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Pistons' Coach Calls Out Unfair Officiating After Game
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3/17/2025
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All right, so, uh, the Pistons, uh, on Saturday night had a rough night with the refs, and
00:05
their coach was having none of it after the game.
00:09
He, he, he really wasn't.
00:11
And remember, this has been building up, because we've played a couple times, Bickerstaff thinking
00:16
that his young team does not get the same whistle as other teams.
00:22
Uh, remember, I think it was against Indiana he had a problem, he had a problem against
00:25
the Celtics.
00:26
He's had problems a couple times with the refs.
00:28
It kind of all came to a boiling point on Saturday night.
00:32
We understand that we play a style of ball that's physical, it's on the edge, right?
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I coach my ass off with a passionate way.
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I'm into the games.
00:40
Our players are into the games.
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We understand that, right?
00:43
But we deserve a level of respect, because we're competing our tails off and bringing
00:48
something positive to this league, right?
00:50
We're growing young players.
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Our young players are competing their tail off.
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The least that they could do is get the same respect that everybody else in this league
00:58
gets and get refereed the same way that everybody else in this league gets reffed.
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And enough is enough of it.
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And what you saw tonight was disgusting.
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It was a disgusting display of disrespect towards our guys and what we're trying to
01:11
do.
01:12
Is that it?
01:13
Oh, he threw the stat sheet.
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Oh, he's scared.
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He's scared.
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He's just...
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Your boy.
01:18
That is just terrific.
01:19
Excuse me.
01:20
How many times...
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I like him.
01:22
You think he pounded the table a few more times?
01:28
He just kept pounding that table as he was talking.
01:31
We've seen a lot of table pounding lately on this show.
01:35
We have seen that.
01:37
Warriors, by the way, beat the Knicks on Saturday night.
01:40
They are now 14-1 with Jimmy Butler.
01:44
They don't lose.
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And they're undefeated on this homestand.
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I told you that when I said they'd go 6-1 at worst.
01:51
And they're playing again tonight.
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6-1.
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Playing again tonight.
01:55
We'll give you those numbers in a moment.
01:57
Now the Nuggets, remember they beat the Lakers Friday night, but they lost at home to the
02:00
Wizards on Saturday night.
02:03
Joker was asked after the game, do you guys just kind of turn it on or turn it off when
02:08
there's bad teams or the playoffs?
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And Joker, he basically laid it down on a myth that's been talked about for a long time.
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I think who you are in the regular season, that's who you are in the playoffs.
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So I think you cannot flip the switch.
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I think that doesn't really exist, that kind of thing, that you can just flip the switch, so.
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Flip the switch.
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There you go.
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He don't believe it.
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I don't believe it either.
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Flip the switch.
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Yeah, there's only one team that I think flips the switch.
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As I told you, flicking the switch, ACDC style, it's the Celtics.
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They play when they want to.
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When they want to, they destroy anyone in the league.
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Like I said, Cleveland was down 25 to them at the Garden and beat them.
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So I have seen it all.
02:56
I thought that Boston could flick a switch and beat anybody, and then to see them lose
03:01
that day was all I needed to know that anything can happen in the NBA, particularly in a playoff
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setting because the league is a league of runs.
03:16
That's all there is to it.
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If you watch a game in the NBA, all you're going to hear the play-by-play guys saying
03:21
for the entire game is, they're on a 12-0 run.
03:25
They're on a 9-0 run.
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They're on a 14-3 run.
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It's just a game of runs.
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That's all it is.
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