“I’m intrigued by them. The reason why I’m intrigued by them is that we know where I want to be right now, but I think this team’s got a really good ceiling. I mean, what do you want me to say? It is what it is, brother. I don’t know. People have time to sit around and pick other people’s teams, but I’m not worried about nobody else. I don’t do it, I let my assistant coaches do it, to tell you the truth. It doesn’t matter either way for me. You know me, I don’t really care if we’re first, we’re last, I don’t care.”
On the opportunity to develop his team:
“I mean, I’ll be honest with you, I don’t really care about the rankings or stuff like that. It doesn’t mean anything. It’s preseason. I just care about my team, but if you know me, you know my teams, we get better as the year goes on. So right now, I’m happy where we are, but I think we’re gonna be really good.”
On facing Kadary Richmond for the first time:
“I’m like, who? No, no, he’s known as Kooks to me, I call him Kooks. I never called him by his last name, ever. It’s what it is, right? It’s kind of part of what it is right now. He gave Seton Hall some good years and now he’s on to a different place, and I wish him the best. It is what it is right now, you can’t get disappointed by anything. I’m gonna tell you what I tell my wife all the time. She got really attached to Dre Davis and his baby’s mother, the mother of his child. She was kind of like a mentor to her, and I told her moving forward, don’t get attached to people. Just get attached to the school and the name on the front of the jersey, not the back, because every year is gonna be like that. I just gotta adjust, everybody’s gotta adjust to it. It is what it is.”
On Seton Hall’s point guards:
“I think right now, we’ve got a couple good ones. Like I told you at media day the other day, I think we’ve got four guys that can handle the basketball way more than we had in the past. I wanted it that way because in the past, when Kooks went down, we were in trouble. Right now, I’ve got three or four guys that can handle the basketball, so I’m content right now with it.”
On similarities between Richmond and Garwey Dual:
“I don’t think it’s fair to either one to compare. I think Garwey’s a young player that’s gonna have a chance to keep getting better, Kadary’s a veteran guard that was very good and he did good with us.”
On losing Richmond and Dre Davis:
“I mean, it’s amazing you guys ask me those questions. What do you want me to say? I ain’t getting in the middle of that stuff. It’s college basketball right now, it’s part of it, it’s gonna be like that moving forward so I think everybody should get used to it.”
On NIL issues making his job harder:
“Yeah, absolutely! I see where you’re going with this, Zach! You know what? We got what we got, I do my job with what I have. I don’t complain, who’s gonna listen if I complain? I just go out there with the people that are in front of me. The resources I have, I’ll use them and we’ll go from there.”
On Dual and Scotty Middleton:
“I think everybody’s important to my team, to tell you the truth. I brought in ten new guys, I think all ten guys are very, very important. I think Scotty and G — Garwey, I call him G, sorry — have something to prove, right? To themselves and to everybody else. For me, they got a fresh start, a new start, and I’m curious to see how they’re gonna take advantage of it.”
On Seton Hall having something to prove:
“Listen, man, it’s like I told you before. At the end of the day, I’m gonna be very clear with this: I don’t really care about the ranking. I think that people sitting around ranking teams that have never seen a team is kind of nuts to me. They should write about their own team!”
On having four point guards:
“Peace of mind. It gives me the ability to play different styles. Like I said, in the past, when our main guy went down, we kind of struggled. Hopefully we won’t struggle if one of the guys goes down. That’s what it gives us.”
On Yacine Toumi:
“Yeah, you know what? He’s coming off a thumb injury, but he’s different. He’s 6-foot-10, he could dribble the basketball, he could post up, he could shoot, he could play some point forward positions for us. I’m happy to have him, he’s getting used to the physicality of the Big East, and just like everybody else, it’s a process.”
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