Hoops Tonight - Spurs-Pistons Reaction: Wemby & Castle DOMINATE + Cade Cunningham learns important lessons
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
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🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Jason reacts to the San Antonio Spurs and Detroit Pistons squaring off in a battle of young NBA Finals contenders. He breaks down how Victor Wembanyama and Stephon Castle affected the game on both ends of the floor, Cade Cunningham's up-and-down game, and what Detroit needs to take the next step.
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| 0:20.5 | Welcome to Hips tonight here at The Volume. Happy Tuesday, everybody. Hope all of you guys are having a great beginning to your week. Got a quick show for you guys today. We're going to be hitting one game from last night as we had a showdown between two of the best young teams in the league as the San Antonio Spurs roll up into Detroit and pretty much control them in a big road win there, got a lot to dig into from that game. You guys know the joke before we 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 our post notifications. It helps us a lot. And the last minute, at least, if you want to get mailbag questions into our Friday mailbag, drop them under this episode or any of our other full episodes, and we'll get to them on Fridays throughout the remainder of the season. |
| 0:56.8 | All right, let's talk some basketball. |
| 0:58.5 | So as we said, a very fun showdown between two of the best young teams in the league. |
| 1:03.2 | The Pistons, they've been both the best team in the league by record and by number of, like, |
| 1:09.1 | impressive wins. |
| 1:10.4 | Going into the game, they had been by far and away the best like impressive wins going into the game they had been by |
| 1:11.7 | far and away the best team in the NBA this season against the upper level teams and going |
| 1:17.5 | into the night having the best record just very simply the Pistons had been the most impressive |
| 1:22.5 | NBA team so far the season. Meanwhile San Antonio has been fantastic as well. They came in on an |
| 1:27.0 | eight game winning streak. Last night was their ninth in a row. They've consistently held down the |
| 1:32.1 | two seed in a very competitive West. And so it was just an awesome showdown, little measuring |
| 1:37.1 | stick game for both of these teams. And the half court dynamic became problematic for Detroit |
| 1:42.8 | right away. |
| 1:44.9 | Predictably, Victor Wemianamo was shutting off the rim on basically every kind of attack |
| 1:49.0 | that Detroit was trying to unleash towards the basket. |
| 1:52.8 | Deep drop on any of the pick and roll looks when he was guarding their centers. |
| 1:57.7 | So when he was guarding Jalen Duren or Paul Reed, just shutting off the guy driving at him and the roller in those, in those particular sequences. He guarded |
| 2:06.6 | Ron Holland some on some sequences when Detroit had their lesser shooters on the floor. They |
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