This Michigan State team is not the most talented, but they are superiorly coached and play unreal team defense.
Tom Izzo is the man!
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Tom Izzo is the best coach in America. Five Final Fours in 11 years, and several of those he had lesser talent than a lot of folks.
And he has 4 final fours in 11 years?
Makes you wonder about a certain coach who has been around about 10 years and has NO Sweet 16 appearance.
Makes you wonder about a certain coach who has been around about 10 years and has NO Sweet 16 appearance.
what an astute observation. Tom Izzo is the best coach in America. I don't get why you feel the need to compare him to Stans. Stans is a good coach and has accomplished a lot, but he isn't Tom Izzo. Nobody is. I don't get your fascination with hating Stansbury, and well, hating basically everything. But whatever. Must suck to be so bitter.
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you and Desoto (maybe it was Hanmu, but thought it was Desoto) were telling me before the NCAA Tourney that Izzo said on ESPN radio its "all about players to advance in the Tourney, not the coaches"....
Izzo just has top 4 talent year in and year out- that obvious as you watch them. Not much coaching going on...
He has good talent and it helped that U Conn either can't shoot the three or didn't try ,plus Walker played like a frosh today and U Conn could have controlled the game had they made free throws but give the Spartans credit, they boarded well and made U Conn play like they wanted them to play. Villanova may come back but it looks like the Big East for all their high seeds is going to be left out. Intersting stat also that of the four teams in the Final Four there were none with very young teams. The SEC should be much better next year purely based on experience.
is a helluva coach...its just Meo and Desoto were telling me he said its about players in the tourney, not coaching
(hint, hint- Izzo saying it was about players fit the Stansbury-sheep side of things saying coaching isnt the reason teams advance- its about players...but now suddenly Izzo pulls off a couple of big upsets, and its about coaching...they need to take a stance and stay with it)</p>
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(hint, hint- Izzo saying it was about players fit the Stansbury-sheep side of things saying coaching isnt the reason teams advance- its about players...but now suddenly Izzo pulls off a couple of big upsets, and its about coaching...they need to take a stance and stay with it)</p>
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First, I never made a big deal of that quote. It's simply a guy deflecting praise onto his players. Anyone with sense knows that it takes talent and coaching to get to a Final Four. Izzo has never been one of these guys to seek attention like a Bob Knight, so it is no surprise he would say something like that. Second, I knew you would jump on here and make this into another "I hate Stansbury" thread. Stans is a good coach. Izzo is the best in America. There is no comparison, so stop trying to troll. Just because I happen to like Stansbury and support him and think he's doing a great job doesn't mean I think he's the best coach in the country. News flash: not everything is black and white.
any worse or better. If MSU decided to replace Stansbury to find an Izzo type of coach, it would be like trying to find a needle in a haystack.
Only you jackasses would take a thread about Tom Izzo and turn it into a Stansbury bashing thread. Any bum on the street will tell you Izzo is better than Stansbury and just about every other coach in America. There are very few coaches in the country who could legitimately be mentioned in the same class with him, but you dickwads want to bring up our coach just so you can start another 3 page circle jerk with you, KB34, fishwater, and the others that think Stansbury sucks. Izzo > Stansbury, I bow to your superior knowledge. Now let's get this thread back to its orginal purpose and talk about how great of a coach Izzo is, and how he gets overlooked a lot of times, in my opinion, when discussing the greatest coaches in the country.