{"id":12075,"date":"2024-01-15T14:43:27","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T19:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=12075"},"modified":"2024-01-15T14:43:27","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T19:43:27","slug":"player-fan-reactions-to-steven-izzo-scoring-first-career-basket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=12075","title":{"rendered":"Player, fan reactions to Steven Izzo scoring first career basket"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Steven Izzo scored his first career points as a Spartan on Sunday afternoon and both players and fans went crazy.<\/h2>\n<p>In case you missed it, <a href=\"https:\/\/msuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/steven-izzo\/13630\">Steven Izzo<\/a> scored his first basket for <a href=\"https:\/\/msuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\">Michigan State<\/a> Sunday afternoon against Rutgers. <a href=\"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/steven-izzo-scores-first-career-points-on-wild-and-one-video\/\">Steven wowed the Breslin Center crowd<\/a>, crossing up his defender and finishing a tough layup with the foul. He also went on to hit the free throw giving himself three points for the game.<\/p>\n<p>As you can imagine, the Breslin Center went absolutely wild when he hit this shot. It sounded like Steven hit a game-winner and not a layup to extend the MSU lead to 20. Fans and the Izzone lost their minds and Steven\u2019s teammates rushed him on the court. He also went over to his dad, <a href=\"https:\/\/msuspartans.com\/staff-directory\/tom-izzo\/189\">Tom Izzo<\/a> to give him a hug before heading to the free throw line &#8212; once <a href=\"https:\/\/msuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/a-j-hoggard\/13628\">AJ Hoggard<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/msuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/tyson-walker\/13668\">Tyson Walker<\/a> let him go, of course.<\/p>\n<p>There were so many reactions that you just can\u2019t miss as a Spartan fan. Thankfully we have you covered with all the angles of the many reactions.<\/p>\n<h3>Various player\/fan reactions<\/h3>\n<p>Here are different angles of the reactions to Steven\u2019s first basket as a Spartan, including his teammates, fans, the Izzone, and Tom Izzo.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The bench on Steven Izzo\u2019s first bucket. You just love to see it. \ud83d\udc9a <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cizRONmTFc\">pic.twitter.com\/cizRONmTFc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brandon Champion: Low Ego, High Output (@BrandonthaChamp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrandonthaChamp\/status\/1746609856461615152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"qme\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udc9a\ud83e\udd0d\ud83d\udc9a\ud83e\udd0d\ud83d\udc9a\ud83e\udd0d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/e96P5BvjzF\">pic.twitter.com\/e96P5BvjzF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Daily MSU (@daily_msu) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/daily_msu\/status\/1746648252156432745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Some Breslin magic for Steven Izzo\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uEoORjlzwI\">pic.twitter.com\/uEoORjlzwI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Spartans Illustrated (@SpartansRivals) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpartansRivals\/status\/1746609016606756874?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today definitely called for celebration \ud83e\udd73 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/M5Vc5d9D5O\">pic.twitter.com\/M5Vc5d9D5O<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Michigan State Men&#39;s Basketball (@MSU_Basketball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MSU_Basketball\/status\/1746629999967326459?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The last thing I\u2019ll say about this play is that I\u2019m happy Steven Izzo made an actual field goal instead of his only points being free throws. Scoring any points I\u2019m sure would\u2019ve been special for him, but scoring a legit basket probably makes this moment so much better.<\/p>\n<p>This bucket has been five years in the making and undoubtedly was the highlight of the <a href=\"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/michigan-state-basketball-takeaways-from-win-over-rutgers\/\">Spartans&#8217; 73-55 win over Rutgers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reactions made everything so much better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":12086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[190,189,504,429,211],"class_list":["post-12075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","tag-michigan-state-basketball","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-news","tag-steven-izzo","tag-tom-izzo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}