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...
concerned ease pieces somewhat unexpected watched won
We were somewhat unexpected by the ease in which we won this game. They had some pieces that concerned us when we watched their film.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.