Michigan State Basketball: 3 takeaways from disappointing loss to Penn State
2. Unforced turnovers are killing this team
Once again, Michigan State couldn’t stop shooting itself in the foot. The Spartans went up eight early and then started turning the ball over at a high rate, falling asleep on defense and missing open shots — while also taking some bad ones.
But nothing hurt more than those unforced turnovers.
Plays like Cassius Winston trying to force something that isn’t there, a pass going off a big man’s hands or Aaron Henry driving into the lane only to cough the ball up are correctable but those are unforced turnovers that have killed Michigan State all year long.
Henry may be the biggest culprit as he either has an incredible game or a forgettable one and Tuesday night may have been more of the latter.
A pass by Malik Hall to no one which led to a backcourt violation with just over a minute to go was the nail in the coffin and it summed up the night.