We just wanted to give him as much attention as possible, and it took a tremendous effort for our players to do that. He’s kind of like a card dealer everything runs through him.
Tonight we just knew that he was the head of the snake. Every game, basically we have a defensive system that we will just option out of, depending on who we are playing and what their system dictates us to do. LEONARD HAMILTON: Got to be versatile enough that we can make adjustments in relation to who we are playing. Had anybody else done that to Colorado this year? Was there any hesitancy about running that kind of defense? You’ve done that before I think where you tried to put a guy on a lead guard, constantly run guys at him. And that’s why I was so proud, the fact they continued to keep executing what we had in our game plan, even though when they cut the lead right down to one point. So we had to be locked on, contest shots, and that took a tremendous effort and a high level of concentration by our team. So that’s a tremendous challenge when you have to guard people on the perimeter to take away their three-point shooting, and then you have to make sure that you get the gaps because they have an outstanding point guard who is probably responsible for 50, 60 percent of their offense. And they have had several games this year, I think over ten games, where they have shot at least ten - made ten threes in the game. They play good enough defense to put them on the line a number of times.
Obviously Colorado is a tremendously high-percentage free-throw shooting team. LEONARD HAMILTON: We’ve had games where we’ve executed very well offensively and we’ve been a little up and down and inconsistent, but tonight I thought our players were locked in with the defensive game plan. You guys are the stingiest team in the NCAA Tournament so far, only a two-game sample size, but can you talk about what you were able to do defensively, particularly after Colorado had those back-to-back threes, cut the lead to one point and you put them on lockdown for the rest of the game? I thought defensively we gave tremendous effort, and everybody who played on our team I thought made a contribution in some way that gave us a chance to get a very, very important victory. It took a tremendous effort to hold him down somewhat.īut I was very proud of our players. This is a really, really good team, University of Colorado, and they challenged all our defensive principles, and obviously McKinley is as good as anyone we played against in a number of years. Walker gave us tonight and talking and communicating with the players, I thought it really made a huge difference in the game. LEONARD HAMILTON: I thought we had a tremendous team effort on the offensive end from an execution standpoint in our game plan, and on the defensive end with the leadership that M.J.
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Here is a full transcript, with special thanks and credit to the NCAA and FastScripts by ASAP Sports. Junior guard Anthony Polite had a stellar performance with a career-high 22 points, 5 rebounds, 4 assists, and 4 steals.Īfter the win, Florida State head coach Leonard Hamilton (who impressively advanced to his fourth Sweet 16 with FSU) joined the media for post-game comments. 5 seed Colorado 71-53 in Indianapolis Monday night. In a memorable performance, Florida State basketball won in the Round of 32 in the NCAA Tournament and advanced to the seventh Sweet 16 in program history.īehind strong defense and timely three-pointers, No.
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