Keith Langlois: J.B. Bickerstaff implies he was tossed for responding to what Minnesota assistant Pablo Prigioni (also ejected) said about his players . “There were things said by their assistant coach and I’m in the same boat as my guys are in …” More Bickerstaff: “We’re going to defend each other and I’m not going to let people say belligerent things about my guys. It’s that simple. He says what he said and he knows what he said. …