Greivis Vasquez: 'Bring it on'
Mar 11, 2009
Tags: ACC
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.
