Here's What Mike Woodson Said After Indiana's Loss At Michigan State

Indiana coach Mike Woodson met with the media after the Hoosiers' 80-65 loss at Michigan State on Tuesday night. He was disappointed with their defense, which he said was ''non-existent'' for most of the night. Here's the full transcript and video.

EAST LANSING, Mich. – Indiana lost its ninth game of the season on Tuesday night at the Breslin Center, 80-65.

After Indiana's strong start, Michigan State went on a run at the end of the first half and didn't look back. Trayce Jackson-Davis led Indiana with 19 points, and Michigan State guards Tyson Walker and A.J. Hoggard each scored over 20 points.

QUESTION: Mike, good start to the game but particularly defensively, where did you see it kind of slip for you guys there in the first half, the way it ended and then carrying into the second half?

WOODSON: I thought at the three-minute mark of the first half is what set the stage for them coming back out of halftime, even though we missed some chippies to start the second half, our defense was non-existent, man. I just thought we didn't control the ball, something we've been pretty good at. I thought their guards had their way against our guards. Walker and Hoggard, they were good, they were great, and we couldn't overcome it.

Q: You sat Hood-Schifino down with about seven or eight minutes to in the first half, and I think they outscored you 22-9 or something, you had a nine-point lead. What about the two fouls, is that a set rule?

WOODSON: No, listen, it's a long game. In close games, guys hey, it's a long game and we've got enough players. That was my call. I would do it again if I had to do it the same identical way. I'm not going to let a guy pick up three. I'm not going to do that, and it cost us. There's been games we've done it fine and you guys never made that comment about me doing that. So at the end of the day, it's a decision that I make. I make it all the time. It's a long game, a 40-minute game is long. So if a guy gets three fouls, now he's a little more conscious about really guarding, so that's why I took him out and went the other way. 

Q: Michigan State got all the momentum with all the emotion here on campus being at home. Do you think it was tough to overcome once they got going?

WOODSON: They played well, man. I mean, listen. Izzo's teams play great here, they do, and they play hard. They force you do play hard, and if you don't meet that, you're going to lose. I thought we came out playing well early, but as they game wore on they smashed us and I don't like that.

Q: Trayce didn't seem to have his normal pop off the floor. Was he fully 100 percent in this one?

WOODSON: Yeah, yes, he's 100 percent. I mean, hey, he missed some shots tonight. I mean, shots that he normally makes, he didn't make them. So I mean, but it's not just Trayce. When you get out-rebounded like we did, and 50-50 balls, second chances, it's everybody not just Trayce.

Q: When they got going from 3-point range, what was the key to MSU hitting all those threes?

WOODSON: Well again, Walker, he hit two threes with the clock. I mean, what are you going to do? Two of three big ones that he made with the clock running down, I mean, it's part of the game, man.

Q: Walker got his early threes off of second chances, how much do you think –

WOODSON: Yeah, that too and then with the clock you know it was kicked right out to him and he has to make a play with the ball and he made about two or three tough ones, I thought. But they all count.

Q: The rebounding differential, what do you attribute that mainly to?

WOODSON: It's just, that's work, man. We knew coming into the game we had to rebound the ball with this team, and we didn't do that. The games we lose, we don't rebound. The games we win, we rebound the ball with our opponents.

Q: Mike, I know you mentioned a couple of the 3-pointers came right at the end of the shot clock there, but they had 10 altogether. Were you as pleased as you wanted to be with the rotations?

WOODSON: No, because our connections defensively weren't right. We were a step slow. Hauser, he got a few two or three good looks. You come back and he trails in transition and our guy Race gets sucked in and can't get back out to him. These are things that we've been pretty clean on.

Q: Tonight, but more broadly, how do you get guys off the bench going offensively? It seems like some of those guys just haven't found it.

WOODSON: We have struggled on the road. We've been pretty decent at home. We've struggled on the road coming off the bench, and we just got to somehow, like I told them when I broke here, we've got to figure that out as we continue this journey. Because eventually you're going to have to go out on the road and win a game.

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