Hoops Tonight - NBA Cup Reaction: Jalen Brunson & Knicks beat Wemby & Spurs w/ GRIT & efficient offense
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🗓️ 18 December 2025
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Jason reacts to the NBA Cup championship between Jalen Brunson, Karl Anthony-Towns and the New York Knicks & Victor Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs. He breaks down how Wemby, Stephon Castle, Dylan Harper, and De'Aaron Fox controlled for much of the game but how the defensive trio of Mikal Bridges, OG Anunoby, and Josh Hart helped flip the game.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
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| 0:20.0 | All right, welcome to Hoops Tonight here at The Volume. |
| 0:21.9 | Happy Wednesday, everybody. |
| 0:23.0 | Hope all of you guys are having an incredible week. |
| 0:24.9 | Well, the in-season tournament lived up to expectations. |
| 0:27.8 | The Spurs had a great showing. |
| 0:29.2 | Took an 11-point lead with a couple minutes left in the third quarter. |
| 0:32.4 | But a run from the Knicks bench flips the script. |
| 0:35.8 | And then a methodical half-court offense from the Knicks in the fourth quarter ends up closing the deal. We're going to be breaking that game down from the perspective of both teams. You guys know the Joe before we get started, subscribe to the Hoops Tonight YouTube channel. So you don't miss any more of our videos. Make sure you scroll down and like this video. That helps us a lot. And then last but at least, if you want to get mailbag questions in for the Friday mailbag, make sure you drop them in the comments underneath this video. Right, mailbag with a colon, write your question. We'll get to them in the mailbag on Friday. All right, let's talk some basketball. So the Knicks win 124 to 113, a game that the spurs looked like they were in control up for about three quarters until a huge |
| 1:13.3 | Knicks run starting in the late third quarter flipped that script and then again the Knicks |
| 1:18.6 | offense was able to take them home. So Victor Whitman Yamma hits a three with about two minutes |
| 1:22.7 | left in the third quarter that puts the spurs up by 11. And at that point they had a lot of the |
| 1:27.1 | momentum. They were playing with a lot of the momentum. |
| 1:27.9 | They were playing with a lot of energy. It looked like they were going to leave Vegas with the |
| 1:31.3 | money, right? But I thought the two biggest shots of the game were those two threes on the |
| 1:36.6 | immediate following possessions from Jordan Clarkson and Tyler Colick that ended up cutting |
| 1:42.3 | that lead down to five and kind of changed the |
| 1:44.4 | complexion of the game. And they were tough shots too. Like Jordan Clarkson's was a heavily |
| 1:49.2 | contested three on the right wing where he just caught and Steph Castle's right there. He just |
| 1:54.3 | rose up right over the top and just made a really tough contested three. And then Tyler Colix was a |
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