{"id":1113,"date":"2011-02-28T15:31:20","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T20:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsports.us\/?p=1113"},"modified":"2011-03-02T08:23:39","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T13:23:39","slug":"roy-williams-says-heels-can-be-immature-but-still-know-how-to-bear-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1113","title":{"rendered":"Roy Williams says Tar Heels can be \u2018immature,\u2019 but they still know how to bear down"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>North Carolina is well aware it plays Duke Saturday night in the Smith Center, and yes, the Tar Heels know they are tied with the Blue Devils at the top of the ACC Standings.<\/p>\n

But Carolina also knows it plays a tough Florida State team Wednesday night in Tallahassee, and coach Roy Williams insisted his team \u2013 though young \u2013 isn\u2019t getting ahead of itself.<\/p>\n

In fact, Williams even called his team \u201cimmature\u201d in some ways.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know that we\u2019ve go a big challenge at Florida State,\u201d Williams said. \u201cThis team is immature as all get out about some things but they really have been pretty focused about playing the next game.\u201d<\/p>\n

For example, Williams said his club can be loose and comical around the clubhouse. But the Tar Heels are often playing with the poise of an experienced team despite starting two sophomores and two freshmen. Carolina has won 15 of 17 and 10 of 11 since that loss at Georgia Tech.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s an impressive run for a program that was a huge disappointment last season, and came into this year with significant, and unexpected, personnel losses.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou go back to last May, when the Wears say they are not coming back \u2026 Will Graves … Larry Drew. There has been some adversity I never want to to through again,\u201d Williams said. \u201cRight now I\u2019m estatic about what they have done. \u2026 I am really proud of what my team has done. It hasn\u2019t been easy. Ol\u2019 Roy has had a hard year since last May. But I am really proud of them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

North Carolina has won 15 of its last 17 games but isn’t looking ahead to Duke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,1,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-uncategorized","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-1-id","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1113"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1156,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions\/1156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}