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...
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We need to eliminate the mistakes that we're making that we can control. Unnecessary turnovers. We had two of them right there at the end of the first half that didn't have anything to do with (UNC).
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We just have to rise to the occasion. This is college basketball as it is in the ACC. We still have two more games left. We still can realize some opportunities. And this team has had a history of bouncing back.
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We're the same team that most of the media picked to finish 11th in the preseason. We didn't have any double-figure scorers returning, we were picked to finish near the bottom. How foolish would it have been for me to go out and build a killer schedule when no one thought we were any good?
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Todd miraculously played rather well considering he hadn't practiced all week. We didn't know until game time if he was going to play.
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We called people and tried to schedule games with some of the top people. Some of those teams are a little reluctant to play a team that is on the rise.
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We will give Alexander and his family all of the support they need as they go through this decision making process.
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There are not very many mysteries through this process, and it will be clear as day as to what the right decisions are to be made.
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The good thing about this team, though, is we've always seemed to bounce back when we've had a setback.
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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.
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For him to go out and find the energy to go out and give it all ... I think says a lot about his character.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It was one of those games where we gave them too many unnecessary opportunities. But when they are already shooting the ball as well as they do and they are as patient as they are on offense, and then you give them extra opportunities, therein lies a nice little butt-kicking.