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All right, welcome to Hoops Tonight here at the Volume.

Happy Friday, everybody.

Hope all of you guys are having a great end to your week.

Got a jam-pack show for you guys today.

We ended up getting a couple of incredible games last night out of the Los Angeles

Lakers versus the Miami Heat and the Phoenix Suns versus the San Antonio Spurs, a potential

first-round playoff preview out in the Western Conference.

We're just going to be doing breakdowns of each of those two games. 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. Make sure you like this video and sign up for post notifications. That helps us a lot. And then last but not least, if you want to get mailbag questions into our future mailbags, drop them into our YouTube comments,

and we'll get to them throughout the rest of the season.

All right, let's talk

some basketball. So as the Lakers go into Miami last night, first and foremost, I respected the

hell out of those guys in that locker room just for going for that game. It was their 11th game in the month, in the month of March.

11 games in 19 days.

Not only that, of those 11 games,

seven of them were against pretty high-level playoff teams.

And they didn't land in Miami in that back-to-back yesterday

until 5 a.m. on the day of the game.

And we all saw how physical and intense those games against Houston were. We also all know

the way Miami likes to play. Full court pressure, mixing in traps, the crazy pace on offense. It's

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