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
born four guards necessity
If I had four guards like this again, I would do it. But this was really born out of necessity.
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I definitely see the comparison. Both teams had key senior leadership and I can see the parallel between Rudy Gay and Marvin Williams and the impact that each has. I had never really thought about this before, but I definitely see it.
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I can't tell them apart. They both do the same things every play and that's where our leadership comes from.
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I feel a little guilty. That was a real home court for us.
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I don't want to slow him down at all right now because he's excited about the possibility of coming back. I know he looks at it as his goal and I don't want to take away his dream. And if he does decide to play, I'm going to let him. I'm hoping as time goes on, his enthusiasm is matched with some deep thinking, which I think it will be, and then we look more toward the future.
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I don't want to make this complicated, but we have really good players. We have guards that can shoot and score and they can go rebound the ball.
I don't think this is anything we don't think we can overcome.
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I don't think (the selection committee) looked at this season as a shock. I think they looked at from the standpoint that Villanova has done this before. They had a great year. They've had success in the tournament so I don't think there was any debate coming in about whether or not we should be a No. 1. They play in the best conference in the country. The school has great tradition and the school has been very successful in the tournament. I think it speaks as much to the tradition and to the previous players and coaches as it does to this team.
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He's got a serious injury, but he's doing OK. He's being evaluated right now. That's really all we can say.
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He played like a veteran tonight. He's the most consistent guy we have. That's what we count on him for.
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For some reason in the first half, it was like our feet were frozen. I've got to watch the film to understand it.
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He came in as a freshman and got better and better every year, and really by taking a team over and leading a team to a championship got him Player of the Year.
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Allan's got that great scorer's mentality. He's different than the three of them. The four of them, tough, are very unselfish.
looked signs
Allan looked great. He was right back at it and didn't show any signs of tentativeness at all. He was right back at it.