Jay Wright

He just does it to prove it to himself.

What is it that you taught these players that has helped them be successful in the NBA?

What did they learn at Villanova?

I think...

First of all, they brought a lot to the table, especially all three of them have parents that would say to them when they would struggle, you know, what does coach say?

Listen to coach, which sounds simple, but it's so rare with great players.

I think the one thing that

They all brought a lot of talent.

They brought a lot of competitiveness.

Our mantra at Villanova was the word attitude, that you control your attitude on each play, and you control your attitude on each day.

so uh regardless of what happened in the game before that next day you got to come with a clear mind positive attitude learn from your mistakes be humble based on your your positive plays and your successes and then get better the next day get better the next play have a clear mind the next play i think that's probably

what they took from us the most.

And they've definitely added their own version of it in a highly successful way.

And what I loved about the teams that you built is you looked at this as not one year.

I'm building a team.

I hope they stay three.

Maybe they stay four years.

And it's such a luxury now for a coach to be able to let them play when a game is on the line.

Like, I don't have to micromanage them.

And I always got into this with Calipari.