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By Colin Rajala

Trove: With The Hall SHU losing three prominent pieces to the portal in recent years in Tyrese Samuel, Kadary Richmond and Dre Davis, what do you think Seton Hall needs to do to try and retain top players as well as bring in top talents?

Rothstein: I think the highlight is the incredible opportunity to play in the Big East, a basketball centric conference where you're playing in the biggest media market in America in the New York metropolitan area. Also, we're seeing more and more players develop, players get better when they go to Seton Hall, so it’s demonstrating that to prospective players.

Congrats to Collin

Colin will either have a child today or his wife will be induced tomorrow. Could not happen to a better young fellow. All prayers for a healthy baby.

Because of the child Colin will be off the board until the season begins. Zack will take his place and handle the work load.

Once the season begins Zack will no longer be writing for us. The workload has overwhelmed him and he wants to concentrate on others things. Zack will be missed. Between he and Colin I had a fabulous 1-2 punch. Two great guys down to one.

Before the season begins I should have a replacement. If not I'll do more myself.

Trove tidbit


By Colin Rajala


Trove: With so many new faces, how important is the summer for a team like this to get acclimated and gel before the bright lights and pressure situations?

Rothstein: Its incredibly important. The one thing that's going to be a common denominator with the new guys on the team is they're going to have to defend at a really, really high level to play for Shaheen. I’m sure that is something that is going to be drilled in every practice and every workout. With that said, this team, I think, has significantly more holes to fill because it's such a brand new team. I think Dylan Addae-Wusu is going to be an extremely critical piece for this team, because he has history in the system and playing in the Big East. There's not a lot of player retention, so I'm looking at Addae-Wusu and Isaiah Coleman as players who need to be kind of the pillars or the foundation of this team.



Trove: Who on the current roster might be flying a little under the radar presently?

Rothstein: A guy that we're not talking about yet is Garwey Dual, who came in last year as a top 50 recruit. I mean he could be a wild card.

Jon Rothstein Talks SHU

By Colin Rajala

Trove: After Seton Hall won the NIT Championship you tweeted ‘The Pirates belonged in the NCAA Tournament’ what were your thoughts on the historic victory as well as the circumstances behind their snub from the Big Dance?

Rothstein: I think Shaheen Holloway taught his players a great lesson in life - you can't control what happens to you, but you can control how you respond. It was a major injustice that Seton Hall was left out of the NCAA tournament, there's no denying that, but watching that team play and seeing that the disappointment of not being in the NCAA Tournament did not really affect that program's approach to the NIT is a credit to the head coach. You know Seton Hall’s run in the NIT further reiterated to me that the Pirates should have been in the NCAA tournament and watching them take advantage of their opportunity in the NIT was truly a remarkable story and it just reiterates the culture of the program.
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