Post-Game Press Conference: J.B. Bickerstaff | Pistons vs. Magic | 11.28.2025
JB BETWEEN THE TURNOVERS IN THIS ONE AND SOME OF THE DEFENSIVE LAPSES, WHAT FELT LIKE THE BIGGEST FACTOR TO YOU IN NOT BEING ABLE TO TAKE FULL CONTROL, LIKE YOU GUYS HAD HAD AT THE BEGINNING OF THE GAME? >> I MEAN, 24 TURNOVERS IS HARD TO OVERCOME. THE TIME THAT THEY CAME AND HOW THEY WERE COMING THAT, YOU KNOW, LED TO ONE OF THE BEST FAST BREAK TEAMS IN OUR LEAGUE RIGHT NOW. SO I THINK THAT THAT’S HARD TO OVERCOME. BUT AGAIN, WE PUT OURSELVES IN POSITION, YOU KNOW, COULDN’T COME UP WITH THE BALL IN THE FINAL POSSESSION THERE. BUT OUR GUYS BATTLED AND GAVE THEMSELVES A CHANCE DOWN THE STRETCH. >> YEAH. WHAT DID YOU SEE JUST FROM THE GROUP AND THE WAY THEY RESPONDED IN THAT FINAL STRETCH. >> YEAH I MEAN THAT’S WHO THEY ARE. AND THAT’S WHY YOU KNOW THESE GAMES HURT IS BECAUSE THEY DO HAVE THAT RESILIENCY. THEY DO CARE. THEY ARE COMMITTED. AND THEY LAID IT ALL OUT THERE TONIGHT AND TRIED THEIR BEST. BUT JUST AGAIN A FEW POSSESSIONS HERE A FEW PLAYS THERE ENDED UP COSTING US IN THE LONG RUN. QUESTION. >> NOT VERY OFTEN. THIS TEAM IS OUTSCORED IN THE PAINT. JUST WHAT WERE YOU SEEING THERE THE PHYSICALITY OF THE GAME. >> I MEAN, YOU KNOW AGAIN I THOUGHT THAT’S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THEY DO. I THOUGHT THEY DROVE US. YOU KNOW WE COULD HAVE BEEN EARLIER IN OUR HELP SPOTS. WE ALLOWED THEM TO GET TOO DEEP. BUT AGAIN, WE’LL TAKE A LOOK AT IT AND WE’LL CORRECT IT. >> I THINK THE FIRST FIELD GOAL FOR THE TEAM IN THE FOURTH QUARTER WAS AROUND THE SEVEN MINUTE MARK. WITH THAT DUNCAN ROBINSON THREE, JUST THE OFFENSE STAGNATING THROUGH THE FIRST HALF OF THE FOURTH. WHAT DID YOU SEE THERE AND HOW MUCH DO YOU THINK THAT THREE FROM DUNCAN HELPED KIND OF UNDO THINGS TOWARD THE END? >> YEAH, I MEAN IT’S OBVIOUSLY, YOU KNOW, KIND OF A WORK IN PROGRESS THERE WITH BRINGING GUYS BACK AND WHO’S GOING TO PLAY IN THOSE MINUTES WHEN CADE IS OUT OF THE GAME AND THEN FIGURING OUT, YOU KNOW, THE OFFENSIVE IDENTITY OF THAT GROUP AND HOW WE CAN CONTINUE, YOU KNOW, TO PLAY FASTER. BUT WE CAN MOVE TEAMS AROUND, YOU KNOW, OUR STOPS HAVE TO HELP US SO WE CAN GET OUT AND RUN, BECAUSE THAT GROUP SHOULD BE PRETTY ATHLETIC AND PRETTY FAST. SO AGAIN, WE’RE WORKING ON IT AND GUYS WILL GET MORE COMFORTABLE IN THEIR ROLES. WE’LL, YOU KNOW, GET MORE COMFORTABLE IN OUR ROTATIONS. >> IT DIDN’T SEEM LIKE EITHER SIDE WAS HAPPY WITH THE OFFICIATING TONIGHT. AND CADE EMOTIONAL AT ONE POINT. JUST HOW FRUSTRATING CAN THAT BE? JUST AS A COACH IN THIS GAME WHEN THAT SEEMS TO GET IN THE WAY OF THINGS? >> I MEAN, IT IS FRUSTRATING. YOU KNOW, THE LACK OF CONSISTENCY IS WHAT WHAT WAS WHAT ON BOTH ENDS OF THE FLOOR, RIGHT? I’M NOT SAYING, YOU KNOW, WE WERE REFFED ANY DIFFERENT THAN THEY WERE. BUT I MEAN, IT JUST THERE WAS NO BALANCE AND NO FLOW TO THE GAME OF WHAT WAS GOING TO BE DEEMED A CALL TONIGHT. AND, YOU KNOW, I COULD GO FURTHER, BUT I’LL STOP. >> YOU TALKED ABOUT WANTING TO RUN A 12 MAN ROTATION JUST TO KIND OF, YOU KNOW, GIVE GUYS OPPORTUNITIES TO PLAY. DO YOU THINK THAT’S MADE A BIT OF A, YOU KNOW, TOUGHER IMPACT IN TERMS OF THEIR ADJUSTING, OR DO YOU THINK IT’S JUST KIND OF PART OF THE GAME? >> I DON’T UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU MEAN. >> LIKE, DO YOU THINK THAT’S LIKE DISRUPTING ANY OF THE RHYTHM IN TERMS OF LIKE, YOU
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11 comments
I guess those 13 wins were just flukes.
Go magic βΌοΈ
I need for this absolute moron to shorten up those rotations and stop playing Duncan 30 minutes a game
Also LOVE how he kept Stew on the bench even after they got those 2 clutch offensive rebounds. Thatβs some fine coaching there. JB must stand for Justa Bum
He is annoyed! Pistons dropped 2 and the turnover bug is back.
Canβt win with 24 TOβs
Why do we look worse with a fully healed team? That's concerning.
Please JB explain why Robinson was on Bane the whole game when you have an all NBA defender like Ausar starting for your team? Please explain why you fail to make adjustments during games, and seem to have a poor defensive gameplan?
Coach em up
This guy keep playing Caris as a PG instead of Jenkins and is wondering about βoffensive identity without cadeβ.
Boy what a way to try to win again but now we going backwards instead of winning forward since we eliminated from the NBA Cup competition we better win against Miami tomorrow cant see us going for our 3rd one in a row when we should be winning and committing turnovers and making bad shots is not gonna help anything or we end up back to where we were i was hoping they would bounce back against the magics but things didnt go the way it planned lets snap this 2 game losing streak against the Heat fellas dont let us down not after you guys came out hot and yall was firing every shot yall make lets get back to the winning column detroit yall can do it. No more mistakes and turnovers and inconsistency shots please ok???