The only tweet Sloan knows is ref's whistle

¹²³ · Mar 20, 2009

When Jerry Sloan was asked about Milwaukee's Charlie Villanueva getting scolded by coach Scott Skiles for sending a tweet on Twitter during halftime of the Bucks' game against Boston last Sunday, the 66-year-old Jazz coach first had to be told what it was before realizing what had been done wrong.

Twitter is a free, social online messaging network in which short notes are posted in real time, and this reportedly was Villanueva's from Sunday: "In da locker room, snuck to post my twitt. We're playing the Celtics, tie ball game at da half. Coach wants more toughness. I gotta step up."

"I don't follow that," Sloan said. "I don't even have a computer. I don't know how to turn one on. I don't know what you're talking about. I'm going to be totally honest. How would you do that?"

Told it could be done with a mobile phone, Sloan — raised in a tiny, remote Illinois town — was further perplexed.

"I have a phone," he said, "but I don't know how to use it that way. . . . See, I grew up without a telephone until I was a junior in high school. And I've always been intimidated by that stuff."

When Jazz point guard Deron Williams joined the conversation, he had to be enlightened as well — or at least acted as if he did. Teammates Ronnie Brewer and Carlos Boozer also claimed to have little or no knowledge of Twitter, whose big fans include veteran NBA center Shaquille O'Neal.

But they're all much more technologically advanced than Sloan.

"Coach doesn't like it when we text," 24-year-old Williams said.

Sloan has a loosely enforced no-cell-phone rule on the team bus, and earlier this season had to deal with one players' actually ringing in a locker during a team meeting.

"Years ago, I would have put my foot on it and squeezed on it," the Jazz coach said. "But I'm too old to do that (now). I'm afraid I'll slip off of it and hurt myself.

"All that stuff is fine," he added.

"That's the modern time, and I just haven't progressed in that area."
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Sloan is just great.

J_Ray · Mar 21, 2009

I read this article on another Jazz forum and it made me laugh. Sloan is classic in responses, and has some pretty funny things to say every once in awhile.

JE · Mar 21, 2009

Thanks a lot CV. Because you had to sit at your *** locker and post a *** twitter update for all the twitter ***s out there, now the whole fucking world is talking about ***got ass twitter. Nice job you bald fuck. COETCH WANTZ ME 2 BEE TUFFER!! Nobody fucking gives a shit, stop playing like a pussbag.

Once again, fuck twitter.

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