Christiansen said playing in junior college helped Williams get used to the schedule and the work required in college basketball.
“I would say probably what helped him more than anything was just the introduction to the daily grind that it takes to be good in anything in life,” Christiansen said.
When OU coach Lon Kruger put Williams in the starting lineup in place of freshman De’Vion Harmon earlier this season, Kruger said the goal was to get a scoring bump from Williams. That scoring bump didn’t come in Williams’ five starts, but he has started to emerge.