Greivis Vasquez: 'Bring it on'

By Ryan Craig
Mar 11, 2009

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I know Tobacco Road might be the mecca of college basketball, but I would love to spend just one season covering the Maryland Terrapins just so I could interview Greivis Vasquez every week.

The guy loves to talk trash, and practice day at the ACC Tournament wasn't going to be the day that he changed his MO apparently.

Vasquez sounded off on Javi Gonzalez' claim that he wanted to punch him in the face after the Maryland guard hit a meaningless three at the end of the teams' contest at the RBC Center recently, telling him to bring it on during their first round matchup Thursday night.

"It was just me being me. He's a Spanish man, he knows he can't mess with a Spanish man. Back in my neighborhood I have people that support me too, so it wouldn't be that easy," Vasquez joked. "Tell him to bring it on."

Vasquez is constant bulletin board material, and he doesn't mind being the villain in an opponent's gym.

"It motivates me to wanna kill them - it's the way I play, it's who I am...I've been pretty successful the last couple of years."

He wonders aloud why an opposing crowd would pick on him, Maryland's best player, because he says it just fires him up more. It's the same principle, he says, that applies to his advice that he gives the Maryland fans: "Leave the best players alone."

"Tyler Hansbrough is one of the best big men in the league. If you mess with him, he's gonna get angry and he''g gonna get off," he gave as an example.

Sound advice, but probably not enough to keep the State fans, those that made the trip down to Atlanta, at least, off his case.

Then again, he wouldn't have it any other way.

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RE: Greivis Vasquez: 'Bring it on'

This thing wouldn't let me edit my previous post. I meant to post the comment to which I was replying...

It's called a PREVIEW ARTICLE you numskull. Sorry that was rude. Appropriate, but rude.

"It's called a PREVIEW ARTICLE you numskull. Sorry that was rude. Appropriate, but rude."

Not the articles I'm referring to. I'm not an idiot, but thanks for your assessment.

I'm talking about side articles, not the official "this is the game of the week" articles.

RE: Greivis Vasquez: 'Bring it on'

You guys only get this when we play down here, up in Bal'more its all the time. GV (as he is known) is definately an emotional player. Sometimes he lets that affect him too much. But he IS a very good player. And its not as though the trash talk is one sided. I remember Cournty Fells (I believe it was him) talking a bunch of smack last year at the start of the season, only to have it fall all around him. An unfortunate state of the game today. Ought to be an interesting game tomorrow.
Oh and demondeacon, he's from Venezuela, not Mexico so no burrito por favor.
- Posted by cal008

That'd be Gavin Grant you're thinking of. ::Rolls eyes::

He was a good player, but a nuisance in the lockerroom.

RE: Greivis Vasquez: 'Bring it on'

swimfast, I wasn't so much talking about the post-game reporting. (There's probably bias there, too...) I was more talking about what goes on BEFORE games. You never know when a strategically-placed article will get into the minds of players. And if the reporting staff is chock full of Carolina Journalism School graduates, well you do the math! Maybe these articles have no effect on anyone involved. But maybe they do from time to time. This is less about them being successful, and more about the INTENT of the so-called journalists. I believe their INTENT is to get into the minds of the players, even if just slightly.

Of course it's nothing that can be proven in a court of law. But it happens, and pretty often.
- Posted by TruthBKnown Returns

Seriously, at this point of the year we know all there is to know about state. Why NOT write a story about their next opponent and how they match-up against them!? Let me guess, a product of State's engineering school that knows NOTHING about how the media works yet loves to send nasty e-mails to the papers about "so-called journalism"? Happened to me all the time at Technician. And if you walked to to GV with a mike and he said the stuff he said in this interview what would YOU do? NOT REPORT IT?! That's a story/comment worth sharing with the common man isn't it?

Once again

Low Class, Vasquez. Go F&%$ yourself
- Posted by bafans11

Rude, but appropriate! lol

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