For starters, why didn’t anyone tell me how screwed up yesterday’s game blog was? Wait, wait. I know this. Because the comments were inexplicably turned off for part of the second half! I have no idea how or why that happened, but I’m sorry that it did.

I don’t know why two pictures didn’t post or why at halftime half of the entire first half disappeared, but I have a hunch. Even with only 5,600 people inside, the Internet in the Coliseum can be shaky and that can lead to uploads crashing and updates stopping, which then leaves you without pictures or without a majority of the post.

I won’t make any promises on typos in the game blogs because things happen so fast — and it’s doubly immediate in basketball, which cuts down on how much I say and how often I say things — but there’s no excuse or explanation for the other errors other than I was moving too fast to notice it. Looks like the Mountaineers weren’t the only ones who had a hard time yesterday morning.

I think a lot of people are going to blame Truck Bryant for yesterday’s loss and even he said he had a bad game, but there’s a lot to this.

First, he had to have the ball. He was WVU’s best option because Kent State trapped on every sideline in play. Bob Huggins trusted Truck the most to handle that, much as he does at the end of the game in obvious pressure/fouling situations. Honestly, would you rather have Truck or Browne/Hinds handling that pressure and those traps yesterday?

The one time I noticed the ball wasn’t played in to Truck, he passed it softly inbounds to Gary Browne and it was stolen and went the other way for a dunk. Other times Kent  State just double teamed Truck when he neared a sideline or a second defender or picked up his dribble.

These were all smart ideas because Truck was a little loose with the ball, but also because his escape depended on four other people and in every instance at least two of them were freshmen who didn’t do very well to bail out their trapped teammate.

So, sure, Truck had six turnovers and had a bunch of frantic moments. Some were of his own doing. He said he was frustrated and tried to do a lot — too much, in fact — on his own. He dribbled too much or too far at times and kept taking the ball at the basket and trying to draw fouls seemingly more than he tried to make the shot, but those, too, were often things he felt he needed to do to help. That help wasn’t stepping forward from other parts of the court. Truck had problems and Truck was a problem, but he wasn’t alone in either regard.

After WVU’s first Coliseum loss to a team outside the Big East since LSU won here in 2005, Coach Bob Huggins said he thought briefly about taking out Bryant in favor of someone else.

“And put in who?” Huggins said. “You stand there where I stand and look down the bench and you’d probably come to the same conclusion that I did.”

That conclusion was not only that Huggins was short on options, but so was Bryant. The Mountaineers (1-1) were undone by the ineffectiveness of their inexperienced players and that sometimes made Bryant look bad before the 5,616 in attendance.

“You can’t blame him 100 percent,” said forward Deniz Kilicli, who had 11 points, a career-high 15 rebounds and two blocks in a personal-best 36 minutes. “He had no one to pass to. People don’t run to the spots and he’s not able to pass the ball so he gets caught with the ball.”