USC Trojans Eric Musselman Evaluates Defense

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00:00And then the next day when we came back, which would have been Wednesday,

00:05was, I mean, the guys can tell you.

00:08But we had one of two ways, because we're not playing a lot of guys.

00:12So if you practice really, really hard, five guys that are playing the majority

00:18of the minutes got to do all that stuff too.

00:23But we just wanted to send a message that, hey, we believe in you.

00:27We're not gonna say, hey, good job.

00:29We played UCLA close.

00:30Let's get after it and try to figure out how we can beat Michigan State.

00:33And I mean, we played a defense that we have not played all year.

00:38We did it against Duke last year.

00:42And it bothers people, but you can only do it against certain personnel.

00:48At one point, I think Michigan State ran a couple zone plays.

00:51I could be wrong, but it's a unique defense that

00:58it's a huge gamble to play it the way we did.

01:00But tonight it ended up, especially early in the game.

01:03First half really worked out well.