Latest / The Central Indiana Sports Report / MICHIGAN STATE 81, INDIANA 60: Reaction with Mike Hutsell (2.143.4)
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- 0:00[SPEAKER_02]: You are listening to a special edition of the IU report with Grant Shows and Mike Hutzl with Grant Out Calling, a high school basketball game, Mike took the duties and reacted to Indiana's 81-60 loss at Michigan State.
- 0:19[SPEAKER_02]: Mike and Grant will join me on Saturday.
- 0:23[SPEAKER_02]: Hope to get it out of actually Friday evening for our special IU Report, a national championship game preview between the Indiana Hoosiers and the Miami Hurricanes in Miami.
- 0:37[SPEAKER_02]: Quick note, we recorded this podcast while I was in a car, so please forgive me if it sounds like I'm shouting at you.
- 0:49[SPEAKER_01]: I'll go back to the central Indiana Sports Report IU fans for a special edition of the IU report with Grant Shouse and my cuckoo, Grant was calling a game tonight, so it was not able to watch the game, so Mike is here, tell us all about it, and Mike, I was watching the scores, really close game for a while, what happened in the second half.
- 1:10[SPEAKER_00]: To say a continuation of what the team isn't good at, they, if the shots stopped falling,
- 1:19[SPEAKER_00]: They don't have an interior presence to kind of lean into.
- 1:23[SPEAKER_00]: They turn the ball over carelessly, especially on the road.
- 1:27[SPEAKER_00]: And then they foul too much.
- 1:30[SPEAKER_00]: There's a problem in the first half, a carried over.
- 1:32[SPEAKER_00]: They couldn't defend.
- 1:34[SPEAKER_00]: They don't have an interior presence at all on defense.
- 1:39[SPEAKER_00]: So Michigan State was able to get them inside.
- 1:43[SPEAKER_00]: It was just a bad, probably the worst moment of the breeze there if we're being perfectly, perfectly honest.
- 1:49[SPEAKER_00]: That was a 53 to 53 game that looked like to have a chance to be a competitive finish going down to the road.
- 1:56[SPEAKER_00]: They got a steal and a nice and fatigued dunk by Lamar Wilkerson on a fast break to pull even after they had fallen behind by nine in the first half and it just completely
- 2:13[SPEAKER_00]: And it looked, it looked honestly great like a Mike Woodford coach team on the road.
- 2:19[SPEAKER_00]: One of those games, that's not a compliment for me to get into what so ever.
- 2:25[SPEAKER_00]: We've talked about this team, if they've lost this year, they've at least they've competed.
- 2:30[SPEAKER_00]: Tonight, it felt like it looked like it was going to be hard to compete and they just stop playing.
- 2:38[SPEAKER_00]: And that's.
- 2:39[SPEAKER_00]: unacceptable, especially for our first year coach with a very, very, very veteran roster.
- 2:45[SPEAKER_00]: He brought in a lot of veterans from the portals, specifically for that reason, and they just completely imploded tonight.
- 2:53[SPEAKER_01]: Do you not take something positive away from being 53.50 at Michigan State through?
- 2:59[SPEAKER_00]: That's the frustrating part about it, though, because early on in the game, they moved the ball well.
- 3:08[SPEAKER_00]: They were doing very, very good job of rolling to the bat.
- 3:13[SPEAKER_00]: Their picking role game was on point.
- 3:15[SPEAKER_00]: And they were doing some dives to the rim, some rim runs.
- 3:19[SPEAKER_00]: Got a couple nice looks for same Alexis, even Reed Bailey a couple of times.
- 3:24[SPEAKER_00]: They were actually getting interior buckets against Michigan State which is pretty hard to do because they got a good defense of team inside.
- 3:33[SPEAKER_00]: And then the Mar Wilkerson was being Lamar Wilkerson.
- 3:36[SPEAKER_00]: That's the most frustrating thing right now is we're wasting a really, really, really good player to really, really having a really, really good season in these games.
- 3:45[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, he's the third leading score in the big 10.
- 3:48[SPEAKER_00]: He was having another big night tonight and they just, they got sloppy.
- 3:54[SPEAKER_00]: They stopped competing and ended up getting blown out and that's
- 3:58[SPEAKER_00]: For a first year coach, you really hope that you're not making any sort of comparison to the guy before him.
- 4:05[SPEAKER_00]: And right, that game tonight looked like a Mike with a new, and that's just absolutely not fun to watch or the new NFN.
- 4:16[SPEAKER_01]: You and I and Grant talked about how important these two games were.
- 4:22[SPEAKER_01]: So you probably had to win one or two against Nebraska,
- 4:25[SPEAKER_01]: or Michigan State to kind of keep your head above water and it hasn't started very well.
- 4:30[SPEAKER_00]: No, and that's why I was so frustrated about Saturday because if you've got a 16 point lead at home against a top 10 team, you've got to finish that and they didn't and they looked really, really bad in the process of losing it.
- 4:47[SPEAKER_00]: And tonight, you know, you're competing on the road against another top 15 caliber team,
- 4:55[SPEAKER_00]: And then you just kind of, you know, you turn it up when things get difficult when you have a chance to actually, if you win that game, that's your best win, not only have the season, that's maybe your best win and two season going back to last year when you won at Michigan State, you're trying to put on, you're trying to put it tournament resume together, you're trying to show that you belong in that tier of teams from.
- 5:21[SPEAKER_00]: eight to 14 in the big ten, you know, you don't want to be compared to Rutgers and Penn State.
- 5:29[SPEAKER_00]: You want to be somewhere in that Wisconsin Iowa discussion this year.
- 5:36[SPEAKER_00]: And they're not winning any of the games that prove they belong there.
- 5:41[SPEAKER_00]: So there to me, there are a slightly better team than the bottom of the conference.
- 5:48[SPEAKER_00]: And they have yet to prove to me that there
- 5:52[SPEAKER_00]: and tonight's another just a bad example of how bad this team can be when they thought making shots and they stopped lying hard.
- 6:02[SPEAKER_01]: Start here in the word bubble a lot.
- 6:04[SPEAKER_01]: I, you fancy going to be sick of that.
- 6:07[SPEAKER_00]: I, I don't even consider.
- 6:08[SPEAKER_00]: La Nardi has them in.
- 6:11[SPEAKER_00]: They're starting a team or more towards that.
- 6:13[SPEAKER_00]: 10, 11.
- 6:16[SPEAKER_00]: Last four buys first four out.
- 6:22[SPEAKER_00]: as an Indian basketball fan, but at the same time, I don't show me why this is an NCH or an NM team.
- 6:30[SPEAKER_00]: Right now, they don't have anything to me that makes them jump out of being like, yep, that team deserves it over some of these other schools that are out there.
- 6:43[SPEAKER_00]: They're just not winning games that they need to win.
- 6:48[SPEAKER_00]: And some of the losses that we thought weren't going to be bad losses aren't turning out to be great losses.
- 6:53[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, we were going to lose a loss again the night.
- 6:57[SPEAKER_00]: They lost a Virginia at home and I know they've got some injury issues, but there are two and three team in the ACC right now.
- 7:04[SPEAKER_00]: Kentucky is not a good team.
- 7:06[SPEAKER_00]: They just lost their point guards for the season, who knows what's going to happen there.
- 7:16[SPEAKER_00]: Nebraska is a good loss, as bad as that sounds.
- 7:23[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sick of good losses, being a Indiana standard.
- 7:27[SPEAKER_00]: This is two crowd of a program to make making the NTA tournament this is difficult and it's become just a task and thank God for Kurt's dignity, man.
- 7:38[SPEAKER_00]: That's all I can say right now about Indiana at once.
- 7:42[SPEAKER_00]: Be too upset, isn't it?
- 7:43[SPEAKER_00]: Listen, are you fan right now?
- 7:45[SPEAKER_00]: It's hard to be, look, I'm an eagle saying it's been a frustrating week in, but you know what, for I'm still riding that high.
- 7:54[SPEAKER_00]: So whatever happened to happen, they're in the breeze to absolutely send a thank you note every day to the coach's office for football, because there's people that didn't realize there was a game and I thought tonight's game was Wednesday.
- 8:09[SPEAKER_00]: I used to be able to like, write a lofty Indiana schedule off the top of my head.
- 8:14[SPEAKER_00]: And my friend texted me today about the line and I said, that game's tomorrow, he said, check your schedule, but, I mean, that's not a good place to be.
- 8:28[SPEAKER_00]: That's not a good place to be the fan, man.
- 8:30[SPEAKER_00]: And I hate saying that, I know I'm on an IU podcast, and I love this program a lot.
- 8:36[SPEAKER_00]: It's one of the things I'm most passionate about is Indian Athletics,
- 8:41[SPEAKER_00]: At some point you've got to start getting back what you're investing in it and this program is just they they felt too much like a job for a few years now it felt like something that I have to do because I'm a fan yeah but I'm not getting any sort of enjoyment back out of it and I'm a guy who goes to four or five six games a year I'm drawn to the big to internment why in Indiana fame would voluntarily go to the big to internment I don't know
- 9:11[SPEAKER_00]: I'm pretty stupid, I guess, but tonight is just another frustrating example of what the rot that has become this program and they've got to get it back.
- 9:21[SPEAKER_00]: Saturday, Iowa, their version of James Neismann has been Macaule on that everybody just absolutely is falling over, even though they're not that dear to the team, they got ranked, which was laughable, you got to win that game, you got to win that game.
- 9:39[SPEAKER_00]: You lose that game.
- 9:40[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to start looking really ugly, real quick.
- 9:43[SPEAKER_00]: And just read, I'm not a one and done guy.
- 9:45[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not sitting here saying we got to fire a coach.
- 9:48[SPEAKER_00]: Not at all.
- 9:49[SPEAKER_00]: But there's going to be more heat than you possibly can have as a first-year coach.
- 9:54[SPEAKER_00]: If you just don't start waiting some of these games against comparable competition, and I will certainly feel like that.
- 10:09[SPEAKER_01]: going to be on the bubble.
- 10:11[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, we talked about it at the eight game stretch and they're ointu right now.
- 10:17[SPEAKER_00]: And it doesn't get any easier until you go to Ruggers and we all know how I feel about playing at Ruggers.
- 10:22[SPEAKER_00]: There it is.
- 10:24[SPEAKER_01]: Just for a little.
- 10:26[SPEAKER_00]: It has been, excuse me, it's Jersey, Mike, arena now, I think, but whatever.
- 10:32[SPEAKER_00]: It's the Rack.
- 10:33[SPEAKER_01]: It's brutal because there losing directors is always the bad thing.
- 10:38[SPEAKER_01]: And sometimes they're really good there.
- 10:41[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, they're always, they play in the Anna, well, the freaking Soviet team that came to Assembly Hall.
- 10:47[SPEAKER_00]: And Bob Knight walked out of the wall to off the court because of the game.
- 10:51[SPEAKER_00]: That's how Bregger's play against Indiana every year.
- 10:56[SPEAKER_01]: My God, so thank you so much for your time.
- 10:58[SPEAKER_01]: I appreciate you watching from the three of us.
- 11:02[SPEAKER_00]: That was, I'm all just saying that was fun, but you probably had more fun than me doing whatever you did.
- 11:09[SPEAKER_02]: Thanks so much to Mike.
- 11:11[SPEAKER_02]: We always appreciate what he does, but really appreciating him stepping up tonight and doing the entire job because Grant and I could not.
- 11:22[SPEAKER_02]: And thank you so much for listening.
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