{"id":875546,"date":"2026-11-04T03:24:15","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T03:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/875546\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T03:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T03:24:15","slug":"bickerstaff-detroit-pistons-defensive-success-hinges-on-being-disruptive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/875546\/","title":{"rendered":"Bickerstaff: Detroit Pistons\u2019 Defensive Success Hinges On Being \u2018Disruptive\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201dWhen we\u2019re defending at the level that we\u2019re capable of defending and shots are going, we\u2019re going to be a tough out,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/K8-SWMNC8cc?is=6e9Kjfwshyf-SI_f\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bickerstaff said after the game.<\/a> \u201cOur guys, again, have completely bought into what\u2019s most important to team, and for us it\u2019s our identity of being defensive-minded, being aggressive, being disruptive. We\u2019ve got guys that can play in the open court, which creates a lot of opportunities for us also, but when you add that on top of the shots falling, we\u2019re going to be pretty hard to beat.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201dWhen we\u2019re defending at the level that we\u2019re capable of defending and shots are going, we\u2019re going to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":875547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3773],"tags":[1026,7,909,296,188,3860,1016,3578,6,297],"class_list":["post-875546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-detroit-pistons","tag-ausar-thompson","tag-basketball","tag-cade-cunningham","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-pistons","tag-detroitpistons","tag-isaiah-stewart","tag-jb-bickerstaff","tag-nba","tag-pistons"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117556036448711625","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}