Where Was Joe Toussaint vs Texas?

Kedrian Johnson had a profession evening in opposition to Texas with 22 factors, besting his earlier excessive of 20 which he set on Wednesday within the win over TCU. Nevertheless, he didn’t play a really well-rounded sport. He missed key pictures on the free throw line and turned it over six instances. 

Many questioned, myself included, why Huggins did not shuffle the lineup on the ground to incorporate Joe Toussaint, who has been a sparkplug off the bench this season for the Mountaineers. Huggins addressed it within the postgame press convention and took full accountability for not getting the veteran guard on the ground earlier.

“My fault. My fault. I used to be caught up in did we play Keddy an excessive amount of? Ought to I’ve obtained him out a little bit bit extra? And which certainly one of our guys, Erik [Stevenson] or Seth [Wilson] was going to make a shot? As a result of neither certainly one of them had been making pictures. That is form of what occurred and that is my fault. 100% my fault. Joe deserves to play. Joe deserves to play a variety of minutes. We have guys that performed that do not deserve minutes. They have not earned minutes.”

Toussaint performed seven minutes within the first half however noticed even much less time within the second half (three minutes). This is not the primary time although that Huggins turned to Toussaint late within the second half. After main all scorers with 10 factors within the first half of the Oklahoma sport, Toussaint sat on the bench till the 11:53 mark of the second half and it wasn’t resulting from foul bother. He had one foul on the break.

Heck, even after the TCU sport, Huggins praised Toussaint for the way a lot he has meant to this workforce.

“Joe is without doubt one of the guys that is made performs all yr. Joe has saved us in video games we in any other case wouldn’t have been in. Joe has by no means been the issue.”

As rock-solid as Keddy is defensively, I perceive wanting to maintain him on the ground. But when he’s turning the ball over at an alarming charge or different guys on the ground proceed to overlook pictures, there needs to be a solution to get Toussaint extra concerned within the sport.

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