“I think the last five minutes of the first half. The kid (Malachi) Palmer started making some threes, and we weren’t contesting threes. I think they made seven in the first half, I think that was the difference in the first half and then I thought we fought hard to come back. We just couldn’t make shots, which is crazy.”
On open looks from the perimeter:
“You think? You think? We had open looks, but we gotta make them. The guys work hard on it every day shooting. Someday it’s gonna pay off for us. It’s not like they’re not trying, they’re definitely trying. We’re just not making them. I run good sets now, thanks. People said I can’t run an offense. I know you didn’t, Jerry. It’s tough. It’s frustrating because like I said, it’s not like they’re not trying or putting the effort in. They put a lot of time in shooting.”
On A.J. Staton-McCray rebounding:
“He got eight rebounds, but my two bigs and the three power forwards combined for six. They’re big, he gets 10 by himself, so that’s the difference. And they got 13 offensive rebounds.”
On how Villanova looked on film:
“They’re a good team. Different guys are playing better for them now. Early on, (Bryce) Lindsay was playing really well, now the kid (Devin) Askew is playing really well, and (Tyler) Perkins is just the glue on their team, he’s really solid. But the kid Palmer had a great night tonight, and I thought that was the difference in the game.”
On Budd Clark:
“I thought tonight, I thought dribbled a little too much. He played well, he scored for us. Somebody had to score, he was scoring for us but I thought he was dribbling a little too much. That comes with trying to make things happen because nobody else is doing anything, so that’s gonna be part of it. We just gotta get back and watch film…we can’t do much tomorrow because we get back late, we get one day to prepare for a good Creighton team. This was a big game for us, make no mistake about it. It’s a big game, big two-game stretch for us, so we gotta get back and it’s gonna sting. I want this to sting, and then tomorrow when we do our walkthrough, we gotta concentrate on Creighton.”
On Seton Hall’s second-half counterpunch:
“I don’t know, man. I know that’s a big thing about us starting off games slow. I thought we started off, then we came back and we were right in it. One of the timeouts, it was 24 or 26 to like, 21, and our hands were down and guys were hitting threes. The next thing you know, they’re up 15, and that’s the difference when you’re making shots. They make their threes, we don’t, and that’s what happened tonight. They made theirs, seven in the first half, and you’re fighting from behind.”
On Seton Hall’s rebounding issues:
“Tonight or in general? Because it’s gotta be tonight. Because normally, we outrebound people. I don’t know. It’s something we gotta watch. It could be when you miss 17 threes, it could be. But not only threes, we missed a lot of layups, too. But we did a good job in the second half of limiting their threes, so we should have had more rebounds.”
On starting lineups:
“Are you really starting that now? That’s a thing that these guys are doing. See what you started?”
“You know what? It’s just a feel for the game. It’s just a feel for how things are going. If you follow me, you know I’m not a big believer in changing things around unless it’s necessary. I just thought that I wanted to get Twin going…that’s TJ Simpkins, I wanted to get him going. He had a slow first half, so I wanted to get him going. He just never could pick it up, and then I wanted to see if we could get Najai back to the basket and get some easy layups. That didn’t work either.”
On Najai Hines:
“He’s a freshman playing in this league, and he’s learning. You’re playing against one of the better bigs in the league, and you gotta give Villanova a lot of credit. That’s a good team, man. It’s a good team, very well-coached, good players. But we gotta play better than this, though.”
On defending the three in the second half:
“An adjustment thing, for sure. We watched it at halftime, and it’s the difference in the first half. I wanted to get some easy buckets off our defense, and I thought we started off and we started doing it, but they came back scoring, then we made a late run and we just couldn’t get over the hump. I mean, we had some really good looks from three, some really good looks that I thought if we could have hit those shots, it could have been a momentum changer for us. But we just couldn’t knock them down.”
On Villanova:
“They could shoot the basketball, they’ve got tough guards. The kid Perkins, for him to be a junior, man? He’s a grown man. He plays bigger than his size. Obviously the big kid (Duke Brennan) kills you rebounding, but when you hit 10, 11 threes a game, you’re gonna be in every game. I think that’s the difference with them and a lot of teams in our league, they could shoot the ball really well.”
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