{"id":12380,"date":"2024-01-20T09:30:23","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T14:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=12380"},"modified":"2024-01-20T04:32:28","modified_gmt":"2024-01-20T09:32:28","slug":"malik-hall-has-quietly-become-the-leader-we-all-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=12380","title":{"rendered":"Malik Hall has quietly become the leader we all expected"},"content":{"rendered":"

Malik Hall has been playing well for the past month, or so, and he has quietly become the leader we had all expected.<\/h2>\n

Malik Hall<\/a> is arguably the biggest driving force on this team. Sure other guys on the team, like Tyson Walker<\/a> and AJ Hoggard<\/a>, may have more control over the offense, but I\u2019d argue what Hall brings to the game impacts the team the most.<\/p>\n

A few games ago, he had the most unforgettable performance of his career. In MSU\u2019s 88-74 loss to Northwestern<\/a>, he failed to record a single stat in the 25 minutes he played. Since that game, however, Hall has responded massively.<\/p>\n

Malik Hall\u2019s dominance in the last three games<\/h3>\n

Since the Northwestern game, Hall has been firing on all cylinders offensively. In these three games, he is averaging 15 points, 8.3 rebounds, and three assists per game. You honestly couldn\u2019t ask for a better statistical showing from him than that. He has been all over the court, scoring when he needs to, getting massive rebounds, and setting his teammates up.<\/p>\n

Hall has also ramped it up on the defensive end. He typically isn\u2019t someone who gets a lot of steals, but he\u2019s gotten one in two of the last three games. His defensive intensity has also been much improved recently as well. Even his leadership, which usually isn\u2019t in question, has felt improved as well.<\/p>\n

In my eyes, Malik Hall is the key to Michigan State<\/a> offensively. At this point, we know what Walker and Hoggard will give us each game, but the same hasn\u2019t always been true for Hall. This season, the Spartans are 7-3 when Malik scores in double figures and only 4-4 when he fails to. If that doesn\u2019t tell you how important he is to this team then nothing will.<\/p>\n

We now need this version of Hall to show up in their next couple of games. Michigan State is yet to win a road game this season and they now have two in a row against Maryland and Wisconsin. If the Spartans want a chance at winning even one of these games, Hall is going to have to keep this hot run of his going strong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Malik Hall is rising to the occasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":12406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[200,190,189,504],"class_list":["post-12380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","tag-malik-hall","tag-michigan-state-basketball","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12380","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=12380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}