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All right, welcome to Hips tonight here at The Volume. Happy Friday, everybody. Hope all of you guys have had an incredible week. It is Mailback Day. We've got a lot of good stuff to get into from around the league. And as promised, we're recording this on Thursday. I wanted to give some quick thoughts on the Nugget Celtics game and the Bucks Warriors games from Wednesday night as well. We'll leave with that. Then we got about 10 mailbag questions from throughout the week. Very excited to get into it with you guys. You guys know the Joe before we get started. Subscribe to our YouTube channel so you don't miss any more of our videos. Like this video that helps us a lot. And if you want to get questions into our future mailbags in our full episodes on YouTube, in the YouTube comments, write mailbag with a colon, write your question. We'll get to them on

Fridays throughout the rest of the season. All right, let's talk some basketball. So again, as

promised, quick thoughts on those couple other games from Wednesday. One of the things important

about our recording cadence, it's very important to me that we get our videos out early in the

day with our daily kind of cadence. You know, if you release a video in the afternoon,

like we used to do a few years ago, you know, there's games that are tipping off at

four o'clock Pacific time. And it's just the cadence of the league is so fast. It's very important

that I get our reaction videos out early in the morning. And it just is tough when

you've got a night like Wednesday night where there's quite literally a half dozen awesome games

and I can't get to all of them. But I wanted to get to a couple more of these. So I figured

we'd push them into our mailbag show for Friday, especially with how weak the Thursday night

slate was. So Nugget Celtics, we had talked about right after the Yokich injury happened,

that there was going to be a formula for the Nuggets to lean on if they wanted to win without

Yokic.

And I said it would be leaning heavily into defense.

And then Jamal Murray essentially trying to bring you home in crunch time as long as you

can keep games close.

And so I expected David Adelman to lean heavily on more of his athletes, to go smaller,

and to heavily emphasize in terms of his accountability, the defensive end of the floor,

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