Highlights: Devin Vassell scorches the nets in Spurs win over the Nets

03/05/2025 11:04 AM

Life is like dinner at Olive Garden: all you need is a Tour of Italy.

The Spurs grabbed a win against the Brooklyn Nets on the back of Devin Vassell's career night. Number 24 led all players with 37 points on an uber efficient 14 - 20 shooting and 8 - 11 from downtown. He also added 11 rebounds and 4 steals. Bismack Biyombo continued to show his value filling in for Victor Wembanyama by notching a double-double with 13 points and 14 rebounds while Stephon Castle contributed 17 points off the bench.

If you look closer, you can see that the ball is actually on fire as Vassell looked like he was playing on beginner's mode on NBA Jam and boomshakalaka'ed his way to a new career high in scoring.

These moves are a master class of how to weave your way through a defense and enunciate your success with a ruckus slam at the end. I'm not alone in calling for Castle to be a starter, but I'll take in every moment the rookie is balling out on the floor.

OK just hear me out for a second. If you don't like the idea feel free to roast it, but keep an open mind: let Jeremy Sochan run point again just for fun. In all seriousness, Sochan taking his high-post passing to another level would definitely take the Spurs to another level.

Bismack Biyombo is a Spur next season right? Like a poor man's Antonio McDyess or a rich man's Drew Eubanks? Although he was initially planned as complimentary piece, like the mint they give you at Olive Garden, he became integral when Victor Wembanyama was out for the season. Now he's the never-ending salad and bread sticks: won't fill you up too much but keeps coming back for more.

This clip looks like a dunk during warm-ups. It almost looks like warm-ups during a dunk contest—I half expected a KIA Optima to roll out onto the court and Mac McClung jumping out of the sunroof to steal another dunk title from Stephon Castle. I'm not bitter. You're bitter.

Hedo Türkoğlu was responsible for like 15% of these threes. Don't bother fact-checking me, I know in my soul that it's true without any sort of evidence to back that up. Matt Bonner was responsible for like the other 95%. Again, no need to validate or confuse the readers with nonsense such as math or "the total has to add up to 100."

I know I'm at the mercy of the internet when embedding highlights, but I need sound for a lot of these exciting clips. Watching Keldon Johnson climb the ladder for this dunk without his signature scream is like watching Wall-E on mute, you're missing the rich, full conversations between Wall-E and Eve (ah).

When it's your night, it's your night. And boy Vassell took this night by the horns and rode through any and all defenders in his way to slam home this crowd-pleasing dunk.

If you missed the game because you were too busy eating chicken parm while wondering if there were more than one Wall-Es on the entire planet, here are the full-game highlights:

Next up, the Spurs head out to Sacramento to take on the Kings on Friday, March 7, 2025.