Seton Hall Basketball Coach Press Conference: Player Injury & Game Plan

Some injury questions, what is Chauncey's injury and what's his status

Yeah, I don't know too much. I don't know. I think it's, I don't know if it's his hamstring or his ankle

I'll find out once I go back in a locker room and talk to Tony. I haven't talked to him yet

And what is Dune's status and what is his timeline for returning? How much was he missed today

I don't know. I'm not sure anybody can help us today, to tell you the truth. Obviously, Dune was missed because he's one of our captains and one of our leaders

and obviously somebody that could play defense. His timetable, I don't know

I won't say it day by day. It's kind of when the doctor and Tom tell me that he can play

Coach, what was the game plan going into tonight? I don't really know what that question is

What was the game plan to try to win a game? Try to go in, try to keep them out of transition

box out, make sure Lewis don't get a bunch of offensive rebounds

try to keep the game close and not try to get a track with them

Shao, what did you make of how the crowd reacted to Qadari and

what do you think of Qadari's three years here and what he contributed to

I don't know I don't know He's with me for two years

he was good for me. He was good for me. I thought he grew

playing for me and under me. Excuse me, just playing for me

I thought he had an unbelievable year last year. And for us

I thought he carried us, him and Alan and Dre. You know

he's part of the business right now, right? That we had, you know, guys

know two things, but I can't tell the crowd how to react to things, so

I'm not, that's what they did. So, Rick Pitino said, just in his press conference

just now that Seymour's not on a level playing field financially. What do you want to say about how hard this group's been in this era with

roster turnover for you and the program I just playing the hand on with them I can get into that I not that not I just playing the hand I was dealt Jerry

I was, this is the kind of hand I was dealt, I'm playing it

I'm not gonna complain, I'm not gonna argue, I'm still gonna coach and

keep coaching and keep trying to fight and fight and get better

But I'm playing the hand I was dealt. What we have is what we have. That's what I got to deal with

I deal with it and try to make the best of it. What can you or the players do differently with this hand that you have

so you don't lose as much? Yeah, we've got to play with some heart. We've got to play with some fight

I thought we got pumped tonight, 100% pumped. I thought we got pumped in the first half of Oklahoma State

These two games are kind of compared to each other. I thought Oklahoma State, we got pumped in the first half

and I thought we came out in the second half with some fight. we got pumped

And that's like many amongst boys. We got pumped. We got embarrassed

It's embarrassing. I'm embarrassed. I feel awful for the program. I feel awful for

everything that took place tonight. But this is big boy basketball and we got another big

game on Tuesday. So I got to get my head ready for that

Shane, kind of building off that point, Rick Pitino said that if the money was closer, the money was the same

Qadari would still be playing for you. I don't want to disrespect your question, but I can't

Who knows? I don't know the answer. Certain people can talk about money and talk about things

and certain people can't. I think that Coach is a Hall of Fame coach

He's been around. He did some things. He can make those type of statements

I make statements like that, they might say who is he to make those statements or

things like that. So I just kind of stay with him, I stay with him that type of stuff

He made those statements, he might know something, I don't know. Maybe Qadari told him that I don know Shane what does this team need to do better to get off to better starts Something that I been trying to figure out for a minute now

I don't know, I'm trying everything. And for me it sucks cuz I don't like different lineups

I don't like that. Ain't my thing. Like I like to stick with the group and kind of let them go through it

But this year we're going through a bunch of different lineups and it sucks to coach that way, I'll be honest with you

But something I gotta do is try to keep us in games and get us to start games on better

So with the injuries and the depth issues you now have at guard, I have to ask

what situation is with Zion Harmon? Are we going to see him back in school

Where's that at? I think you already know the answer, but I guess you're going to do what they said

You could ask me a lot of different ways at different times. That's fine, Jerry

He's no longer with the program. But you knew that, right? It's my job to ask that

I'm good with that. I'm good with you asking that. But you knew that though, right? Yes

I heard that, but I wanted you to confirm it. Yes, he's no longer with the program. So what we got is what we got right now

Yeah, he's no longer with the program, Jerry. So that's the answer to it

He's no longer with us right now. Appreciate that, sir. Yes, sir. Looking forward to Marquette on Tuesday

How does the team bounce back from this to going through a big time

I told them I said I want them to have this feeling that we all have

They're going to fill it tonight. They're going to fill it tomorrow. They're going to fill it Monday. I don't know what today is

They're going to fill it tomorrow. They're going to fill it Monday. So I know we don't have this feeling again

But we got to embarrass at home. We got to outplay everything. thing. And it's a terrible feeling. But we got a bounce back with number 17 in the country

coming out on Tuesday. We can't have another repeat play date like this. Fellas, I don't

have a lot to say, man. I'm super embarrassed right now. And a lot of my mind. But I'll

see it in answer as many questions y want So if I answer questions that not to the fullest because I not disrespecting you guys I just super out of it right now Yeah Sean Rick always supported you He called you a young superstar a few years ago Do you feel like he continuing to be supportive

Have you talked to him at all during this time? No, I haven't talked to him

I mean, we all got jobs to do. Coach is coach. Like I said, he's a Hall of Famer

He said something to me before the game and after the game that was encouraging

Can you share any of that? that's cool to each other. But, you know, yeah, we got to play better

We got to play better. We can't have this type of, this is embarrassing

I answered some of the wrong questions. I'm good with it. Anything else? Yeah. When you watch a game like tonight or other games you've had

where there's a lot of lack of finishing at the rim, do you see any patterns as to why it's happening

as far as mislayups and stuff? I'm trying to process that question

when I see a lot of mislead and misdumps what would you say

Is there a pattern as to why do you think that that's happening? I don't know

we work at it I don't know lack of focus concentration

I don't know how to answer that question. What did St. John's do against today to hold the 1-13 shooting

What kind of lessons can you learn from getting like this? Yeah, I told him. Right now, you have to tell everybody's count report

Everybody's going to come in and try. Butler did a good job of kind of face-comming, taking them away

St. John was super aggressive with them. And I told him, I said, you made a mistake by showing the weakness

by complaining to the refs. Once they've seen that, they continue to keep doing it

You know, he wasn't getting the call, so you just got to play through it. Don't complain. Just pitch your head down

Keep working hard. Try to get other points and steals and rebounds and try to get some easy ones

I thought he was pressing, you know, trying to carry us. And it just wasn't working

It just didn't happen before tonight. We good? Yeah. Thank you for your time, Coach