I'm pulling for Rebraca this year and I'm hoping he will deliver meaningful minutes. Maybe more time at the 4 this year. He has played a lot of basketball in his career, turning 25 in Sept.
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Rebraca was probably the most underappreciated player on the team last year. He played really solid basketball the last half of the season. Without him, the Hawks are lucky to be .500 in the B1G.
Rebraca was a solid contributor all season mostly on defense and on the boards. Towards the end of the season he started to post up and take his defender one on one. I think there is a lot more potential there. He’s got some skills. Fran has mentioned that he expects Rebraca to start displaying his offensive skills a lot more in the upcoming season. Maybe last year had more to do with trying to fit in and find a role. This season he might surprise.
Can't fault his effort. He did what was asked of him and did a decent job doing it.
I agree! I think he is only going to be better and he was solid last year.
Love the positivity here. I believe he will surprise many this year.
Excellent points. It took him a little while to kind of get his feet under him and find his role. But he defended some of the biggest players in the league and held his own. He wasn't asked to be a scorer but I would imagine he will have more of a scoring role this season.
Not to mention that he played out of position last year having to take on the likes of Kofi, Edey at PU and Hunter Dickinson in the B1G. Assuming that Mulvey can be an effective 5, it will allow Rebraca to play his more natural position at the 4.
I think the amount of time that Rebraca spends at the 4 is directly proportional to Iowa's success this year. It means that one of the bigs has progressed enough to play meaningful minutes at the 5, it also probably means that players like Murray and Sandfort can slide into additional positions besides the 4 and the 3. Rebraca at the 4 means that Iowa can create matchup nightmares for any team in the B10.
He really did have a good 2nd half of the year. Both him and Perkins really upped their game in Big 10 play.
If they can get 9 and 7 out of him, that would be a really good year. Would be ideal if Mulvey is able to step into a bigger role this year where he could defend the teams with big Centers and they can go smaller with Rebraca at the 5 when they want to mix it up.
I love his heart reminds me a lot of Zach McCabe . I hope he plays more at the 4
Maybe the most under-discussed topic right now is how Iowa only faces Edey and Dickinson once each in the regular season this year. Most every other post player in the conference is either inexperienced or Rebraca's size.
I don't necessarily expect him to play much 4. While Kris can certainly play some at the 3 spot, that's also Patrick and Sandfort's best placement. My hope is that Ogundele and/or Mulvey step up and are able to combine for 10-15 minutes per game off the bench to give Rebraca some breathers.
My very early prediction on minute distribution:
Ulis 15 // Bowen 20 // Connor 5
Perkins 25 // Sandfort 15
Patrick 25 // Sandfort 10 // Connor 5
Kris 32 // Connor 8
Rebraca 25 // Mulvey 10 // Ogundele 5
I agree with you. I think Rebraca plays the 5 most of the time because Kris is a match-up nighmare at 4 and PMac/Sandfort need to play the 3. Unless Big O makes a big jump, I don't envision him playing much in conference except for breathers or burning fouls on big guys.
Except Fran likes his 4's to stretch the floor and shoot three's, something that FR has yet to show he can do at Iowa.....
Agree. FR 's best position is at 5.
We have plenty of 3's and 4's.
He is not a shooter outside of the paint. Just hope that he and the 2 backups can handle the 5 spot without needing to play Kris there this year.
He was a steady contributor down the stretch last year with rebounding and defense and improved free throw shooting.
FR just needs to do that again.
Fillip’s primary role will obviously be at the 5/C position….. and the main reason for that is that he has to defend the 5. Offensively he is a stereotypical PF…..as mentioned his contribution last year was rebounding and a little scoring along with playing defense. IF he can up his offensive average by 3-4-5 points and increase his rebounding numbers he will be very valuable to this team….I think he will do those things.
Those minutes look pretty accurate to me. Kris should be the only one at 30 or more, but Patrick, Perkins and Sandfort should all see a minimum of 25.
The reason Rebraca can't see much time at PF is because we have a lot of SF/PF hybrids who need to get their minutes as they are our best players: Kris, Patrick, and Sandfort, with Perkins taking a lot of minutes at the 2 spot.
I do think Dix is going to command 5 mpg by the end of the year and so that may come out of Ulis time (with Perkins playing 5 mpg at PG perhaps). Connor at 18-20 mpg looks about right, as does Mulvey at 10mpg. Ogundele may not get any tbh.
One thing Rebraca could do is dust off his 3 point shot. He shot that more at SDSU or where ever he came from than he did last year. Having him hit just enough 3's to get defenders out to that line will help the offense quite a bit, and it wouldn't surprise me if he's working on that. He also needs 1 more post move other than his righty hook - teams started to sit on that shoulder in the 2nd half of the season. If he can space the defense to give room for Patrick and Perkins and Kris to drive from the 3 / 4 spots, that would be a big help. I love his attitude and work ethic - my type of ball player.
I will be very surprised if he doesn't have a pretty good year. He was playing so well down the stretch last season.
The 4 is not his natural position. Not sure where that narrative got started.
Good players but “matchup nightmares” seems at minimum a bit premature if not hyperbole.
It would certainly be a matchup nightmare for Iowa. Trying to defend the three point line with Rebraca/Mulvey would be very difficult. The spacing on offense would be even worse.
