Lansing State Journal digital sports reporter -- and podcast producer -- Phil Friend wrestles host duties away this week (and perhaps permanently) as sports columnist Graham Couch and Detroit Free Press Michigan State beat writer Chris Solari fully enter the Friend Zone to talk the latest in Spartan sports. 

This week's breakdown:

• WAR Drill. Topics include Draymond Green, Emoni Bates and name, image and licensing rights (2:39)

• MSU basketball season preview, which includes 1) a breakdown of Tuesday's exhibition game vs. Albion; 2) a snake draft of MSU's basketball roster between the three of us; 3) season over-unders; and 4), previewing next week's Kentucky game (25:35)

• A four-days-later breakdown of the Spartan football team's loss to Penn State, and, which has been a recurring theme in recent weeks, what went wrong and how can the team be fixed (55:47)

• Twitter questions (1:13:57)

• How well do we know our Spotify listeners? (1:21:20)

• Kentucky predictions (1:25:56)