Two days after the North Carolina men's basketball team was defeated by Ohio State in one of the worst losses ever under head coach Roy Williams, questions abounded on how the team can improve.
Unfortunately for the Tar Heels, no one, including Williams, has many answers right now.
At his press conference on Friday, he made it clear though that the team hasn't been playing fast enough for his liking.
"We're not pushing the pace enough to get easy ones," Williams said. "We don't have runners. We don't have the initial post option that Tyler Hansbrough, Sean May, some of those guys, Kennedy Meeks and Isaiah Hicks, would give us. And then the guys aren't running enough.
"The bottom line is the ball isn't going in the basket enough. We used to get more easy ones than we got (against Ohio State)."
Williams is famous for always urging his team to play at a faster pace, and North Carolina has historically been one of the fastest teams in the country. This season, though, the team is just 133rd with a pace of 71.7 possessions per 40 minutes. Last year, The Tar Heels were eighth in the country with 75.9.
UNC isn't even the fastest public school in the state — UNC-Asheville, UNC-Wilmington and N.C. State all sit above it currently.
"Our goal every game is to score one or two that we score with 24, 25 seconds left on the shot clock," Williams said. "We haven't done that one time this year. Our teams in the past have been able to do it. So either I've gotten awfully dumb really quick, or they're not running."
Williams explained how the lack of a threat from UNC's fast break leads to even more issues with what the Tar Heels try to do offensively.
