Roy Williams
Roy Williams
Hall of Fame men's basketball coach who gathered an incredible 80% winning record at North Carolina and Kansas. He led North Carolina to NCAA Championships in 2005 and 2009.
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth1 August 1950
CityMarion, NC
coming early hard ready standing
He's working hard in practice. He's coming early and not just standing around jawing. He's getting ready for practice.
harsh plain words
He said some harsh words to the ref. The ref didn't like it, and he got ejected, plain and simple.
competing job second time
We keep competing all the time and I thought we did a much better job of that in the second half.
looking
We were searching. We were looking for something.
looking mind saying
We were searching, and I don't mind saying it. We were looking for something. I don't think you can keep doing the same thing over and over and over.
mistakes playing team
When you're playing a team of that caliber, you can't make the mistakes we made.
couple craig gotten offensive plays rebounds smith stops stuff
You look back at one play here and one play there and all that kind of stuff but they made the plays when they had to. If we could've gotten a couple of offensive rebounds or a couple of stops but we didn't. But I think Craig Smith was sensational.
crowd love people putting rub
You don't need to rub it in. I love our crowd but I don't like putting other people down.
anybody deal expect great habits harder stayed tail work
He's had better work habits in practice. I've stayed on his tail probably harder than anybody on my team. I do expect a great deal out of him.
best hard since trying works youngster
He works as hard as any youngster I've ever coached. He comes every day trying to do the best he can do. I've said that since Day One.
against compete guy man
He's a young man who will go out there and compete against a big guy or a little guy. It makes no difference.
facility help house hurricane mayor nba ready team
When the hurricane occurred, our Mayor called the NBA and said we have a facility ready to house a professional team and he let them know that any way we can help out - we would,
attitude continue early greatest played tough year
I think the greatest thing has been his attitude to continue working. He bounced back from some tough times early this year and has really played well, and he's played well down the stretch.
defensive hard limiting minutes points seventeen twelve work
I thought defensively we've competed awfully, awfully hard. (The) first seventeen minutes of the first half, I think we had them at like twelve points and I think it was just hard work on the defensive end, I think we were limiting them to one shot.