On why coming back to Tennessee for his senior year was the best choice for him:
“In my situation, and many other guys in the draft, it was hard to know if there was going to be an NBA G-League or not, because they did not mention the G-League at all. For guys like me, who would spend some of my rookie year in the G-League, it was hard to know where I would develop my game. They told me that I would spend a lot of time with the team practicing and stuff, but at the end of the day, we need to play basketball. We did not get any guarantee that they were going to draft me, or anything like that. So, for me that was the only way. Besides workouts, there was no way I could increase my stock. Even if I did, it was my interviews. It did not give me any guarantee that I would be drafted where I wanted.”
On if he gave any serious thought into playing this year in Europe and then returning to play in the NBA in a year:
“Yes, that was a serious second option. Obviously with the COVID-19 here—in the other countries, they have it under control with less cases. Overseas, they know they’re going to play basketball at some point and they’re going to have a season because they have the cases under control. That was a serious case to consider. Financially, it was a good thing to go play over there.”