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
came game huge league matter time
The league is a grind. There was just never a time to relax. Every game was a huge game, no matter who came in.
afraid camp hurt might muscle muscular nba practice rehab saw seeing shut spring start strength terms wearing works
You could see him wearing down so we shut him down for a while in terms of playing. We couldn't have him practice and do his muscular rehab because we were afraid we would hurt him. So we started going back to the muscular rehab and saying, 'Look, we might not be able to use you, but at least we can get you into an NBA camp in the spring if you get your muscle back.' And we saw it start to come back. He still does that, he still works on all the strength training. He even did it out there and I think we're seeing it come back.
came freshman leading player taking team
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.