Michigan State Spartans Basketball F Coen Carr Post-USC

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00:00Our break wasn't really able to get to it.

00:02It's something that we can control.

00:04It looks like you guys really struggled offensively against that USC draw.

00:09I guess was that, you know, supposed to be you guys, or your national playoff?

00:14I mean, yeah, yeah, I think we just kinda, I mean, we just wasn't really.

00:18We knew they were gonna rally to the ball, you know,

00:19we just was being kinda careless with the ball, you know, I feel like.

00:23So we just gotta fix those, fix the turnovers, you know,

00:26especially the unforced turnovers, you know.

00:29I feel like we tried to force a lot of things that we didn't need to, so yeah.

00:32So strength in numbers has kind of been a big thing this whole year.

00:36Talk about how that looks in a loss.

00:40Sue, I mean, you hear everybody, you know, in the locker room after the loss,

00:43you know, talking about, you know, everybody taking accountability for a loss.

00:48You know, we just have to move on, you know, get better, look at the film,

00:51fix what we need to fix, and you're ready for the next game.

00:53You know, everybody's bought in.

00:55You know, this is not a loss, okay, but this is not the end of our season.

00:58You know, we still have goals that we wanna work for and

01:02that we wanna achieve, so just gotta keep focusing on that.

01:04You were pretty vocal after the game in the locker room.

01:07You feel like a leader on this team now?

01:09Yeah, for sure, you know, we don't really have an old team, I would say.

01:14You know, we got a couple guys, you know, some seniors, but

01:18only one that's not new is Jaden, you know.

01:20So I kinda feel like I've been here a good amount of time, I've done it.

01:24So I try to use my voice, and I feel like the guys respect me enough to listen to

01:27me, so I try to do what I can for sure.

01:29And what was your message?

01:31Just bounce back, you know, we still gotta play, you know, we out here,

01:34we still gotta play against UCLA.

01:36You know, this is not the, we still have a chance to split the road trip,

01:39which I feel like is a great thing.

01:41You know, we've been on this run, won these games in a row for a reason.

01:45So, you know, we're not just gonna sit here just cuz we lost one game.

01:48We're not gonna dwell on it, we're gonna get back at it and

01:50do what we need to do to win.

01:51What has to change in the next 72 hours?

01:54I feel like, you know, we just gotta come out with more effort, you know, and

01:58if they get on the run, not to put our heads down, you know,

02:02we gotta handle adversity better.

02:04I feel like we didn't do it as good as we need to, you know,

02:06we got punched in the mouth in the beginning and we didn't respond well.

02:08So we just gotta do that.

02:10Was it effort related when they went on that long run, the 21-7?

02:13Yeah, for sure, you know, there's a lot of things everybody did that resulted in

02:17buckets, you know, there's definitely a lot of things that we could have did better

02:20effort wise, you know, boxing out, getting rebounds, and

02:23everybody crashing the glass, so yeah.

02:25When you've gone to the free throw line, so often this season,

02:27it's almost been automatic points.

02:29Today, eight missed free throws in a six-point game, what does that tell you?

02:33We gotta make free throws.

02:34Yeah, that's it, you know.

02:37What was the difference today with that?

02:39We just gotta be confident, you know, be confident in our work, you know,

02:44trust our work, and make them free throws, you know, cuz I feel like that's a big

02:47part of the game, you know, if we would have made them, we would have been in the

02:49game, we would have won, so yeah.

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