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
drew expect far fatigue hard
I think it was more fatigue as far as Drew is concerned. It's hard to expect more (from him).
anybody becomes carries far guys helps keeping mental mentally michigan state strain time
When you play that many (ranked teams) in a row, it becomes a mental strain as far as keeping your guys up. I think it helps that it's the Michigan game. I think our guys will be up for that. If there was going to be a time when they mentally let down a little bit, I don't see it being this week. Emotionally, it's Michigan-Michigan State and that carries more than anybody we play, let's be honest.
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As far as my confidence in the team, as crazy as it sounds, I still think we have a chance to win our last two games. If we do that, I think we go into the Big Ten Tournament on a high and have every bit a chance to win as anybody else.
awesome far guy handled himself love
I love the way Maurice handled himself as far as encouraging guys; he was awesome in the huddles. He's probably the most even-keel guy on our team.
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.
decent job missing
I thought we did a decent job on them. We just didn't score. It wasn't the offense, it was the missing some shots.
couple slip won
I thought we had it won a couple of times and let it slip away.
checked loose
I thought they were physical. I thought they checked us. I thought they got to loose balls.
time touched
I think we were too aggressive. Every time we touched a guy, there was a foul.
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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.
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I think it was the biggest disappointment of all the NCAA games we played in. We didn't have the season we wanted to have. We didn't perform to what I think our capabilities were. I think this is one of the few times in my career here as a head coach that we didn't get done what I think we were capable of getting done, culminating with the lack of a very good performance on that last night.
incredible
I think it was one of the most incredible performances I've seen.
false games
I think it's really important, for two reasons. No. 1, for the games themselves, and No. 2, so that we don't get a false sense of where we are.
gave glad greatest including seemed troops
It had to go through a lot of channels, including the Pentagon, and there were times it seemed like it wasn't going to happen. But I'm glad it did because it was one of the greatest experiences of my life. The troops thanked us for being there, but they gave us more than we gave them.