Omier injury (UPDATE: PLAYING VS DRAKE)

[Notsince1985]

Since we're going to be talking about this all week, we might as well have a thread about it.

 

[EightiesCane]

An ankle injury this late in the season sucks, and even a mild sprain is a 2 to 3-week injury.

 

[CBurrr93]

Just hope it’s not serious and he can play at 80 percent or so

 

[Cryptical Envelopment]

Since we're going to be talking about this all week, we might as well have a thread about it.

 

[Go Canes!!]

Hopeful but certainly not optimistic.

 

[Stan The Bat]

Well that was a rather deflating end to conference play. Meh.

 

[Da Jumbo Mutombo]

I dont think he will be ready. Not walking and crutches? Would be a miracle to recover in a week.

How disappointing.

 

[AmherstCane]

Gotta hold out hope but Omier knew it wasn’t good. He’s not a p*$$/ like Filipowski who writhes in pain without any actual injury.

 

[CANEFAN83]

I dont think he will be ready. Not walking and crutches? Would be a miracle to recover in a week.

How disappointing.

College age kids heal faster than older people so it could be 1-2 weeks. He may be less than 100% next week but we could use some min still.

 

[CANEFAN83]

We need to play Casey more min than Walker moving forward even if Omier is out. Walker is a liability.

 

[BiltmoreCANE]

The issues are numerous including that if he does play he’ll be ripe for re-injury!

 

[fraggle]

To me. Omier is our MVP and is a HUGE loss. He has dominated the boards.

 

[Miami04]

I’m afraid best case scenario is we advance to sweet 16 without him then get him back at 80% for that game against Kansas.

 

[MovingZen]

Feel bad for the kid. I'm sure he knows what he means to the team. Hate missing any games but it's gotta hurt to miss any tourney madness. Hope he heals quick,

 

[Cribby]

The thing that makes it the most freakish is we lost him against one of the bigger teams in the Acc.

 

[Gables Canes]

The thing that makes it the most freakish is we lost him against one of the bigger teams in the Acc.

On a missed FT of all plays.

 

[Gables Canes]

More Casey, less Walker please.

The tourney, like it always is, will be all about matchups. We will be the smaller team no matter who we face, but I don’t like our chances against big physical teams now. We will need to win with speed and small ball.

 

[AtlAtty]

Are we still a sweet 16 team? This will undoubtedly justify our #5 seeding which means a 5 v 12 game in round 1 and if everything plays to chalk, a 5 v 4 game in round 2. That is about the best we can objectively hope to win without Omier. We have been asking for Casey to get more minutes. Now is his chance. And Casey needs to become more offensively aggressive. He isn’t a good enough defender as a freshman to make no shots and expect to play 20 minutes.

 

[Mklein13]

Play Casey and when he needs a blow go small. Walker was one of the reasons we lost today.

 

[TheRichtShow]

Are we still a sweet 16 team? This will undoubtedly justify our #5 seeding which means a 5 v 12 game in round 1 and if everything plays to chalk, a 5 v 4 game in round 2. That is about the best we can objectively hope to win without Omier. We have been asking for Casey to get more minutes. Now is his chance. And Casey needs to become more offensively aggressive. He isn’t a good enough defender as a freshman to make no shots and expect to play 20 minutes.

Only if we really shoot well IMO. And we might even be underdogs in Vegas against some 12 seeds without Omier.

I mean Omier is the 1 player we really can't lose. Miller or Wong? There's no such a massive dropoff as with Omier to Walker/Casey. Hopefully he's better in a few days.