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Video: Michigan State's Tom Izzo, Tre Holoman and Xavier Booker after win over #UNC
Nov 28, 2024
Video: Michigan State's Tom Izzo, Tre Holoman and Xavier Booker after win over #UNC
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coach um great win tonight what did you
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see from your team these last three days
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in Mai well M's been good for us you
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know I really wasn't happy with some of
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our guards yesterday we challenged them
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and um let me say a couple things right
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off the bat as you know Jay Richardson
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couldn't play after the game his head
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was just bothering him and uh didn't
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pass all the protocol I think he's going
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to be okay but that was one thing and
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then you know we talked about what we
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wanted to do we there quick guards and
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we wanted to get him in and Frankie
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fitler came to me and kind of agreed
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with it and uh started try so hats off
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the Frankie
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degre and uh and hats off the tray for
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taking advantage and um and then there's
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book you know I mean we've all been
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looking that aggressive dunk couple of
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plays he just missed a couple other ones
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um that's the book we've been waiting
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for now and we're going to keep getting
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more consistent on it but uh for God to
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has gone through what he's gone through
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he deserves to feel good and be a major
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part a major part of a big
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win thanks coach any questions for the
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uh the
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players try talk about the start the
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look you guys kind of had to you coming
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out of the gate it seemed you guys
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looked pretty determined out there and
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it was a quicker start than I seen from
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you what was the mindset coming in about
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trying to get this what were you guys
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talking about and you can kind of speak
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to that a little bit uh you know uh they
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they beat us uh last year uh in the uh
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tournament so you know we just came out
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and then we try to come out uh fast
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strong uh you know because uh we we
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still had that bad uh takes in our mouth
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from from uh last year so uh you know we
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just had had had uh something to prove
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and then we just came out and you know
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started
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strong Xavier take me through that
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second half a little bit that stretch
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that things got a little for you guys at
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one point they take the lead and you're
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just a huge kind of catalyst of that get
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six points less than a minute at one
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point think me through this year Comfort
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level and you look like you wanted the
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ball and your teammates were looking for
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you yeah um I mean really I just wanted
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to affect the game in just any way uh
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obviously you guys know me as a
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three-point shooter but I know I could
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do way more than that and I wanted to
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impact the game in other ways that my
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team needed me to so grabbing offensive
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rebounds and putting it back up just
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being in the right spots playing defense
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uh posting guys up that's I mean I'm I'm
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more than just a three-point shooter and
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the guys around me the guys I practice
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with every day they know that and I know
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that so I that's kind of just the main
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goal for me is just to keep building on
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this game um but n this second half that
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that was my main goal just trying to
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impact the way impact the game in any
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way possible
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right I had the opportunity to meet your
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parents at the airport and I followed up
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with them after the game and they said
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that they're proud of you what did this
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game mean for you tonight uh uh it just
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meant meant uh a lot to me uh you know
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cuz cuz uh like I said uh you know we we
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we uh lost to them last year so uh you
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know we just came in with like Vengeance
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like uh we're we're not going to lose
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this is a must win so you know I am
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proud of my teammates and I'm proud
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proud of the coach for uh just uh you
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know get get getting that win
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so anything else for the guys all right
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thanks guys for being here you guys can
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head back with your team good job guys
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any questions for coach
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Mr the greatest
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press coach I I know you've been kind of
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focused on how you're handling ball
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pressure they extended the pressure on
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you you know uh you know towards the you
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know the the middle of the first half
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into the second half seem to disrupt and
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then they settle down what do you want
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to continue to do to build on that and
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and and trying to get you know better
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response to the ball pressure yeah you
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know like I mean Jeremy and Trey are
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pretty good with the ball but make no
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mistake we missed um Jace to because
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he's cool and Casual cool with the ball
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and doesn't get rallied by anything but
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you know I thought Jeremy did a great
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job I mean in a lot of ways and then the
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mistakes you know were were GL and he's
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got a you know he told the team that's
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not going to happen anymore so I give
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him credit uh he did make his free
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throws and that was big we didn't turn
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the ball over too bad but we had our
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moments overtime game 12 turnovers they
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only had 11 I thought our rebounding you
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know we rebound out rebounded them by
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eight or nine and that was a big factor
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and we got to the free throw line which
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we think is important we shot 77 78%
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from the line and got there and for all
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the fans back home that are mad at me
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about our three-point shooting it was in
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the I think 30s yesterday and we lost so
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thank God we got it back down into the
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20s and won
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because you know that's what it's all
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about is winning games not how pretty
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you win them not how any other way you
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win them you just got to win but I will
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say this that is a very good basketball
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team we played you know right now those
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three guards might be the best three
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guard tandem I've ever seen uh and I
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mean that uh you know we did a good job
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but I didn't think RJ was you know
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hisself in this tournament so far I mean
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uh I've seen him just light up things
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and uh
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and I love trenle he just has gotten so
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much better and heber's a good coach so
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it was uh it was a big win for our
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program I'm sure they'll learn stuff
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from it too um they're never out of a
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game as you saw you know we wared our
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players you know they've been down 21
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they've been down 19 they've been down
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18 and probably Hubert's probably saying
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why are we down but uh he'll figure that
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out that'll end up a very good
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basketball team because guard play is so
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important and they've got good guard
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play coach some of the momentum shs late
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in the second half there how difficult
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is it to win and Prevail in that
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situation considering this is your third
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game in as many
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days well I mean give them credits their
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fourth game and a couple extra days you
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know they stopped and played onol Lulu I
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did that a few years ago and I didn't
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see any of their guys cramping but we
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thought if we could keep running maybe
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we could wear them down that's that's
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tough and the three days in a row is
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tough you know but it is the same for
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them and if anything we had a little
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Advantage because they played that extra
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game now losing Jace you know one of our
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leading scorer yesterday was tough
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because we just didn't have the rotation
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at the guard spot we normally have but
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uh you know I felt like in that over
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time I in the shot tremble hit I think
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it was tremble
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right it was incredible very well
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executed play they had the hammer on one
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side fell asleep on the strong side but
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I felt like our players believed we were
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going to win I I thought we deserve to
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win the game and so when you can say
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that in a huddle for a guy who's more
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negative than positive maybe for once in
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my life that
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helped anything else for
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Coach all right coach thanks for being
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here and sa TR