Ernie Johnson botches Jerry Sloan's Introduction

by Basketball John on Sep 11, 2009 8:41 AM MDT

First, thanks to moni for finding this. Make sure to check out her Jazz blog.

I don't know if he just misspoke, but it certainly looks like he's reading this off of notes. I'd like to see what his note card says.

Either way, here's what he botched if you missed it (all pointed about by moni).

He started his coaching career in 1997 with the Bulls. If that's the case, he's a damn traitor.
He has almost 1,100 wins. He actually has 1,136. So if he's been coaching since 1997, that's a little over 80 wins a season. Not bad.
He won COY in 2004. This is partially true. He did win the Sporting News COY award but the COY award that everyone knows about actually went to Hubrie Brown that year. You know the team that was suppose to win all of 10 games but ended up going 42-40 and just missing the playoffs? Check out that lineup.

For an intro that lasts 20 seconds, that's quite a mistake per second rate he's got going on.

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jerry sure did a heck of a job

head coaching both the jazz and assistant coaching the bulls in the 97 finals.

ha. i like how ernie said that jerry got his coaching start in 1997 and then had a run of 21 seasons with the jazz…which means it’s now 2018.

by moni on Sep 11, 2009 1:08 PM MDT reply actions

Ernie Johnson doesn't deal with human time.

SLCDunk.com, The Utah Jazz on SBNation

by Basketball John on Sep 11, 2009 1:53 PM MDT up reply actions

cue for shums

to make some sort of parallel to the koof

by moni on Sep 11, 2009 1:55 PM MDT up reply actions

making a parallel between The Koof and EJ

is like making a parallel between Galactus and Captain N The Game Master.

Uh, do you think you could draw me like a ninja?

by Shums on Sep 15, 2009 2:49 PM MDT up reply actions

Making a parallel between Galactus and Captain N The Game Master.

is like making… uh, who?

SLCDunk.com, The Utah Jazz on SBNation

by Basketball John on Sep 16, 2009 10:11 AM MDT up reply actions

You have to give him a break because he thinks about the Jazz the same way the rest of the NBA does. Snooze snooze. Always a good or pretty good team, never great. Never exciting to watch. They truly have to be the least interesting team in the NBA over the past 2 decades, with the exception of the always interesting public negotiating between Malone and Miller. Now with Miller gone (RIP), they’ll just be pretty good and boring (to watch and talk about).

Here’s to hoping for Boozer drama and a swift first-round playoff exit in ‘09-’10!

"I’m tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok." ~Shaq

by Max_in_Missouri on Sep 13, 2009 2:25 PM MDT reply actions