{"id":1931052,"date":"2026-09-03T11:48:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T15:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1931052"},"modified":"2026-09-03T13:04:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T17:04:02","slug":"malone-says-his-tough-love-about-accountability-but-comes-with-showing-players-he-cares-about-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1931052","title":{"rendered":"Malone says his tough love about accountability, but comes with showing players he cares about them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHAPEL HILL \u2014 Coach Michael Malone was known during his NBA coaching career for being direct with his players and applying tough love to make them better. Malone, about to start his first season as Carolina\u2019s coach, said that will not change at the college level, but emphasized that it\u2019s important to first let the players know that he loves them so that they know that any criticism is coming from a good place.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\/2026\/09\/03\/malone-says-his-tough-love-about-accountability-but-comes-with-showing-players-he-cares-about-them\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Malone says his tough love about accountability, but comes with showing players he cares about them<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\/2026\/09\/03\/malone-says-his-tough-love-about-accountability-but-comes-with-showing-players-he-cares-about-them\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHAPEL HILL \u2014 Coach Michael Malone was known during his NBA coaching career for being direct with his players and applying tough love to make them&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1931052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931052","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1931052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1931053,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931052\/revisions\/1931053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1931052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1931052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1931052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}