WVU G Erik Stevenson Requires Unique Perspective on Cellphone Call with Mike Gansey

WVU G Erik Stevenson has discovered his stride once more. Stevenson admitted two weekends back that he’s gaining his self-confidence back again and breaking what he calls a “Stevie slump.”

In Stevenson’s very last 4 game titles, the fifth-year senior is averaging 24.5 points, 6.3 rebounds and 3.5 assists on 46 per cent taking pictures from the industry and 44 p.c from a few. Stevenson has led West Virginia to a 3-1 history in those four video games and back again into the match hunt.

It was not this quick-going for Stevenson early in Significant 12 play. Stevenson experienced to bring his assurance again up after the Oklahoma Condition sport.

WVU head mentor Bob Huggins talked about through Tuesday’s push conference that he got Stevenson on the cellphone with former WVU ahead Mike Gansey.

“If you been around sports, you get exhausted of hearing the exact voice. I get weary of listening to Erik’s voice now. That’s frequent in athletics. You are jointly so a great deal, you are in conditions that are awkward,” Huggins stated. “You’ve got to come across a way to gradual it down a small little bit.”

Huggins proceeded to mention that Stevenson has slowed it down and to his credit score, has been a much better teammate not long ago.

Gansey played at West Virginia from 2004-06 beneath John Beilein. Gansey was not a Huggins player, but the now-Cavaliers standard supervisor was a transfer. A thing that Stevenson can relate with. Stevenson and Gansey have unique personalities, according to Huggins, which assists the various viewpoint.

“Mike’s acquired a calming result on men and women,” Huggins said. “He’s not loud, he’s straight to the issue.”

Finding Stevenson on the cell phone with Gansey for a diverse standpoint was a fairly good contact by Huggins.

Gansey averaged 14.4 details on 53 per cent taking pictures during his two seasons at WVU. Gansey help lead the Mountaineers to an Elite-8 look in 2005 and Sweet-16 in 2006. The 6-foot-4 forward went on to play specialist basketball right up until 2011 prior to earning the transition to the front business planet of basketball.

Gansey was promoted to the Cleveland Cavaliers basic supervisor in February 2022.

For Stevenson, this is his very last go-all around in higher education basketball. The Lacey, Wa. native has 8 normal time video games to go and the clock is ticking. Stevenson has a substantial aim to test off still, enjoying in the NCAA Event.