CEDAR FALLS, IA - UNC coach Roy Williams had the following to say after his team lost 7-67 at Northern Iowa on Saturday:
“Congratulate them. I told Jake (UNI Head Coach Ben Jacobson) I felt very happy for him and his squad, very disappointed in me, more so than my team. We acted like a team that had not been coached very well out there.”
“We’ve got a sizable lead, I don’t watch the scoreboard a lot, and they make 3 straight 3’s and we come down and take bad shots or turn it over, and that gave them hope, and then they started making more shots. We run a trap one play, and don’t get the guy covered and he makes a shot, and we come down and shoot an air ball. The head coach at North Carolina has got to do a lot better job than he did today.”
“I do think that they made some shots. One possession, (UNI’s Matt) Bohannon made one, and we came down and almost shot an air ball from the top of the key. If you’re going to win in basketball you’ve got to be able to make plays. We turned it over twice dribbling the ball down the court, we turned it over twice throwing the ball, and the guy guarding the man that was the passer stole the ball twice in a row.”
“We made a lot of mistakes, didn’t get what we wanted by any means. Hopefully it will be something that will really help Jake’s program, and hopefully will be something we will learn from and not finish games like that.”
“Congratulate them. I told Jake (UNI Head Coach Ben Jacobson) I felt very happy for him and his squad, very disappointed in me, more so than my team. We acted like a team that had not been coached very well out there.”
“We’ve got a sizable lead, I don’t watch the scoreboard a lot, and they make 3 straight 3’s and we come down and take bad shots or turn it over, and that gave them hope, and then they started making more shots. We run a trap one play, and don’t get the guy covered and he makes a shot, and we come down and shoot an air ball. The head coach at North Carolina has got to do a lot better job than he did today.”
“I do think that they made some shots. One possession, (UNI’s Matt) Bohannon made one, and we came down and almost shot an air ball from the top of the key. If you’re going to win in basketball you’ve got to be able to make plays. We turned it over twice dribbling the ball down the court, we turned it over twice throwing the ball, and the guy guarding the man that was the passer stole the ball twice in a row.”
“We made a lot of mistakes, didn’t get what we wanted by any means. Hopefully it will be something that will really help Jake’s program, and hopefully will be something we will learn from and not finish games like that.”
