<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">The Jazz are gone, and not soon enough. Park City is a million miles away, and not far enough. Five straight road opponents await, and if there could be more Jerry Sloan probably would be all for it. The Jazz coach just wants to get on with the game he calls work, and events of the past week have allowed anything but. A bar skirmish involving rookies Robert Whaley and Deron Williams, and the fallout from it, appear to have weighed heavily on Sloan ? so much so that even though the Jazz managed to win their two games in its aftermath, he feels like off-court issues have kept him from doing his job to the best of his ability. "We have to talk about things outside of basketball ? that's the thing that's so bad about all the things that transpired, and I feel bad for that," said Sloan, whose Jazz beat Detroit on Monday and Portland on Wednesday to take a 10-12 record into an Eastern swing that begins tonight at Indiana and does not wrap up until next Friday in New York. In fact, Sloan is downright taxed by it all. "I've got to coach this team, and I've got to have the energy to coach it," he said. "And I don't have the energy to coach it with all of our coaches being involved in something else outside of basketball ? because our main focus is we're worried about something's that's going on that has nothing to do with the game of basketball itself. "And that's what we get paid to do. We're not cops. We're not police or anything like that. "We've just got to go on with our job ? and it takes a lot of energy to," Sloan added. "Even though I don't do a very good job many, many times, it still takes . . . tremendous energy. Some of these guys don't realize that."</div> <div align="center">Source</div>
