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TEMPE, Ariz. Bob Brenly Jersey . – Apparently every NFL team with a head coaching vacancy wants to talk to Arizona Cardinals defensive co-ordinator Todd Bowles.Thats what my coaches tell me, Bowles said after Wednesdays practice, but me and coach (Bruce) Arians talked about it. Well deal with it next week as opposed to this week.Various reports have Bowles drawing interest from San Francisco, Chicago, Atlanta, the New York Jets and Oakland.You dont have time to be flattered, Bowles said, because you dont think about it because you have games to play.He said his only concern is getting his defence ready for Saturdays wild card playoff game at Carolina.Because the Cardinals are in the wild card, teams cant interview Bowles until next week.Weve talked about it, Arians said. This week is hands off anyways.Arians said he told Bowles, Next week, when youre preparing for the game, set aside a time that you want to pick a team or which teams you want to talk to.And Im all for it, Arians said. He deserves it and hes earned the right, but its not going to affect his focus on next weeks game.If Arizona has a next weeks game.The Cardinals (11-5), who probably will start third-stringer Ryan Lindley at quarterback, are 5 1/2-point underdogs to the Panthers (7-8-1) and are coming off their two worst defensive performances of the season.The last two games weve missed an enormous amount of tackles, Bowles said. Weve addressed that. We always do, and the guys have addressed that. Weve just got to get them down. Its want-to and weve got to gang tackle. It cant be just one guy. Everybodys got to get to the ball.Until the last two games, Arizonas defence was the teams backbone and among the NFLs leaders in run defence. But the Cardinals had all kinds of trouble against mobile quarterbacks Russell Wilson and Colin Kaepernick. Now they face another athletic one in Cam Newton, who is bigger and stronger than the other two.Hes a tight end, hes a quarterback and hes a tailback, Bowles said.Arizonas defensive players know they have to return to their early-season form, when the team got off to a 9-1 start before losing four of its last six games.Weve just got to get back to what got us here, cornerback Patrick Peterson said. … Weve just got to tackle more viciously.___Online:AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and www.twitter.com/AP_NFL Carl Hubbell Jersey . „Win basketball games,“ Collins said. He will get at least a few more chances. Collins played the final minutes of a winning home debut with the Brooklyn Nets, who cooled off the Chicago Bulls with a 96-80 victory Monday night. Jim Barr Jersey . — Jerome Williams glanced at Philadelphias schedule and realized he would be facing the Oakland Athletics yet again, with another new team. MILWAUKEE — Detroit Pistons point guard Brandon Jennings had tried to dismiss Wednesday nights matchup against his former team as simply another game on the teams schedule. The closer it got to tipoff against the Milwaukee Bucks, the harder that became. „I was nervous in the beginning because Im not used to being on the other side,“ Jennings said. „There were a lot of emotions going on. The whole time I felt like it was just another game. But once it got closer to game time, my nerves were just going.“ Jennings struggled considerably in the first half, but finished with 17 points and 11 assists in helping the Pistons to a 105-98 win over the Bucks in his return to Milwaukee. „Once the second half started, I settled down and just played basketball,“ Jennings said. Andre Drummond had 24 points and 19 rebounds and the Pistons rode a strong second half to victory. Greg Monroe contributed 18 points and 17 rebounds for the Pistons, who had five players score 15 or more points. „Going into the game, we were really concerned about matchups,“ Bucks coach Larry Drew said. „We felt they were just too big and wed have to mix our defences up and hopefully outrebound those guys. We just could not physically overcome that size.“ Detroit hadnt had two players pull down at least 15 rebounds apiece since Feb. 10, 2005, when Ben Wallace and Rasheed Wallace accomplished the feat. „Were starting to jell, starting to find ourselves and an identity,“ Drummond said. „The first half was tough for us. We let the fatigue get to us a little bit.“ That led to a change of strategy in the second half. „We got it down low because we knew our jump shots werent really going to fall because our legs were tired. So we drove to the hoop and got the foul calls,“ Drummond said. Detroit shot 42 foul shots and Milwaukee had 22. Jennings spent four seasons with the Bucks after the team drafted him 10th overall in 2009 out of Oak Hill Academy. He joined the Pistons in July after a sign-and-trade deal that sent Brandon Knight and Khris Middleton to the Bucks. A restricted free-agent at the time, Jennings inked a three-year, $24 million deal with the Pistons. The sparse crowd at the BMO Harris Bradley Center booed loudly when Jennings was introduced before the game and each time he touched the ball early in the contest. Jennings missed all four of his shots from the field in the first quarter but had two early assists that led to dunks. Shawon Dunston Jersey. „The boos didnt hurt,“ Jennings said. „I still have a lot of fans here. At the end of the day, the fans supported us through the good and bad. It didnt bother me.“ Jennings didnt score until sinking a 3-pointer from the top of the key with 3:03 remaining in the second quarter. He finished 4 of 16 from the field. „We tried to get him a basket early to kind of settle him down a little bit,“ Pistons coach Maurice Cheeks said. „But he missed a couple shots that he normally makes.“ In the first meeting between the teams on Nov. 25 in Detroit, Jennings had 15 points and 13 assists, including four of six from 3-point range, in sparking Detroit to a 113-94 win. „Brandon handled himself like a professional,“ Drummond said. „He got booed, but its all part of the game.“ Ersan Ilyasova, who has been plagued by injuries that include a sore ankle, scored a season high 22 points, including 16 in the first half, and had 10 rebounds off the bench to lead the Bucks, who have lost 13 of 14. Middleton added 14 points for Milwaukee. „Its the first time I feel healthy. My ankle is getting better,“ Ilyasova said. We have to find a way to play much better. We have to come together and find a way to win games.“ The Pistons trailed by five at the half, but used a 16-0 run midway through the third quarter to take a 10-point lead. The Bucks got within five points on Knights 3 with 1:36 remaining in the game, but thats as close as they would get. Ekpe Udoh had five blocked shots in the second quarter for Milwaukee, tying his career high. He finished with six. The Bucks used a 15-1 run to open a 38-31 second-quarter lead and held at 50-45 advantage at halftime. Detroit made just 33 per cent of its shots over the first two quarters. NOTES: Police issued municipal citations to Bucks centre Larry Sanders for disorderly conduct and assault and battery stemming from a fight last month at a downtown Milwaukee nightclub. Drew had no comment when asked about the citations. Sanders had surgery on his right thumb on Nov. 11 after getting hurt during the scrum. He initially was expected to be out four to six weeks. Drew on Wednesday had no update on a timetable for Sanders return. … Pistons guard Chauncey Billups remained sidelined with left knee tendinitis and guard Will Bynum was inactive with an adductor strain. ‚ ‚ ‚