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 guys three
Those three guys are pretty good. When you've got three guys who can score, you can put the ball in their hands.
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.
ball basically difficult pay touch
He made some very difficult shots. That ball basically didn't touch the rim and that is what they pay him for.
ball bounce call few good guys last looks shoot took
We had two good looks in the last few seconds. You had guys who shoot the ball from the outside, and shoot it well, that took the shots. Call it the bounce of the basketball.
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He's very, very difficult to handle. They got him the ball in the right situations. It was a fun game. You saw some great athletes, young athletes, that the league is going to have to contend with as we move forward.
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It's impossible to limit him. He can go get the ball with rebounds and there is just a myriad of ways for him to get possessions and obviously they put the ball in his hands.
ball everybody picked steve tried
Dirk has been great, but what Steve has done is just unbelievable. We tried to get the ball out of his hands, and he still picked us apart. He's made everybody better.
ball beat kicked men
They beat us where the men play: down on the boards. They kicked our butts where the men play. They wanted the ball more than we did.
ball everybody hesitation shot tonight
(Carroll) shot it without hesitation tonight and that's important. What's more important is they were getting him the ball and he should have had the ball. When he has the ball or when he comes off a screen, that makes it better for everybody else.
ghosts great guys perform quality remind special stage
When you play here in the Garden, it always has that special quality to it. The ghosts are still here. We try to remind the young guys that this is a great stage to perform on.
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We've hit the wall as a team. Our guys have played a lot of minutes and were having mental lapses, and the common things we just didn't get done. It was an indication of a basketball team that has hit the wall. We were giving it up on the defensive end and we were really lacking.
cover great reports scouting trying
We're trying to cover all the scenarios, all the possibilities, ... The one thing we've had is time. That's been the great thing. We've got scouting reports on everybody.
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.