Interesting insight from the WVU men’s basketball coach on how his 2012-13 team will behave, and why, with Juwan Staten and Aaric Murray on board.

If you were to line up the five Huggins seasons at WVU and look for common denominators for good teams and teams that lacked what those good teams had, I believe you’d find value in guards and bigs that moved the ball.

Darris Nichols and Alex Ruoff were terrific with the ball in their hands and Joe Mazzulla was very good getting inside, which helped make life easier for Truck Bryant. And when Mazzulla was hurt and Bryant was out or when Bryant was ineffective, and Nichols and Ruoff were done, Devin Ebanks and Da’Sean Butler did guard stuff from the forward position.

Cam Thoroughman and John Flowers were good passers on the inside and outside and kept the offense moving, and last season we saw Deniz Kilicli struggle with some of those things and at less-than-ideal times.

Huggins sees Staten playing and running with either Gary Browne or Jabarie Hinds, and possibly even with both, and Murray is a back-to-the-basket guy who has alert eyes and makes good passes.

The Mountaineers may again have the things they’ve interchangeably lacked and desired … but are we forgetting one name?

”We were 5-2 (in league play), 15-4 (overall) or something when Kevin Noreen went down. And everything went downhill after that because he gave us things we didn’t have,” Huggins said. ”Great ball movement. His guy never got a rebound. He did a great job help defensively. Losing him really hurt us.”