Jay Wright
Jay Wright
Jerold Taylor "Jay" Wright, Jr.is an American college basketball coach. He is currently the men's coach at Villanova University. In 2016, Villanova won the NCAA men’s basketball national championship title game against North Carolina, Wright's first national championship, and Villanova's first since 1985...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth24 December 1961
CityChurchville, PA
coaches coaching decisions
You feel like they take coaching out of your hands. You feel like they're coaches on the court. They're going to make the right decisions and if they get fouled, they're going to make their shots.
moved past
You get past that first one and now we are in the tournament. We've moved on and I think that makes them feel better, that they can just go play basketball.
change good guards stopping time tough
We had a tough time stopping Aldridge down the stretch. Our guards are very good finishers. There were times when we got to the rim and he made us change our shots.
advantage closed couple looks
We had a couple of looks that went in and out. That was our chance. You only get so many opportunities and we didn't take advantage and they closed us out.
quicker smaller
We are smaller than them, but we are quicker and we have depth. When we speeded it up, I thought that was to our advantage.
everybody hear mythical spend talking talks time
We hear it all the time, so you think about it because everybody talks about it around here. We spend all our time with each other talking about, 'Forget about it.' It's such a mythical thing and everybody talks about it.
four happy minutes pain played prepared
We're always prepared not to have him and it's been that way for four years. We're happy for him personally. He isn't in pain and he played 26 minutes that way.
basketball played ran shoot team
We ran into a team that played better basketball than us. I think we can play a lot better and we can shoot a lot better, and the other team had a lot to do with that. They were really good.
basketball gave great guys hurt played ran suck sure team tonight
We ran into a team that played better basketball today. We're going to suck up this hurt tonight but I want to make sure my guys feel great about themselves. They gave everything they had.
defensive pride stop
We're a defensive team. We take pride in that. And we just couldn't stop them. ...I've never had that feeling, where you just couldn't stop somebody.
advantage enjoy enjoyment hanging players road spend team time
We really enjoy as a team the time that we spend together, just coaches, players hanging out. We always get that on the road. There is an enjoyment to being on the road for us and that's what Minneapolis will be like. We think we're even tighter on the road. We're going to really take advantage and enjoy that.
felt game great hitting hold job tempo year
We really haven't had a game like that this year where we just felt like we couldn't get things going offensively. I thought that Pittsburgh, once they got a hold of the game, did a great job of just controlling the tempo and hitting big shots.
decision gets knew
We knew he was going to have to make a decision at some point. Once he gets cleared, we've got to know. We've got to make a decision because it's getting to be drama.
knew love
We knew it was coming. I love him. I told him after the game, he was great. He was a beast.