​1. It’s time to see this MSU team against big-time competition againEAST LANSING — That was a really good week for Michigan State’s basketball team. Two focused, confidence-building performances, collectively and by a number of individuals, against two teams that were on the schedule for that reason, including Toledo, which the Spartans’ overwhelmed, 91-61, on Thursday night.That’s enough. It’s time for this MSU team to step back into the spotlight and see where it’s actually grown over the past two games and since the exhibition season. Playing Duke on Tuesday night in the Champions Classic in Chicago will do that.I want to see Jasiah Jervis play these upcoming games against Duke and, a week later, at Tennessee — I think he might become a household name in college basketball. I want to see Jeremy Fears Jr. lead this group when adversity hits. I want to see if Coen Carr can play with the physicality and efficiency he did Monday and Thursday. And I want to see who plays at center and how they do.MSU gained a lot from this week. But it’s time to play teams that have similar resources. Toledo was missing its starting center, Austin Parks, who is arguably its most important player and is, inarguably, its only interior defensive presence. That sort of absence just kills a team like the Rockets, much more than it does a high-major program. Toledo doesn’t have another player over 6-foot-9 and has only one other player taller than 6-7.Doesn’t mean MSU didn’t pull down those rebounds (52 of them to Toledo’s 27) and get those put-backs at the rim. But the evaluation of MSU’s big men, for example, should more be how they did relative to each other. Less so how they did against Toledo. Anton Bonke, Jesse McCulloch and Ethan Taylor — each between two inches and five inches taller than Toledo’s tallest available player — combined to go 8-for-9 from the floor, with all but one shot within a few feet, while scoring 23 points and hauling in 15 rebounds, playing one at a time except for a 4 1/2-minute stretch in the first half with McCullough and Taylor on the floor together.You could see Tom Izzo trying to hold his team to a high standard against Toledo — calling timeouts after giving up a soft bucket midway through the second half with a 68-39 lead. Izzo was coaching a different game than we were watching.MSU looked pretty dang good in the game we were watching — Jordan Scott (12 points, nine rebounds, five assists), Kaleb Glenn (eight points, six rebounds in 15 minutes), the whole gang. Against Toledo and Quinnipiac, MSU’s depth looked real and the Spartans appear to have difference-makers beyond Fears. And they might. But the rubber meets the road Tuesday night. 2. Jervis is about to enter the limelight I’ll never forget watching Jase Richardson play in the Champions Classic against Kansas two years ago. He was a freshman with a modest billing, making his debut on a national stage. Others seeing him next to his team