• 2 years ago
Iowa guard interview
Transcript
00:00 - All right, we'll go right to questions for Tony.
00:03 Tony, you've been on a lot of potent Iowa teams
00:08 in terms of offense.
00:10 What's not working right now for you guys?
00:12 - I'll just say, we're just trying to figure everything out.
00:17 Last few games, I've been that good
00:19 defensively rebounding or defense.
00:21 So we gotta keep working on it, you know,
00:25 especially with the young guys, you know, they coming in,
00:27 they still learn a few things, but you know,
00:31 as time go, we'll get better.
00:32 So that's what we focus on.
00:33 - You guys lost last season, you started 0-3 in the Big 10,
00:37 able to turn that around.
00:38 What can you take from that, I guess,
00:42 and be able to kind of try to use it again this season?
00:45 - We can take a lot from it, especially from this game,
00:47 letting it be our second Big 10 game, I believe.
00:50 So, I mean, we ain't at 0-3 yet.
00:52 So, I mean, we probably won't be.
00:54 The next game we play in the Big 10, we'll probably win.
00:56 I guarantee you that.
00:58 - What changed last season, I guess, to allow you to?
01:02 - I'll just say leadership
01:05 and just everybody willing to play for each other
01:08 and just, you know, caring for each other,
01:10 just wanting to win.
01:12 We just gotta want to win more, want it more.
01:15 - What'd you think of the lineup change?
01:17 - I mean, I mean, lineups might change every game.
01:23 So, man, it is what it is.
01:25 That's how I look at it.
01:26 It don't change or affect nothing to me.
01:28 As long as we win, if we lose, we'll figure it out still.
01:31 So, that's, lineup is what it is, I guess.
01:34 - You mentioned just leadership,
01:36 kind of helping you guys turn it around last season.
01:38 How much of a responsibility are you taking, you know,
01:42 with that this season and trying to help guys
01:45 through and through and stuff?
01:47 - As the type of player I am,
01:49 running around talking stuff, everybody not like that.
01:51 So, I try to tell them in a certain way,
01:53 in certain ways they can do that.
01:54 And hopefully that gives them some energy as well
01:58 and boost their confidence as well.
01:59 So, I try to do that.
02:01 But, you know, as you see on the court,
02:04 I still try to tell the younger guys what I need from them,
02:07 what they, in the right places they need to be at.
02:10 And still try to find ways to show my leadership
02:13 on the court as well during the game, so.
02:15 - So, with that lineup change, you started at the one.
02:18 Do you feel comfortable there?
02:20 You've been at the two to start the season.
02:23 - I don't really care, like I told you earlier in the year.
02:27 You know, I played one through five.
02:29 I don't really care.
02:30 I just want to be on the court, so.
02:31 - Looked like, you know, Fran fights for you guys
02:34 a lot of times when calls don't necessarily go your way.
02:37 In what ways did that maybe impact you?
02:40 'Cause sometimes, you know,
02:41 last year against Michigan State,
02:42 it seemed to really impact you positively.
02:45 Did it have any kind of impact?
02:46 - Yeah, I would say it gave us energy for sure.
02:50 But, I mean, we had energy all throughout the game.
02:53 We just started getting sluggish with the ball,
02:55 rebounds and stuff like that.
02:56 But, I mean, once Fran got ejected or whatever,
03:00 you know, we just came together and said,
03:01 we just gonna have to fight, you know.
03:03 Our head coach not here, so we just gonna have to
03:05 depend on each other and depend on other coaches as well, so.
03:08 - It just kind of seems that--
03:09 - Last question.
03:10 - You guys are getting some decent shots.
03:12 They're just not falling.
03:13 Is that a byproduct of you guys
03:15 still trying to figure things out, like you mentioned?
03:17 Things just being a little disjointed?
03:19 - Oh, I wouldn't say that, you know.
03:20 It's basketball.
03:21 People gonna miss shots, so at the end of the day,
03:22 if it go in, it go in.
03:23 If it don't, then it don't.
03:24 I mean, we get good shots.
03:25 We're getting good shots, so, I mean, it's basketball, so.
03:29 - All right, thanks, Johnny.
03:30 We'll see you next time.
03:31 - Yeah.
03:32 (thud)