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
believe shoot start unless
I wanted him to shoot more. I said, 'I'm not going to start you unless you shoot.' Believe it or not, he's unselfish.
poor shooting toss
We'll just toss it out as a poor shooting night.
boards game hitting offensive shooting
They were shooting over us. And you could really see them hitting the offensive boards as part of their game plan.
shooting
I told him, 'We're going to go down with you shooting the ball. That's who we are.
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.
confidence great mike shoot three
We want to shoot 3s. We have great confidence in Allan and Mike and Randy, especially. Those three are pretty deadly.
confidence great mike shoot three
We want to shoot 3s, ... We have great confidence in Allan and Mike and Randy, especially. Those three are pretty deadly.
against ball east everybody handle pass position push remind shoot size skilled team
They are probably more skilled at every position than any Big East team that we play against because everybody can handle it, pass it, shoot it well. They remind me of Connecticut, but with their size at every position and with the way they push the ball at you, they are just a little more skilled at each spot.
case defense florida games good hard road shoot south team tough tried win
South Florida was well-prepared and did a good job. It wasn't a case of us going out on the road and not being able to shoot well. Their defense had a lot to do with it. We just tried to tough it out and play hard for 40 minutes. That team is going to win some games in this league.
early four mike rebound shooting stick tried
Defensively, they're so big at every position. We tried early with Mike (Nardi) to stick with our four guards, but he got two fouls so we had to come with Shane (Clark). They were just too big. We couldn't rebound and they were shooting over us.
leg percent resistance shooting strength work
His leg strength is at about 90 percent of where it was before. He's doing resistance work and is shooting every day.
ball kept shooting
In the first half, that kept us in it, because we weren't shooting the ball very well.
ball shoot sit unselfish
He's such an unselfish player. I told him he was going to have to shoot the ball or he was going to sit -- it was that simple.
good guards rebound score shoot
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.