Yasir Rosemond Discusses Indiana’s Recent Surge, Previews Minnesota

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Indiana assistant coach Yasir Rosemond crammed in for Mike Woodson on Monday night time’s “Inside Indiana Basketball” radio present alongside play-by-play broadcaster Don Fischer. Woodson was out of city attending a wake for Chris Ford, a member of the Boston Celtics’ 1981 championship workforce who’s credited for scoring the league’s first 3-point basket.

Rosemond talked about his upbringing in basketball, Indiana’s latest wins over Wisconsin, Illinois and Michigan State and previewed the Minnesota recreation. Listed below are the highlights from the radio present. 

On his basketball background…

• Rosemond is from Atlanta, Ga., and he was impressed to play basketball by his father, who coached at Tennessee State for eight years.
• Rosemond grew up as a fan of Temple John Chaney, Georgetown coach John Thompson and Indiana coach Bob Knight. 
• “I wanted the self-discipline. I used to be a kind of guys that wanted these coaches that can provide you a little bit stiff kick within the butt.”
• He was an all-state participant at Douglass Excessive Faculty and went on to play at Okaloosa-Walton Junior School in Florida for one season, then Butler Group School in Kansas, the place he was teammates with future NBA participant Stephen Jackson. Rosemond completed his faculty profession with two seasons at Oregon, adopted by a four-year skilled profession in Brazil and Argentina.
• Rosemond joked that his pal Sharif Abdur-Rahim, an NBA All-Star, obtained him a exercise with the Atlanta Hawks, however “I knew I wasn’t going to make it anyway.”
• He all the time knew he wished to be a coach when he enjoying profession was over. Earlier than Indiana he was an assistant coach at Redlands Group School in Oklahoma, Portland State, Oregon, Seattle, Samford, Georgia and Alabama. 
• Rosemond mentioned he discovered quite a lot of the offensive facet of basketball from Ernie Kent at Oregon, however the remainder of the pinnacle coaches he is labored for are extra defensive-minded, like Mike Woodson. 
• “I’m bored with shifting, so lets win some video games.”

On what has modified throughout Indiana’s three-game win streak…

• “We simply stored urgent ahead. We knew that we had been a greater workforce than thaw had been had been enjoying.” 
• Rosemond mentioned there was an adjustment enjoying with out Race Thompson and Xavier Johnson. “Being a starter and coming off the bench is totally different. Now you’re a man that’s on the high of the scouting studies.” 
• In losses to Iowa, Northwestern and Penn State, “We weren’t defending in any respect” 
• “Northwestern was scorching and Penn State was unbelievable … We nonetheless thought we should always have received.”
• “They’d a players-only assembly that I didn’t even learn about.”
• Rosemond mentioned the Wisconsin win actually helped the workforce’s confidence. “They hear the noise they usually wish to do properly, they’re not attempting to lose.”
• “[Mike Woodson] will get after everyone, however he’s actually calm in the case of wins and losses as a result of he knew we weren’t far off.” Rosemond mentioned he and the teaching employees knew protection was the issue throughout Indiana’s tough patch as a result of the offense was good.
• “We weren’t guarding anyone … We simply obtained again to what we had been doing final 12 months and doing the soiled work.”
• “Younger folks, they want confidence and their confidence wavered a bit, but it surely’s a tribute to these guys sticking with one another.” 
• “We knew what we would have liked to do, we simply needed to get them to do it and that was protection.” 
• “The losses began to pile up and it was, ‘We higher begin to hear.’” 

On Trayce Jackson-Davis…

• “Trayce is about to be all the way in which wholesome.” 
• “Trayce has been unbelievable … I believe Trayce’s management’s been higher too.” 
• “Coach [Woodson] understands what it means to play at Indiana and he places that on Trayce.” 
• “He’s been rebounding higher and he’s been defending higher.” 
• “He’s doing the majority of the work and I’m pleased with him.” 
• “Hopefully we will hold him wholesome, and we will’t get too up or too down … We’ve obtained to maintain these guys degree headed.”
• “We nonetheless have the purpose of successful the Massive Ten championship, and we’re within the struggle.”

On Race Thompson…

• I believe [Trayce] was extra harm with Race being out than Race as a result of that’s most likely his greatest pal on the workforce … He was like, ‘I’m not going to let my pal down.’” 
• “[Race] higher be prepared as a result of coach is gonna however him in there.” 
• “He’s the anchor of our protection, and he’s most likely the explanation our protection suffered.” 
• “He’s our captain, he’s our different captain and he’s most likely one of many smartest participant on the workforce.” Rosemond mentioned Thompson all the time tells his teammates what they must do on the defensive finish. 

On Trey Galloway…

• “He’s a very, actually good participant … He performs about as exhausting as he can play.” 
• “He’s a man I had him on the second workforce [in practice] and I had him as the purpose guard on the second workforce, and I used to be like, ‘Let’s beat Trayce, let’s beat coach immediately.” 
• “He’s been injured on and off for 2 years, and he’s lastly wholesome.” 
• “I simply left the workplace to come back right here, and he was within the fitness center engaged on his shot.” Rosemond mentioned Trey is aware of that in Indiana’s offense you’ve gotten to have the ability to shoot the ball as a result of Trayce Jackson-Davis calls for a lot consideration within the paint.

On Tamar Bates…

• “Coach [Woodson] had an important dialog with him earlier than the sport, and he responded … I can’t use that kind of language on the radio.”
• “Coach let him know, and coach is just not a man that’s going to carry again.”

On Wednesday’s recreation at Minnesota

• “We will’t go to Minnesota and lay an egg as a result of we simply beat three actually good workforce, three match groups.” 
• “They’re not a foul workforce. It’s the Massive Ten, anyone can beat anyone within the Massive Ten.”
• “They’re a matchup downside as a result of they’ve obtained massive guys that may play on the perimeter.” Rosemond is referring to 6-foot-7 Jamison Battle, who averages 12.1 factors, and 6-foot-11 Dawson Garcia, who averages 14.9 factors. 
• “We gotta make sure that our defensive coverages are sound … Our smaller guys are going to have to have the ability to field out their massive guys.” 
• “They’re higher than their report.”
• “[Jamison Battle] is a man that may actually shoot and actually rating.” 
• Ta’Lon Cooper is Minnesota’s level guard, and Rosemond mentioned, “When he performs properly, they win.” 
• Rosemond mentioned Minnesota runs a five-out offense with quite a lot of dribble hand-offs. He mentioned Indiana must be prepared for them to sluggish the sport down and presumably play zone protection.  
• Wednesday’s recreation has some further which means for Rosemond. “It’s my boy’s birthday, so we higher win.”

On Indiana’s season-long objectives…

• “We nonetheless have the purpose of successful a Massive Ten title.” 
• “We want any individual to beat that different workforce [Purdue] that you simply had been speaking about … We plan on beating them twice, in order that will likely be two losses.” 
• “We wish to get to the NCAA Event and have an opportunity to win the nationwide title.” 
• “These have been the objectives since coach Woodson obtained there … That’s going to be the purpose yearly.”

• BIG TEN POWER RANKINGS: After Purdue, our staple on the high, the following 4 groups all misplaced final week. However they’ve all finished sufficient all season to maintain their spots. Welcome to Quantity 5 or our Massive Ten energy rankings, which was a very problem to place collectively. CLICK HERE
• JACKSON-DAVIS COLLECTS AWARDS: Indiana senior ahead Trayce Jackson-Davis was named the Massive Ten’s Participant of the Week on Monday, and he additionally obtained a number of nationwide awards after scoring 66 whole factors in wins over Illinois and Michigan State. CLICK HERE
• INDIANA RECEIVES VOTES IN AP POLL: Indiana basketball fell simply wanting the Related Press High-25 ballot on Monday, receiving 61 votes behind Duke’s 102. With losses from Houston and Kansas, Purdue returned to the highest spot and is the one Massive Ten workforce on this week’s rankings. Here is the whole ballot. CLICK HERE
• IU-MSU GAME STORY: Michigan State could not work out a solution to guard Indiana on Sunday, and it led to a different convincing victory for the Hoosiers, this time 82-69 for his or her third straight win. Trayce Jackson-Davis had 31 factors and 15 rebounds, and Tamar Bates and Trey Galloway every added 17. It is their longest Massive Ten successful streak in 4 years. CLICK HERE
• FAMILY DAY FOR BATES: It was a giant day for the Bates household, with sophomore guard Tamar scoring 17 factors and his daughter Leilani successful the halftime child race. CLICK HERE
• SPARTANS WORN DOWN: In its final three video games, Michigan State has confronted three of the Massive Ten’s most bodily groups – Purdue, Rutgers and Indiana – and it caught as much as the Spartans on Sunday at Meeting Corridor in an 82-69 loss to the Hoosiers. CLICK HERE
• THOMPSON RETURNS AGAINST MICHIGAN STATE: Indiana sixth-year ahead Race Thompson has been out since struggling a knee harm on Jan. 5 at Iowa, however he returned to motion on Sunday towards Michigan State. CLICK HERE