Tom Izzo Quotes

Normally the guys who are successful as freshmen are playing on average teams. The proof's in the pudding the last six, seven years. The problem in athletics is we tend to take that one exception Anthony and make it the norm. I think everybody's got to be careful.

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The turnovers were made at ridiculous times. And the number ... Give them credit. They (Iowa) hung in there. It was an ugly game.

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I think Al is getting better and better (in the point area). He's starting to rebound better and better at times and if he continues to do that, I think it will help us.

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This is just as much a must-win for them. They've got to be hungry. They've never been in this position in quite a few years now, this late in the season playing for a Big Ten championship. I'm sure that's going to be motivating for them.

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I'm ready to make a run.

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To do it in front of a lot of his home and family, that's pretty exciting and impressive. I was happy for him. I thought he made a couple of big key plays in clutch times.

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I thought about bringing out the accordion and giving them the Lawrence Welk special. At times with this group, I didn't know what to do with them.

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Do I feel as confident as last year Last year, I really was confident. I'd say it like this. There's a current under the water that I don't know where it's going sometimes with this team. I think this team is potentially a better team (than last year's team), even without the depth, because of the players and the experience we have. Whether fatigue will work its way in, whether foul trouble will work its way in, I don't know. But I like the chances for us to play for a while.

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It was like Santa's elves working on Christmas day.

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Collectively, we did a better job today.

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The best news for me is we are playing the best defensive basketball we've played. I'm very optimistic because I do like what this team has to offer. ... (But) I think we're a mixed bag of nuts right now, to be honest with you.

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Sometimes, these jobs deal with emotion. I just wanted to make sure he didn't do that.

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Matt Painter did a hell of a job. I think we can play a lot better, yet in clutch times, each of our guys came through. We've still got to play a lot better if we're going to beat Illinois.

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The NCAA wants you to make sure nobody's fighting, and then they don't want you breaking it up. My assistant doesn't deserve any of the blame for that I do. I didn't appreciate the double-technical because I didn't think that was deserved.

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We've gotten such a good system down, my managers can get a lot of stuff done. It was unbelievable around here (Sunday) night. If you open the door in that room it was Santa's elves working on Christmas Day. They were going at it. There were sparks coming out of that room. They all take some ownership.

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I think that will be one of the keys to the season, will we survive if we lose two games, three games, maybe even five ... The problem nowadays with the Internet and talk radio -- all of a sudden everyone's getting down on you, and your confidence can go down.

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I thought Maurice Ager might have had his best all-around game. He was unbelievable in the huddles, he was trying to get other guys shots, he made some passes, he made some shots, and his defense was the best it's been.

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I think I got kind of a worn-out team right now. I can come up with a lot of different reasons, excuses, but we were just flat-out beat. And I did not think we played with the energy we needed to play. We still hung in there, and then we had the knockout punch of that three-minute span, and Illinois deserves a lot of credit for that.

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Illinois is not going to be worried because they beat us two times or three times. They're not going to have a letdown. They've got a great team.

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I was very disappointed in our execution and some of our guard play. Maybe we were a little fatigued. We were short on a lot of shots.

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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.

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This is a fragile time for a team.

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There's disappointment, not panic, in our office.

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He is a good kid.

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If there's one area I'm probably not very good at it, it's taking the foot off the throttle. I'm gonna do that a little bit. We just have to get them fresh again.

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