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
game good practice yesterday
It was pretty good after the game ? swelled up a hair. We didn't practice yesterday just for that reason.
brown time
It's time for a different Brown to be the hero.
ball basket fade good guess instead job paul point shooting
I wanted to make a point to Paul that he has to take the ball to the basket instead of shooting those fade shots. I guess I haven't done a very good job of that this year, and so I reverted back to a way I know best.
ball basket fade good guess job paul point quit taking
I wanted to make a point to Paul that he has to take the ball to the basket and he's got to quit taking those fade shots. I guess I haven't done a very good job of that this year, so I reverted back to a way I know best.
nba turned
I turned down going to the NBA so I wouldn't have back-to-backs.
coming courage kids people seen took
It took courage for these kids coming off something like that. If you could have seen how people were tightening up after Saturday's game. It's scary.
affect certain coaches eventually fired hired huge minus ncaa plus rule teams
It will never even out because you never know which years certain teams are good, and that's nobody's fault, not the Big Ten, not the coaches, not anyone. But when coaches are hired and fired on it, and when eventually you're going to be seeded in the NCAA Tournament, a real huge plus or a rule huge minus can affect a lot of teams.
associated class
It's the class of the class, and that's what you want to be associated with.
It's kind of out of my hands, it's kind of out of his hands.
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.
finally practice
It's kind of nice. They don't like to practice?I do. So they finally get their way.
sad seniors won
It's going to be sad to see some seniors go that have done a lot of things for us, won a lot of games.
atmosphere hope incredible
It should be an incredible atmosphere for what we hope is an incredible game.
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.