DETROIT —Tom Izzo spent 10 days trying to figure out just what kind of defense his friend Greg Kampe was running at Oakland. He went as far to say the hybrid zone “is out of Star Wars.”
Maybe it was his trip home to the Upper Peninsula last week, but Michigan State basketball’s coach found the plans to Kampe’s Death Star and found its weaknesses: Bomb away from outside, then run backdoor lob after backdoor lob.
Max Christie shooting 3-pointer after 3-pointer.
Tyson Walker to Marcus Bingham Jr. Over and over.
A.J. Hoggard to Julius Marble.