192 ordspråk av Bernie Bickerstaff
Bernie Bickerstaff
That's a pretty damn good basketball team that we played. They're very efficient. Most (teams) have a go-to player. That basketball team has a go-to team. They're very good, very efficient. When a guy's open, he gets the basketball.
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That's my fear. I don't know what to expect. I'm concerned about the necessary distractions.
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The 11 guys in that room are giving it everything they've got and their decisions are good. And guys who have not had an opportunity before are stepping up and performing.
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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.
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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.
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The beginning of the third quarter was atrocious.
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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.
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The bottom line is whether we were prepared and ready to play when they threw the ball up. It didn't appear that way to me, and I think that's a responsibility that when people come to the arena and pay their hard-earned cash to watch you perform, then you owe them a performance. And that's effort. And damn if we gave effort (Monday night).
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The coaches were bad. The players were bad. We all share in this. This was one of those days where we kind of fumigated the place.
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The competitiveness in me says you don't want to finish with the worst record. That's not our goal.
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The competitiveness in me says you don't want to finish with the worst record. We're not trying to lose. And the history has been that it doesn't matter a whole hell of a lot anyway.
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The effort was much, much, much better.
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The good news is that this is a different injury than we originally thought, but it is still an injury we have to let take its course in recovery. Gerald is having a tremendous season and we expect him continuing that when he returns, but we will be patient in letting his bone bruise heal fully and keep the long term in our minds.
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The last two games, the one in Detroit, late in that game and this game is really the most competitive that we've been with a very, very good basketball team.
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The line that Carmelo had is off the charts. I think he probably covered every digit on the sheet, points, rebounds, assists. He played like a superstar.
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