Leonard Hamilton

Leonard Hamilton
Leonard Hamiltonis an American basketball coach and the current men's basketball head coach at Florida State University. He is a former head coach at Oklahoma State University, the University of Miami, and for the National Basketball Association's Washington Wizards. In his 23 years as a collegiate head coach, his teams have qualified for seven NCAA tournaments and eight NITs, highlighted by appearances in the NCAA Tournament's "Sweet Sixteen" in 2000and 2011. While with the NBA's Wizards his team posted a...
confidence gain looking players themselves
What I was looking for was for the players to gain some confidence in themselves and the system.
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We knew he was a good shooter, we just didn't think he'd be shooting them from the parking lot. I thought they did a very good job of finding him. Every time we lost him, he made us pay.
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We knew he was a good shooter, but we didn't think he'd be shooting from the parking lot.
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You guys have heard me from the beginning of the year; I've been consistent about this. This is going to be a different year from what you guys have been exposed to. This league will be -- with the exception of one team and maybe two, it's going to be rock 'em sock 'em, and you're not going to be able to determine how this thing is going to shape up until the latter part of the season.
consistency period starting
Through this whole period we wanted to see that consistency from players. We're starting to see that develop.
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When you give up 16 offensive rebounds, there lies the culprit for us.
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When you give them those extra opportunities and they're having one of those nights, therein lies a butt-kicking.
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With each game you play, if you win it, you cant let yourself get too excited because there is another tough opponent coming right behind it. And if you lose it, you cant wallow in self-pity, you have to put that behind you, learn from it, and grow and then move on to the next game.
game mistakes per
When we made mistakes, they made us pay. Most times you have one game like this per year, and hopefully, this will be our only one.
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We've had more ups than downs. But more than anything else, I think we've had so many learning opportunities that I think now it's going to cause us to accelerate our growth process. Probably the most important thing is we've grown mentally.
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We have a clear understanding of the NCAA rules and understand how this process works. We will make sure that Alexander and his family have all of that information available to them during this process.
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This team is very capable if we're playing up to our abilities. In other years, maybe we had to play above ourselves. Right now we need to play up to our abilities.
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This team has shown ability to bounce back and I guess this is another opportunity for us to show our faith and courage.
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This was a very important game for Maryland tonight and a very important game for us. We have a team that is maturing a little bit.