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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affected allowing avoid close coming ourselves point
We feel like we're getting better, but we're at a point now where we have to avoid allowing ourselves to be affected by coming close and not coming away with victories.
build finish foolish killer media near picked schedule team
We're the same team that most of the media picked to finish 11th in the preseason. We didn't have any double-figure scorers returning, we were picked to finish near the bottom. How foolish would it have been for me to go out and build a killer schedule when no one thought we were any good?
game played practiced rather time todd until
Todd miraculously played rather well considering he hadn't practiced all week. We didn't know until game time if he was going to play.
accelerate cause grown growth learning ups
We've had more ups than downs. But more than anything else, I think we've had so many learning opportunities that I think now it's going to cause us to accelerate our growth process. Probably the most important thing is we've grown mentally.
bounce good seemed
The good thing about this team, though, is we've always seemed to bounce back when we've had a setback.
few guys record reflect
At the end of day, the record won't reflect guys weren't available, someone was sick. At the end of the year, we need to have a few more Ws.
absolutely particular
At this particular point, I don't have absolutely any say in the criteria. That's already been determined, and me making any speculation right now would be just that - speculation.
alexander available clear family information ncaa process rules sure understanding
We have a clear understanding of the NCAA rules and understand how this process works. We will make sure that Alexander and his family have all of that information available to them during this process.
consistency period starting
Through this whole period we wanted to see that consistency from players. We're starting to see that develop.
alexander decision family support
We will give Alexander and his family all of the support they need as they go through this decision making process.
amazes beyond body confidence facial language maturity obviously plays question team watch
Obviously he's a load. There's no question about that. He's way beyond his years in maturity. You watch him and you watch his body language and his facial expressions and you can tell the confidence that he plays with. But the thing that amazes me is his team has so much confidence in him.
acted hoping opportunity people system time
People were uncomfortable. They acted like we didn't know what we were doing. I was hoping that if you give this system an opportunity and the time that it takes, it will work.
earn establish rather
There are opportunities for youngsters to come in and contribute. Rather than us try to establish a role, we like for them to come in and earn the right to play.
against issue maybe might played videos zones
There are times when we have played so well against zones you would think that maybe we might need to issue some videos or something.