MSU built to run, but must prove the blur is real

EAST LANSING — If basketball could always be a track meet, and if the games were all played at home against middle-tier mid-majors — Michigan State would be an unstoppable force.

That’s more than could be said 10 days ago at the Naval Academy.

MSU has become a fast-break show since coming home, running Loyola-Chicago and Santa Clara off the Breslin Center floor.

This is coach Tom Izzo’s dream style — forcing opponents into low-percentage shots and then, in a blur, making them pay for every miss.

The Spartans are built to run. More so than some other years. They play three point guards, always two at a time, have athletic wings, wings who can shoot, and two big men who run the floor and fill the lane with ease.

It’s more than entertaining. It’s efficient basketball. Everyone knows their roles, and where to be and where everyone else is. - Read more at LSJ.com