We haven't seen much of Riley but I like what I see so far. He's aggressive on the boards, likes to block shots, runs the floor reasonably well and has a nice touch around the basket. Am I the only one that feels this way?
Riley Mulvey
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I agree. Think he and Sandfort are going to be key guys in future.
I was just thinking last night that I wish he had gotten more minutes during this part of the schedule. Hes not ready for prime time but we dont have the luxury of waiting given his size and potential. Big body who can move with 5 fouls to give.
I'm not sure why our big guys aren't playing more, especially during blowouts. It doesn't make sense to me that Ash is being put in before one of the centers. They need experience and we're going to need centers for the B10.
Agree.
Why not use these crappy cupcake games to improve for the future. A deep bench walk on already rewarded with a scholly should get more PT too?
Yeah, I think it's easy to watch him and see what Fran sees, to see the potential. He's got legit height, he has a good frame, and for a big guy he has good athleticism. You can see that athleticism in the way he runs and moves. He is coordinated, seems to have reasonably good hands, and a willingness to play his part (rebounding-blocking shots).
I think he simply lacks physical maturity and the combination of that along with the mental maturity that comes with experience....I think/hope he gets that from a year of practice and good time spent in the weight room. Put all those things together next year and we see comfort with his role and then a good degree of confidence. IF all that comes together then we start to see what he is really capable of....that's my wild ass guess.
Mulvey could give us at least what Woodbury gave Iowa his freshman season when he averaged 16 minutes per game and shot 48% from the field, averaged 2.5 fouls per game, and 4.8 rebounds per game. I realize that the state of Iowa’s program is night and day compared to Adam’s freshman season, but there’s no reason that Riley can’t start cutting his teeth off the bench this year in limited minutes. A 6’11 245lb body could help our rebounding issues. If you don’t trust him on offense, then have him run around and set screens + pass the ball
Mulvey's not where Woodbury was as a freshman. While he does seem to deserve more time, he has played more minutes than Ash, Big O, and Laketa so he has been getting in. The next closest is minutes is Sandfort with about triple what Mulvey has. So if he is going to get more minutes it won't come from either Ash or Laketasince Mulvey often players with them. It would have to come from Big O or one of the interior players. Do you want them to play less?
Keep in mind that usually it's either Big O or Mulvey. Bot have about 50 minutes of floor time and if Big O didn't get injured last night, he'd have more minutes than Mulvey.
What is your basis for saying that Mulvey isn’t where Woodbury was as a freshman? Woodbury played decent defense but also fouled at an over-six-per-40 minutes clip. They grab about the same amount of rebounds and Mulvey shoots a higher percentage (albeit in limited minutes against bad opponents). If he can help rebounding while Rebraca rests and provide decent defense against other teams’ bigs, while setting good screens and make smart passes on offense, then his minutes are valuable
Everytime i see him ,he reminds me of Dwight in the Office basketball episode
I agree with your assessment. And with time, as @perryhawk has stated, he will get stronger. Good hands. Great potential.
But if you pull out the eye poking he was only fouling at a 5 per 40 clip so there's that.
Better than decent on defense, Woodbury was already a coach on the floor as a freshman, helping his teammates get into position. He never needed help defending - he was probably the best defender on the team, especially. in the inside. Mulvey's not even close to that. IMHO he does have a higher ceiling than Woody but Woody was much more advanced at this point.
For starters, Eric May was the best defender on that team. Secondly, Woodbury was middle of the pack as far as defensive contributions go and one of the worst (arguably the worst) rotational offensive player. Much of our solid defensive play could have been attributed to quality perimeter defense (Gesell, May, White) coupled with great shot blocking ability by Basabe and Olaseni. I think that you are remembering senior year Woodbury and not freshman year Woodbury
Sometimes it seems like he has a hard time doing multiple things at once, so he just goes with the standard game plan. I would have hoped that he would have thought ahead and had a plan to get the centers in, but it doesn’t seem that way. We missed an opportunity and that’s too bad.
He has the best outlet pass on the team. Reminds me of Steve Waite who played in the final four.
May and Woodbury shared the defensive player of the year award on the team when May was a senior and Woody was a freshman for a good reason. May was a great athlete and Woody not only held his own inside but he helped everyone else be better. He was asked to hedge out pretty far (an issue with McC's defense, IMHO) but he also did a great job otherwise thus the honor. He was exposed a lot more as a freshman than Mulvey ever will be and Woody did well.
Given their statistical similarities (admittedly, against weaker competition and smaller sample size for Mulvey), this is all the more reason to give Riley a longer leash and see what happens
He wears knee pads, so I'm still not sold.
It's the reason Fran's coaching and player rotations are going to cost Iowa additional losses that could cause Iowa to miss this years NCAA tournament.
Mulvey or Ogundele should have been given additional playing time against the little sisters of the poor during our non-conference games but instead kept them both in their chairs.
One or both of them should have been backing up Rebraca, instead of playing Keegan at the center position allowing Keegan to pad his statistics. If Keegan and his family have hinted to Fran that this is his last year at Iowa and It sounds like that is a distinct possibility just hearing papa Murray's conversations the last few days. We've seen this act before during the last two years feeding Garza the entire games and padding his stats to promote him for player of the year. How'd that work out for Iowa in the NCAA tournament.
Maybe there's more to C.J's uncle and his beef with Fran?
Anyway, the damage is already done and Fran is too stubborn to change his ways, either in his player rotations or his lack of defensive intensity.
Mulvey or Ogundele should have been given additional playing time against the little sisters of the poor during our non-conference games but instead kept them both in their chairs.
One or both of them should have been backing up Rebraca, instead of playing Keegan at the center position allowing Keegan to pad his statistics. If Keegan and his family have hinted to Fran that this is his last year at Iowa and It sounds like that is a distinct possibility just hearing papa Murray's conversations the last few days. We've seen this act before during the last two years feeding Garza the entire games and padding his stats to promote him for player of the year. How'd that work out for Iowa in the NCAA tournament.
Maybe there's more to C.J's uncle and his beef with Fran?
Anyway, the damage is already done and Fran is too stubborn to change his ways, either in his player rotations or his lack of defensive intensity.
And here I thought that feeding the ball to your unstoppable force in the middle was a good thing. Now I find out it was all just a cosmetic strategy.
Always great to come here and get all of the valuable coaching insights that appear. Hope Fran is paying attention to this board!
So Kenyon is mad at Fran because Keegan plays too much and pads his stats?
Or, Kenyon is mad at Fran for player rotation and is going to advise his son(s) to explore the NBA?
Brought up CJ Fredrick and his uncle to prove a point. 😂
You did get the @cheddarwurst69 👍 proving your post isn’t idiotic.
I wish mulvey would of redshirted omg he should be in high school. He needs to get stronger but he does have alot of upside. I can see him and Owen Freeman under the basket.
Where in my post did i state that the Murray's are upset with Fran? I didn't....
I probably know as much as you about what Fran's reasons are. All I'm saying is Rebraca is not going to be the answer at center for Iowa. He's just not, and substituting Ogundele or Mulvey with Rebraca would have given Iowa better presence in the middle then playing Keegan out of position or even having Connor being switched into playing against an opponents center.
Mulvey may be only the age of a senior in high school but you can't teach height and Fran much have had some idea what he was going to do with Riley to have him reclassify to this season and not redshirt him. Such a waste...
The player decides whether or not to redshirt, not Fran. Fran may suggest a redshirt and why it may be beneficial but ultimately he leaves it up to each individual player.
I stand corrected....I forgot that that had been stated before. Still Riley is not wasted space and should be getting more playing time then he's getting, more now that Josh is injured and is possibly out for some time....
Yikes, slamming handicapped children. High quality individual at work here.
He reclassified for 2022, then reclassified back to 2021 so that he could play this year.
Keep up!
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I did keep up. Others were saying he should have stayed in HS and come next year when he was more mature. I just pointed out that he is in the right class now. No offense taken.
Agree with the OP and others. I would have liked to have seen Josh and Mulvey play most of the second halves of the cupcake games to see what they could with the first/second units. I have been underwhelmed with Rebraca thus far and think he was playing at the right level at North Dakota. He is undersized, extremely indecisive offensively and gets pushed all over the place. I don't see Mulvey or Josh being less effective than Rebraca with the same PT.
I was being sarcastic (thus the winkie). No insult intended. It's hard to keep up with thus stuff!
I haven't given up on Rebraca. The kid always plays hard and has some skills. I think he is still trying to adjust to the size and speed of the players he will be playing against. Even some of the cupcakes had some decent bigs and he wasn't seeing anything close to Eday, Kofi and Trevion in the Summit League. He needs to work on his FT shooting or will be sitting at the end of close games. I also think he is a little frustrated with B1G refs who don't give him the same leeway he was getting as a star at his previous stop.
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