It's either the player isn't going to play right away because he's not good enough in general or he's not good enough to find minutes period??
This is still an incomplete roster from a "can RU impact a defense in this way"??
I know it's not feasible for fans to believe but kids that have a strength in one specific item, can play and learn on the fly.
We have already seen a player with no jump shot, no real ability to score on his own and a limited defensive player 1 on 1, in Mulcahy, play 12 to 20 minutes at a time. I don't see how Reiber doesn't play next year, quite honestly, especially if there's no Cliff Omoyuri or Shema Osborn on this roster.
If you ran or rewind the tape of a game at Illinois where the phantom foul called on the illegal screen on Myles Johnson, if you ran that same play with Reiber as the screener, you will create more driving lanes with Reiber in that role vs Johnson.
The defender (in the Illinois game) could have been Cockburn or Giorgi, guarding Johnson. In that one play, the Illinois defensive player has no real reason to hedge on the screen and Johnson is not going to catch a pass and shoot the ball, if the guard goes around the screen.
If Reiber has one ability, it's shooting touch from distance....not necessarily 3 point range, but at least the threat of being a shooter. If you run that play 5 times with Myles or Carter as your screener, there's nothing else developed off that play, other than try to free up the guard.
I am certain that Reiber or preferably Shema, has the ability to shoot the ball, in that scenario. Myles and Shaq Carter, cannot offer that other dimension.
On the other side, obviously Reiber is not the post defense piece like Myles or Cliff or Doucoure. But in a game like Michigan where you have Teske shooting 3a, you have to have an ability to match up and pull the bigs away from the paint, by having a big to spread the court.
Reiber will be that player that creates even more driving lanes for Mathis, Caleb, Geo and Jacob Young by being a threat to shoot. If he can at least do that, he will find minutes next year, 100% certain that his role will be in that mode.