“Obviously not too good with 24 turnovers, right? I thought we played hard in spurts. I thought the end of the first half, I thought we showed some life, I thought we came out and guys started to understand if you just don’t turn the basketball over, you just keep it solid. We had stretches where they didn’t score for three, four, five minutes, but then two or three turnovers got them back in transition. So I thought we had spurts, but it’s tough to play this team with a full group. Imagine not having a full group, and on a one-day prep. We can’t do too much. We played Saturday night, so we couldn’t do too much, obviously nothing Sunday and then yesterday, you try to prepare for the No. 10 team in the country. That’s not great.”
On Seton Hall’s turnovers:
“I thought some of them were just guys being soft with the basketball. It was nothing that (Marquette) did. We watched a lot of film and you could watch it, but then when you see it and you’re part of it…I just thought that we—and I told my guys, seriously, I know it’s an old thing to say—just throw the ball out of bounds, that way they don’t get in transition and score, and at least we get a chance to set our defense. But we had three or four turnovers in a row and they’re getting out and scoring, that’s when the lead goes from here to here to here to here. That’s kind of what happened.”
On Chaunce Jenkins and Dylan Addae-Wusu:
“I know Chaunce went and got an MRI yesterday. We’re still waiting, I’ll talk to the doctor right after this, obviously. And Dylan, he hasn’t done anything and he can’t do too much, so I can’t see that happening. It’s kind of like day-to-day.”
On Garwey Dual:
“I was just telling the guys on the radio: With Garwey—I call him G—it’s a little frustrating because I want him to be super aggressive. Normally when the coach tells you don’t be aggressive, I’m telling him to be aggressive and he’s still coming, which is strange to me because normally, I’ve had point guards that just go. But today, he was a little bit more aggressive and he’s just gotta play like that because like I said, I’m not sure when we’ll get those two guys back. The minutes are there, right? He’s just gotta play, and I thought he played solid on defense, but I just need him to look to score a little bit more, or look to play make a little bit more.”
On Kam Jones:
“Kam is a very good player, one of the best players in our league, but they have a very good team, a very good starting five. So if you try to concentrate on him, other guys will burn you, right? So the plan was just be solid. Like I said, I thought for the most part, we were until they got some runouts and he was struggling a little bit from the three, so we didn’t want him to drive, especially to his strong hand. We wanted to keep it tight, and when you’ve got certain guys in the game that’s not used to being in for a long period of time, they kind of forget that and then we were kind of opening it up and he was just getting there. We didn’t have a shot blocker in the game at that time, but he’s a good basketball player.”
On a short rotation:
“When you play a team like this, where (Ben) Gold is not your typical five man, he’s a pick-and-pop. It’s nothing that these guys didn’t do, it’s just the matchup wasn’t great for them. You put these guys in the game with Gold and they can’t switch or they can’t do something we do, and then he’s popping for a three, now he’s hitting four or five threes and the game is over. So it was kind of more matchup, but also, they played better. It’s that simple. But tonight was more matchup, I would say 80 percent matchup, 20 just gotta play better.”
On Godswill Erheriene and Jahseem Felton:
“I want Jahseem to be more…he gotta defend. He’s a good player, he’s a good young player. I think he’s got a chance to be really good in this league if he sticks around, but he’s gotta defend because he’s not the quickest. So he’s gotta learn how to use angles, and that’s kind of what we’re trying to do with him. And Godswill, I’m okay with him. He’s a freshman, kind of got thrown in the fire, didn’t know what to expect too much coming from him, but he’s battling and he’s trying. And that’s all I ask.”
On playing with consistency:
“We just gotta play. Like I told our guys, no matter what the score is or what our record is, we just gotta play hard. When you play hard, good things happen. Just play hard, just be consistent, and we gotta find other guys to score the basketball other than Isaiah, especially if Chaunce and Dylan aren’t gonna be here for a minute.”
On Jenkins’ and Addae-Wusu’s returns:
“I don’t know. That’s why I say a minute. It could be Saturday, it could be next week, I don’t know. And like I said, Dylan hasn’t done anything—nothing—so I can’t see him, just from a…last time he played was the Providence game, so we’re going on 10-11 days not doing anything. Not shooting, not doing anything, just kind of getting treatment. Just from that standpoint, I’m never gonna put a kid out there to hurt themselves more unless they have four or five days in practice to get their timing back, stuff like that. So when I say a minute, it could be next game—which I doubt—or maybe the game after that or maybe the game after that. I don’t know.”
On Isaiah Coleman:
“I told Gary and Dave on the radio, I thought just from an offensive standpoint, I thought it was good because the last two games—Butler and St. John’s—I thought he struggled the way they played him. It was good to see him do that, but at the same time, I’m looking at Zay as a better player. He’s getting better, but he’s gotta do other things as well, so him rebounding the basketball again is good. Now we gotta get him playmaking, right? When you start doing that, the teams can’t concentrate on you as much. But he’s scoring the basketball, which is good, but we still lost so I don’t look at that as a great thing.”
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