Richard Hamilton
Richard Hamilton
Known as "Rip," he was an NBA shooting guard with a deadly 15-foot jump shot. He helped lead the Detroit Pistons to an NBA Championship in 2004.
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth14 February 1978
CityCoatesville, PA
chance gonna means ncaa stakes teams
It's fun. Our teams are all not in the same conferences, so this is the chance for them to play each other. And it's in the NCAA tournament, so that means the stakes are gonna be higher.
deserved edge guys heat trying
It was the heat of the battle. You've got guys really trying to get an edge over the other guy. I didn't think I was going to get a ?T.' I know I fouled him, but I didn't think I deserved a technical.
anytime since tough watch
It was a tough decision. Anytime you can play for your country, you want to. You watch it since you're a kid. But sometimes you have to make a decision.
anybody definitely early hype league longer people
It's definitely amazing. Anybody that comes into the league with that much hype and is able to man-up to that and play so well so early when people probably thought it would take him longer ? it's kind of crazy.
couple hurt pushed scared sit
It scared me because it hurt for a couple of minutes, but I just pushed myself through it. I didn't want to sit out too long and have it tighten up.
anybody building playoffs reminded
It kind of reminded you of the playoffs where anybody who's anybody was at the game. It was exciting, the building was exciting, and we wanted to come out and play how we can play.
bit defense guard side tough
It's a play that offsets the defense a little bit because you come from one side to the other. I know (Allen) didn't see me because that play is really tough to guard if you don't know it's coming.
guard open ran running shot top tough
We ran a pick-and-roll off the top and I am running the baseline and I just got an open shot and I just shot it. That play is really tough to guard if you don't know what's coming.
early focused games hard slip
Usually, in the past, they were hard games for us. This year, we're more focused on those games. We don't want those games to slip away. We know we've got to come out early and set the tempo.
average five guard guy though
We feel as though we have five superstars. If we want one guy to go out there and average 30, we can do that. But we know what we want at the end, a championship, and we know one guy can't guard five guys.
forced great passing pressured worried
I thought we were great defensively. We pressured the ball, got in passing lanes, forced everything baseline. That's what we wanted to do tonight. We weren't worried about our offense. We wanted to come out and try to make a statement.
absolutely ball delay guys maybe might technical threw throw time worst
I threw the ball at the backboard. Guys do that all the time when they're frustrated. I thought I might get a delay of game, at the worst maybe one technical foul. But to throw me out of the game? That was absolutely crazy.
far nba peak player
The peak of an NBA player is 29, 30? So we're still young. We can go as far as we want to go.
defensive forced great passing pressured statement worried
We pressured the ball, we got into the passing lanes and we forced everything to the baseline. We were great defensively, and that's really all we worried about. We really weren't worried about our offense. We just wanted to come out and make a statement on the defensive end.