Last nights scoring summary
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Didn’t get to watch the game at all, so I’m speaking with no point of basis. Here’s my sky is falling post.
Mulvey gets 3 minutes in an exhibition. Was he injured? If not why is he still here?
28-41 from the line isn’t great. Especially when 5 misses come from a player that will have the ball in his hands a lot.
Excluding Pryce, 3-15 from 3 is pretty bad.
If we’re going to be a team that doesn’t defend, like a typical Fran team, then we better be shooting lights out every night and not throwing away 13 free points at the line.
Mulvey gets 3 minutes in an exhibition. Was he injured? If not why is he still here?
28-41 from the line isn’t great. Especially when 5 misses come from a player that will have the ball in his hands a lot.
Excluding Pryce, 3-15 from 3 is pretty bad.
If we’re going to be a team that doesn’t defend, like a typical Fran team, then we better be shooting lights out every night and not throwing away 13 free points at the line.
Here's my take: It was an exhibition game and the first game of year at Carver. Any one that reads too much into it is destined to be disappointed or pleasantly surprised.
I think Freeman has passed Mulvey in the rotation. Mulvey got on the floor at the end of the game with Laketa, Kingsbury & Brauns.
Only 2 things to take away. First game and it was exhibition along with Mulvey won’t see much playing time unless guys are hurt or multiples in foul problem.
The obsession with Mulvey makes no sense to me. He is what he is. Not every recruit pans out. Freeman is going to a player. It was obvious he was better than Mulvey and he needed to be. I’m very high on him. Plays with the kind of energy we need on both ends of the floor.
The obsession is that there are only 13 scholarships and we have one given to a player that barely sees the floor in an exhibition game at the beginning of his third year in the program. The refrain has been that he's young and started college a year earlier than planned. In actuality he turned 21 last month. He's scored 27 points and grabbed 26 rebounds in his career, mostly playing garbage time.
No one plays more than 10 guys in a rotation anyways in college basketball. Yes, Mulvey was a big miss. If you look at the rosters across the power 6, you will see lots of teams that have guys who are very similar misses. It happens to everyone. Especially in the transfer portal age, it is a bit weird to see someone stick around for 3 years--usually guys would have transferred down to a level where they could play at. But he's a good teammate and is a big body to practice against, so there is literal no harm in keeping him around.
He’s not good enough to play. We took a swing and we missed. We have a better player in Freeman. Move on.
