{"id":13514,"date":"2024-02-05T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T14:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=13514"},"modified":"2024-02-05T04:36:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T09:36:54","slug":"michigan-state-basketball-gehrig-normand-wows-breslin-center-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=13514","title":{"rendered":"Michigan State basketball: Gehrig Normand wows Breslin Center crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michigan State basketball freshman Gehrig Normand may be redshirting this season, but that hasn’t stopped him from wowing fans.<\/h2>\n

If you weren\u2019t at the Breslin Center early before the 63-54 Michigan State basketball win over Maryland<\/a>, then you missed an exciting moment from a freshman. Three of the Spartans’ four freshmen are making plays on the court for the Spartans this season, but Gehrig Normand is not one of them.<\/p>\n

Izzo decided to redshirt Normand this season<\/a> after not playing in the first two games of the year. With that being the case, Gehrig is unable to play in any game for Michigan State this year. But that doesn\u2019t mean he can\u2019t be involved in other ways for this team.<\/p>\n

Normand is still able to practice with the team and I\u2019m sure you have seen him cheering on the team from the bench as well. But Normand is also out having fun with his teammates before the game during warmups long before most of the crowd arrives for games. However, some of you may have to plan to get to the Spartans’ next home game a little early.<\/p>\n

Gehrig Normand hits a half-court shot in warmups<\/h3>\n

Long before MSU\u2019s actual team warmup began on Saturday, some of the players were on the court doing individual warmups. Normand was also on the court and hit a wild half-court shot. You might not think that\u2019s too impressive. Anyone can get lucky and hit a half-court shot, especially a D1 basketball player. But this was the second straight game that Normand did this.<\/p>\n

Before MSU\u2019s 81-62 win over Michigan<\/a>, Gehrig hit another half-court shot during warmups. So even though he isn\u2019t making any plays during a game this season, I\u2019m glad to see him having some fun and hitting some wild shots in front of a crowd during warmups still.<\/p>\n

Normand is regarded as the best 3-point shooter from Michigan State\u2019s freshman class. So maybe these half-court shots are a sign of what\u2019s to come in the future. Now, like I said, making a half-court shot takes some skill, but also some luck. There\u2019s also zero chance he ever takes a shot that deep in a game as well — unless it’s a buzzer-beater. But this feat just speaks to the range and elite 3-point shooting he possesses, something we\u2019ll all come to love from him in the coming years.<\/p>\n

Michigan State\u2019s next home game is against Illinois on Feb. 10. Will Gehrig make it three home games in a row? You\u2019ll have to get to the game early to find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gehrig Normand is going to be a sharpshooter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":13598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[317,190,189,504],"class_list":["post-13514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","tag-gehrig-normand","tag-michigan-state-basketball","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13514","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=13514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}