His team was down ELEVEN with less than a half minute left. UNC got the ball, and any sane coach would concede that the game was over, and just let UNC dribble out the shot clock. Instead, Coach K had his players desperately pressing and fouling, even though they had no chance of winning.
It should be noted that the spread for the game was TEN points. Coach K seemed hellbent on covering that spread. Why?
As a result of Coach K's actions, UNC's star Tyler Hansborough ended up getting his nose broken with 10 seconds left by one of Duke's needlessly aggressive players, and now said player has been suspended. So, how much money do you think K had riding on the game????
2007-03-04 12:32:39 · 1 answers · asked by truth be told 3 in Sports ➔ Basketball
Here's what Roy Williams said.
On Coach Krzyzewski suggesting that the team's starters should not have been in the game when Tyler Hansbrough was fouled:
"I don't understand that - I mean both teams had `em in. I was sitting in the stands my first - the only game I saw when I was first here as a high school coach - we win and beat Duke and we were down by eight with 17 seconds to play. I don't even know how much time was left when it happened. And in fact we had a substitute up at the free throw line - if you want to go back and look at that. If you go back and look Michael Copeland was sitting up at the free throw line cause I was trying to Tyler out of the game. It's not my fault that Tyler got the offensive rebound and somebody else missed the sucker. But that is enough said about that junk."
2007-03-05 02:19:33 · answer #1 · answered by The Big Shot 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋