Greivis Vasquez Named to All-ACC 2nd Team

by Ben Broman on Mar 9, 2009 8:07 PM EDT in Basketball Comment 4 comments

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There's some good news when we needed it. Congrats to Vaz on what is a huge accomplishment in such a strong year.

Here's the teams:

First Team
*Tyler Hansbrough, North Carolina (228)
Toney Douglas, Florida State (226)
Ty Lawson, North Carolina (224)
Gerald Henderson, Duke (210)
Jack McClinton, Miami (188)

Second Team
Jeff Teague, Wake Forest (185)
Trevor Booker, Clemson (156)
Tyrese Rice, Boston College (151)
Kyle Singler, Duke (128)
Greivis Vasquez, Maryland (116)

Third Team
James Johnson, Wake Forest (100)
Malcolm Delaney, Virginia Tech (83)
A.D. Vassallo, Virginia Tech (81)
Danny Green, North Carolina (48)
Gani Lawal, Georgia Tech (46)

For what it's worth, no one else even got an honorable mention on any other team. That's pretty sad.

Hopefully, this is some incentive for Vasquez to head back to Maryland. With the people leaving from the first team (Hansbrough, Douglas, & McClinton are seniors, Lawson and Henderson are pretty good bets to declare), odds are pretty good that he'd be a strong candidate for the first team next year. That's a pretty good thing to look forward to. I still think it comes down to Lance Stephenson's decision. If he commits here, I'm thinking there's a 75% Vaz comes back. No Lance, it's closer to 25%.

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GV is probably gone

Don’t know where you are pulling those 75, 25 numbers…Here’s my take:

He doesn’t have much to gain by staying, the scouts already know him and his game….

He’ll probably try to catch on with an NBA team and if not then he will probably play in Europe.

The rumor is that he really wants to make some money for his family (his father died recently). (per terrapintimes.com’s ttkeith)

Also per ttkeith, GV is probably a 2nd round pick unless he sucks at the pre NBA camp drills. He’s going to do the drills, if he doesn’t fall flat on his ass he’s probably good for a 2nd round pick, and he’ll jump.

Good for him, he’s one of the greatest players to play at maryland. It’s just a shame we never had the right mix of guys to compliment him. I hope to god he comes back, but I really doubt it.

Also, I don’t think it’s necessarily sad that we only had one All ACC team selection. That’s a very shallow way to judge a team, program etc. First of all the selections are obviously subjective. Second of all, per my other posts, it’s never really been Maryland’s style to have a super star (with the exception of stevie franchise) and we’ve managed to have years that were anything but sad.

by tiimbitz4786 on Mar 10, 2009 3:33 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

GV would stay if Lance commited?

Honestly? Do you read ttimes? There is a lot of information out there that just straight out contradicts your armchair blogging. If you are too lazy to be a part of terpnation, then don’t write for a blog that represents us to the world.

I think having GV and BR would not be ideal as both like the ball in scoring positions and I wonder how they would co-exist. I think GV is going pro anyways, regardless of what Lance does, as do most people who cover the terps. But it’s definately not clear that Lance coming would give GV a change of heart.

Stop making stuff up, stop calling for our coaches head, and if you can’t…stop writing.

by tiimbitz4786 on Mar 10, 2009 2:48 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Most info out there

indicates that odds are much better that he’d stay if Lance came. Perhaps you should get info from more than one source? After all, TTK doesn’t exactly have the best reputation in the world of journalism. He specifically said multiple times that Maryland had no chance at Lance, but here we are, so it’s obvious he can be wrong (and has been). True, Keith has called him 99% gone, but plenty of others haven’t committed that far yet.

It’s obvious that having Lance would help GV tremendously. Having someone else on the team would take the pressure off him – even if he scores fewer points, he’d look better doing it and get far more assists. It’s also tough to say if their personalities would coexist or not – Vaz has never played with another superstar kind of guy. Guys like Vaz are ultra-competitive and enjoy winning. If he stays, Maryland could be considered a top 25 team at the beginning of the year.

Vaz has plenty to gain from coming back next year, too. Calling him a sure-fire 2nd rounder is a stretch at best (some respectable mock draft centers don’t have him getting picked or even in the top ~75 or so prospects) and he could really improve his stock with a nice little tourney run with Born Ready.

by Ben Broman on Mar 10, 2009 3:36 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Holding onto hope

that GV stays. I think he still has a number of detractors on his game. This year went a long way to clean up his reputation of turnovers and mental lapses from his F and Soph years but you take away his Gem against UNC and he’s probably not 2nd team All-ACC.

Not hating bbroman, but he has played w/ Kevin Durant in High School and they did pretty well together. Have to agree about his lack of a compliment to his play/skill level at the collegiate level though.

Pray for the men…keep cheering the ladies. That ACC final was one of the best ball games I’ve seen in a long time. Both teams executing and Terpetts gut it out despite the blow of getting it pushed to OT…very cool.

by jaypee on Mar 10, 2009 4:27 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs