Omega Harris brings name AND game
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Armenia's A-League MVP wants to make up for lost time
Never heard of Erebuni Yerevan and the VBET A-League? Nothing to be ashamed of since the top flight of Armenian basketball is not exactly common hoops knowledge. But the league has become a springboard for US players trying to make it the hard way. Granted, a fairly low level springboard that features plenty of roundball desperados, but even in these surroundings, you can find the proverbial diamond in the very rough if you look hard enough. Prime example: Erebuni's Finals MVP-winning combo guard Omega Harris. He posted videogame numbers throughout the season - 22.9ppg, 8.7rpg, 12.9apg(!) and 2.8spg while turning the ball over three times a contest. These figures can come across as somewhat empty since every halfway decent American is putting up major #s in VBET A competition, but looking at Harris' context and background in a bit more detail, one quickly realizes that he's an actual player.
A Long and Winding Road
A three-star recruit out of high school, Harris chose UTEP over Oklahoma, Georgia, Wichita State and other big names of major and mid-major NCAA1 basketball. In El Paso, he played four seasons and averaged double-figures in scoring in 15/16, 16/17 and 17/18. In 2017, he received All-C-USA 3rd Team honors after a 17ppg campaign on 49/38/80 shooting clips. He ranks second in the UTEP record book in three-point field goals (174), fifth in minutes (3,767), eighth in three-point field goal percentage (.388), ninth in scoring (1,407 points) and 10th in steals (126) after playing in 119 overall games for the Miners with 100 starts. Harris scored in double figures 74 times, with fourteen 20-point games.
After UTEP, he somewhat inexplicably disappeared from the radars. He told SCOUTORY that he put his faith into unprofessional representation for too long and was never given an opportunity. In 2021, he resurfaced in US minor league TBL before venturing to Armenia to finally start his overseas career.
While it will take him some time to re-adapt to a higher level, he is gifted and still young enough to move up the ranks in pro basketball quite a bit in the near future. Harris definitely plans on doing just that: "It took me a while but I'm coming through the back door now." He definitely brings the necessary toolkit as our scouting report describes in more detail.
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