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All right, welcome to Hoops tonight here at The Volume. Happy Friday, everybody. Hope all of you guys are having an incredible end to your week. Have a jam-packed show for you guys today. Pretty straightforward. We're going to be touching on five games from last night to various extents. As the Thunder got their revenge, I shouldn't say revenge. They beat the rockets earlier this year. But they're starting to find their groove and dominated the rockets on the road, getting a 20-point win, pulling away in the fourth quarter. We're going to break that game down. We're going to touch on the Warriors win against the Knicks. We're going to touch on the Celtics fourth quarter comeback against the Miami Heat. We're going to touch on Kate and Jalen Derns return for the Detroit Pistons and a win versus the Phoenix Suns and then my very brief thoughts on the Lakers. I'm kind of just at peace with who they are at this point.

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Fridays throughout the remainder of the season. All right, let's talk some basketball. So the Thunder

control this one pretty much throughout. Houston kept making runs throughout the first three quarters.

They kept things close, prevented them from getting down double digits. Okay, see,

didn't actually push ahead double digits until about nine minutes left in the fourth quarter of

this one. A couple of clear advantages for Houston. And I actually'd argue this is kind of the

concerning thing. If you're a Rockets fan, like they dominate the offensive glass. They have a 25 to 10

second chance points advantage. They actually did a decent

job of taking care of the basketball in this game, at least avoiding some of the more painful

live ball turnovers that can lead to easy runouts. And that is usually what ends up blowing

games open for Oklahoma City. So they were actually able to keep this relatively close for the first

three quarters and change. But ironically, Oklahoma City pulled away doing the thing they had

struggled mightily with for weeks, which was shot making from the perimeter. Jump shooting had been

a problem for Oklahoma City during their struggles in December and early January.

They had, these are just numbers from Synergy just to give you guys an idea.

These are points per jump shot attempt.

In the first Spurs loss, 0.8 points per jump shot attempt in the first,

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