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FSU basketball position preview: Wings

In 2013 the Florida State basketball team took their once-every-four-years overseas trip, choosing to visit Greece. That trip changed everything.

Instead of the typical sight seeing and scrimmages against bad players, Coach Hamilton arranged for his team to practice with the Greek National team. They basically turned the players over to the Greek coaches, having them match every drill, every play. While watching how his players adjusted, Ham had an epiphany: modern basketball was evolving, and he wanted to be ahead of the curve. So he scrapped it all and built a new system from scratch.

Gone were the plodding, twin post teams (that a year earlier had won the ACC).