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Heavy Friday, everybody.

Hope all of you guys have had an amazing week.

It is Mailbag Day.

And as promised, we're going to be heading out to the Eastern Conference today.

We were heavy on the Western Conference yesterday.

We're going to be doing deep dives on the Toronto Raptors, the Detroit Pistons, and the Orlando Magic.

We're going to be reacting to the Raptors Cavs game from last night, and then through mailbag questions, we'll be hitting some other teams out east. In the tail end of the show, some mailbag question centered around trades and some other ideas for some different Western Conference teams. It's going to be a lot of fun as we bounce around the league today. You guys know the Joe before we get started, subscribe to the Hoops Tonight YouTube channel

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streams coming in the next two nights. We are covering the second of a nice little two-game kind of

playoff style series between the Spurs and the Warriors tonight. I think we will see a couple of adjustments, particularly on the Spurs front, as they had a hard time, Wembe had a hard time scoring on Draymond. They got to find ways to get Draymond off of Wembe. Also struggled to guard Steph. So I think we'll see some adjustments from San Antonio. That's going to be a fun game. We'll be hanging out on playback tonight for that one. And then tomorrow night we'll also be going live on playback for the Los Angeles Lakers on the second night of a back-to-back in Milwaukee against the Bucks. We'll see how the Lakers manage that with their rotation. If they end up sitting a bunch of guys, we may end up taking Saturday night off. But as long as Luke Donchich and Janice on Tanikoupo play on Saturday, we should be going live on YouTube for that one as well. All right, let's talk some basketball. So before we get to our mailbag questions, I want to zoom in on Raptors Cavs, mainly the Raptors specifically have won six out of seven and have made a nice little run there in the

Eastern Conference. Caves got off to a good start in this one on the second night of a back-to-back.

They went up double digits in the first quarter, but Toronto goes on a 33 to 12 run,

spanning the end of the first quarter and the start of the second quarter to take control.

Cleveland never got any closer than five from there.

They effectively controlled the rest of the game. It's a pretty consistent dynamic.

Toronto does a lot of switching. They switch just about everything one through four. And then

with Pertil and ball screens, they'll bring them up to the level to contain the ball. And then

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