Bernie Bickerstaff Good Quotations

We're good listeners and good facilitators, ... We have to make a decision not to do anything that is vindictive, but just to try to do something that we can derive some benefit from...

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.

I can't divulge that. My credibility's on the line. There's a good possibility they made the right decision.

We made mistakes and paid for them in the third quarter. We had our opportunities and we just didn't get to the loose balls. Guys get tired and when they do, they make mental mistakes. We just ran out of steam playing a good team on their home floor.

It all boiled to down to decisions. I think at critical junctures we made some pretty good decisions. In our last four games we had deficits and then we took the lead, but we haven't made good decisions when we've had the ball.

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.

You know what he's good at? He can make shots, and boy he must have a strong chest.

The problem was that the group that was getting the stops wasn't very good offensively.

We had some good shots. We had some point-blank shots at that time. I think what happened was on the other end, they went to Hamilton and he made some big shots. Their execution down the stretch was really, really good.

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.

They have a good balance with (Miller) and Bobby Jackson coming off the bench.

They don't lay down. It's not an embarrassment to play against Detroit. They're a very good basketball team.

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.

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.

It was just a really good team effort and a very significant game.

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.