Omar Calhoun

[Uconn92387]

I've watched all the games from his freshman year and am baffled at how much he has regressed. I get the injuries but that shouldn't make a difference in his ball handling and decision making. I think he is a very big piece for next year. If he can play at 70% of his freshman year it will be huge. He needs to start driving to the basket again. He's a really good free throw shooter. He had a good stretch of 5 to 6 games in the middle of the year. Hopefully he can take a leadership role. I know Brimah will be the de facto leader but you also need a guard to take on a leadership role. I am really pulling for him.

 

[jibsey]

Maybe injuries have taken away whatever quickness he once had but he's a liability on defense and on offense he doesn't have much flexibility or body control. He can fire up and make the 3 but I think what we see is what we have. Oh yeah, his handle is not good. As a freshman he was a projected starter and star player for our future, now I see him as 10 minutes per game or even less. Hope I am wrong.

 

[Kembacity]

Maybe injuries have taken away whatever quickness he once had but he's a liability on defense and on offense he doesn't have much flexibility or body control. He can fire up and make the 3 but I think what we see is what we have. Oh yeah, his handle is not good. As a freshman he was a projected starter and star player for our future, now I see him as 10 minutes per game or even less. Hope I am wrong.

I forget which it was but the one game recently that he looked to have turned a corner, he really looked fast. He seemed like the fastest guy on the court for us, that came from somewhere... hopefully he has it in him and can harness it all season, or maybe for 5 in a row this season still

 

[ConnHuskBask]

Problem with Omar is that he only brings scoring to the table and he's a career 37% on FG and 30% from 3s.

When he's hot from the field he should play, but if he misses his shots he's a negative on the floor.

 

[mauconnfan]

I've watched all the games from his freshman year and am baffled at how much he has regressed. I get the injuries but that shouldn't make a difference in his ball handling and decision making. I think he is a very big piece for next year. If he can play at 70% of his freshman year it will be huge. He needs to start driving to the basket again. He's a really good free throw shooter. He had a good stretch of 5 to 6 games in the middle of the year. Hopefully he can take a leadership role. I know Brimah will be the de facto leader but you also need a guard to take on a leadership role. I am really pulling for him.

Well he's not a guard so no worries there. He's a 3 in a guards body and without a 3's game for now. He needs to defend much better, handle much better and pass much better. But if he can't do any of those he will need to make shots otherwise PT will be very limited.

Looked like he did have something early on and then it vanished.

 

[Horatio]

It's gotta be the injuries.

 

[ConnHuskBask]

It's gotta be the injuries.

I tend to agree. Even though freshman Omar was far from a star, there was little doubt from me he wouldn't improve over his years here.

At this level of competition though, even if you lose a little bit of your game due to injury, the margin of error is so thin, it's tough to regain your former self.

 

[pnow15]

Omar sort shots puts the ball up at the rim. He doesn't seem to have a normal follow through. He takes a while to get his shot up and a player hustling can effect his shot. Omar will always be a sporadic shooter as he seems to have very little room for error with his awkward form.
He certainly needs to shoot a lot over the summer.

 

[Candyman]

The thing about his freshman year was he had to play alot because we had a very limited roster. We had Omar, Bazz, Boat, Daniels, Giffey, RJ Evans (who shot as bad as tsam), freshman Nolan, Olander and Wolf (half season). Ollie didnt have many options so Omar played like 32 minutes a game. He was never a three point specialist and shoots the same now as then. The big difference is he never had to worry about being pulled for shooting woes because we had no one else. Now if he goes cold or plays lazy D he comes out and sits for long strecthes. Which Ollie couldnt do that year.

To me he is the same player he was as a freshman and hasn't improved at all. I dont think hes worse just hasnt gotten better which can't be the case for a 4 star top 40 player coming out of high school.

If he played 32 a minutes a game he would probably average 11.1 again but he hasnt done anything to deserve 32 minutes a game. He doesnt pass well, rebound well, or play good defense plus he shoots only 32 percent from 3.

 

[Danzz]

I actually think he is quicker now. Still have hope for Omar.

 

[RipCity]

He'll never be a consistent shooter with his current form. It's so ugly and the ball just doesn't spin right. I doubt he's going to have a complete and successful overhaul between his junior and senior year. I definitely think the injuries completely derailed his career/development.