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Lynch also acknowledged that the hype surrounding the Fab Five unfairly downplayed UNC as a threat. Coach Smith scarred a lot of us as young men." "Those types of practices build character, but they also scar you. When people ask about timeout, I always go back to the one practice where Donald Williams called that timeout, laying on his back with nowhere to go, and Coach Smith made us run court." We always knew how many timeouts we had, and we never called a timeout unless Coach Smith said to call a timeout. This was after a 3-4 hour practice, he put us on the in-line, and I swear we ran 30 lines just for calling a timeout. "And you know, nobody calls timeouts (except Smith), not even Bill Guthridge.

" cut the lead to four, Donald Williams steals the ball, its a loose ball, and everyone is diving on the floor, and he calls a timeout," Lynch said. When remembering the timeout, Lynch can't help but think of a scrimmage game earlier that season where Smith ruthlessly ingrained the importance of timeouts into his players. If they had a press offense and the primary ball handlers brought the ball up - the trap would've never happened." Chris Webber knew it, that's why he called timeout, but he probably heard someone else call timeout too. If we got you in a corner, you were going to throw the ball up in the air for whoever to catch it. "We were a good trapping team we proved that all year. "Looking back on it, I heard some people say, 'Timeout, timeout,'" Lynch said. Lynch remembers the pleas but admitted the Wolverines would have never been in that situation if they had developed a way to beat a press defense before the game. Dean Smith put us through so much that in any situation in a game, we had the confidence we were going to pull it out." UNC's George Lynch defends Michigan's Chris Webber on the infamous timeout play.Īfter the game, reports came out that players on Michigan's sideline had told Webber to call for a timeout. That shows they weren't prepared to play us as we were prepared to play them. "They knew we were a trapping team and had burned a few timeouts beforehand.

"They didn't have a press offense… and unfortunately, they weren't prepared for traps," Lynch said. Lynch believes the Tar Heels' exploitation of Michigan's inbounding system proved Smith and the Tar Heels were more prepared for the game than the Fab Five. "They were talented, but they weren't as sharp as a team, and we knew if we executed Coach Smith's plan and were on point, we knew we had a chance." But we saw holes in their preparation, they didn't have a press offense," Lynch said on The Carolina Conversation podcast with Shammond Williams. "We met them in Hawaii and lost to them at the buzzer. During preparations for the rematch in April, Smith demanded the Tar Heels to press and try to trap Michigan every time they inbounded the ball to someone other than a guard. Despite losing the game, Smith noticed that the Wolverines often inbounded to Webber and trusted the big man to dribble the ball to half court.

However, former UNC star George Lynch, who joined Derrick Phelps in trapping Webber, considers the infamous mistake a product of Dean Smith's intense season-long preparation for the game.Įarlier that season, UNC fell to Michigan 79-78 in the Rainbow Classic in Honolulu, Hawaii. When Michigan's Chris Webber received a technical foul in the final seconds of the 1993 National Championship game against North Carolina for calling a timeout his team didn't have, most considered the game-losing act to be one of the biggest blunders in sports history.