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
opportunity tells win
I come from a place where this doesn't happen. To be here is unbelievable because when everyone tells you, you can't do something, you can't do something, you can't do something, and you get the opportunity to be in the NBA, to win a championship, and now, to be an All-Star, it's unbelievable.
ball blocking everywhere shots stealing
He was everywhere the ball was. He was stealing the ball, blocking shots and getting rebounds.
anybody beat chance concerned record teams thinking trying win
Not at all. We can only be concerned with ourselves. We are just trying to win every game. We aren't thinking about anybody else's record but our own. All you can do when you have a chance to play these teams is to beat them.
felt good stayed stick
The thing about us, we didn't panic, we just stayed with it. We felt as though, if we just stick with our offense, good things will happen.
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Now, we can score points and lock up, too.
allowed elevate fun game motion moving stay three
It's fun to play in this offense, ... I'm allowed to move. I don't just come off one screen. I can come off two or three screens. It allows me to keep moving and stay in motion and makes me elevate my game even more.
feels fight
It's sore. We'll see how it feels tomorrow. But these are the playoffs. You've got to fight through it. I'm going to get through it.
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.
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.
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.
brown coach coached definitely last
Oh, yeah, you wanted this game, man. Coach Brown coached us the last two years, and he got a new team, so we definitely wanted to come out and make a statement.
average five guy superstars win
The thing about it is, we've got five superstars out there. We want one guy to go out there and average 30, we can do that. But we know what we want at the end. We want to win a championship.
definitely foul technical turning
I thought that technical foul was definitely the turning point.
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It's secure, it's convenient, and it's popular with the public, ... We have very few problems. We get our money every week, we don't have bad checks, and we hardly have any overdrafts. This system takes care of itself.