UNC coach Roy Williams breaks down this year's team, including raising the possibility of playing five freshmen on the floor at the same time.
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00:00Yeah, we've had 25, 25, I guess, uh, have four, uh, guys who played in crunch
00:08time, very successful year. Then Armando Picot, Leaky Black and Andrew
00:13Playtech to a much lesser degree. And for our team to be successful, those
00:17guys have got to step forward and really play. We have six freshmen that
00:21there'll be times where they'll play a lot, and I wouldn't be surprised if
00:25sometimes we have five freshmen on the court together. We open up next
00:30Wednesday with College of Charleston, and I'd like to have about to another
00:35month practice because we're over and you're ready to play, but the calendar
00:39doesn't stop. So we're anxious to see how we're doing. We had a season last
00:43year that left definitely a bad taste in our mouths. Well, if they want to
00:47play, they're gonna have to be able to guard him, and I've never been afraid
00:52to do things differently. And in fact, in CL and 17, when we won a national
00:56championship, uh, the day between the semifinals finals with the press
01:01obligations and Mark, you said, God, isn't this great? We both get to play
01:06against somebody's got too low post players. And I said, Yeah, but, you
01:10know, it's a game's going in a different direction, but we're the only
01:14two left, so it's okay to do things differently. And what it means is,
01:18yeah, we've got to be able to get out on the court and guard those guys, but
01:20they have to guard us as well. And I think it is. The game has changed a
01:25great deal, but I like being stubborn, and I like to play with two post guys
01:29if I can't.
01:32I left to get fouled, and so we've got to get those guys who are gonna have
01:37to play smaller guys. They've got to be able to get out on the court, do it,
01:40and we try to practice it every day.