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Welcome to Hoops tonight here at The Volume.

Happy Friday, everybody.

Hope all of you guys are having an incredible end to your week.

We have a jam-pack show for you guys today.

We're going to lead with a little instant reaction of last night's really fun to watch

showdown between Bamatabio, Victor Wenbanyama, and the heat and the spurs. We're going to be breaking that game down in detail. And then after that, as we typically do on Fridays, we're going to get into a mailbag. I've got about eight or nine questions from around the league from you guys. You guys know the drill before we get started. Subscribe to the Hoops Tonight YouTube channel so you don't miss any more of our videos. Follow me on Twitter at underscore Jason LT so you guys don't miss show announcements. Don't forget about our podcast feed wherever you get your podcast under Hoops tonight. It's also super helpful if you leave a rating and a review on that front. Jackson's doing incredible work on our social media feeds on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok. Make sure you guys follow us there throughout the year for additional content. And last but not least, if you want to get questions into these mailbags, go into our full episodes on YouTube, in the comments, write mailbag with a colon and then write your question. We'll get to them on Fridays throughout the remainder of the season. All right, let's talk some basketball. So both teams down some key players in this Heat Spurs game. The Spurs were down Luke Cornette, which led to these

Bismac Biombo minutes that were particularly rough. And there was even a stretch where they went

centerless to try to address that issue. And then the heat were down Norman Powell, which was

obviously a bummer for this matchup as a test for the Spurs. But we still got a good look at the

dynamic because shout out to Simone

Fontechio. He came in and played incredibly well and put on a Norman Powell impersonation,

just flying off of screens and hitting all of these tough movement threes that kind of brought

that dynamic to the offense. And honestly, I thought the heat threw a hell of a punch. Bam was

very much not afraid of Victor Wembeyanma and attacked him early and often. He had a rip-through kind of chicken wing for a layup. He had another rip-through on a close-out in the left corner with Wemby, where he went and just threw down a vicious right-hand dunk. He was going right at him in the post for a little baby hooks over his left shoulder.

He hit a couple of threes when Wemby was roaming off of him. He threw a great punch. It was a nice challenge for Wemby and the Spurs. Andrew Wiggins did a ton of damage in this matchup as a score, driving one-on-ones, hitting little pull-ups, hitting threes. I, every time I watch Andrew just want him to be a Laker,

because he's literally the one guy that I think would address all of their problems,

but that's just me channeling my fanhood there. And then the Spurs ended up taking control in the late third quarter.

They went up by 15 to end the third quarter.

And Eric Spolstra, as he's known to do, broke out that famed Miami Heat

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