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All right, welcome to Hoops tonight here at The Volume. Happy Sunday, everybody. Hope all of you guys are having an incredible weekend. Have a bonus episode for you guys today. So my wife's out of town. She's back in our hometown in Tucson doing some stuff with her family. And so I was just hanging out watching Lakers Nuggets. And I had to come on here during the playoffs two years ago

after those Jamal Murray game winners. So I figured I should be able to do the same thing. I'm

actually recording this on Saturday night as Luca Donschich wins the game at the buzzer, just

before the buzzer against the Denver Nuggets in a absolutely wild, drunk game between the Lakers and the Nuggets. And I know it's not a playoff game. I'm just having some fun. You guys know the drill. But I'm going to, I'm going to dig into this game from a bunch of angles because I thought it was super fascinating as we saw the teams guarding each other in different ways throughout. And I kind of want to dig into some of those details and talk about some of the specifics that I think we'll see if these two teams happen to face off in the postseason at some point down the line. 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 and sign up for post notifications. It helps us a lot. And last but at least, if you guys want to leave mailbag questions into our mailbag,

drop them in our full episodes on YouTube in the comments and we'll get to them in our mailbags throughout the rest of the season. All right, let's talk some basketball. So the final sequence is crazy, right? So we get the Lakers end up going small down the stretch. And I want to come back to that in a minute because it's part of the way that these two teams were trying to guard each other, they go small down the stretch. And I want to come back to that in a minute because it's part of the way that

these two teams are trying to guard each other. They go small down the stretch and they're getting

cooked because they're having a double team yokech and guys are just hitting threes off of that,

right? Aaron Gordon was phenomenal in the second half, just absolutely nails on his catch and

shoot threes. Tim Hardaway Jr. hits an absolutely massive one there in the left corner, right? So JJ Reddick makes an adjustment to start overtime, and he goes back to DeAndre Aiton. And throughout most of the game, Aton and Hayes both really struggled. And part of the reason why is that the Lakers do a lot of switching, and they were having a time guarding three point shooters, right? So like it just, it seemed like whether it was on Yokic straight up or whether it was on like Aaron Gordon in the switch, they were just pulling those guys out and able to just hit little basic moves to hit threes over the top. Aaron Gordon hits another massive three over DeAndreighton in the right corner.

That's basically the last we see of him down the stretch. We get a little bit of Jackson

Hayes and then it's a small ball group, right? So at JJ Redick, after the double teams don't

work, he makes the adjustment. We see DeAndre Aten in overtime. And to DeAndre Aten's credit,

like he starts getting stops one on one against Yokic

actually gets three of them, the third of which was a really impressive block on kind of a

recover along the baseline. And Aiton inexplicably doesn't grab the basketball, even though

it's right there for him to grab, right? So he doesn't grab it out of bounds, back to the

nuggets. And so Yokic has a chance to

solve the puzzle, right? So like he's seen this Aitn look three times already in overtime. He

patiently takes his time, throws a little lefty jab step, right? And do you guys remember when

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