The Sixers take on Utah tomorrow night and it won't be easy to turn things around against the Jazz.

Utah, which is 5-1, is almost always a good team, and that is in no small way because of coach Jerry Sloan, who became the first NBA coach to win 1,000 games with one team when the Jazz beat Oklahoma City on Friday.

Considering that Sloan is entering his 20th season with Utah that means that the Jazz have averaged 50 wins a season during his tenure.

“A thousand wins, period, is a lot and to get it with one team is a pretty amazing feat,” Sixers coach Maurice Cheeks said. “No one can understand, from a coach’s point of view, a thousand wins with one team… No one’s ever done it, right? That’s how hard and special that is. No one has ever done it.”

Sloan’s overall record is 1094-718 including a stint in Chicago, but he downplayed the significance of his accomplishment.

“Well, the owner didn’t fire me,” Sloan said deadpan. “Let’s make it simple.”

It is, however, a little more than that. Kyle Korver, the former Sixer who was traded to the Jazz last December, said it’s because of who and what Sloan is.

“I played for a lot of coaches here so to be somewhere where he’s been there that long is amazing to me,” Korver said. “It says a lot about him as a person, as a coach. He has a style that’s a lot different than a lot of coaches are allowed to be. Everyone thinks he’s crazy and yelling all the time, but that’s not the way he is at all. He’s a really good guy. He commands respect and he gives it back as well.”