Analyzing Michigan State's Team Dynamics and Depth

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00:00Uh, I like, you have Duke one, Florida two, uh, Houston three, and Michigan state four.

00:07I give Michigan state a lot of credit for their physicality, their defense, their coach.

00:12Uh, this guy means business when it comes to, you know, sweet 16 elite eights.

00:19He's won a national championship.

00:21I guess some people would be surprised he hasn't won more.

00:24How good do you think this team is?

00:26They play tomorrow night against Ole Miss.

00:28How good is this team compared to some of the other ones that he's had over the years

00:32where he's come this close?

00:34Oh, I don't think this team is as good as 2000 or even a one.

00:39It's probably better than the Oh five final 14, uh, that, that did such a nice job to

00:45get there, but really, uh, wasn't elite.

00:48Uh, but the, the, the thing that this team has is a tremendous amount of depth and, and

00:54a number of players who are willing to sacrifice their own game, uh, minutes shots roll, uh,

01:02to make sure this team is successful.

01:04That's been the most amazing thing about it in an era when that doesn't happen very often

01:09and very easily, you know, that transfer portal is always spinning.

01:13And so the idea that you would have basically 10 guys that only a few will play exceptional

01:20minutes and the rest will just fill a role on, on a given night, depending on what works,

01:25who's hot, how the opposition wants to play them and other significant factors.

01:31I think that he's done a tremendous job with this group.

01:35It's not going to be easy for them and they're going to have to play much, much, much, much.

01:39I don't know how much time we have for how many much is they're going to have to play

01:42better than they played in the first weekend.

01:44They were really poor for a lot of the game against Bryant, uh, and they were not a whole

01:49lot better over the weekend.

01:52They have to execute better than they did in those two games.

01:55New Mexico really caused them problems.

01:58They didn't do a great job of staying in front of Donovan Dent.

02:01And if Nellie jr.

02:02Joseph hadn't gotten into foul trouble for the Lobos, I'm not sure whether or not the

02:06Spartans could have won that game.

02:08They need all their guys to play better.

02:10And okay.

02:11So Jace Richardson had a rough game, uh, that's going to happen, but you're not winning these

02:16games at this level without Jace Richardson, not only not having rough game, but he has

02:21to be exceptional.

02:23So you have a Auburn at, at five and they got a big game with Michigan tomorrow, uh,

02:29the end of the season, they lost three or four, but they look pretty good.

02:33Uh, the first weekend, uh, how do you think they're going to do against the Wolverines?

02:39Well it's an interesting matchup because there are very few teams that can go in against

02:43Michigan and say, ah, you got seven foot seven plus center and a seven foot forward.

02:48Who's a creator?

02:49Well, we don't have very many seven foot creators out there, but we can match Jani Brougham

02:53against him and we can put Dylan Cardwell inside to cope with Vlad Golden and we'll

02:58be fine.

02:59I mean, that's the, that's the prevailing theory going into the game for Auburn.

03:02I think they have reason to believe that'll be enough to stop those two guys or to slow

03:07those two guys.

03:08It'll be a different challenge for Brougham and actually probably relative to the NBA,

03:13it's probably a pretty good challenge for him because he's going to have to show that

03:16he can cover a big guy who plays on the move and that's what the NBA wants to see.

03:21I'm sure that's not what he's thinking about, but it certainly could be helpful to him if

03:24he were able to slow or shut Danny Wolfe down.

03:28Danny Wolfe is the, is a really unusual player in college basketball to be seven foot, to

03:34be able to handle the basketball, to be able to create offensive opportunities out of pick

03:38and roll, uh, out of various different sets.

03:42He's got so much that he can bring and very few teams like Auburn have someone that looks

03:47like they can match with him.

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