Jay Wright

But it's really true, we never beat them.

There was a point at the end, I can't remember who they got,

But they, somebody, they kind of went in another direction, which allowed us to kind of get Jalen.

But we were talking the whole time.

Ben, I think he just proved it to everybody and proved it to me.

I really thought the Dallas situation when Luka Doncic was kind of the go-to guy, maybe the little bit more wild scorer but dominant physical player, and Jalen was kind of the brains of the team and the leader and the go-to guy when you needed him.

I thought that was perfect for him.

when he made the decision to go to new york i i never we talked i don't i don't think he asked my opinion i think he was just kind of talking it through kind of telling me what he was going to do and i didn't tell him what to do but he specifically said like i want to lead a team and i said you know go for it my man you got to trust yourself um but what

What he has done is taken, and he did this in high school, and he did it in college, and now he's done it in the NBA, which has blown my mind.

He's taken his perceived inadequacies, like being too small, being too slow, not being athletic enough, and figured out how people are defending him and how to use that to his advantage.

His changing speeds, his physicality, his footwork, he uses that based on the fact that people don't think he's athletic.

He's more athletic than people think.

He's faster than people think.

He's actually bigger than people think, too.

They say he's 6'1".

He's bigger than 6'1".

But he uses that all to his advantage and holds no grudge against anybody that thinks that of him.

He just does it to prove it to himself.

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 sometimes