UNC Basketball: Are Tar Heels Wimpy or Is Roy Williams' Coaching Pathetic?

It truly is time to say it. Roy Williams is constantly on the blame his UNC Tar Heel basketball team, giving them a call wimps. But in reality, it looks more and more like Williams has no thought what he's performing or why. Williams mixes up lineups as if it makes a difference, removes players without the ability to obtain any tempo going and helps make the Tar Heels look like they are fully aware nothing about anything. At some point, we must say that there is nothing here but bad coaching. Williams started up just where he left off last season: blaming the team. His latest contention mirrors that of other coaches. He and other coaches now say that his team is wimpy.

But at every chance Williams has had to show he can coach, he fails to do so. He appears senselessly to substitute players, as if this is some panacea permanently coaching. An excellent view of this lack of coaching potential came during the Tar Heels' shellacking against Georgia Tech's Yellow Jackets on Sunday night. Ultimately losing by nearly 20 points, the Tar Heels appeared so from it at instances that this alone could be what I am talking about. Nevertheless, two plays consecutively, and a number of over the course of the game demonstrate the issues more clearly. Much more than one player got stuck close to the basket at the left foul lane line. These were nearly immediately surrounded by Tech players. The players then sought to get the ball to the UNC player at the foul line, turning over the ball each time. Incredibly, it did not appear that Williams tried to get this to a coaching second even though he removed the players soon after their mistakes.

In fact, Williams seems never to take any game time to make any adjustments in play by his players. He hardly ever talks with players he will take off the court, looking away as if this gets him someplace using the player. There are other signs this Roy Williams, who appeared first last year, is absolutely nothing like what his reputation suggests or says. Williams' on-court attitude is the same as his press clippings make him. Insulting to his players, and poor-mouthing in words and actions toward his team. Sure, there are other items we can point to about this year that make us wonder when the players usually are not the dilemma. But Williams appears not capable of adjusting his coaching and playing style to his team. His approach is "Do it my way or get free from my way!"

Following 2 yrs of whining about his team, you need to begin to wonder why Williams by no means assumes any responsibility for his teams' play. Why it is usually the players' fault. Why he is never the larger person. And appears a lot more intemperate than ever. So it's time to start to question Williams and his motivation in usually blaming his players. Is it the players? Or is Williams to blame? Postscript: I realize that Williams admitted that he stunk up the location as a coach last night. I wrote this article during the game, and posted it prior to the comments occurred. It was late personally, and as far as I was concerned in line with the write-up I wrote this summer, Williams had blamed his players far too much. Some Williams supporters employed the press conference as proof that I did not research the subject matter. Frankly, following forty-five many years of following, going to Carolina games, and tracking our coaches (very few at that), I felt strongly that Williams' failure to train at game after game, and the following the same game program again and again, have been horrible weaknesses, and never his only ones. His failure to coach in the course of games can be a continuous, every-game event.

So as far as I'm concerned, what exactly if a couple of disagree simply because they seek to utilize my failure to watch Williams' press conference final evening, who apparently finally admitted he would be a negative coach in one of numerous games, and the one sentence that this covers within the write-up, as evidence which i know absolutely nothing about Williams, his coaching or something for instance. For me, his admission came way too late and is far too limited.