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Welcome to Hips tonight here at The Volume. Happy Thursday, everybody. Hope all of you guys are having a great week. Got a jam-pack show for you guys today. We're going to hit two games from last night as the San Antonio Spurs came back from down 15 on the road in Toronto. Held the Raptors to just two points over a six-minute span. Got the win with their defense.

I want to dive into that. The Denver Nuggets, a team that desperately needed to demonstrate that they had a defensive ceiling that they could reach, had an awesome performance holding the Boston Celtics, the second best offense in the NBA, to just 84 points. We're going to dive into that game. At the tail end of the show, when I went on with Colin Coward on Monday, we had a fun segment where he asked me about five new players that had become household names around the NBA. Didn't really get a chance to dive into it with Colin because it was such a surprise topic. So I wanted to dive into that. So at the tail end of the show, I'm going to go through five names that I think have become household names this season. You guys know the Joe before we get started. Subscribe to

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So the Spurs found themselves down 15 in 20. them in the YouTube comments and we'll get to them on Fridays throughout the remainder of the season. All right, let's talk some basketball.

So the Spurs found themselves down 15 in Toronto last night.

Toronto's feisty team, a decent middle tier Eastern Conference team, a team that I actually

like several individual players.

They just little devoid of shooting.

That's been the main thing that's really caused problems for them.

And they've had some health issues at some key position groups throughout the season, mainly

RJ Barrett and Yacquipertal. But they were fully healthy last night. They were given the Spurs

some issues. They were up 15. And Spurs ended up coming back to win. And everybody contributed.

Steph Castle didn't close this game. Mitch Johnson talked after the game about how

Dylan Harper deserved to close with the way that he was playing. Dylan was having a great game, very feisty on

defense, out of insane highlight pass that we'll talk about here in a minute during the run. But

Steph did get the comeback started by hitting a couple of big catch and shoot threes. He's been

kind of a weird shooter this year because he's shooting poorly by percentage, but he's been streaky, and he has hit a lot of big shots over the course of the season. Hit a couple big ones to start the run. Devin Vassell got involved. He hit a really tough movement three coming off of the right wing, had a really nice reverse dunk off of a cut. It was off of this back screen from Wemby, and this is something that's really been standing out to me over the last couple of weeks in Spurs games. We talked about this, if you guys remember when we talked about the Pistons game, how there were some layups that Steph Castle was getting in pick and roll, literally because Victor Wemianama, as he's rolling to the basket off of screens, no one wants to leave him. So he can screen to get Steph Castle open,

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