Michigan State Spartans Basketball F Coen Carr 2-10-25

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00:00How's the, I guess, when you guys are talking about wanting to get Tom the record.

00:04Is that still something that goes through the locker room?

00:06Cuz he's down plays it and all that, but

00:07how do you know you tied it going into tomorrow night against some of the other

00:10teams to get it?

00:12Yeah, for sure, I mean, he's gonna downplay it regardless.

00:14That's kind of the guy he is.

00:16So we kind of have made a little pact over there.

00:21So it means something to us.

00:22It means a lot to us and to the coaches.

00:24So we just try to, we definitely are thinking about it, but

00:27we still want to go out there and win the game, do what we need to do.

00:30So, yeah, we definitely think about it, though.

00:33Cole, you showed a lot of emotion for your roommate.

00:35You picked him up off the ground to celebrate.

00:37I know he's your teammate, but talk about your relationship with Jason,

00:40seeing him have a great night the other night with that man.

00:43I mean, you can kind of see what he's done in the summer,

00:45what he's done so far this year.

00:47You had that big game like that, and especially at the time that he had it,

00:52we was down, we was down.

00:53Everybody, I feel like a lot of people thought we was gonna come back and

00:56win that game.

00:56But yeah, just from the head of that game, it was a real big moment for me.

01:00He's my roommate, so I see him every day.

01:04I see the work he put in.

01:05I see what he's been doing.

01:06So that was a great moment for sure.

01:08I think we'll keep going.

01:09Strength in numbers has been the guys' thing all year.

01:11You guys are, your numbers are a little down on Saturday, and

01:13you guys still find a way to come back.

01:15What are sort of the takeaways from that game when you're,

01:18that 10-man rotation is different a little bit?

01:20Well, just the fight we had, to be down two players.

01:24When you're not playing, and two players are not playing,

01:27like booking fears, it's kind of, your team takes a big hit.

01:31So we just, the fact that we were able to bear down,

01:34especially with that bad first half, bear down and be able to come back and

01:37get a win, it showed a lot.

01:40It showed what this team can do, especially being down those players, so

01:44yeah.

01:45Colin, I'm curious, when we hear a lot of photo of them,

01:49you and I talking about Bob Knight, there's a lot of reverence,

01:52a lot of respect behind it.

01:53Do you feel like Tom has that with folks in our age bracket,

01:57that sort of legend, that sort of respect?

01:59Yeah, for sure, I definitely think so.

02:01I feel like you can ask most people in the country, and

02:05they're gonna know who Tom is over there.

02:06So yeah, I definitely feel like he definitely gets that same respect around

02:10the country and around the world, for sure.

02:15This final stretch here, the back half of the schedule,

02:19I guess, how you guys focused on this?

02:21And when you got back from LA,

02:23what were the conversations like about that trip and moving forward?

02:29Yeah, well, kind of the biggest thing for us was turnovers.

02:33We gotta take care of the ball, we didn't do a good job of that.

02:36When you, I feel like, especially against UCLA,

02:39we felt like we played good defense.

02:40We held them a lot under average at home, but we got 16 turnovers.

02:45It's not really too many games you're gonna win doing that.

02:47So that was a big thing.

02:49And just to take it one game at a time, we know this is the hardest.

02:53We feel like, we definitely know it's the hardest part of our schedule.

02:55So we just gotta take it one game at a time and just do whatever it takes to win.

03:00It's that time to, well, every game matters.

03:04We got eight games left, so every one matters.

03:07Okay, you were born in 2004, so

03:09did you know who Bob Knight was, something like that?

03:13Yeah, yeah, yeah, my dad told me stuff about him and I throwing chairs.

03:19Doing stuff like that, everybody kind of know that.

03:22So yeah, I kind of knew, I knew a little bit.

03:25My family definitely, dad especially, definitely told me a lot of it before,

03:29so yeah.

03:34Cole, we know it's season time, you're locked into your team.

03:37What's been your little getaway that you have, even during the season,

03:40when you have a few moments for yourself?

03:42What do you try to like to do to kind of reach back?

03:46Well, me and Jace have a little Lego collection going.

03:49So we've been doing that, building that.

03:51We got a good look.

03:53Is it a city, what is it actually?

03:56No, it's like we got, make characters.

03:59I made a Star Wars Millennium Falcon, I made that.

04:03A couple Avengers, got the Thanos gauntlet, Jace made that.

04:09Jace made a car, a big car, whatever.

04:11So yeah, we kind of do that.

04:13Or we just kind of the team, we've been bowling, we've been go-karting,

04:19we've been a few different things.

04:20So we just try to hang out as we can.

04:21We might watch a basketball game together, watch a Big Ten game,

04:24watch Super Bowl the other day, I mean yesterday.

04:26So just kind of do things like that, keep the morale up,

04:28keep our chemistry up for sure.

04:30Awesome, awesome, thank you.

04:31Down low, Jack.

04:33When you say you know what tomorrow means for a coach and for the team,

04:37what does it mean to you to know your coach has been in the same place 42 years,

04:42twice as long as you've been alive, and in 30 years has never had a losing season?

04:46Man, stuff like that is the reason why you come here, especially for me.

04:50I feel like college basketball is kind of crazy, especially with the coaches.

04:55You might have three different coaches in four years, so you never know.

04:59So just him having the stability, knowing he's gonna be here,

05:02he's gonna be here forever.

05:03So just knowing that, that definitely played a big part in why I came here.

05:06So yeah, I just feel like to have a coach like that is special.

05:10Second row, Brooksie.

05:11Cole, what do you, I'm not satisfied, might not be the wrong word,

05:14because it sort of indicates like it's done.

05:16But what do you like about how you've grown in the season,

05:18from game one to where we are right now so far?

05:21I mean, I like it.

05:22I feel like I've been kind of trying to improve every game,

05:26every practice, just trying to get better.

05:27I feel like I worked on my shot, my free throws.

05:29I feel like that's been a big change in my game from the line.

05:33I feel like I'm shooting way more confident, way better from the line.

05:36So just trying to keep improving my, the little things,

05:40knowing that I'm never, trying to never be satisfied,

05:42knowing that there's always things to improve on throughout the season.

05:45Second row, Con.

05:47That burst you guys had in the first half where you took the lead early,

05:51that happened when Carson Cooper came in.

05:52I'm curious, the calming effect that he can bring off the bench.

05:56What do you see there?

05:57Yeah, Coop definitely brings a lot, especially on the defensive side.

06:01We feel like maybe if a big is kind of getting what he want down there or

06:07getting us a challenge, we bring him in.

06:09I feel like he locks him down.

06:10So he's definitely a great rebounder and a great defender for us.

06:13So that's definitely, he brings a lot in that aspect of the game for sure.

06:17One last one.

06:18Were you able to learn anything from the 2000 National Championship team this

06:21past weekend?

06:22Did you have a chance to talk to any of them as well?

06:23Yeah, yeah, we kind of, they always come back.

06:26So we kind of always, we always, we've been talking on the team,

06:30definitely always said stuff to us.

06:32Try to, just try to let us know that it's not gonna be easy.

06:35That's gonna be hard.

06:36It's a gauntlet for real.

06:38So just, he kind of try to keep us on that to never be satisfied,

06:42never get comfortable.

06:43So always, always want more and always work for sure.

06:45Mm-hm.

06:47Anything else, guys?

06:48Thanks, Coop.

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