"He's one of those players who everybody looked at [and] said he's not big enough to play the way he plays," Williams said. "Now, I think anybody would take him on their team. That happens in recruiting. Nobody wants a 6-4 power forward until you see what he's averaging in a game. He's very good."
Williams looks back a year ago to when the Terps really did struggle to win two of their first three games, beating Hampton by six and winning in overtime against Northeastern.
"This team has been criticized a lot more than last year's team, maybe because we had a couple of seniors [James Gist and Bambale Osby] who played a lot and people thought, 'Maybe it will take awhile for them to come around,' " Williams said. "I'm very pleased with this team in terms of how they work every day. We usually as a team show up ready to go."
