With his team set to face No. 1 Kentucky on Saturday, North Carolina coach Roy Williams had some strong comments about the Wildcats.
“I know they are really big, really deep, really gifted, and really talented,” Williams said Friday. “…In 27 years as a head coach I haven’t seen a team this deep and talented.”
Even without injured forward Alex Poythress, Kentucky still boasts a huge front line featuring 7-footers Willie Cauley-Stein and Dakari Johnson, 6-11 Karl Anthony-Towns and 6-10 Trey Lyles, among others.
Kentucky leads Division 1 with 86 blocked shots and has swatted 25.9 percent of opponents’ field goal attempts, according to Kenpom.com.
“You can’t be intimidated,” Williams said. “If you’re going to go, you’ve got to go hard. I’ve always said the softer that you go against a shot blocker, the more effective he becomes… My general rule is one pump fake and right at their face. If you go right at their face, it’s more difficult for a shot blocker.”
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