UNC coach Roy Williams discusses the Tar Heels' season-opening win over Charleston, including news about two of his players who were in COVID protocol
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00:00We're trying to make all the money we're losing on football and
00:03men's basketball tournament back by having four hour timeouts during the frickin game.
00:07I've never seen as long a timeouts.
00:09This is worse than the final four.
00:10But other than that, we got off to a great start.
00:14I liked what happened to our team when they came back early and took one point lead.
00:19Was that the 17 and 0, Steve?
00:22Got a bad crick in my neck for trying to figure out what to do during the timeouts.
00:25But we had a 17-0 run at that point.
00:30I think Andrew Playtech had a blocked shot and then one steal and one deflection.
00:34I think Armando had a blocked shot during that time period.
00:38We weren't nearly as smooth offensively as I'd like for us to be.
00:42But during that stretch in that second half from the 17-0 run,
00:46I thought most of it was fueled by our defensive play.
00:49And that's it, guys, first game, gotta win.
00:52Get home quickly, get something to eat, and eat turkey tomorrow.
00:56Not as much fun, I still love the competition part when the game started.
01:00But all our players have always talked about what a thrill it is running
01:04through the tunnel, hearing all those people,
01:07seeing all those people, the sea of blue out there.
01:10So you take that away, and I think that took something away from the game.
01:16But I think this is the world that we're in right now, we have to understand that.
01:21I love seeing you guys wearing a mask, I wore my mask the entire game.
01:25And I think we've got to do these kind of things to get those numbers going in
01:29the proper direction.
01:30And if we do that, perhaps maybe by the end of the year,
01:33we'll have some fans in the stands, but it was hard.
01:35Just finished going through the COVID protocols, and
01:39missed several practices down the last couple of weeks.
01:42And so they're back with us, they're good, and
01:45gave them a few minutes, hopefully they'll help us down the road.