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
finished group kept men
They finished the right way. It's a group of young men that maximized what they had. They just kept fighting.
good group problem stops
The problem was that the group that was getting the stops wasn't very good offensively.
ad basically group job nice
We have to ad lib, which is basically what we've been doing. The group has done a nice job adjusting. We have to do different things with different personnel.
commitment group terms
Collectively, the group has been what we wanted them to be in terms of that commitment to effort.
forward looking season
I'm looking forward to Wednesday, that's when the season ends. I am looking forward to relaxation.
either
It's not going to do anything to them statistically for either one of them. They are who they are at this point. They have nothing to prove.
basketball detroit good guys lay lose proud
It's not an embarrassment to lose to Detroit that way. They are a very good basketball team. But I told my guys that I would go in a foxhole with them any day. They never lay down, and I'm very proud of them.
beginning energy games job six
The beginning of the third, we didn't get anything done. After six games and two weeks, we didn't have the energy to get the job done.
beginning quarter third
The beginning of the third quarter was atrocious.
against balance basketball good patience shared stretch team utah
The balance was really good. They shared the basketball and that is what you really have to do against Utah because they play really good team defense. I thought down the stretch our patience was really good. We didn't panic.
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.
call function game gets heck personal problem understanding
That is the problem with us. It gets personal with us because we don't get a call and we're up 10 or 15 points, to heck with the call...I really think it's a function of not understanding that it's about the game and not about the individual.
weapons
They've just got so many weapons that somehow, someone's going to make a play.
bottom guys interested
I'm not interested in the bottom-feeding guys. The guys that aren't in the playoffs, we're all bottom feeders.