The only real concern he’s had all season is to make sure that he’s there to help Davis if needed but to keeps his distance otherwise. “Getting out of there so quickly is really good.” “The best part is that, when the players go off the court, I can sneak out right behind them, up the steps in the parking lot, in my car out and away from the Smith Center before Hubert even gets to the press conferences,” Williams said. Williams loves that he doesn’t have the postgame duties that now fall to Davis. Every three seconds, I’m looking at the score.” “RJ passes to Armando, I look at the score again. “Now Caleb’s got the ball, he passes to RJ, I look at the score,” he said. While he’s watching players he coached last season - such as Caleb Love, RJ Davis and Armando Bacot - he’s also constantly checking the score. He didn’t want the score to tell him how the Tar Heels were playing and wanted to evaluate them based on what he was seeing. During many games he coached, he rarely looked at the scoreboard until he was walking to the dressing room at halftime. The way he watches a game is dramatically different as well. It’s been more stress than coaching because coaching, I was always thinking about the next play and what to do or something like that.” “Because I thought that I would sit there and relax and just enjoy the games. “It’s a completely 180 degrees away from what I thought it would be,” Williams said. Ovies and Giglio also interviewed Williams for the excellent podcast “Roy: That Dadgum Legend” in October. He soon found out otherwise and said that his biggest concern all season was to give first-year head coach Hubert Davis his space and to make sure not to “get in the way.”ĭuring an interview on the WCMC (99.9 the Fan) show “The OG” Wednesday with hosts Joe Ovies and Joe Giglio, he said that he quickly found out what fans have known for years: it’s stressful to watch a game when you can’t do anything to change the outcome. Roy Williams thought his first Carolina basketball season as a fan after retirement would just be fun because he wouldn’t have to worry about coaching and could just enjoy the games.
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