J.B. Bickerstaff calls out officials over free throws after Pistons' Game 4 loss to Cavaliers: 'It's unacceptable'
The Pistons shot just 12 free throw attempts in Monday night's loss to the Cavaliers. Donovan Mitchell went 13-of-15 from the line himself.
J. B. Bickerstaff didn’t hesitate to call out the officiating on Monday night.
Bickerstaff and the Detroit Pistons stumbled in the second half on Monday and fell to Donovan Mitchell and the Cleveland Cavaliers 112-103 . The loss in Game 4 of their second-round playoff series tied it up 2-2. But it wasn’t just the loss, or the record-tying performance that Mitchell had in the second half, that Bickerstaff was upset with.
It was the foul calls, or in his mind, the lack thereof. “It’s unacceptable, it is,” Bickerstaff said, via the Detroit News’ Coty Davis. “We didn’t do enough honestly to help ourselves, and I’ll start there.
But ever since we came to Cleveland, the whistle has changed. There’s no way that one guy on their team shoots more free throws than our team. ” “It’s unacceptable.