<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">INDIANAPOLIS ? He got going a bit in the third quarter, including a steal, a block and a follow dunk in one short burst. For Jazz coach Jerry Sloan, though, Andrei Kirilenko was not going nearly enough with an eight-point, two-steal, two-block, 3-of-11 shooting showing in Utah's 99-92 preseason loss at Indiana on Wednesday. "You don't get yourself better by playing at half-speed," Sloan said when asked about Kirilenko's play. "I don't care how many years you've played in this league, you have to come out and get yourself going, so you get into a good rhythm and you don't get hurt. "You get to playing around out there, and get to going half-speed and playing this game casually, you can really get hurt." Yet Kirilenko ? who hurt his knee and broke his wrist last season, then broke his nose during recent international play ? suggested he didn't feel nearly so slow. "Actually, I don't think I'm playing half-speed," the one-time All-Star from Russia said. "You know, I'm trying to do my best on the floor and trying to play hard. "You see me when we're in the flow trying to run hard and play good defense. It not happens every time, but I will try."</div> <div align="center">Source</div>
Last year Larry Miller called out Boozer and admitted shortly thereafter it was a mistake! Now Sloan has done the same to Kirilenko and thats a mistake also. I don't think Kirilenko would know how to loaf if he actually tried it. Trouble is, those types of things are what the media focuses on and then they feed it to the fans, and thats what people remember. Even when it has no basis in fact!!! Tank
