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 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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This would probably put us a year ahead of schedule. I thought we could get to the NCAA by Year 5. But this would be a tremendous step for our program. It gives you the credibility you need to keep your program going forward.
coming country opportunity realize team
You have the No. 1 team in the country coming in to play you and you want to realize some opportunities. So what better opportunity can you have?
hope maintain season
What we have to do is maintain hope, and hope that we've done enough during the season to give us an opportunity. There's not a whole lot more we can say.
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We're finally grasping the big picture. That's why this opportunity is so important for us now. If we can continue to keep playing with that focus, then we'll become more consistent and we'll be building on something that can sustain us regardless of who we're playing and hopefully into the future.
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We have higher goals. We're not feeling like we need to start taking any bows.
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We never seemed to get into any type of offensive rhythm. I think that made the biggest difference in the game.
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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.
work
We're still a work in progress. But I feel like everyone is working together.
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We're still in a growing up stage. Last year we relied on a lot of freshmen and sophomores and we lost a lot of close games. One reason the sophomores from last year who are now juniors are playing better is because they're more experienced. A.J. (Johnson) and Al Thornton are giving us good leadership, and we're getting leadership from our three seniors. Todd Galloway has been in the program for four years, so has Andrew Wilson. We have some guys who are maturing a little bit and it's taking some pressure off of our new players.
adjust chance grow limelight
What we're going to do is give him a chance to grow and adjust out of the limelight as much as possible.
absolutely available room three
There are some opportunities out there available for us. There are three more opportunities and absolutely no room for error.
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Von is a special kind of athlete who has a great feel for scoring points. He can pass, shoot and dribble and do them all well. He is also able to utilize his size to his advantage, which makes him even more dangerous.
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We knew with the quick turnaround and the emotion we spent and the letdown we received from Sunday's loss, we would need energy and consistent play from our nonstarters. They gave us a big lift.