“We gotta keep fighting. We can’t put our head down, nobody’s gonna feel sorry for us. We just gotta keep fighting and keep building, keep going in, and me as a head coach, I gotta find ways to get us ready. I thought we didn’t have a great week of practice, a lot of guys were really banged up and tired from the trip, so I was trying to save guys’ legs and stuff like that, but we just gotta get back to being who we are. That’s it.”
On Monmouth’s Abdi Bashir:
“He made some tough shots. He’s a good basketball player, best player on the court today. He made a lot of tough shots, we knew he would, we watched a lot of film on him and to take some of the shots he took and make them, it’s contagious. And the other kid, (Jack) Collins, to start making shots, he was struggling a little bit and he started making shots, and that was that.”
On getting more at the point guard position:
“I want to get more out of everybody, not just the point guard spot. The whole team. We gotta get more from everybody. Today was a very bad game for us, it sucks because we’re home and you want to come out at home and kind of do what you did last week in Charleston. And I thought today was a total letdown. It’s not good.”
On the absence of Dylan Addae-Wusu:
“I’m different, man. I’m not giving this excuse. Monmouth beat us, they came out and beat us. I thought they were the hungrier team. I watched a lot of film, they lost a lot of tough games down the stretch and they just came out and beat us. Does Dylan not being here hurt us? Yeah, of course, he’s one of our guards, he’s one of our leaders, one of the guys that I trust out there. But what (are) you gonna do? You gotta play, and I thought they just outplayed us, and that’s sad. As the coach, that’s on me. The one thing I’ll do, I’ll never throw my players under the bus, so anything that happens is on me, period.”
On Seton Hall’s lack of energy:
“I thought they slowed us down playing the zone, and I don’t know why because I was prepared for it. We did a lot of zone offense this week, so we were prepared for it. The ball just didn’t move, it stuck, and when the ball sticks in one person’s hand and doesn’t move, it gave them a chance to stay in it. And I thought we made some plays early and made some shots to work out of it. It just slowed us down and got us to thinking, and that’s not really good for our team right now.”
On what could be done about missed free throws:
“Nothing, man. We just gotta continue working on them. We work on them a lot, guys make them in practice, we just gotta keep working on it.”
On how to reverse the mentality in the locker room:
“We just gotta play, man. We gotta play, Jerry. I can’t just have a magic wand. We just gotta continue to keep fighting. It’s a long season still, right? I know we lost some games and it’s early, but it’s a long season and listen: I’m a fighter. I’m not giving up, my team’s not gonna give up. We just didn’t play well this afternoon, they made some tough shots, played well, and they won the game.”
On Chaunce Jenkins:
“Everybody gotta step up. This is part of basketball. Chaunce was on a team last year where I’m sure he was at the top of the scouting report as well. We just gotta step up. We didn’t look like us today, we didn’t build on what we did the two games down in Charleston and come here and have that killer instinct. We understand that we started a three-game homestand, and this was the way to start it off good. Monmouth came in, and like I said, was the hungrier team—which sucks because I can’t believe I’m saying that—but they were. They were hungrier than us, and King did a good job of getting them ready.”
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