Kerwin Walton of Texas Tech Basketball finding its stride at the ideal time for Raiders Red

Grant McCasland I did not make a single substitution for about 10 minutes of match Wednesday evening at United Supermarket Arena.

The head coach of Texas Tech, 19th, is generally stingy with submarines, which McCasland has repeatedly said that he had to improve in the future. But against TCU, McCasland had a different reason for not wanting to change the flow of the game.

Kerwin Walton finally returned to his usual self.

Walton, the fifth year senior, started each match for the Red Raiders this season, although its minutes have been considerably reduced as Texas Tech embarks on the thickness of the game of the Big 12 conference. It is generally the first Starter to get out of the ground, often spelled by Kevin Overton, and is lucky to get a few minutes after the media of the media of each half.

McCasland knows that it is not an easy proposal for Walton, one of the best pure shooters in the country. This is certainly not that Walton could have envisaged its last season of university basketball. This has not changed the preparation of Walton.

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“Kerwin works as if he was going to play 40 minutes,” said McCasland. “For me, it says a lot about who he is.”

Walton started the second half on the ground, as it usually does. It does not generally last long, but with the versatile striker Darrion Williams for the game and outgoing Overton after having taken a blow while being at fault at the start of the second half, McCasland was not under Walton until What is at 3:58 in the game.

Several times after Overton has been authorized to return to the ground, McCasland began to send it to the marker’s table to check Walton, only to change your mind after the transfer of North Carolina made another key game in What McCasland called “one of his best games of the year.”

Walton finished with a modest line of seven points statistics and four assists, but its impact came beyond the box score, the lover to play 24 minutes, 33 seconds – the most he has played since November 21-when Texas Tech (16-4, 7-2) needed someone to intensify.

“He was entering painting. He went to the free throw line,” said McCasland. “He was more than just catching and shooting. He was really good defensively, and he did an excellent rebound job.

The section of two Walton games at home could arrive at the ideal time for Texas Tech. During Sunday’s victory against Oklahoma State, Walton shattered a five -game section where the 42% 3 -point career pulled a deep mark. He has now reached two 3 in each of his last two games, adding another element to the already fatal offensive of Tech which could pay dividends in the future.

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The Red Raiders equaled the best start of the program of the program of the program by improving at 7-2. The sequence of five consecutive victories of the team presented the last four competitions won by two -digit margins.

However, only two of these seven conference victories came against teams with winning records in Big 12 for Wednesday’s action. The Texas Tech calendar is about to become much more difficult, starting with the road trip from Saturday to Houston n ° 5, which is a perfect 9-0 in the league.

The Red Raiders will need all hands on the deck in the future, including Walton.

“He is suspended there and accepted what I think is a difficult situation not to play, and he was prepared,” said McCasland. “For me, that’s what this team is Kerwin Walton and its ability to stay there and be ready, and our depth would not be the same if it was not for him.”

This article originally appeared on Avalanche-Journal Lubbock: Walton Reemerging could be beneficial for the prospects of Texas Tech Basketball