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Can Izzo just admit that Michigan was the better team?
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00:00Three o'clock. Good to have you with us. We will continue to monitor free agency. Lions dip their toe
00:06in the water. But we want to bring up Michigan to Michigan State. It is championship week. It is kind
00:12of the couple weeks where college hoops actually matters.
00:15Let's just say it, Mike. You actually give a damn for the next month. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Now I'm back.
00:21Yeah, buddy. Now it makes sense. I saved you a seat. We got the popcorn ready. Watched a little Winthrop
00:26and High Point yesterday. We're ready to rock. Horizon tonight. Yes. Now, listen, I want to play some audio for
00:33you. Audio that upsets me. Audio that I just I don't understand. First of all, let's let me back up
00:40the truck.
00:41Okay. I said this to you when they played the first time. I said it to the audience. I'll say
00:45it again. Michigan State could play Michigan 10 times. We'd lose nine of them. We are not as good as
00:51they are. They are simply better than us. It makes it very easy to accept. Now, it doesn't mean you're
00:57happy about it. It's just they're better. And the Axel's the single best player on the floor. Now, two, here's
01:05my beef.
01:06What I don't want to hear is Tom Izzo complaining and carping and prying.
01:15He sat down. You know why the little bro chant happened, Tom? You lost twice. And they hung a banner.
01:22In essence, wait for it. You are a little bro. Until you're not. Right. The fans get to chant that.
01:31Here's how Tom Izzo started the postgame. And it just I don't need this.
01:35And let me just say this. There was not a question asked. No. He sat. I just want to set
01:40the table for the people. He comes in the room. He sits down. He takes off his glasses. And then
01:46he without one question being asked. This is what he said.
02:16Okay. Look, I'll leave it to you.
02:18Because obviously you're more invested than I am. For me.
02:21Now, you're back on this. You're back.
02:23But you can't do that. No.
02:25That reeks. That reeks. I don't like it. It stinks. Don't do that. Yeah. They chanted a little bro. They
02:32should.
02:32What did you expect in Chrysler? And here's. Let me put this like this. Mike, I've been to a lot
02:38of Michigan, Michigan State games at Chrysler.
02:40Go ahead. That may have been the best Chrysler crowd I've ever seen.
02:47Because normally it's a large percentage of Spartan fans. You see a lot of green in there.
02:52It was nothing but yellow T-shirts all around. They had a maze out. It was a smattering of green.
02:58The fans were loud. The fans were into that. The fans knew they were going to drop a banner at
03:03the end of the night.
03:04And therefore they get to chant whatever they want. And that's just it. Tom, what did you expect them to
03:09say in Ann Arbor?
03:11What were they going to say? Yeah. The second that the chant is, the chant started, game was over.
03:17They were doing the hack-a-shack trying to just extend the game and steal the ball.
03:22But it was over. And you knew it was over. And it was just like, OK, you got me.
03:27Tip your hat to them and move on. Yeah.
03:29But he took that little brother thing personal. It was like, well, then try winning the game.
03:35Where did that come from? Like, it's not the first time you've heard it.
03:38Like, why were you so upset yesterday when you heard that?
03:42Because it was just weird when he sat down. It was like, huh, wow.
03:47Nobody asked you about that.
03:49I just, I don't need it. Just accept the loss with some grace.
03:53They're better than you are. Hey, Tom, here's an idea.
03:55Pay for players. Like, good ones. Not ones from Samford.
04:00Or a backup point guard from Miami who's now dead.
04:03Like, here's an idea. Kurt Cignetti's on the other sideline.
04:07Dusty May is the Kurt Cignetti of college hoops.
04:09He is nailing the identifications. He's well-heeled.
04:13They have money. And he's building it.
04:15And he does it two years in a row now.
04:18And this team, hey, I've got Michigan and Arizona versus everybody.
04:21No, no, no. You do. But now I heard Cookie's talking about this.
04:24Here's the thing. How hard up was he? Hold on.
04:26Now, that was a whole different thing this morning. Yes.
04:28If you go out and let's say you spend on all of these transfers to come in,
04:32well, who are you sitting down?
04:34Because your lineup that you have right now is working.
04:37The only thing you're missing is a two guard.
04:39He brought in two guys.
04:40Unfortunately, Mike, as you would like to say, they both died.
04:43One died before the season started.
04:45Other died in the middle of the season.
04:47So he made that plan.
04:49But I look at the other guys and I'm like, yeah,
04:51they may not be going to the NBA, but wow,
04:54you're looking at what Cooper and Kohler are doing, especially as of late.
04:57Enjoy your sweet 16.
04:58Because that's just what they are.
05:00But yeah, when Yaxel hit the three, I was like, okay,
05:03not only is that ball game, but going into the game, people were like,
05:07well, you know, it was basically coming down to a two-man race
05:10for Big Ten Player of the Year.
05:11And Yaxel was ahead.
05:13Well, he also doesn't kick people in the scrotum.
05:15Well, he doesn't do that.
05:16I'm sorry, but the Jeremy Fierce thing, son, what is wrong with you?
05:20He did it again yesterday.
05:22What are you, going for the Grayson Allen Award?
05:24The most sack time?
05:26What is he doing?
05:27I don't know.
05:28Mike, I think that he has done it for so many years.
05:31It's muscle memory.
05:33I don't think he realized he does it.
05:34It's like the person, Mike, it's like the person who has a,
05:37or a person who like constantly clicks a pin or chews gum loud,
05:41and they don't realize they're annoying everybody until you show them,
05:44no, this is what you sound like.
05:46Jeremy, you can't do that because there is no backup point guard.
05:51If you get thrown out of the game, that's it.
05:55He's looking at Wojcic, and you're looking at an early-round exit.
05:58Look, it's no different than Beef Stew.
06:00Jeremy Fierce is going to do something stupid and end their season.
06:02He can carry him, and he can break him.
06:04And bottom line is, you do that in an NCAA tournament game,
06:07you get a great shot of getting kicked out.
06:08See, here's the thing.
06:09At least with Beef Stew, you're not depending on him for scoring.
06:12Oh, what are you, kidding me?
06:13Did you see some of the beautiful offense he was running this weekend?
06:16Stop it.
06:18Stop it.
06:19We're having a serious conversation here.
06:21He's bringing the heat.
06:23All right, so let's, I'd like to hear from people on it.
06:27And again, look, I don't feel as good about my Michigan and Arizona
06:32versus Rico's field because I think the case on injury does hurt them,
06:36but they are by far and away to me, they're the best team in the Big Ten.
06:41State could play them 10 times.
06:42I don't know that we beat them because they have that extra gear.
06:45The last time I saw a team this good out of the Big Ten was the Illinois team.
06:50That went, I think they went 15-1 or 17-1 when they had the three-point guard.
06:55Dan Williams?
06:56Yeah, they had the three-point guards on that team.
06:58So Luther had Williams and Dee Brown, and they just kind of ran through the Big Ten,
07:04and they lost the final game to Ohio State because they were undefeated as well.
07:09But yeah, I'm looking at the Michigan team, and I mean, Godot didn't do anything.
07:14Mara didn't do anything.
07:15But then, you know, Trey comes off the bench and nails a bunch of shots.
07:19That's the extra gear.
07:20It is.
07:20When he comes in the game and hits those couple of threes,
07:23he's that extra piece that they have to deploy.
07:25He didn't account for those points at all.
07:27And Yaxel is player of the year, candidate-type guy.
07:30Yaxel.
07:31He's awesome.
07:31See, Yaxel is that player that, you know what?
07:34When all else fails, get on my back.
07:36I'll carry you.
07:37Or, when all else fails, leave him alone for a wide-open corner three for no reason.
07:44Multiple times.
07:45I was about to say, I give you once, Cohen,
07:49but there's a reason why you were assigned to him.
07:54Let him drive to the basket.
07:57Two is not as good as making a three.
07:59For all the highlights Cohen Carr has, he ain't ever living that down.
08:03Oh, the slip.
08:03He got and one mixtape toured.
08:06We haven't seen something like that since Jeff Okuda's balls exploded
08:10when Kyler Murray juked him out at the 10.
08:13I mean, that was bad.
08:15Yeah.
08:15Hand down, man down.
08:16That was, oh, boy.
08:18Oh, boy.
08:19I mean, that was tough.
08:20At that point, man, you know what?
08:22Lay on the floor and act like something that just popped.
08:25I broke my knee.
08:26Help me.
08:27I need a stretcher.
08:29You know what?
08:30Go get me Dwyane Wade's wheelchair.
08:31You got to do what the soccer players do.
08:33Get the magic spray.
08:34Right.
08:35I need the wheelchair.
08:36Help me.
08:37But, yeah, Izzot, I don't need that stuff.
08:40Look, and again, this is my thing.
08:42I, he just, I only see it getting worse.
08:48It's like, Tom, there's got to be something else.
08:51You, you'd like, I don't think Tom can allow himself to be happy and nor should you be happy
08:57after losing to Michigan.
08:58But you, you just, when you start the press engagement that way, I don't care whether you
09:04feel you're justified or not.
09:06You, you sound like a baby.
09:08I think a lot of that is the fact that it is Michigan.
09:11He doesn't like them.
09:12Too bad.
09:13He doesn't like losing to them.
09:14Then beat them.
09:14So I think it was just one of those, you, you heard the anger and the frustration coming
09:18out because he got swept by Michigan.
09:21And you're right.
09:22If they play on a neutral site the third time, Michigan will still be favored.
09:27By 10.
09:27Guess what?
09:28In both games, when they were both close, Michigan made key plays to pull the game out.
09:34You didn't.
09:35They're better.
09:37Comprehensively.
09:37And it's okay to say that.
09:39Like, I know it doesn't make for great rivalry conversation.
09:41There's nothing to say.
09:43I don't do the, we didn't lose, we ran out of time crap.
09:45We're not as good as them.
09:46You know what you do?
09:47You do what Dusty May did.
09:49Dusty got beat twice and said, all right, how do I beat Michigan State?
09:52And he went into the lab and he came up with this lineup and it worked.
09:56Now, if you're Tom, what do I do to make sure I, this doesn't happen to me next year against
10:01Michigan?
10:02Because find a guy that's going to get drafted between 20 and 30 in the NBA draft and pay
10:07them double what they're worth and bring them here there.
10:09That's how it's done.
10:11That's it.
10:11You need NBA talent.
10:13State doesn't have any.
10:14I mean, you just, at a certain point, you need an NBA player to save you.
10:18Yaxel's one.
10:19I don't know who the one for state is.
10:22The one, dad, one that I thought had an awful game.
10:25Okay.
10:26David, your thoughts.
10:27I mean, you watched it.
10:29And again, I'm not, I'm not railroading, uh, is so, but like, I just hated the audio.
10:34I don't need any of that.
10:36Yeah.
10:36You, you are going to take a backseat to Michigan.
10:38You lost twice.
10:39They're hanging a banner.
10:41Don't do that.
10:42Well, real quick, David, before it was like, if you're Tom, you just cut that out of your
10:48speech and the rest, when you give Michigan credit and they're 29 and two and blah, blah,
10:52blah, blah, blah, blah, but, but it was that.
10:54And it was like, well, what did you expect them to say?
10:57Well, that's why I was a bit surprised to hear everything he said after that game.
11:01And he's talking about the free throw and all this stuff, but it was, it was even until
11:05they started fouling Michigan at the end of the game.
11:07I was confused by it.
11:09They shot free throws.
11:09Cause you kept fouling their players in the double bonus.
11:14I don't want that.
11:15That was a head scratcher too.
11:16Like don't follow.
11:18And they wouldn't shoot free.
11:19And it wasn't the first time he's heard a little brother.
11:22So it was like, ah, here's an idea.
11:24You go on to, you get beat both times, pretty soundly.
11:28And they're the undisputed big 10 champions.
11:30Yeah.
11:31You know what?
11:31You got to eat it.
11:32You just got to take the medicine.
11:34And don't do that stuff.
11:35Cause it just fuels the whole cry baby routine.
11:37And I don't, I, it's just, you're supposed to be better than that.
11:40Don't do that crap.
11:41Oh, but he doesn't like dusty.
11:43I don't care.
11:44Like, come on, just get after it.
11:47Be better.
11:48That's it.
11:49Go ahead.
11:50David.
11:50I'll tell you what, let's be timely.
11:52Let me try to be professional about you.
11:55Well, David's been very angry and I want to make sure we keep him.
11:59He's got a new side hustle.
12:00He's pretty happy.
12:01Oh, his new website.
12:02Yeah.
12:03Yeah.
12:03I'm sure the church is going to be thrilled about that.
12:05Two, four, eight, five, three, nine, 97, 97.
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