Official Site of the Tar Heels · Sep 22, 2016
Lucas: Meeks Learns From Offseason
The seeds of one of Carolina basketball’s most-discussed offseason decisions might be traced to John Thompson.
The former Georgetown coach visited Chapel Hill last year to receive the Dean Smith Award. A portion of his acceptance speech made an impression on Kennedy Meeks.
“In that speech, John Thompson said, ‘Basketball will end one day and the basketball will go flat,’” Meeks says. “He said, ‘When the ball goes flat, which is going to happen eventually, you have to be ready and know what you’re going to do.’”