Leonard Hamilton Good Quotations

We had a very difficult time there toward the end of the game getting the right stops. I thought we played good enough defense for the most part, but you have to give Duke a lot of credit. When the game's on the line, they made some real tough shots that were very well defended and that's what great players will do.

We're one of those teams that doesn't have very much room for error. So we have to be at our very best, which is sometimes almost extremely difficult to do. We have to be 80 to 90 percent efficient every night out. And to this team's credit, we have played pretty good basketball. We've only had a couple games when we have not been quite as sharp.

He did an outstanding job - as good a job as anybody in the league over the last five years. He was very difficult to prepare for - for any team in our league, not only Florida State.

He's kind of a cross between Tim and Nate. He has pretty good savvy. He doesn't have quite the energy that Tim had, but I'm not real sure anybody does. But he's a guy who plays with passion. He only knows one way, and that's giving it all he has.

I saw quickness, speed and intensity that separated him from other kids on the floor. He was from a small town, and even though he was very well-known in his area, maybe he hadn't gotten the exposure as other people. We were fortunate to have contacted him at the right time. I felt we were a good match for each other.

I think, overall, our team is making progress, but we have to get out of that mode where we're playing games against good caliber teams and coming up a little short.

I thought they did a very good job of being patient on offense, moving the ball around and playing the shot clock.

We'll miss those guys more than people want to accept. They gave us a lot of good leadership.

We intend to have a good basketball team next year and I feel confident that we will. We've developed the unity and spirit it's going to take to move the program to the next level.

We were very focused in guarding their very good perimeter players at the beginning of the game.

We have to get out of the mode of playing good caliber teams good, but coming out a little short.

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.

The good thing about this team, though, is we've always seemed to bounce back when we've had a setback.

Al has always had a burning desire to be a good player. He spends more time in the gym by himself than anyone we've had. For him, it was just a matter of adjusting to our style and feeling comfortable. He's now reacting and not thinking.

I'm very happy and proud for them because they've been model citizens. They keep our 100 percent graduation rate intact. But more than anything they're fine people. They're good basketball players, but I'm most proud of the fact that they have helped us move our program forward. Their last home game will be something to remember.

I'm going to encourage my players at this particular point to have absolutely no comment to make plus or minus, good or bad about what their plans are because I think that takes on a life of itself.

They did a very good job being patient on offense. Tech played a very solid defensive game. But even at that, as good a defense that they played, we still had open opportunities that we just didn't finish.

They did a very good job of executing their offense. When they got shots, they knocked them down. You have to give credit to them for making every open look.

He's the kind of guy we had to give some cushion because he's a good driver. He's a very good player.

There was a period where he kind of backed off his offensive aggressiveness to be a good team member. Now that we're kind of a little more in sync, the nature of the game is giving him certain opportunities.

We knew he was a good shooter, but we didn't think he'd be shooting from the parking lot.

We knew he was a good shooter, we just didn't think he'd be shooting them from the parking lot. I thought they did a very good job of finding him. Every time we lost him, he made us pay.