We dug into our hot takes and yours – on Michigan State basketball's sudden surge in play, on Tre Holloman and Mady Sissoko, Jeremy Fears, Xavier Booker and A.J. Hoggard and Tom Izzo, and on MSU football as Jonathan Smith signs his first class, on the Lions chasing the No. 2 seed in the NFC, on the Pistons, random thoughts around Christmas and more.