champion fisherman is a master baiter who prefers worms over artificial lures, asserting it is his unique relationship with nature that wills the big trout onto his line. His aloofness, huge ego and continual spouting of his philosophies makes him either the most-hated or most-admired man among his fellow competitors and those who follow the sport. Never mentioned is the special deal he cut with the tournament commissioner to trade some of his old, unwanted tackle in return for securing the most coveted fishing spot.

"Even Grumpier Old Men" is sure to become a sports classic, right up there with "Hoosiers" and "White Men Can't Jump."
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Now that is pretty funny. Nice.
 
Hopper said:
Good Post, Glass. Kinda funny how anything "different," which is creative and entertaining, won't draw the slightest comment round this here jont, eh? Unless maybe the poster is a "favorite," in which case 30 posters will trip all over themselves telling him that what he just wrote would put Hemmingway to shame, ya know?
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Someone is bitter about their 0 rep power.
 
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