AJ Hoggard And Jaden Akins Make Michigan State A Title Contender | '5 Star Zone with Rico Beard'
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🗓️ 1 June 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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From '5 Star Zone with Rico Beard' (subscribe here): Michigan State is bringing the band back after AJ Hoggard and Jaden Akins withdrew from the NBA Draft. Will this be Izzo's best team since the 2000 National Championship-winning group? Download the latest episode of the 5 Star Zone today.
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| 0:00.0 | Also, other news, different sports, not that we didn't think it was going to have the band |
| 0:05.8 | this back together. The band has gotten back together. A.J. Hogar, J. Nacon's officially coming back |
| 0:12.9 | to Michigan State. You know who told me about it? Jeff Reeger, Mr. Oh, look at you guys. Oh, my |
| 0:19.2 | anxiety. You're going to be so effing good. Oh, my God. You know, Michigan can't keep people |
| 0:24.2 | on the team. You got guys coming back all the time. Oh, my goodness. What was me? |
| 0:30.0 | Is Oh's got his work cut out? It's the same thing as Michigan football if you ask me |
| 0:33.6 | expectations. High as hell. Talking with Is Oh, he basically said |
| 0:38.8 | probably two freshmen will get really seriously into the rotation. Yeah, Booker and fierce. |
| 0:43.3 | Right. The other guys kind of a spot duty type of thing. See where they're at. They're bringing back |
| 0:48.6 | the experience. At least this year, you know, knock on wood, they can handle, especially |
| 0:53.7 | like something happening in the back court because you now have five ball handers. Good. I thought |
| 0:58.4 | Trey Holloway would have left, but he stuck around. Good for him. Yeah, Hollowman. |
| 1:02.8 | Hollowman would have left, but he came back. Yeah, I saw him walking around with AJ and Tyson. So, |
| 1:10.0 | yeah, they're best of buds. Now you, you know, you got Jayden coming back and now you got Jeremy |
| 1:16.1 | Fears Jr. coming back and you got pieces in place. Tom has a depth. Now, let's see how he used |
| 1:23.3 | Biggs. Biggs. Right. I mean, you got Xavier Booker coming in. You got Maddie who doesn't actually |
| 1:29.3 | have to play Mad minutes anymore. You got Maddie. You got Malik Hall. You got Collar. You got |
| 1:35.7 | Carson Cooper that came on. You know, they have tons of depth. I'm really starting to like |
| 1:42.0 | because he plays as a soft because he's becoming that guy where he just does stuff. He's just like, |
| 1:47.4 | yeah, yes. Like he's a tryhard guy, but he's in the right spot. It seems like, especially like |
| 1:55.1 | at the end of the year where you really want to see your guy play a lot of minutes in the tournament. |
| 1:59.6 | He had to. And let's hope that that kind of confidence. I want to say he played more |
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