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USC Trojans coach Eric Musselman discusses how they prepare for must-win games. Musselman talks about how they believe they have a tournament caliber team, but he says they have not payed good basketball at home.
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00:00Hey coach, even though tonight didn't go your way, you still have two must-win games against Oregon and Washington
00:05and then two huge clashes with UCLA.
00:07How do you try and regroup this locker room to salvage a tournament berth?
00:11And to follow up, do you believe this is a tournament caliber team?
00:17Yeah, we do. Not the way we played tonight, but yes, I felt like we could have and should have
00:21won the game at Ohio State.
00:24We haven't played good basketball at home, and we've got to figure out how we can play better basketball.
00:30Than what we have at home, and you know, you can't play like that offensively and defensively and give yourself
00:38a chance against a top 10 team in the country.
00:42Coach, every now and then you run into these types of games where you're just, you're off and the other
00:46team is on, and I know you were shorthanded.
00:48But with the guys that you did have available, how would you describe their effort in that second half?
00:53I mean, I think it's, you know, it's always easy to, you know, pinpoint effort.
01:01I'm not sure it was necessarily an effort thing.
01:04It was, you know, like I said, we got outplayed.
01:09We didn't have enough shot making tonight.
01:14And they're a heck of a team.
01:16And so, you know, unfortunately for us, you know, we seem to be getting teams that are healthy.
01:23I thought Boswell was phenomenal for them.
01:26He hasn't played but one game in the last month.
01:30Stojakovic hasn't played the last few games.
01:32He was awesome.
01:34You know, it's, the injury thing with us has not gone our way at all.
01:39And it seems that, you know, Oregon's coming in here.
01:42Biddle missed a month and a half.
01:44And there's no excuse.
01:46It's reality.
01:47And the two guys that had been out for them, I thought they were both phenomenal, especially Stojakovic.
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