Spurs Sign Kenny Williams Out of UNC

[MoSpur02]

https://news4sanantonio.com/sports/spurs-sign-unc-guard-kenny-williams

[Leetonidas]

Yay more guards

[Dejounte]

So this is 1 of the 2 2-way contracts we can give out?

[Pavlov]

So this is 1 of the 2 2-way contracts we can give out?Doubt it.

[Dejounte]

Doubt it.

So what did we "sign" him with.

[r0drig0lac]

the new brandon paul

[Pavlov]

So what did we "sign" him with.Nonguaranteed minimum deal if I had to guess. In that case he'll end up on the regular Austin roster. Some dudes are just signed for summer league too.

[Chomag]

Another Guard? LMAO you can't even make this stuff up! Most likely training camp fodder though.

[timvp]

Basically a summer league and training camp deal that will land him in Austin unless he falls on his face. Zero chance he makes the real roster, tbh.

[Pavlov]

Another Guard? LMAO you can't even make this stuff up!Yeah, you can't make up the need to fill up SL and G-League rosters.

[spurraider21]

even if he's not going to make the roster, why does PATFO keep putting time and attention into this fucking position :lol

[slick'81]

even if he's not going to make the roster, why does PATFO keep putting time and attention into this fucking position :lol


Can never have enough guards i guess

[Millennial_Messiah]

American born UDFAs rarely make the NBA... for every Bruce Bowen there's a thousand we've never heard back from

[Russ]

American born UDFAs rarely make the NBA... for every Bruce Bowen there's a thousand we've never heard back from

How often do I have to defend Bryn Forbes around here?

[CGD]

Good, put them in the pipeline. Instead of letting them walk I hope is that the spurs start cashing in by flipping some of the player they develop into better assets. Was a shame they didnt get anything for Simmons, and hope they don’t repeat that with Bryn.

[Big P]

Marc Davis: Kenny Williams says his contract with the Spurs is an Exhibit 10 deal. That means if he’s waived, he’ll receive a $50,000 bonus if he signs a contract with the Spurs’ G-League team. He’d have to stay with the G-League team for at least 60 days to get that bonus. @NBC12 – via Twitter

[John B]

Pop plans our guards to run loops around Lebron :wtf:wtf

[cjw]

He was sick defensively against Duke in a March game and got some major shoutouts. Probably undrafted because of his age.

https://www.newsobserver.com/sports/article228154704.html


From the article: “When North Carolina senior Kenny Williams talks about his defensive philosophy, he smiles, knowing his response will elicit a reaction. “Forty minutes of hell.”
To put it mildly, Williams wants to make things difficult for his opponent. Or in the words of Williams, he wants “to make the night a living hell for whoever the coaches want me to guard.”

[playblair]

bryn frobes deja vu.........williams is a deadly knockdown shooter spurs got another undrafted steal

[BatManu20]

Kenny Willams highlights



https://youtu.be/_2SQweSQYQw


https://youtu.be/O3NazHGGV_8

[MoSpur02]

His defense stands out to me more than anything else, which is the reason the Spurs probably picked him up I assume.

[buttsR4rebounding]

I'd love to see the Spurs sign Jontay Porter to the G league. Real low risk--high return scenario.

[monty4329]

At least this short guard can shoot. If he can defend like White or Murray, he could find minutes in a couple of years, maybe.

[Proxy]

weird how many seasons/summers some of yall seen and still react with 'wow another <insert position the roster is filled with>'

[BOHOLANO#21]

Usually there is a point guard in a basketball team, SL team needs one fuck head!

[ceperez]

Interesting combine results:

https://www.tarheelblog.com/2019/5/23/18636561/unc-tar-heels-basketball-kenny-williams-shines-in-pro-basketball-combine-pbc-nba-draft-g-league

38.5" vertical

[Truth4sale$]

I hope he signs a contract like Jaron Blossomgame. Directly with the gleague. Spurs dont need him now.

[TimDunkem]

Basically a summer league and training camp deal that will land him in Austin unless he falls on his face. Zero chance he makes the real roster, tbh.

It's amazing how many here post about him being on the roster as if they have never been through an offseaon before. Guys in here who registered in here in 2005 still don't know how training camps work.

[SilverSpur]

Summer league and training camp competition then straight to Austin

[SpurPadre]

I'd love to see the Spurs sign Jontay Porter to the G league. Real low risk--high return scenario.

Load Management's shenanigans has probably scared PATFO off from wanting to take on any new cripple, tbh.

[cutewizard]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2SQweSQYQw

[cutewizard]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExA43AOyErk

[cutewizard]

hmmmmmm

[cutewizard]

40 minutes of hell

SO HE IS OUR HELLBOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


here is the complete article

When North Carolina senior Kenny Williams talks about his defensive philosophy, he smiles, knowing his response will elicit a reaction.
“Forty minutes of hell.”
To put it mildly, Williams wants to make things difficult for his opponent. Or in the words of Williams, he wants “to make the night a living hell for whoever the coaches want me to guard.”
That approach has earned Williams, a 6-foot-4, 185-pound guard, the respect of his peers, who are aware that going up against him is no easy feat. His job each night is to guard the opposing team’s best perimeter player, and he plans to make them work for everything.

[cutewizard]

“Some guys don’t really take pride in defense, but he’s one of the few who does,” Louisville’s Dwayne Sutton said. “I feel like he’s one of the hardest-playing defenders in the (ACC).”
Williams is North Carolina’s defensive stopper, a role he’s had since his sophomore year, and one he plays with passion. He has blossomed into one of the ACC’s best defenders over the past two years.
But he was recently left off the ACC’s all-defensive team, an honor his teammates, coaches and at least one national media member say he should have gotten. ESPN’s Jay Bilas tweeted that “there needs to be a recount. There is no way he’s not among the league’s five best defenders. No way.”

[cutewizard]

“Defense is effort and heart,” he said.
When North Carolina lost at home by 21 points to Louisville in January, Williams was among those who showed the most frustration and disappointment because he didn’t feel like he and his teammates gave the effort they were capable of. Since then, the Tar Heels have won 15 of their last 17 games, losing only to Virginia and Duke, both No. 1 seeds in the NCAA tournament.


Williams’ raw defensive numbers are not eye-popping, averaging 0.9 steals and 0.3 blocks per game, no doubt a factor in his all-ACC snub. A better place to find his impact is to look at the stats of the player he was guarding.
Williams drew three charges against Duke freshman R.J. Barrett in UNC’s final regular season game on March 9. After each one, he pumped his fist and ran down court to the excitement of the crowd. He also blocked Barrett’s shot with less than a minute remaining when a Barrett make would have made it a one-possession game. Instead, the Tar Heels gained possession and held on to win 79-70.


It was one of Williams’ best defensive performances of the season against one of the best offensive players in the country. Barrett, who averages 22.9 points per game, finished the game shooting 10 for 27 from the floor and four turnovers.
“He moves his feet. He’s always in the right spots,” Barrett said of Williams.
In last week’s ACC quarterfinal game, Williams’ job was to slow Louisville’s leading scorer Jordan Nwora, who was averaging 17.2 points per game. Nwora has also been a problem for opposing defenses.
But Williams held Nwora to a season-low seven points on 3-for-8 shooting last Thursday. Some of the misses he caused led to fast-break opportunities for the Tar Heels. The Tar Heels beat the Cardinals 83-70.
After the game, senior forward Luke Maye and freshman guard Coby White were brought to the podium for the postgame press conference because they led the team in scoring with 19 points each.
Before Maye left the stage, he had one last thing to say.
“Mind if I say something?” Maye asked.
“Let him speak, he won the Skip Prosser (academic) award,” Roy Williams said. “Let him talk.”
“Coach has changed the defense to help us guard the gaps a little bit better and guard the basket,” Maye said, “but I don’t think Kenny gets enough credit for the job he does.”
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[cutewizard]

guys, im sorry i seemed to have captured other parts of that website, huhuhu

[cutewizard]

His defense stands out to me more than anything else, which is the reason the Spurs probably picked him up I assume.


:bobo

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

I like the kid. Glad he’ll get a chance to prove himself in Austin. :tu

[exstatic]

I'd love to see the Spurs sign Jontay Porter to the G league. Real low risk--high return scenario.

Yeah, maybe next year, when he can actually play.