Calbert Cheaney grew up in Evansville, Ind., where Jazz coach Jerry Sloan was a college star, so he knows a little something about his new boss.

Cheaney doesn't know much about Sloan as a player, but he does know about Sloan the coach.

"I'm just going to play hard, because if you don't play hard here, you don't play at all," Cheaney said. "That's coach Sloan's motto."