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
Bernie Bickerstaff quotes about
courage
I don't have the courage to inquire right now.
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.
ability locker phil room
Phil has that ability (to judge). He was in our locker room ? at our games.
consensus east guys high nba ncaa past players ranked school seen six top tournament
Peoria, Connecticut, Atlanta, ... I've got the Big East tournament on Thursday, the ACC on Friday, the SEC on Saturday. Then we've got the NCAA tournament. We've had guys out for the past six months. We've seen all the consensus top high school guys. We've been to Europe. We've ranked all the NBA players from all 29 teams. We've got guys everywhere.
half points pole south
Seventy-four points at the half - that's like being at the South Pole for us.
teams
Most teams that you have, they have one or two go-to guys. They've got a go-to team.
detroit teams
Most teams have a go-to guy. Detroit has a go-to team.
good patient played
My hat's off to Keith. He really played well for us tonight. My conversations to Keith have been to be patient and to be a good teammate.
draft help project strong
We need a scorer. It doesn't need to be a shooter, but it's got to be a scorer. There's a lot of help out there. I'm comfortable with that. ... What we project as our needs, (the 2006 draft should be) strong at that.
good
I can't divulge that. My credibility's on the line. There's a good possibility they made the right decision.
finished guys hard
We finished this one. We made it hard though. I told the guys that they are kind of hard on their coaches.
again guess seen year
This year is getting ridiculous. I've never seen anything like this. I guess I won't be able to say that again because we're experiencing it now.
dug game great overcame reached remember resilient
What a resilient group. They just reached down, dug it out and overcame a lot of odds. What a great game historically to remember how it was done.
dug reached resilient
What a resilient group. I don't know where they got it (energy) from. The just reached down and dug it out. I'd say they surmounted a lot of odds.