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Welcome to Hoops tonight here at The Volume. Happy Wednesday, everybody. Hope all if you guys are having a great week. Got a jam-pack show for you guys today. We had a fun Tuesday night's slate, and so I'm going to bounce around that slate of games with five big takeaways. You guys know the drill before we started. Subscribe to Hoops Tonight YouTube channel so you don't miss any more of our videos. Make sure you like this video as well as sign up for post notifications. That helps us a lot.

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All right, let's talk some basketball. Our first big takeaway from the Tuesday night slate, the Cleveland Cavaliers continue

to look like the best team in the East while still having so much that they can improve on.

They dominated the Knicks from start to finish last night.

A little bit of a sloppy game.

There were 19 turnovers between the two teams in the first half.

I don't think I've ever seen a game with as many botched fast. game. There were 19 turnovers between the two teams in the first half.

I don't think I've ever seen a game with as many botched fast breaks as we saw last night, whether it was like kick ahead passes that went too long, throwing the

ball right to the other team. There were 40 transition possessions between the

Cavs and the Knicks last night for the game. And they totaled

just 28 points on those 40 possessions, which is legitimately hard to do where you're typically

expecting that number to be almost double that because that's how efficient transition

offenses tend to be. But anyway, it was sloppy game, but Josh Hart gets a little basket on a cut

in the middle of the lane on one of the first possessions of the game. And the calves responded with an Evan Mowgli catch and shoot three in the left corner. And the calves never trailed the rest of the way. They cruised. They took a double-digit lead early where Dean Wade got super hot and ended up hitting back-to-back-to-back threes. They worked their way back into it. Cat has a little run in the second quarter. They end up cutting the lead to one, but the cat was basically cruised from there. They go by as much as 20 in the fourth quarter before finishing with a 15 point win. It was a defensive run in the third quarter. I thought Jared Allen and Evan Mowblin in particular did phenomenal job on the backline all game. Donovan Mitchell for having a rough shooting night. I thought he came out with a great deal of intensity defensively, especially playing in passing lanes and making plays, you know, attacking the basketball. He had three steals. The Cavs held the Knicks to just 11 points in the third quarter as they pulled away. And again, a couple of just key scoring burst. We talked about the Dean Wade one early. I thought Jalen Tyson had a really nice burst in the middle third quarter. There's kind of this weird stretch where neither team could score for a little while. And the lead was hanging right around, I think, like nine. And they ended up going on a run. James Harder hits a catch and shoot three off of the right wing.

And then Jalen Tyson makes a couple really nice plays. He has a relocation off the right corner to the right wing, a skip pass from Dennis Schroeder where he hits a three. And then a nice little two-man game with Sam Meryl, where he kind of sets the screen, slips out of it. both guys linger with Merrill for a second.

Merrill throws a really nice pass over the top,

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