Pistons' Coach Calls Out Unfair Officiating After Game

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00:00All right, so, uh, the Pistons, uh, on Saturday night had a rough night with the refs, and

00:05their coach was having none of it after the game.

00:09He, he, he really wasn't.

00:11And remember, this has been building up, because we've played a couple times, Bickerstaff thinking

00:16that his young team does not get the same whistle as other teams.

00:22Uh, remember, I think it was against Indiana he had a problem, he had a problem against

00:25the Celtics.

00:26He's had problems a couple times with the refs.

00:28It kind of all came to a boiling point on Saturday night.

00:32We understand that we play a style of ball that's physical, it's on the edge, right?

00:36I coach my ass off with a passionate way.

00:38I'm into the games.

00:40Our players are into the games.

00:41We understand that, right?

00:43But we deserve a level of respect, because we're competing our tails off and bringing

00:48something positive to this league, right?

00:50We're growing young players.

00:51Our young players are competing their tail off.

00:54The least that they could do is get the same respect that everybody else in this league

00:58gets and get refereed the same way that everybody else in this league gets reffed.

01:03And enough is enough of it.

01:05And what you saw tonight was disgusting.

01:07It was a disgusting display of disrespect towards our guys and what we're trying to

01:11do.

01:12Is that it?

01:13Oh, he threw the stat sheet.

01:14Oh, he's scared.

01:15He's scared.

01:16He's just...

01:17Your boy.

01:18That is just terrific.

01:19Excuse me.

01:20How many times...

01:21I like him.

01:22You think he pounded the table a few more times?

01:28He just kept pounding that table as he was talking.

01:31We've seen a lot of table pounding lately on this show.

01:35We have seen that.

01:37Warriors, by the way, beat the Knicks on Saturday night.

01:40They are now 14-1 with Jimmy Butler.

01:44They don't lose.

01:45And they're undefeated on this homestand.

01:47I told you that when I said they'd go 6-1 at worst.

01:51And they're playing again tonight.

01:536-1.

01:54Playing again tonight.

01:55We'll give you those numbers in a moment.

01:57Now the Nuggets, remember they beat the Lakers Friday night, but they lost at home to the

02:00Wizards on Saturday night.

02:03Joker was asked after the game, do you guys just kind of turn it on or turn it off when

02:08there's bad teams or the playoffs?

02:10And Joker, he basically laid it down on a myth that's been talked about for a long time.

02:16I think who you are in the regular season, that's who you are in the playoffs.

02:20So I think you cannot flip the switch.

02:22I think that doesn't really exist, that kind of thing, that you can just flip the switch, so.

02:29Flip the switch.

02:30There you go.

02:31He don't believe it.

02:32I don't believe it either.

02:34Flip the switch.

02:35Yeah, there's only one team that I think flips the switch.

02:38As I told you, flicking the switch, ACDC style, it's the Celtics.

02:42They play when they want to.

02:45When they want to, they destroy anyone in the league.

02:49Like I said, Cleveland was down 25 to them at the Garden and beat them.

02:53So I have seen it all.

02:56I thought that Boston could flick a switch and beat anybody, and then to see them lose

03:01that day was all I needed to know that anything can happen in the NBA, particularly in a playoff

03:10setting because the league is a league of runs.

03:16That's all there is to it.

03:18If you watch a game in the NBA, all you're going to hear the play-by-play guys saying

03:21for the entire game is, they're on a 12-0 run.

03:25They're on a 9-0 run.

03:26They're on a 14-3 run.

03:29It's just a game of runs.

03:31That's all it is.

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