Eric Musselman Addresses USC Trojans Basketball Future

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00:00You finally, when you play two games, and you finally catch up to the time,

00:05and then you come back and you got to play a game in 48 hours, it's hard.

00:10And due to our playing stuff, we didn't think we were gonna get in at five.

00:15But that's what happens when you travel, sometimes things like that happen, so.

00:20But we also lost two games, we lost to Minnesota at home.

00:24So it is what it is, I mean, we are what our record says.

00:29So whether you win in the middle of the year,

00:35whether you lose in the middle of the year, I mean, it is what it is.

00:38I mean, Maryland is a hard place to play.

00:42I mean, we're playing in sold out buildings.

00:44I mean, anyone that travels, the Rutgers crowd was phenomenal.

00:49The Maryland crowd was insane.

00:52So you got a lot of things that, I think we played pretty good on the road,

00:57and I don't think we played good enough at home at all.

01:00That's something that's got to change next year for sure.

01:03I mean, we have to play way, way better at home, no excuses at all.

01:07We have to play better basketball, so people want to come watch us.

01:12We got to play cleaner basketball.

01:15So I'm not oblivious to some of the things that we've got to improve on in year two.

01:21I know you're still living it right now, but back February 1st,

01:25the team was five and five in the Big Ten, now six and 11.

01:28When you look back at this month, is it the travel?

01:30Is it the lack of depth?

01:32Is it just you being in year one and having to totally turn over the roster?

01:35What do you think is the most responsible for the slide?

01:38Yeah, I mean, as I look back at, I thought Desmond's injury,

01:44when we played those two games, I thought that our team fought.

01:49I don't know if I've had.