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
bounce game happy means
I am happy to see him bounce back. This game (basketball) means so much to him. I don't know many players, seriously, that this game means more to than Maurice Ager.
league road win
It was a big road win because any road win in this league is a big road win.
time touched
I think we were too aggressive. Every time we touched a guy, there was a foul.
drew harder
I don't think I can be harder on Drew than Drew is on Drew.
brown time
It's time for a different Brown to be the hero.
bangs defends help rebounds weight work
But when you look at what he does, it's more football-related than basketball. He bangs in there, he rebounds well, he defends well. The work he does in the weight room, the sprints they do (in football) those things help him for what we need him for.
athletes board coached drawing good harder next players
It's back to the drawing board on defense. We have good enough athletes and good enough players to get it done. But they're going to be coached harder in the next three-and-a-half days.
couple courage guess hand hitting impressed left missed switch
It was clutch. That's kind of his play, where he can switch to his right hand or his left hand. You know he missed a couple wide-open 3's that he's been hitting in practice. But to have the courage to take it I guess is what impressed me the most.
dropped farther
I don't think anybody's pressing any charges. I don't think it's going any farther than that. I think it is a dropped issue.
four good players supposed
That's what you're supposed to do with good players that have been around for four years.
banned coaches directly found guilty maybe ourselves people punished punishment turning
There's got to be more punishment on the people directly involved. Maybe if coaches were not only punished but banned if they were found guilty of something. Maybe we need to self-police ourselves better -- I don't think there's many coaches turning each other in.
days five four hands medical pressure puts three
It's kind of out of my hands and kind of out of his hands, for the most part. That puts a lot of pressure on the doctors. ... To medical people, three or four or five days makes a big difference.
brought deserved given harder night practice sure worked
They deserved to win. I'm not sure they worked any harder (than his team) in practice, but on this given night they brought it. It was their night and they deserved it.
four situation speak stick volumes
He doesn't get to play the minutes, he doesn't sometimes even play that much in practice, and to stick that out four years in that situation I think speak volumes of the guy.