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All right, welcome to Hymips tonight here at The Volume.

Happy Thursday, everybody.

Hope all of you guys are having a great week so far.

I've got a jam-pack show for you guys today.

We're going to start to shift our coverage a little bit more towards the NBA trade deadline in the next couple of weeks.

And so I've got a couple of pods planned one today and then another one next week that are going to focus on each conference in the NBA and some of the trade landscape there. So today we're going to be focusing in on the Eastern Conference. I've got, we're going to be hitting on six or seven teams today, a bunch of different potential trade ideas within those teams, just kind of working our way down through the standings. Do you guys know the joke before we get started? Subscribe to the Hoops Tonight YouTube channel so you don't miss any more of our videos. Make sure you like this video that helps us a lot. And then last but not least, if you want to get questions into our weekly mailbag, which will be recording tomorrow, make sure you drop those questions into the YouTube comments underneath this video and underneath our other full episodes

throughout the week. So if there's a trade that you had in mind within the Eastern

conference that you didn't hear me mention or if you disagree with the trade that I

pitch or anything along those lines, drop them in the comments underneath this video and

we'll get into it in more detail tomorrow. All right, let's talk some basketball. So we're going to be

working our way down through the top, starting with the Detroit Pistons. And for them, I think it's a

pretty obvious need. It's scoring at the power forward spot. We talked about this with Tobias

Harris the other day. This is a team that when they get scoring pop out of that position, they win.

And when they don't, they become much more vulnerable.

I would also argue if they could get some help on the defensive glass here.

That would be a plus just because this team can struggle on the defensive glass at times.

As a team, their 18th in defensive rebound percentage.

And then some shooting at the position would be helpful too. Tobias can hit shots there, but he's very streaky, not a super high

percentage guy. So 26th in three-pointers made as a team, 18th overall in three-point percentage.

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