{"id":1264559,"date":"2021-04-04T23:21:25","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T03:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1264559"},"modified":"2026-07-26T14:45:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T18:45:31","slug":"shot-of-joe-to-go-roy-williams-was-the-perfect-coach-to-continue-dean-smiths-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1264559","title":{"rendered":"Shot of Joe to Go: Roy Williams was the perfect coach to continue Dean Smith&#8217;s legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/shot-of-joe-to-go-roy-williams-was-the-perfect-coach-to-continue-dean-smith-s-legacy\/19610694\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/colleges\/unc\/2021\/04\/04\/19610695\/117291-shot_of_joe-DMID1-5qf4a1lpi-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"Shot of Joe to Go: Roy Williams was the perfect coach to continue Dean Smith's legacy\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>At his retirement press conference, Roy Williams said repeatedly he felt he was no longer the right man for the job. But in this week&#8217;s Shot of Joe to Go, Joe Giglio believes that for the 18 seasons Williams coached Carolina, no one who could have done the job better. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/shot-of-joe-to-go-roy-williams-was-the-perfect-coach-to-continue-dean-smith-s-legacy\/19610694\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/shot-of-joe-to-go-roy-williams-was-the-perfect-coach-to-continue-dean-smith-s-legacy\/19610694\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Shot of Joe to Go: Roy Williams was the perfect coach to continue Dean Smith&#039;s legacy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At his retirement press conference, Roy Williams said repeatedly he felt he was no longer the right man for the job. But in this week&#8217;s Shot&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1264559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264559","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1264559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1924765,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264559\/revisions\/1924765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1264559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1264559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1264559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}