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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four great sure switching
They have such great perimeter shooters that we had to go to switching one through four just to make sure that we were there on the catch, and we had not done a whole lot of that.
credit executing good job knocked open
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.
defense defensive good job open patient played solid tech
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.
basketball came florida improve program state
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.
adversity andrew coaching earned extremely happy injuries known maintained number positive respect youngster
Andrew probably has been through as much adversity as any youngster I've known in my coaching career, just having the number of injuries he's had to endure. He's always maintained a positive attitude, and he's earned respect of his teammates. They're extremely happy for him.
appears develop difference quality season stronger
And now at the end of the season it appears that we're stronger than we were because we have been able to develop quality depth. Hopefully, that will make a difference here in the tournament.
best definitely step teams tremendous
I think that we're definitely one of the (65) best teams in the country. It would be a tremendous step for our program.
compete couple focus last lose mentality talking understanding whatever
Like most teams, they lose their focus for whatever reason. It's all we've been talking about the last couple days, understanding the mentality you have to play with to compete at this level.
business care certain gotten march miss particular
If you go in every day with the idea that you have to be a certain place in March and don't take care of business that particular day, then you miss out on that day you could have gotten better.
energy says
For him to go out and find the energy to go out and give it all ... I think says a lot about his character.
energy game grown needed sacrifices says team
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.
cream represent rise
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.
couple meaningful win
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.