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    How Jaime Jaquez Jr. became UCLA's toughest player

    PHILADELPHIA — The animated voice belonged to a freshman guard who had never started and rarely contributed before that day, going scoreless in four of his first six college games. He announced to his teammates, in full-throated terms, that they needed to compete. Be more physical. Rebound. Do whatever it took to beat Michigan State. "I mean, I just really want to win more than anything," ...
    by Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times Mar 23, 2022 5 minutes
    Mary's Kyle Bowen during the first half in the second round of the NCAA Tournament at Moda Center on March 19, 2022, in Portland, Oregon.

    PHILADELPHIA — The animated voice belonged to a freshman guard who had never started and rarely contributed before that day, going scoreless in four of his first six college games.

    He announced to his teammates, in full-throated terms, that they needed to compete. Be more physical. Rebound. Do whatever it took to beat Michigan State.

    "I mean, I just really want to win more than anything," Jaime Jaquez Jr. said in a breezeway outside the Lahaina Civic Center in November 2019 while explaining his spontaneous speech during UCLA's game at the Maui Invitational. "I guess wanting to win is my competitive fire and I was just born with it."

    Right, there was that lineage to consider.

    His father, who doubled as his youth coach, did not spare him from the harsh critiques he might hear at higher levels, preparing him for the possibility of playing for someone like

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