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Welcome to Hips tonight here at The Volume. Happy Friday, everybody. Hope all you guys are having a great end to your week. Feels good to be back in the home studio. We've got a jam-pack show for you guys tonight. Breaking down both of tonight's games from the perspective of both teams, going to be looking forward for the spurs as well as the Timberwolves and what's going to be a very interesting offseason for them.

And then the Detroit Pistons just rolled up into Cleveland and kind of punked the calves and kicked their ass and just about every phase of the game. We got a bunch of interesting stuff I want to get into in that game as well. Then at the tail end of the show, for those of you guys who are hanging out in the chat, drop your questions. Jackson's going to come hang out. will take those questions at the tail end of the show.

So if you have anything that you want to get into from anything around the NBA playoffs, drop them in the chat. We'll get to them at the tail end of the show. You guys know the joke before we get started. Subscribe to the Hoops Tonight YouTube channel. We're on the pathway to 150,000 subs. So it would mean a lot to me if you guys would take a second to just click that subscribe button. If you're already subscribed, like this video, sign up for post

notifications. That helps us a lot. All right, let's talk some basketball. So not really too much more to get into here in terms of the kind of chess match, so to speak, or this particular Spurs Timberwolves matchup, the Timberwolves were never able to solve the

Victor Wem and Yama problem. That was just something that was abundantly clear as the series progressed,

even early in the series. And yeah, they got tossed a bone in the form of Victor Wemn Yama getting

very angry about getting pushed around a lot and lashing out with his elbow and

deservedly getting ejected from a game. But as long as he was on the floor, they couldn't get

good shots really other than, you know, mediocre kickout catch and shoot threes. They couldn't

really get anything good at the rim. And on the other end of the floor, they were in this constant

dilemma of either throwing

their defensive resources at the Spurs guards and then allowing Wembe to get really clean

catches around the basket or to work one on one or throwing all their resources at

Victor Wemianama on his roles and his posts and conceding either really good driving

opportunities or really easy threes for San Antonio's

guards. It was just something that they couldn't handle. Anthony Edwards after game five literally

came out and said, Victor Women Yama is doing some things that we just don't really have answers

for. And that was the truth. We saw Chris Finch come out and attempt to put Julius Randall on

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