Hoops Tonight - Reaction to Pistons-Hornets FIGHT + Cavs impressive win vs. Nuggets, Thunder beat LeBron's Lakers
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🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Jason reacts to the game between the Detroit Pistons and Charlotte Hornets where Cade Cunningham's team got the win but the biggest story of the night was the fight involving Jalen Duren, Isaiah Stewart, Moussa Diabate, and Miles Bridges. Then he breaks down how James Harden, Donovan Mitchell, and the Cleveland Cavaliers got an impressive win over Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets, as well as the Oklahoma City Thunder beating the Los Angeles Lakers in a game without Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Luka Doncic.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:05.3 | The Volume. |
| 0:20.0 | All right, welcome to Hips tonight here at The Volume. |
| 0:22.0 | Happy Tuesday, everybody. |
| 0:23.0 | Hope all of you guys are having a great week so far. |
| 0:25.4 | Just a quick show for you guys today. |
| 0:26.5 | We're going to do instant reactions to three games from last night |
| 0:29.3 | as the Detroit Pistons get a huge win on the road against the Charlotte Hornets. |
| 0:33.0 | We have a huge fight that I want to talk a little bit about |
| 0:35.4 | that happened in the third quarter of that game |
| 0:37.8 | that's likely going to lead to several lengthy suspensions. The Cavs come back down again, |
| 0:44.1 | double digits in the second half to win their second game with James Hardin on the road |
| 0:48.9 | in Denver against the Nuggets. And then the tail end of the show, Lakers Thunder in the evening |
| 0:53.3 | slate, a demonstration of the gap and talent down the roster between those two teams. So three game breakdowns. You guys know the joke before we can start. Subscribe to Hoops Tonight YouTube channels. You don't miss any more of our videos. Make sure you like this video and then turn on our post notification so that you guys can help our channel grow. And then last minute, at least, if you want to get mailbag questions into our mailbags, drop them in the comments underneath our full episodes on YouTube, |
| 1:13.9 | and we'll get to them weekly throughout the remainder of the season. All right, let's talk some |
| 1:17.6 | basketball. So Pistons Hornets turned on a huge Pistons run that spanned from the end of the second |
| 1:24.5 | quarter to the start of the third quarter. So 38 to 14 run. |
| 1:30.0 | Classic pistons during that run. Their defense was incredible. Charlotte is a very good offense, |
| 1:35.1 | and they generated a lot of good shots in this game for over various stretches of it. But during |
| 1:39.5 | this stretch of the game, they were able to tighten the screws at the point of attack and in their |
| 1:44.5 | rotations, especially around the rim. I thought they're kind of like gaping and help rotations at the rim, like shrinking the floor and making those kickout reeds look a little tighter and a little more high risk than they actually were. I thought that did a good job of just kind of stifling, especially lamella ball. Lamello really struggled during that run spanning the end of the second |
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