Perspective: Wherever Buzz Williams might be going he’s going to win
By John Feinstein John Feinstein Bio Columnist March 28 at 6:18 PM It wasn’t surprising that Duke Coach Mike Krzyzewski was flowery in his praise of Virginia Tech Coach Buzz Williams Thursday during his time on the podium inside Capital One Arena, on the eve of their teams meeting one another in the NCAA tournament late Friday night.
“He lost his most important player at a crucial time in the season,” he said. “It would have been very easy for them to fade when that happened, but they didn’t. They kept playing and they kept winning. That doesn’t always happen when someone that good and that important goes down. Now he’s back and look at where they are.”
“Hey, it’s Coach K and it’s the best player in the country,” Williams said Thursday afternoon, not long after his team had practiced for the East Region semifinal. “I get that and it doesn’t bother me. Everything about them gets a lot of attention. They’ve earned that.”[Alexander-Walker, RJ Barrett proud to rep Canada in Sweet 16]
“What we’ve done here has been a gazillion times more difficult than what we did at Marquette,” Williams said of this previous stop, where he reached three Sweet 16s in six years before surprising the basketball world by leaving for Blacksburg in 2014. “I’m proud of the wins, but more than that I’m proud of the effort a lot of people have made.”
“When you scout his teams and when you play against them, you know how hard they’re going to come at you,” Krzyzewski said. “They don’t give you an inch. He’s got good players, but he coaches them to always play hard.”With four graduate students on the roster, Virginia Tech is as experienced as Duke — America’s one-and-done team — is inexperienced. And they aren’t intimidated by Duke’s aura.
“He showed up before practice one day and asked me if he could watch practice,” said Lewis Orr, who coached at Corsicana for 32 years. “I said, ‘No, you can’t, but you can stick around if you’re willing to work.’
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