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Welcome to Hoops out here at at the Volume Heavy Monday, everybody.

Hope all of you guys had an incredible weekend.

Got a quick show for you guys today.

We're going to be going over five big takeaways from this weekend.

We will go through our power rankings, but we're just going to list them at the tail end of the show.

Primarily going to focus on the couple of the national TV games from yesterday is the Oklahoma

City Thunder got a huge win against the Cleveland Cavaliers without Chey Gildes Alexander

and without Jalen Williams, an impressive demonstration of their defensive ceiling.

And then the Boston Celtics just straight up outclass the Lakers, really.

And I want to dive into several aspects from that game that we'll go to in our takeaways, as well as a quick Minnesota Timberwolves takeaway and a Denver Nuggets takeaway. You guys know the joke before we can start. Subscribe to the Hoops Tonight YouTube channel so you don't miss any more of our videos. Don't forget to like this video as well as sign up for our post notifications. That helps us a lot. And last for not least, if you want to get mailback questions into our Friday mailbag, drop them into the YouTube comments underneath our

full episodes and we'll get to them on Fridays throughout the remainder of the season. All right,

let's talk some basketball. So five big takeaways from the weekend. Number one, the Oklahoma

City Thunder still have an absolutely frightening defensive punch.

So we had heard that maybe Shagos Alexander would be making his return after the deadline from his abdominal issue.

Taking a little bit longer there.

Going into this matchup, obviously a big measuring stick game for a Cleveland Cavaliers team that I'm very high on. I've told

you guys, I view this Cavs team as my current favorite to win the Eastern Conference. I just view

them as an incredibly complete team. And, you know, specifically as even with Shea Gildas Alexander

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