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 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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Possibly -- possibly -- Duke, and maybe North Carolina State. I'm not sure that we all aren't fighting for positioning now. I said before the season started that this would be a year where you could throw predictions out the window. I'm not sure you could make calls. You've had a couple of wide margins, but most games could have gone either way. That's the way it is in the ACC.
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I think, overall, our team is making progress, but we have to get out of that mode where we're playing games against good caliber teams and coming up a little short.
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Part of the journey is overcoming obstacles, and this was one I thought mentally and physically we were prepared for. I guess I'd say that Duke's experience in being in these types of games with experienced guys came through.
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We're one of those teams that doesn't have very much room for error. So we have to be at our very best, which is sometimes almost extremely difficult to do. We have to be 80 to 90 percent efficient every night out. And to this team's credit, we have played pretty good basketball. We've only had a couple games when we have not been quite as sharp.
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We allowed some games to slip away, we allowed ourselves to be put in that position. We have to hold ourselves accountable. And now let's go do something about it.
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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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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.
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This is uncharted waters for us. I'm sure that in the future we'll try to win games by a little larger margin.
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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.
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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.
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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.