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
coach job stuff
My thing is, your job is to coach the team. Your job is not to say stuff to me, and that's what got me (ticked) off.
coach job player running sideline slick stuff supposed talk trash trying
The only thing I know is he's supposed to coach his team. He don't need to be on the sideline running his mouth, trying to talk trash from the bench. He's not a player no more, he's a coach. His job is to coach his team, not to have little slick stuff to say from the bench.
definitely foul technical turning
I thought that technical foul was definitely the turning point.
few handle problems
We handle a lot of transactions with very few problems,
believed belonged confidence gotten lost might playing year
I think he might have gotten down. I think he lost his confidence a little bit. I didn't know that he really believed that he really belonged here but this year he's playing with a lot more confidence.
playing
Man, we've been playing a lot of games.
great matter playoffs
I'm in a great rhythm. I feel good. It really doesn't matter to me, because the playoffs are a whole different thing.
happen hot knew last lead time
We knew last time (here) we had a 10-point lead (in the fourth) and D-Wade got hot and we didn't want that to happen again.
bulls chicago
We don't look at what the Chicago Bulls did. We just want to get home-court advantage.
energy games looking lose tough week
Usually, these games are tough to play, because you're looking at a week off. But our energy was great. We didn't want to lose two in a row, and we wanted to make a statement.
good hit job pulling second shots top
We just didn't hit our shots in the second half. That's why they are a top 10 team. They have a seasoned coach, and they did a good job of pulling off the win.
game slip
We didn't show up. We all know that. We let that game slip away.
early focused games hard slip
Usually, in the past, they were hard games for us. This year, we're more focused on those games. We don't want those games to slip away. We know we've got to come out early and set the tempo.
average five guard guy though
We feel as though we have five superstars. If we want one guy to go out there and average 30, we can do that. But we know what we want at the end, a championship, and we know one guy can't guard five guys.