<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">On Wednesday night, in the aftermath of an eight-point loss at New Jersey, he called his club "fragile." On Thursday morning, practicing in New Jersey before moving on to Toronto for tonight's third outing in a four-game road trip, Jazz coach Jerry Sloan explained. "Something goes wrong," he said, and "we just kind of seem to fall apart." Sloan likened his team ? on that night, at least ? to a boxer who falls to the mat after absorbing just one body blow and never does get back up. "We didn't show the resilience," he said, "to be able to fight back." That wasn't the only jab Sloan threw Thursday. The next, in fact, was packed with a thwack. "I don't know how dedicated these guys are to wanting to win," said Sloan, who remains haunted by a 56-loss season in 2004-05. "That's a huge concern that I have," he added. "I said that at the beginning of the year." And he is saying it again now, just five games and a little more than a week into the 2005-06 regular season. The Jazz have three wins and two losses in those five games. Sloan suggested that, based on Wednesday's loss, the Jazz's attitude seems to go something like this: "Win as long as I get my points. But if I don't get my points and get some of the other stuff, then I'm not sure (I'm) dedicated to winning that much."</div> <div align="center">Source</div>
