Stock Up, Stock Down: Treysen Eaglestaff Is Heating Up, Honor Huff's Struggles + More

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For nan first clip this season, nan West Virginia Mountaineers person won a crippled distant from Hope Coliseum, taking down Arizona State connected Wednesday night.

Now, it's clip to return a look astatine our updated WVU hoops banal report.

Stock Up: Treysen Eaglestaff

Out of nowhere, nan North Dakota transportation has travel out, hiding, and has go a cardinal portion of West Virginia's discourtesy complete nan past 2 games, posting a brace of 20+ constituent games while besides coming up pinch immoderate large rebounds. His first half capacity was immense successful this one, sinking 5/8 shots (4/5 3FG) from nan field, keeping nan Mountaineers successful nan game. Having a accordant scoring action will commencement to tie attraction distant from Honor Huff.

Stock Down: Shots for Huff

Speaking of shots for Honor, location haven't been galore complete nan past 2 games. Both Colorado and Arizona State did a really bully occupation of faceguarding him and denying him nan ball. Very fewer times did a defender suffer him successful traffic, and erstwhile they did, a helpside defender was there. The champion measurement to free him up is by Eaglestaff continuing to make teams salary while besides having an interior scoring presence.

Stock Up: Jasper Floyd

Floyd hasn't been awesome offensively this play successful position of being a threat to people it. Last night, he was. He vanished nan crippled going 5/6 from nan section and 2/3 from downtown. It seemed for illustration each clip West Virginia needed a large bucket aliases rebound, it was Floyd who came done successful nan clutch. He ne'er needs to beryllium a 15-point-per-game scorer, aliases moreover double digits for that matter; he's conscionable sewage to rate successful erstwhile nan opportunities are there.

Stock Down: First half starts

Ross Hodge mentioned this successful his postgame power question and reply past night, which validated my thoughts connected it. The Mountaineers were a beardown protect squad successful nan first half of games early connected successful nan play and would thin to slice late. Here recently, they've struggled retired of nan gates, but person played suffocating defense successful nan 2nd half, helping them to triumph 4 of their past five. You're going to play a cleanable game, but nan commencement of games has to beryllium better, particularly erstwhile you play immoderate of nan amended teams successful this league. Saturday's matchup vs. Arizona is simply a cleanable example. Falling down double digits early successful that 1 isn't going to bode well.