There are posters and then there are statements. What Stephon Castle did to Wemby falls firmly in the second bucket. The reigning Defensive Player of the Year is supposed to be the unsolvable problem at the rim, the 7-plus-foot eraser who turns drives into bad decisions. Castle saw the help coming and went right through him anyway.
The poster itself, in full HD, with Wemby on the wrong end of it.
And once was not enough. Castle apparently decided he wasn't checking out of the arena until he had a proper highlight to take home, because he kept hunting them. Every time Wemby slid over to contest, Castle attacked the rim like he had something personal against the Defensive Player of the Year trophy.
Castle refusing to leave without his poster moment.
Barstool's basketball brain trust lost it in real time. Big Cat went straight to the body-snatcher label, which is the kind of nickname that sticks if you keep doing the deed. PMT followed up with the universal verdict that yes, a body had been caught. When the Take and Big Cat are both pounding the table on the same clip inside an hour, you know it's hitting the whole timeline.
Big Cat's body-snatcher verdict on the Castle finish.
PMT cosigning that a body has officially been caught.
The bigger story here is what Castle is becoming. The kid was already a Rookie of the Year. Now he's adding the rare resume line of dunking on the league's most-hyped defender in his own building. Some corners of the internet are already floating Wemby-stopper as a tag, which feels insane to type about a sophomore, but tape doesn't lie.
The Wemby-stopper label getting tossed around in the aftermath.
Some people are calling him the Wemby stopper
Wemby will have his nights. He's still going to win MVPs and finish careers at the rim. But this one's going on every Castle hype tape for the next decade, and there's nothing the Spurs or anyone else can do about it. Welcome to the Carushow indeed.