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'm not trying to take credit for it. I'm just trying to put positive thoughts in kids' minds. David's a tough youngster and one of the best leaders I've been around. Making those shots early when we were struggling to score were really important to us.
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Somebody asked me if I thought our freshmen had hit the wall. At every tough practice, or tough loss, I think they think it's the wall. It's just that there's a lot of walls out there for you.
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It was a tough night for Asheville to catch us, coming off that loss and playing the way we did. I really thought the whole key was our defensive intensity and forcing turnovers.
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He's tough and he's one of the best leaders I've ever been around. Jumping up there and making those jump shots early, a couple of threes and a couple from the sideline, when we were struggling to score was really important to us.
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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.
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For us, he was by far he was the best prospect in the country because of what he could bring us, and that was the inside scoring. I've never been one to prejudge, but I've always had hopes. I had some pretty high hopes, or we were going to be in trouble. He's so mentally tough and physically tough, and I thought he would be able to help from the get-go.
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You have to feel for Gary. He's one of the toughest people in the business, but they're going through some difficult times.
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Initially we expect more inbound customers than outbound as people come back in and participate in disaster recovery.
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Initially, we expect more inbound customers than outbound as people come back in and participate in disaster recovery,
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The attention that basketball gets here is incredible, and that's what you want. You want interest. You can have a great team, but if nobody cares, it doesn't do any good. I think there's positives, and some people will say there are negatives. But there also are a lot of positives.
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It was a fantastic performance for us. I think it was our best basketball of the year.
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They would have beaten y'all's butt, ... but they're not going to beat a lot of other people in our league.
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I'm over there screaming my head off one time ... 'Move, move, move. It's easier to defend a guy when the other four guys are standing there stationary ... they can run in there and make it difficult.
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I have no idea, and I'm being honest. I might even change the lineup again -- I don't know.