Bernie Bickerstaff
Bernie Bickerstaff
Bernard Tyrone "Bernie" Bickerstaffis an American basketball coach. He previously worked as the head coach for the NBA's Seattle SuperSonics, Denver Nuggets, Washington Bullets/Wizards, Charlotte Bobcats, and Los Angeles Lakers. He has also been an assistant for the Portland Trail Blazers, Chicago Bulls, Los Angeles Lakers, and Cleveland Cavaliers. He has served in numerous other NBA front office positions, and has been a consultant for the Harlem Globetrotters...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth11 February 1944
ball effort guys minutes nine proud time winning
Obviously, if you've only got nine or 10 guys that play a lot of minutes over two nights, you're not able to rotate the ball as well to your shooters. When it was winning time we didn't get it done, but I'm proud of their effort tonight.
call detroit played purpose struggling wins
Detroit played with a purpose. They've been struggling a little bit; if you can call 50 wins struggling. They just have too many pieces.
call detroit proud struggling wins
They've been struggling a little bit, if you can call 49 wins struggling, but they just have too many pieces. I'm proud of our guys. That was about the most competitive that we've been with Detroit this year.
basketball concern guys hard played taking win
I thought our guys played hard and played terrific. They did everything that they could to win the basketball game. The one concern I have is with Gerald and Raymond, is that I don't want them to get discouraged. I want them to keep taking that basketball to the hole, but they get discouraged when they don't get rewarded.
balance competing depleted due helps inequity minutes move players talented wing
This move helps balance our roster. We had a lot of talented wing players competing for minutes but were depleted in the frontcourt due to injuries, so we addressed that inequity with this trade.
ludicrous raymond
That was ludicrous that he wasn't in that game. If you see Raymond play, there's no way he shouldn't have been on that team.
contested guys shots tough
They contested our shots, that's what they do. Some of their shots we contested and they made them. Those guys made some tough shots.
guess mentally
He's going to the battleship? Well, I guess he's getting mentally ready, huh?
alarm clock hung intensity match second shots stop until
The alarm clock didn't go off until the second half. We didn't match their intensity on defense. We got hung up in fool's gold. Some shots were going in but we didn't stop anybody.
credit dangerous jersey needs playing team
I think all the credit needs to go to New Jersey tonight. They're playing well, that's 14 in a row. They're a team that if they play like this, they're going to be very dangerous in the playoffs.
seen
This is getting ridiculous. I've never seen anything like this.
work
He had to really work for it tonight. He didn't get anything in bundles.
seem somebody somewhere stop
If you stop one player, they go somewhere else. They seem to always know where to go, and somebody always delivers.
message nice start
The message is, we had a nice run, now let's start it again.