JB Bickerstaff was recently named the Eastern Conference Coach of the Month for February 2025, making him the first Detroit Pistons head coach since the late Flip Saunders in 2008 to win it.
This was Bickerstaff’s second Coach of the Month award in his career, and he deserves it after helping the Detroit Pistons win 10 of their last 11 games.
Under Bickerstaff last month, Detroit averaged 123.7 points per game and shot 49.8 percent from the field and 37 percent from the three-point range.
The Detroit Pistons improved to a 35-27 record (good for sixth in the Eastern Conference) after Monday’s 134-106 win against the Utah Jazz. In his first full season as head coach, Bickerstaff is on pace to more than triple last season’s 14-win total.
Detroit Pistons News: JB Bickerstaff sounds off on winning Coach of the Month
JB Bickerstaff was asked about winning his second Coach of the Month award ahead of the Utah Jazz match, and the Detroit Pistons head coach said he doesn’t want to take all the credit.
“I see it as a collection of all of the things that everybody that’s worked with these guys and then the work that the guys have done, it’s a representation of that. This isn’t just about one person at any point in time. Everything that we do is about the collective. If the collective doesn’t do the job, individuals don’t get recognized. So, this award—whatever you want to call it—is about the group,” Bickerstaff said via Coty Davis of Detroit News.
“It’s about the guys, it’s about the assistant coaches and the work that they put in with the guys. Medical, the work that they put in to get the guys on the floor. Strength coaches. Like, it’s all a part of that. Once the collective does its job, then the recognition comes,” he emphasized.
