KRT Wire - With the Bulls and Pistons set to meet once again on Wednesday in Detroit, all eyes will be on Bulls coach Scott Skiles and Pistons guard Richard Hamilton.Last time the two teams met the two exchanged jabs at each other in post-match banter, with one claiming the other was talking trash to him during the game and the other labelling the comments as pre-meditated lies.During the game, Hamilton gets ejected for picking up two technical fouls. But Hamilton says he was provoked by Skiles.As Hamilton recalled: "I kept on hearing somebody talking slick from behind me. I'm like, `Who is talking to me?" Me and Kirk Hinrich got a little battle going on on the floor, and that's all fun and games. But I keep hearing somebody behind me, and it's Skiles. So I said, `Wow.' His job is to coach the team. His job is not to say stuff to me. That's what kind of got me angry, because he opened his mouth and tried to talk slick from behind me. Even the refs told me, `Don't pay him no mind, don't pay him no mind.' "Skiles, though, said Hamilton was delusional."He either made an honest mistake, or he's purposely not telling the truth to cover up his poor behavior," Skiles said. "I'm not sure which one it was. There were some guys on our bench telling him to just play basketball."He was saying worse than that to our guys. I went to the ref and I asked, `You going to keep letting him talk to our bench like that?' Then Hamilton just verbally went off on me. So I would imagine it was the latter of the two. I'd consider the source."As if Skiles didn't already have a key Piston mad at him, he went and got the rest of the fellas all riled up by implying they are only as good as they are because they intimidate the referees."They literally complain about every call the whole game long," Skiles said. "That's their style. That's what they do. They're having a great year doing it."I thought we really handled the game with a pretty good amount of dignity and class, in a game that was sorely lacking either one of those. If they continue that trend where apparently they never foul, that will go a long way toward them advancing."
