Trash talk irritates Evan Turner
By Paul M. Banks Founder/President of The Sports Bank.net
INDIANAPOLIS- Ohio State’s Evan Turner is likely going to sweep the national college basketball player of the year awards. He truly is royally smooth on the court. On Friday, in the Big Ten quarterfinals, his 40-foot buzzer beater to eliminate Michigan was the lead national story in almost every sports outlet. “I got 150 texts about it when I got back to my phone in here,” Turner said said Saturday.
But even “His Royal Smoothness” can get rattled by trash talk sometimes. And after his Buckeyes beat the Illinois Fighting Illini 88-81 in double overtime, Turner discussed how the trash talking by his opponents got under his skin.
“It definitely got me going. Usually I don’t really — I show emotion but I don’t really get too much into it like that. For them to start running their mouths, they really, really annoyed me. I knew we were a tougher team and everything we’ve been through. I started thinking about the sand pits, all the injuries, we always battled back through that. I knew what type of team we had. I knew what we had was way tougher than what they had, and definitely I wasn’t trying to lose.” Turner said.
The Big Ten player of the year fouled out in the second overtime, but still finished with a game 31 points, along with 10 rebounds, and six assists. Despite the fact that Turner is close friends with Illinois star Demetri McCamey, (they attended St. Joseph’s high school in Chicago together), there was some acrimony in this game.
“They were just running their mouths too much, and that was it.They were hitting shots and front runners, and they were running them off entirely too much. That’s all I’m saying,” Turner re-iterated.
For more on this, watch the video of the interview below:
Paul M. Banks is Founder/President of The Sports Bank.net, an Upper Midwest sports webzine. He’s also a member of the Football Writers Association of America, the United States Basketball Writers Association and a sports writer for the Washington Times.com Communities and Walter Football.com
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Comment from Stormin’ Norman Disciple
Time March 13, 2010 at 8:25 pm
I enjoyed his 10 turnovers. The guy is a good college player, but his ballhandling is going to severely handicap him at the next level. Oh and screw OSU. If the officials were the Illini’s 6th man, we would have won too.
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Comment from Paul M. Banks
Time March 18, 2010 at 4:08 pm
The fact that so many people posted comments on the YouTube video calling him a douche just validates his skills and abilities. People who suck aren’t worth calling a douche. other than john mayer of course
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Comment from pygreg
Time March 13, 2010 at 8:09 pm
Oh boo hoo. Guess he’s not gonna mention any of his own trash talk, or his whining for fouls or his taunting tweet after the win @ Illinios.