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
felt game impressive last night seen shooting team
Last night was about as impressive an opening-round game that I have ever seen a team play. I mean, I felt like they were shooting about 85 percent. They were guarding. They were doing everything.
coach concentration effort gone gotten season team wants
I think this team has done something that every coach wants to do, and that is gotten better as the season has gone along. They've put the effort and the concentration in to make that happen.
coached difficult handle listening perhaps teammates
What I think now is that it allows them to get coached by listening to their teammates handle what perhaps could be difficult questions.
mistakes playing team
When you're playing a team of that caliber, you can't make the mistakes we made.
bunch confident country edge felt hope team win
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.
coach focused fourteen fun neat practice team win
Fourteen years ago I thought it was neat to win this award, and now I'm so much more appreciative of it. From the first day of practice this team was fun to coach yet they were focused on what they had to do.
believed best country hope played team unless win
I am confident, and I hope it isn't cockiness, but I told them that I thought we were the only team in the country that could come in here and win this game. I believed that we could if we played. We couldn't come in here and win unless we played our best game.
games team
We feel very fortunate, to say the least. First-round games are always difficult. If your team hasn't been through it, they have no idea how big it is.
chance compatible direction point ready team trying
With young kids, they don't know anything about what's getting ready to happen. So you have a much better chance of trying to point them in the direction that you want them to go, and this team has been very compatible with what we've wanted them to do.
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,
guys none stop teams walk
If I ever have one of my teams quit, I will walk out of here and stop coaching. None of our guys are ever going to quit.
bad best call chance foul given guy hurts job score team tied wrong
I called for a press, but we did a bad job with it and it was the wrong call on my part. We go down and foul a guy and we are never able to get the score tied after that. It hurts when you feel like you've not given your team the best chance to win.
country team win
I told (the players) I thought we were the only team in the country that could come in here and win this game.
bit deep game install near sure teams understand watch
They watch film, they see what other teams did to us, ... I'm sure they're going to install it in their game plan. But the Raiders, they go deep dang near every play, so they're probably chomping at the bit to play us. We understand that.