“I actually thought we had two good looks at the basket, and Kur Kuath had two big blocks that just gave them some momentum and kind of just took a little bit of wind out of our sails again. We’re having opportunities and we’re not taking advantage of them, and I thought that kind of energized them a little bit, and put a little more pressure on our offense early in the game.”
On Kadary Richmond:
“Kadary’s giving us everything he’s got. It’s really hard to transition from playing 24 minutes a game to 39 minutes a game and taking on the whole load, and we’ve had to do that in a very short period of time. I’m seeing growth even though he’s struggling a little bit. He’s not making good decisions, but he’s making right reads and again, this is his first year of playing point guard in college and there’s always going to be a learning curve. He just got asked to go from playing 24 minutes a game to being a guy that’s got to play 40 minutes a game and get everybody shots. That’s a big transition, and I think he’s working at it, I think he’s doing a great job at it. It’s just that you’re going to have some ups and downs when you transition to that so quickly.”
On Seton Hall’s confidence:
“I’m still a little mystified about why we’re ball-faking some open shots. It’s been part of our struggles, when we’ve had open shots, we’re ball faking and we’re driving into tough shots. I don’t know where that’s come from, and that’s something that we’ve got to try to fix a little bit offensively. We’re not flowing into offense quite as nicely as we had been earlier in the year, and that’s something I’ve got to fix. I’m not putting these guys in very good positions right now, and I’ve just got to figure out where to get them and try to get them flowing a little bit.”
On missing Bryce Aiken:
“A lot. Again, you’re talking about the leading scorer in the Big East in conference play, and a guy that has a 4-to-1 assist-turnover ratio. It’s been hard to try to — we thought we might have him for St. John’s, so we really didn’t change anything, and then we found out we didn’t have him for the first St. John’s game — it’s tough to try to make adjustments when you have three games in five days without him. He’d been playing great, he’s a guy that can make shots off the dribble, but again, I think Kadary has really stepped up the best he has possible right now.”
On Marquette's Justin Lewis:
“He’s playing really well. I don’t even look at the scoring, I just thought he passed the basketball extremely well. He’s playing at such a level, even twice as good as what he was playing at the first time we played him. He’s got so much confidence in his jump shot, it’s hard to guard him. We went zone in the second half just because I had to give Kadary as much break, and he made some tough shots on us.”
On Jamir Harris having a larger role:
“Jerry, I’ve got to figure a lot of stuff out, and that’s one of them.”
On the crowd booing Seton Hall:
“Well-deserved, Zach. Well-deserved.”
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