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...
anybody potential
I feel like he has as much or more potential than anybody on this team.
earn establish rather
There are opportunities for youngsters to come in and contribute. Rather than us try to establish a role, we like for them to come in and earn the right to play.
against issue maybe might played videos zones
There are times when we have played so well against zones you would think that maybe we might need to issue some videos or something.
amazes beyond body confidence facial language maturity obviously plays question team watch
Obviously he's a load. There's no question about that. He's way beyond his years in maturity. You watch him and you watch his body language and his facial expressions and you can tell the confidence that he plays with. But the thing that amazes me is his team has so much confidence in him.
fatigue full funny
It's funny how this thing has come full circle. Now we're fresher and we fatigue people.
close game hump lose trying types winning
It's painful, to lose a close game like this. Close is not what we're trying to do. You've got to get over the hump by winning these types of games.
close difficult offensive second team
They got 13 offensive rebounds, and if you give a team that many second opportunities in a close game, that's something very difficult to overcome.
best burden heavy shot
They get every team's best shot because they're Duke. It's a heavy burden for them to have to be at their best every night.
allow care caught games gonna heart information none particular speaking takes win
They are entertainers and they're speaking from their heart and the information that they have, but at this particular time, none of that matters, because we still got games to play. I'm not gonna allow myself to get all caught up in all these things, because if you win enough games, it takes care of itself.
created played result team
There were things we created just as a result of being aggressive. (We) played like a team that was very, very hungry.
close difficult guy move officials throw time top
It's very difficult to throw over a (6-10) guy that close right on top of you like that. Most of the time the officials will tell you to move back a little bit, but that wasn't the case.
energy says
For him to go out and find the energy to go out and give it all ... I think says a lot about his character.
energy game grown needed sacrifices says team
For him to find the energy to go out and give it all when we really needed this game says a lot about his character, how much he's grown up and how much this team is making sacrifices for one another.
cream represent rise
Then they're going to find out that the cream will rise to the top. I think you will see that we're going to represent very well.