146 Quotes by Bernie Bickerstaff

Most teams have a go-to guy. Detroit has a go-to team.

That started at the middle of the season last year. We got the best shot from people. The way we played last year, the advantage we had at the beginning of the season is no longer an advantage for us.

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.

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.

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.

Obviously it's always very difficult. It has its benefits because we watch guys evolve and they get an opportunity. But where the difficulty comes in is all the things you've implemented you can't do, especially offensively. That's the tough part when you're sitting there and you're wondering what to call and how to call it. That's the challenge.

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.

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.

The beginning of the third quarter was atrocious.