{"id":14600,"date":"2024-02-20T14:22:57","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T19:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=14600"},"modified":"2024-02-20T14:22:57","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T19:22:57","slug":"tom-izzo-addresses-mady-sissokos-recent-lack-of-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=14600","title":{"rendered":"Tom Izzo addresses Mady Sissoko\u2019s recent lack of production"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Tom Izzo opened up about Mady Sissoko&#8217;s lack of production and regression recently and said that he&#8217;s not giving up on his big man.<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/michigan-state-basketball-stock-watch-after-double-digit-win-at-michigan\/\">Michigan State basketball<\/a> has been playing extremely well recently. The Spartans have won eight of their last 10 games and are coming off a solid <a href=\"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/michigan-state-basketball-stock-watch-after-double-digit-win-at-michigan\/\">73-63 rivalry win over Michigan<\/a>. However, not everyone on the team has been playing well recently. Mady Sissoko has been struggling recently, and everyone has taken notice to it. Tom Izzo has also noticed his decrease in production, and addressed it on Monday with the media.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Izzo says Mady Sissoko&#39;s lack of production &quot;is concerning.&quot; Trying to figure out how and why, particularly with the big man losing his grandmother and how that might be affecting him. Minutes have gone down recently. &quot;He&#39;s not been playing as well.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris Solari (@chrissolari) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chrissolari\/status\/1759627776796336584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 19, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Izzo talks about Sissoko\u2019s decrease in production<\/h3>\n<p>Izzo didn\u2019t hold back when talking about Sissoko, but he\u2019s still keeping an open mind about everything for obvious reasons. He shared that Mady\u2019s recent lack of production \u201cis concerning\u201d and that \u201che\u2019s not been playing as well\u201d recently.<\/p>\n<p>The stats back this up as well. Mady hasn\u2019t been a big scorer for Michigan State his entire career, but he has failed to score at least five points in eight straight games now. Lack of scoring isn\u2019t that big of a deal from him as long as his defense and rebounding are up to par. But that too has seen a recent decline as Mady has only secured six rebounds once in the last six games.<\/p>\n<h3>Izzo isn\u2019t giving up on Sissoko<\/h3>\n<p>Izzo also went on later to say \u201cI never just give up on a kid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is the right move for many reasons, the first being the tragedy that struck Sissoko recently. <a href=\"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/aj-hoggard-rally-around-mady-sissoko-after-death-in-family\/\">He recently lost his grandmother<\/a> in the days before MSU\u2019s road game against Wisconsin. He was extremely close to his grandma and is unable to pay his respects during this tough time. That likely could be impacting Sissoko\u2019s play, and something that Izzo touched on as well.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Izzo in regard to Mady Sissoko struggling offensively: \u201cI never just give up on a kid.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Also says that they\u2019ve adjusted his minutes accordingly but no changes to his starting role will be made at the moment, but could in the future.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kenny Jordan (@Kenny_Jordan5) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kenny_Jordan5\/status\/1759628814974423294?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 19, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>But even with Sissoko\u2019s regression, Izzo is still keeping him in the starting lineup going forward. The team is clearly playing well together right now, so it wouldn\u2019t make sense to mess with their rotations too much. Izzo did share that Mady is getting fewer minutes, but he will never be someone who gets benched completely.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that we see Sissoko turn it around. Obviously that would help the team out, but I know it would likely help him out internally. Who knows what internal struggles he\u2019s going through right now, so an increase in play could help him more than any of us realize.<\/p>\n<p>Sissoko&#8217;s next chance to improve his play is Tuesday at home against Iowa. I know I\u2019m not alone in hoping that he starts playing better soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for Mady to turn it around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":14667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[228,190,189,504,211],"class_list":["post-14600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","tag-mady-sissoko","tag-michigan-state-basketball","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-news","tag-tom-izzo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14600","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=14600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}