Malachi Warren (above) had a career-best 12 points in Wood’s win. (Photo: Josh Verlin/CoBL)
By Josh Verlin
All season long, Malachi Warren’s coaches teammates have been telling him the same thing: stay ready, and your time will come.
It was a lesson the Archbishop Wood sophomore tried to keep at the top of mind even as his varsity minutes fluctuated from one game to another. Keep working, and be ready for anything.
“[Assistant] coach Pat [Haggerty] always tells me to stay ready, sending me Instagram reels of how to stay ready,” Warren said. “Sending me Instagram reels of Dan Hurley from UConn, telling me how to stay ready and stay positive — even if I don’t get any minutes one night, to be ready the next night.”