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
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I told him that I figured out how to get to him. I'll just make him mad.
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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,
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We were a pretty confident bunch beforehand. I think I'm confident. I hope it's not over the edge of cockiness, but I told them I felt like we were the only team in this country that could come in here and win this game.
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(The regular season) is 16 games over two or three months, as opposed to three games over one weekend. It's more difficult to win the regular season.
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The fact that the score was close is not something you worry about. You just have to play.
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What I think now is that it allows them to get coached by listening to their teammates handle what perhaps could be difficult questions.
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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.
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You don't need to rub it in. I love our crowd but I don't like putting other people down.
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When you're playing a team of that caliber, you can't make the mistakes we made.
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They understand the competitiveness you have to have. I told them that, in 1982, North Carolina won the championship and we won the first game by blowing out James Madison 52-50.
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They pay us the big bucks to make the big plays. That's what we've got to do.
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They got off to a little blip going 0-3 to start league play. Since then they have played about as well as anybody.
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They're an unbelievable group of kids that took me for a great ride.
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There's a real question of what the demand will be in the first few weeks, It's very important that the airport is up and running.