On if the abrupt conclusion to last season due to COVID-19 was one of the reasons to return to Tennessee and finish what the team started:
“Yes, there is still stuff we can get done. There’s unfinished business. Coming back will allow me and allow us to keep it going. Even if the team will be different, I think we have the team this year to go far. That’s the only goal.”
On what about Tennessee made him want to come back to spend the next several months of his basketball career here:
“The different part was really on the top of my head. Even if I couldn’t make it this year, I know how to develop my game. I could have done it in the NBA here, but knowing there is a lot of uncertainty about this season, going pro. I knew coming back here, we’re going to have a season. We’re going to have some coaches to be here. Our facilities will be open to develop my game, anyways. For me, that was the best option.”
On his experience of having COVID-19:
“I had to quarantine for 14 days. It didn’t really affect me. It was just like a normal flu. I had to quarantine myself with my wife in my apartment. That was it. We stayed home. We took care of our business. I feel really safe here because our staff did a good job of handling it and we got through it.”