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
close few time tired
I'm tired of being close this year. It's time we got a few more things done.
happy league looking progress work
I'm happy that the league is looking better and better. We're making progress as a conference, and making progress as a team, but we're still a work in progress and we've got a lot of work to do.
area foot fresh gonna good taking
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.
bad brown coming early forced goes good news
If Shannon Brown goes out early (for the NBA), and with (senior) Maurice Ager not coming back, because of need Isaiah could be forced to play earlier. That's good news and bad news.
beating good helped indiana ten themselves week win
Iowa's good enough to win the Big Ten title. They've helped themselves this week by beating Indiana (Saturday) and us.
few late motivating playing position quite season sure ten
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.
dual indiana teams threat
Not many teams have the dual threat that Indiana has. Ironically, I think at times we could be one of the teams that does.
appreciate assistant blame breaking deserve fights-and-fighting ncaa sure wants
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.
basketball build coast establish growing hurt moving ourselves question sites spot watching
After watching (Atlantic Coast Conference) basketball growing up, when they started moving that thing to different sites I thought it hurt more than helped. So that's the only question I would have. Do we need to establish ourselves in a spot and really build on that?
brain brains
That's enough for me to get brain cramps.
guys improvement sign
Their guys have made significant improvement. That's a sign that they are being well coached.
either people picked played road sure toughest win
I'm not sure how many people would have picked us to win either road game. We played at the two toughest road places.
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.
lacking saying sure
I'm going to say what I've been saying all year, yes, we are lacking a leader. Our turnovers, 16-12 isn't ridiculous, but I'm sure they scored on a lot of them.