Jerry Sloan who passed away at age 78 Remember as the coach who lost twice in the final to Jordan • But his tremendous career is first and foremost a masterpiece of values, toughness and hard work

• The late Jerry Sloan. The influential coaching legends in game history

  Photo: 

  Reuters

All the jokes about how miserable she is by 2020 have already been received at Wetsap. For NBC fans, she's meanwhile, especially fake. Because for everything Corona virus brought, the passing of legendary league manager David Stern, the horribly tragic cult of Kobe Bryant and his daughter and seven others, and now the death of Jerry Sloan (78 influential training legends).

When we think of NBC stars Failure to retire without a championship "because of Michael Jordan" is a mention of Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing, Reggie Miller, and of course duo Carl Malone and John Stockton - two who for 18 years led Utah Jazz to the playoffs in all A season, most often with 50 wins or more, including two consecutive appearances in the finals, ending with losses to the Chicago Bulls.

But if a coach is to be joined to this historic quintet, it will obviously be Sloan. The man who has been on the Jazz lines for 23 years, starting from Stockton's sixth season (and Malone's fifth season), and almost a decade after the two retired.

"It's still painful, still burning," Stockton told director "The Last Dance," Jordan's Docko series, before agreeing to be interviewed. So you can only imagine how many of those losses did not leave Sloan, who was not only one of the most dedicated, tough and competitive people in league history, but also a symbol of the Bulls himself, remembering his days as a team player in his first ten years of the club.

Sloan. I wish we all had failures like Jerry's // Photo: Getty Images

So, from 1966 to 1976, his wisdom, toughness, work ethic, leadership, fundamentals, and most of all his supreme defense, were critical to establishing the young club, which reached the playoffs in eight of those ten seasons. They gave Sloane the nickname "the original bull (bull)," and eventually also led to hanging his undershirt in the hall ceiling.

And if that irony isn't enough to make it clear how much that loss to the Bulls must have inflicted on him, you can recall what she said sadly to his late wife Bobby in: 2004 "He would tell me, 'I can never consider myself and my career a success, as long as I didn't win the championship "".

But defining Sloan's historical and Nephilic work according to his losses would be the kind of injustice that would justify those who think obsessive sportsmanship is a lack of pointe. Because over the jubilee years of distinguished pursuits in sports, and especially in his years as a coach, Sloan was first and foremost the kind of person who promotes not only the game, but especially the people around them; From amateurs to professionals. From children to men. Talented athletes for career and family. Exactly all the things about sports is much more than who puts the decisive ball in the basket. I wish we all had such failures.