“I thought we came out with a better sense of urgency after the timeout. I didn’t like the way we came out in the beginning of the game. I thought we came out with a better sense of urgency after the timeout in the second half. We just have to understand we have to play like that all the time, like our back is against the wall every time in this league.”
On getting up for local games:
“That’s a question you gotta ask them. I’m up and I try to get them ready for every game. It doesn’t matter who we’re playing, it doesn’t matter if it’s local or it’s not, I’m fired up and wired every game. We’ve just gotta do it, we gotta be more consistent with it.”
On Tyrese Samuel:
“I thought Tyrese, he battled. That’s all I ask for him to do is battle. I thought he battled. That kid Soriano’s pretty good, he’s really big. I thought Rese battled him, and that’s all I could ask for. It was good to see him get back on track, battle down there and play the way he played. I’m asking a lot of him, and I think he’s up to the task.”
On contributions from multiple players:
“It was good. This league, there's a reason why it’s the best league in the country to me. This league is tough, you gotta play like that every night. It can’t just be some nights, it can’t just be against local teams, we gotta do it every single day we step on the court. I thought the difference for us was — and I want to tell all the fans: Thank you for coming out and spending New Year’s Eve with us. I thought that was a big difference. I thought they were loud, I thought they were into it, our guys feed off it. We just gotta continue it.”
On Seton Hall’s depth and camaraderie:
“We showed a lot of flashes, right? We just gotta play together like I said, we gotta be more consistent. I think if we’re consistent, things like this happen. I tell these guys this all the time, it starts in practice. You can’t win today’s game today. You gotta win today’s game yesterday and then the day before. And that’s the same thing moving forward with Creighton. Tomorrow, we gotta win, and then Monday, we gotta win. We can’t win when we just step on the court. Teams in this league are way too good.”
On Seton Hall’s help defense:
“I thought today, and I’ve been wanting to do this all year, our two was really good for us. Not having a lot of time to practice before it has been tough, but it’s a weapon and I want to use it. I thought today, we got them standing around a little bit, we played our 2-2-1 and they were standing around kind of trying to figure it out. And you’re right, our weak side help and our back defense was really good. It was a conscious effort to make sure Soriano didn’t go off, even though he had 23 points. I thought it wasn’t like he was demanding and dominating us like Providence did and Xavier did with their big guys. A lot of his stuff was off putbacks or whatever, but we just gotta play like this all the time. I think that’s the frustration that I have because we show it, but we’ve gotta do it more.”
On Al-Amir Dawes:
“Al is a rhythm player. He made a couple of shots early, his rhythm was there, but like I said, I need Al to be more aggressive going to the basket. Obviously he shot the ball well, and we need him to shoot the ball well, but we need him to do other things. We need him to create more, and be more of a playmaker because he has that in him. It can’t just be Kadary. I want him and Femi, and Kadary, to be on the court all the time as three playmakers. And once they start clicking and gelling, I think that’s when we can take the next step, but we just gotta continue to get there.”
On defensive adjustments:
“I just thought we mixed it up a little bit with our two and we kind of got them standing around. They were trying to figure it out and they were having a hard time figuring it out, plus I thought that we didn’t let them get a lot of offensive rebounds, it was kind of one-and-done. I thought that was the biggest thing, and also, we got some transition points. We haven’t really been doing that. We got some transition points and we’re scoring off our defense. I want to keep the game like that. I thought we played good defense against Providence even though they had 71, even on the road against Xavier, I thought we played solid defense, and it’s hard to keep teams in this league under 60 points.”
On not getting a technical foul when appealing to referee Pat Driscoll:
“I don’t think I deserved it. I was fighting for my team, I thought there were some calls that were missed, and Pat’s been around for a long time. He gets it.”
On Seton Hall’s 17-2 run bridging the two halves:
“I thought it was good for us, right? If you look at the Marquette game, we came back in the first half and then we gave up that big three at the end, and that big three at the end that we gave up led to the second half. I thought in this game, we got some stops down the stretch in the first half and it carried over.”
On Seton Hall’s 17 assists:
“That’s great. I love to see us having more assists than turnovers. If we could do that more often and go 15-for-20 from the free throw line, I think we could win a lot of games.”
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