Devin Vassell has to go asap.

[Obstructed_View]

Yeah, as soon as a I found out he had foot surgery I was worried, but some people said it's just a little foot surgery no problems he will be a good as new.......

Is he not good as new? He wasn't ever that great. He goes hard at the rim for dunks more than I remember.

[Spurs Homer]

Lol “ asses”


dumb ass

[ambchang]

I have to admit Vassell just got notably worse this year. Maybe it’s the surgery and he needs time to come back, but I’ve not really on the Vassell train before. I thought he could be a semi reliable scorer, maybe a fourth option or a scorer off the bench for a winning team and justify his contract once the cap goes up, but he has been so bad defensively whereby that alone will render him unplayable, then add onto his precipitous drop off in offensive production and he is really not earning his contract.

I’m still holding out hope he can right the ship but I’m having doubts. Even before the surgery I had questions about his drop on defense since his rookie year. Another red light is someone posted that he was a league leader in making difficult out shots, while some players are better than others at making difficult shots, being a league leader suddenly is likely an anomaly and is likely to drop off. Besides, with wemby on the team I couldn’t find a reason to take too many difficult shots to begin with, if the shots are difficult it means either you are not running a set to get easy shots created by wemby or you didn’t pass the ball out to someone else who should have an easy shot because of wemby. It is just a hunch I have and unfortunately it seems to be true.

I wanted to trade him earlier in the season when his value was relatively high but the front office didn’t see it that way. Wanted a good 3-D player or a good PG but I guess that will have to wait.

At this point I’d say keep him and try to develop him into a catch and shoot player, get him to play d again. I still thinks he has the talent, just that his development wasn’t done properly and as such he just gets worse every year.

[Ice009]

I will admit I wasn't keen on trading him earlier in the season. Looks like that was a mistake, though, as I assume his trade value was much, much higher before the trade deadline than it is now.

[z0sa]

I said, let Devin work as the #3. He had a good season last year, not great by any means but worth his contract.

This year, he's fallen off a cliff. He's a garbage feeder who does well with no pressure, like Keldon. His mental for ude is weak. He's fast running out of chances to be more than trade bait - but who would want him with his current production? Sad stuff, man.

His biggest problem is his real time processing. He always has to think for a second or two before doing anything on offense unless it's the shot clock is running down. I don't know how many times I've seen a guy scrambling his way with the lane wide open only for him to hold the ball and look around for a bit. It's the opposite of killer.

The coaching hasn't helped any, to be fair. But at a certain point, you either got it or you don't.

[Jordan Jackson]

While OJ may have never found the real killers... the crack beat writers over at the Express-News have found Devin's real issue: he just cares too much.

https://www.expressnews.com/sports/s...l-20184578.php

Mitch things Devin is too much of a team player:



But at least Devin knows that the Power of Friendship is on his side:

Those guys are basketball losers and need to be moved.

At some point ownership needs to decide if they’re operating a professional basketball team or The White Lotus.

[scott]

I said, let Devin work as the #3. He had a good season last year, not great by any means but worth his contract.

This year, he's fallen off a cliff. He's a garbage feeder who does well with no pressure, like Keldon. His mental for ude is weak. He's fast running out of chances to be more than trade bait - but who would want him with his current production? Sad stuff, man.

His biggest problem is his real time processing. He always has to think for a second or two before doing anything on offense unless it's the shot clock is running down. I don't know how many times I've seen a guy scrambling his way with the lane wide open only for him to hold the ball and look around for a bit. It's the opposite of killer.

The coaching hasn't helped any, to be fair. But at a certain point, you either got it or you don't.

My favorite Devin Vassell move is when he does drive in the lane and gets all the way to the hoop for what looks like an easy basket, but then does a 180 in mid air and tossed a pass to the 3pt line that is off target and forces the receiving player to jump to grab it and then have to completely reset the offense. This usually happens with like 4 seconds left on the shot clock, leading to a bad shot. It's like Devin decided before he even drove "I'm going to drive into the lane and collapse the D so my guy has a wide open 3!" and then doesn't know how to pivot off that decision when the lane stays wide open. It's like he's stuck in an NBA2K animation and can't cancel the move

[z0sa]

My favorite Devin Vassell move is when he does drive in the lane and gets all the way to the hoop for what looks like an easy basket, but then does a 180 in mid air and tossed a pass to the 3pt line that is off target and forces the receiving player to jump to grab it and then have to completely reset the offense. This usually happens with like 4 seconds left on the shot clock, leading to a bad shot. It's like Devin decided before he even drove "I'm going to drive into the lane and collapse the D so my guy has a wide open 3!" and then doesn't know how to pivot off that decision when the lane stays wide open. It's like he's stuck in an NBA2K animation and can't cancel the move

You're reading my mind. He makes up his mind at the logo on drives. That's why he actually has some really good finishes this season (at the rim) when the shot clock is ticking down - he doesn't think, he just reacts, and he's actually ok around the rim when he actually makes a strong move, IE it's not his athleticism holding him back. If only he just did that all the time, but he's clearly stuck in his own head trying to gameplan ahead of time instead of react quickly to what the defense gives him.

Unfortunately, IQ issues like these are nearly always impossible to fix. Good coaching would help him understand his role better, but it won't make his brain suddenly work faster in the flow of the game.

[RC_Drunkford]

How much do those s get paid by Wright to write that ?

I wish Spurs had a single realistic journalist who wasn't afraid to ask some actual questions.

Kim Jong Popovich would get them fired

[LeBowen]

9.7/3/1.6 on 31/20/93 over the past 7 games.

[scott]

9.7/3/1.6 on 31/20/93 over the past 7 games.

He's turned the corner... and found where they sell the crack.

[spursistan]

-21 in a 2-point win. You can't make this up..

[dn0774]

He's turned the corner... and found where they sell the crack.

Yo where'd the turn the corner meme come from, it gets me everytime lol

[scott]

Yo where'd the turn the corner meme come from, it gets me everytime lol

In the 4 games after we traded for Fox, Vassell put up the following statlines:

20 pts, 3 reb, 4 ast, 4 stl on 9/18 shooting (2/8 from 3), 17.3 game score versus ATL
15 pts, 4 reb, 1 ast, 1 stl on 5/13 shooting (4/7 from 3), 9.4 game score versus CHA
25 pts, 2 reb. 3 ast. 1 stl on 11/14 shooting (3/4 from 3), 22.9 game score versus ORL
7 pts, 3 reb, 1 ast on 2/9 shooting (2/8 from 3), 1.7 game score () versus WAS

Because this amounted to 16.8 ppg on 50% FG shooting (41% from 3PT), exstatic had declared that it appeared that Devin Vassell had "Turned the Corner"

Keldon hasn’t played 20 minutes since the beginning of the month. He looks to be slotted into the Tre Jones 15 mpg niche. He played 11 minutes last game, and frankly, we need his shooting most nights. Vassell has clearly turned a corner in his starting role, playing more like he did off the bench. Be glad Pop isn’t here and Stephon isn’t in Austin.

Devin has shot 41% on 27 shots spread over 4 games since Fox arrived and he no longer needs to create his own 3s, so yeah, he’s turned a ing corner.

In the 7 games since turning the corner (including tonight), Devin is averaging 11.6 ppg. 3.4 rpg, 1.9 apg, and 1.3 spg on 36.0% shooting and 19.4% from 3.

[BatManu20]

[scott]

yeah, he's turned a ing corner

[thOOdee]

must be a full moon

[LakerHater]

1 game against the nets... chill

[mystargtr34]

Devin was TWEAKING tonight.

[Ni-G]

1 game against the nets... chill

You don't get it, he’s turned a ing corner!!!

At the best time to ruin our tank and to trick our FO into keeping him in a false hope that he is him and then next year again old streaky Devin will be back killing momentum with bricked 3s and mercilessly pounding the air out of the rock to finally pass it at the last second to someone else for a contested shot. Oh and gambling on steals on D leaving his guy wide open in a process.

[spursparker9]

He playing at his best without any pressure

[mystargtr34]

A few more of these games this season against tanking teams and the Spurs might be able to use him as a positive trade asset this offseason.

[rankingtear]

No urgency to get rid of him. Best thing is to add more dynamic talent to scale him down. Scaled down players are more valuable than career role players.

[bigfan]

Dude looked pretty frickin fantastic last night regardless of who we played. Keep it up.

[Spurs Homer]

he looked good...

i hope the the nico harrisons of the nba were taking notes!