Tom Izzo
Tom Izzo
Thomas Michael Izzois an American college basketball coach. Since 1995, he has been the head coach for the Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team, presiding over a prolonged period of success. On April 4, 2016, Izzo was elected to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth30 January 1955
CityIron Mountain, MI
focused incredible meeting national potential troops year
It has been an incredible year for me, ... When I got back, I had a meeting and told my team, 'If you can be as disciplined and focused as our troops over there, we could be a potential national champion.'
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If this place isn't Duke and North Carolina with the number of good players in the state, it's the coaches' fault.
ecstatic extremely
I can't say that I was extremely ecstatic about our play.
attraction chicago incredible job main maybe people
I think a lot of people like the Chicago thing because it's maybe more of a destination. But Indianapolis did an incredible job of making us feel like we were the main attraction in town.
incredible
I think it was one of the most incredible performances I've seen.
five guys helped inside post second shots simplified took
I think the first five shots we took were 3s, but our inside guys weren't doing the things (we needed). In the second half, we simplified it, (we asked) the guys in the post to be passers and pickers, and that probably helped us some.
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They're all guys who made significant improvements, and that means they're getting well-coached. I take my hat off to Matt. He was put in a tough situation, losing all those guys early, and that team has continued to improve, and that says it all.
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He was probably rated higher than some guys we signed in basketball.
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He might be only the second kid (after Jason Richardson) I would advise to do that, just because, that way, there'd be no questions unanswered.
seven
That was big to have it be seven when we thought we'd be down four.
ended privately publicly satisfied
I'm not satisfied with where we ended up this year. I'm going to publicly say I'm going to do something about it, I'm going to privately say I'm going to do something about it, and I'm going to do something about it.
brown won
Hey, this was a Dee Brown night. And he won the Heisman.
atmosphere hope incredible
It should be an incredible atmosphere for what we hope is an incredible game.
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It's great to have our league being talked about and see that we're making some strides. It's an exciting time, yet it's a tough time because so many good teams are coming up. You can get on a heck of a run in a negative way pretty quick if you lose a few games.