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...
anxious shows special step
That just shows there's something special in this team. We're anxious now to see if we can step it up now that we've had some success.
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It's something you have to work on each and every day, preparing your team for what they have to face. There are going to be ups. There are going to be downs. Things aren't always going to go the way you want it. You just have to find a way to draw strength from the learning process. You have to find something to hang your hat on.
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It's always interesting when we have our coaches' meetings, and it seems that we play so many teams that had to have their best night against us. We've been getting everyone's best shot. But I thought when we had to have the stops, when we had to get the rebounds and when had to make the baskets, or players stepped up.
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It's funny how this thing has come full circle. Now we're fresher and we fatigue people.
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They did a very good job of executing their offense. When they got shots, they knocked them down. You have to give credit to them for making every open look.
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They did a very good job being patient on offense. Tech played a very solid defensive game. But even at that, as good a defense that they played, we still had open opportunities that we just didn't finish.
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They came to Florida State with the idea that they wanted to improve the basketball program on their watch, and I have to say that they've accomplished that.
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They were ready mentally and emotionally. They had themselves ready to play, and it really gave us a big lift. And I also think that it energized our starters.
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That gets my attention. And I think that's what we should be focusing our attention on more so than trying to prove anything.
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It'll be real meaningful if we can win a couple more.
looked surprise
It looked like it was going in. That wouldn't surprise me.
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It seemed like they scored four, five or six possessions in a row there where we couldn't get a stop. We put ourselves in a very big hole there, but I thought we picked our defense up and put ourselves back in a position where we had a chance to win the game. I thought we dug too big a hole.
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We had a very difficult time there toward the end of the game getting the right stops. I thought we played good enough defense for the most part, but you have to give Duke a lot of credit. When the game's on the line, they made some real tough shots that were very well defended and that's what great players will do.
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We did not meet their style of ball with the type of enthusiasm that we should have. Maybe this is the type of game we needed to keep reality in front of us. We are not a team that can afford not to be at our very best mentally every time we step out.