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
cut definitely easy helps move oh system
Oh yeah, the system definitely helps me a lot, ... I am able to move more. I am able to cut more. I am able to get a lot more easy baskets.
celebrate trying
No, not at all. We didn't celebrate (anything) at all. We're just trying to get to where we want to get to, and that's the Finals.
game playing
I've been playing this game too long to know what that is.
coach win
It was very calm, ... Coach said, 'We still got a lot of time. We're still going to win this game.'
chance felt forget gave relief smiled stepped until
It was weird. I really felt a sense of relief when I stepped on that floor. It gave me a chance to forget about everything that was going on off the court. I hadn't smiled all day until I got on that court.
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.
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.
fans games guys locker mean media talk types winning
Things like that, that's more for the fans and for you all media types to write about and talk about. The guys in that locker room, and I mean this, we don't talk about things like that. ... We talk about winning games and what we need to do to win games.
coming greatly knowing mostly people shocked terribly
Some were greatly offended, some were terribly amused, but mostly they were shocked that he did it knowing we're coming up, ... How do you tell someone, especially a psychologist, who should know better, that he's making people uncomfortable?
definitely felt fun
Everything was just like I thought it would be. It was fun and it was exciting. If I didn't have the jitters then it wouldn't have felt right. I definitely had the jitters.
bunch guys hard metal pedal played win
They played hard and they didn't quit. They have a bunch of young guys that played with a lot of energy. At times, we didn't put the pedal to the metal when we should have, but the only thing that we look at is getting the win at the end of the night.
ball best energy great guys hurt looked pressure time
This is the best Lindsey has looked, with his energy and his pressure on the ball and getting the ball to the right guys at the right time. I thought he really looked great (Saturday). This is the first time of him not being sick, not being hurt or anything else.
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.
ball easy follow rhythm shot stopping
I know before I get the ball if the shot is going in or not. It's all a rhythm shot. The follow through and the shot are the easy part. It's just getting there and stopping on a dime, and being in the right place at the right time, and getting the shot off.