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

Happy Thursday, everybody.

Hope all of you guys are having an incredible week.

Keep bearing with me.

I'm on like day five of this flu from hell that has just completely knocked me on my ass this week.

But quick show today.

We're going to be hitting on three teams.

I want to talk about the Denver Nuggets and their main starting lineup

and how successful that has been over this three game stretch especially, but in the big picture and

what it means for the Nuggets. I want to zoom in on this recent stretch from Houston, this last

couple of months and some really concerning trends, especially involving their ability to win on

the margins. And then at the

tail end of the show, the Orlando Magic have won five games in a row. And they are 11 and 4 in their

last 15. I want to talk a little bit about what's been driving that success. You guys know the Joe

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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 mailbag, we're probably not going to have a mailbag this week because I want to do our second to last contender rankings for tomorrow. So that'll be coming out Friday morning. But if you want to get a mailbag question into our next Friday mailbag, drop them in the comments under the video, and we'll get to them on Fridays the rest of the way. All right, let's talk some basketball. So Rocket Snuggins, the Rockets hung around in that first half is relatively low scoring. Denver started to pull away a little bit in the late second quarter, but Houston got a couple easy ones around the basket. They cut it to six. But the Denver starters just absolutely blitzed the rocket

starters to start that third quarter. They built up a 20 point lead pretty quickly. The lead got

as high as 39 and Denver just cruised through to the finish line from there. The Nicola Yokic, Jamal Murray, Aaron Gordon, Cam Johnson, Christian Brown looks.

So this like starting five that everyone envisioned at the start of the year when they traded Michael Porter Jr.

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