Posting and Toasting - Knicks vs. Pacers~https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/29802/posting_fave.png2016-04-12T22:13:14-04:00http://www.postingandtoasting.com/rss/stream/34258072016-04-12T22:13:14-04:002016-04-12T22:13:14-04:00Indiana 102, New York 90
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<p>32-50. Whoop-dee-damn-do.</p> <p>The Indiana Pacers needed a win to keep hope alive in avoiding the top-seeded Cleveland Cavaliers in the opening round of the playoffs. What a bunch of rubes. The Knicks sewed that up weeks ago. Nevertheless, Indiana rode a dominant third quarter (sound familiar?) to a 102-90 victory, ending New York's <strike>Year Two</strike><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/11/rambis-sounds-like-knicks-fixture-in-preaching-quick-180/">Year One</a> of their "process" at 32-50.</p>
<p>Recent research by a British University compared the brain activity of people before and during LSD trips. <a href="https://go.redirectingat.com?id=66960X1516590&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fscience%2F2016%2F04%2F11%2Fpsychedelic-man-what-the-brain-looks-like-on-lsd%2F&referrer=sbnation.com&sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.postingandtoasting.com%2F2016%2F4%2F12%2F11417560%2Frecap-pacers-knicks-quote" rel="sponsored nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Among their findings</a> is that the LSD-brain is closer to the brain we know as infants, both "free and unconstrained." That was the Knicks in the opening half: a free-flowing, <i>que sera, sera</i> bunch who were sharing the ball and drilling their shots, including their first seven in an obvious and moving tribute to #7, Carmelo Anthony, who was out of action along with Kristaps Porzingis, Jose Calderon and Lance Thomas. The first quarter was the Derrick Williams versus Ian Mahinmi show, with each player scoring a dozen. No need to sit; you're not hallucinating. The first half was a taste of what Jerian Grant can do on both sides of the ball. The rookie penetrated, dished, swished, had several standout defensive plays, and generally looked like a guy you like running the point for your favorite NBA squadron.</p>
<p>I've no math or statistics to support this claim. But trust me when I tell you the Knicks took more baseline jumpers and corner threes tonight than ever. Ever. It was like watching a soccer team take corners for 90 minutes. They hit a lot of these looks early, but as hot as they shot they were only up one at the half. In the second half Indiana forced New York into mad turnovers, leading to lots of transition buckets and pushing the pace, which leads to spacing and cross-matches, and the levy broke after a 17-2 run that put the Pacers up 79-66, all the distance they'd need in cruising to the win. An uplifting start following by a precipitous drop: game 82 and the 2015-16 season, in a nutshell.</p>
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<p>- 18, 6 and 6 for Grant in 39 minutes. Curiously, the Knicks didn't seem terribly interested in having the ball in his hands for much of the second half. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯</p>
<p>- No Melo. No Calderon. Only 22 minutes for Robin Lopez. See? Kurt Rambis LISTENS!</p>
<p>- With those 22 minutes, Lopez became the first Knick center to start all 82 games since Patrick Ewing in 1992. Lopez was also the only Knick to start every game this year; the only other Knick to appear in each game was Langston Galloway.</p>
<p>- Props to those who had RoLo, Grant, Williams, Cleanthony Early and Sasha Vujacic ever starting together. And props to those guys for scoring 40 points on 68% shooting (17 of 25) in the first half. Forget Golden State. This is your new Lineup of Death.</p>
<p>- Weird Stat of the Day, courtesy of Kenny Albert on MSG: Early has nine career starts. Including tonight, his last four have come against the Pacers.</p>
<p>- The Pacers swept the season series 3-0. They swept it last year 4-0. That means Early has never tasted victory over Hickory High.</p>
<p>- Promising Pacer rookie Myles Turner had 13 points and 5 boards in limited action (18 minutes). Ex-Pacer Danny Granger now works as an analyst for NBA TV. Earlier this week, Granger compared Turner's hair to <a style="background-color: #ffffff;" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=milli+vanilli&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjTpPvBsIrMAhWMCD4KHcvrCzYQ_AUICCgC&biw=1251&bih=663#imgrc=P5F87K7Pw44vPM%3A">Milli Vanilli</a>. He compared other players' hair to Milli Vanilli, too. Do the world a favor, NBA TV: hire analysts who can be bothered to do some research - if not about basketball, then at least about locks.</p>
<p>- The Pacers finished with a winning record at home for the 27th year in a row, second only to a 34-year romp by Phoenix way back in the day. If that does anything for you.</p>
<p>- When the season began, I wasn't sure Kyle O'Quinn was an upgrade over Jason Smith. I'm still not.</p>
<p>- If Kurt Rambis is let go, I'll remember him as the brotherhood of ill-fitting pants. Every timeout, this cat's hiking them shits up mad casually...so casually you know it ain't casual. Either get a hold of Clyde Frazier's tailor or get a hold on your issues, Coach Kurt.</p>
<p>- I miss Travis Wear. I'll say it.</p>
<p>- Kevin Seraphin and Sasha Vujacic are in the running to be Jack Haley to Porzingis's Dennis Rodman. I hope they both stay on to share that title. Make it an international buddy film. Release it on Periscope. <a style="background-color: #ffffff;" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCRydncl8Qo">Push out the jive. Bring in the love.</a></p>
<p><a style="background-color: #ffffff;" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCRydncl8Qo"></a>Quoth The Ghost of Kristaps Past: "It's okay. It’ll all be over soon. Shhhhhh." In some ways, it is over. Next game isn't for more than half a year. But for most of us, it won't be over till we know who the next coach is. And for some, if that someone is a certain someone, it'll never feel over. Many thanks to all who read and react to what we do here. The product on the floor often fails to keep the home fires burning over a full season, but the passion, humor, and zaniness y'all bring day in and day out makes it, ironically, maybe more fun to be a Knick fan now than ever.</p>
https://www.postingandtoasting.com/2016/4/12/11417560/recap-pacers-knicks-quoteMMiranda2016-04-12T19:15:45-04:002016-04-12T19:15:45-04:00Knicks at Pacers
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<p>(No idea how the last game thread got messed up, but here is the actual game thread.)</p>
<p><i>And now, the end is near</i></p>
<p><i>And so I face the final curtain...</i></p>
<p>The <a href="https://www.postingandtoasting.com/" class="sbn-auto-link">New York Knicks</a> conclude their 2015-16 campaign with Tuesday night's game against the <a href="https://www.indycornrows.com/" class="sbn-auto-link">Indiana Pacers</a>. <span>Carmelo Anthony</span> and <span>Kristaps Porzingis</span> are both out:</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Carmelo Anthony (rest) will not be available tonight <a href="https://twitter.com/Pacers">@Pacers</a></p>
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<p>Tip-off is at 7. This is your game thread. This is <a href="http://www.indycornrows.com/" style="background-color: #ffffff;">Indy Cornrows</a>. Please don't post large photos, GIFs, or links to illegal streams. Please be nice. Go the Knicks. They did it theeeeeeeiiiiiiiiir waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.</p>
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<p>With absences up and down the lineup, everything was set for this to be a fun and carefree trial for the youngest of the Knicks. Instead, those yougnsters gave most of the floor to New York's oldest healthy players, and said oldest healthy players made it a close, if ultimately disappointing game.</p>
<p>Jerian Grant and Cleanthony Early both started, but struggled to score, so Kurt Rambis got itchy and turned the second half into the All Sasha And Afflalo All The Time No Passing Ever Show. And uhhhhh Sasha got kinda hot for a while there. The Pacers led by like 18 at one point after a blizzard of fast-break buckets, but the Knicks contained that pace somewhat in the second half, ran a bit themselves, and had chances down the stretch thanks in large part to Sasha. Those chances, pictured:</p>
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<p>(Hi Melo.)</p>
<p>That's a cool set with several options! (Don't tell anyone I said this, but Kurt Rambis has some neat out-of-bounds sets). I don't think a twice-contested pull-up three when you're down two with plenty of time left is the best option available there, but Sasha Vujacic didn't spend 10 years playing in the NBA and growing all that beautiful hair to get his options explained to him by the likes of me.</p>
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<p>What you see there is Arron Afflalo cutting the Pacers' lead to 1 with an unlikely bucket fading to his left (unlike Sasha, he'd been quite cold, failing in several attempts to be Kobe). And then you see the focus of a referee review that determined Afflalo's shot did not count because his heel was on the sideline, which ... was it!? I dunno. Whatever. This season has been peppered with back-breaking replay reviews of plays I didn't even know the officials were allowed to review. Arron Afflalo might go <i>Falling Down</i> on the city of Secaucus at some point if this keeps up.</p>
<p>I dunno, I guess that would have been fun if they won. The way it turned out, I would have much rather watched Grant and Early try and fail (or not fail!) for 10 more minutes apiece than watch the above gentlemen execute a large but incomplete comeback. Oh well. Shoutout to Robin Lopez, who busted his (for 35 minutes!) but couldn't get a damn thing to fall, and looked pretty flustered about the whole ordeal. Shoutout to Langston Galloway, whose minutes would be carefully limited if the Knicks cared about managing his cap hit this summer, but who played a meaty 31 to Grant's 26.</p>
<p>That's the recap, I think: Useless minutes for guys with nothing to gain, a fake comeback, and a dick of a replay review. A Knicks game, basically. Rubbercons' quote in the headline was my reaction exactly.</p>
<p>I hope the youngs get to play more in the future. I hope everyone stays healthy. I'm glad there are just 4 more games.</p>
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<p>Losing to the Pacers will always hurt.</p> <p>There is a certain harmony to the <a href="https://www.postingandtoasting.com/" class="sbn-auto-link">Knicks</a>' crappiness -- a yin to the yang, if you will. There are some legitimately good players on this team, and they're not all going to be terrible every game, which makes it crucial to maintain a delicate balance. If too many guys show up, the team might stumble into a win or two. That will not stand!</p>
<p>Wednesday's 108-105 loss to the <a href="https://www.indycornrows.com/" class="sbn-auto-link">Indiana Pacers</a> was a fine example of harmonious losing basketball. How many night has <span>Carmelo Anthony</span> carried this team, only to be done in by wretched performances by his supporting cast? New York got a crazy amount of scoring from unlikely sources -- 20 points from <span>Jose Calderon</span>, 17 from <span>Langston Galloway</span>, <i><b>19 from Kyle O'Quinn</b> </i>-- which meant it was Melo's turn for a stinker. And boy did he deliver: 14 points on 5-20 shooting, a team-low -14 plus/minus, and a back-breaking technical in the final minute. Harmony.</p>
<p>Remember Robin's Lopez's recent run of scoring dominance? He could only manage 4 points against Indy, counteracting a 22-point scoring barrage from frontcourt mate <span>Kristaps Porzingis</span> (22 points on 7-14 shooting). Harmony.</p>
<p>Pacers star <span>Paul George</span> shot 1-9 in the first half, Melo shot 2-11. Harmony.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Paul George, first half: 1-of-9<br>Paul George, second half: 8-of-12</p>
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<p>Harmony. This is the lesson of Zen losing. It was Onumu Sensei who said, "Sometimes we will hit the target ... but will miss the self." Well the Knicks are missing the target, but finding the self.</p>
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<p>- <span>Kyle O'Quinn's</span> Knicks career was on life support until he surprisingly held his own against <span>Karl-Anthony Towns</span> in Saturday's win over Minnesota. Kurt Rambis responded by increasing his minutes, which led to tonight's masterpiece: 19 points on 7-10 shooting, 6 rebounds. He contested shots, scrapped for boards, and on several line-drive jumpers.</p>
<p>Is this just a big old tease? Of course it is. But let's just enjoy it for a night.</p>
<p>- Kristaps had a fun bit of synergy working with O'Quinn in the third quarter:</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Porzingis is 7'3" and 20 years old <a href="https://t.co/uZGOWcX8k8">https://t.co/uZGOWcX8k8</a></p>
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<p>This duo has only played 77 minutes together this season. They're both young and signed through next year, so Rambis might as well give the pairing another shot.</p>
<p>- Speaking of guys who are young and signed through next year ...</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Would mark Grant's 3rd DNP in 5 gms since Rambis took over. To put that in perspective, Grant had just 3 DNPs in first 54 gms.</p>
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<p>But hey, sometimes you have to make sacrifices when you're in the playoff race!</p>
<p>- Paul George has the perpetual scowl of a too-cool-for-school douchebag. I'm not a fan.</p>
<p>- The Pacers celebrating Oscar Robertson's Crispus Attucks High squad by wearing their <i>Hoosiers</i> jerseys -- the mildly creepy film based on the <b>scrappy, underdog, love-of-the-game </b>(read: all-white) high school team which beat Attucks High -- is peak Indiana.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">When the Pacers gonna drop the Hollywood High jerseys and go with the Crispus Attucks throwbacks? <a href="https://t.co/WrtY3P3R3w">https://t.co/WrtY3P3R3w</a></p>
— Pro Hoops History (@ProHoopsHistory) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProHoopsHistory/status/702663104027451392">February 25, 2016</a>
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<p>- <span>Frank Vogel</span> is from South Jersey, which is not <i style="font-weight: bold;">real </i>Jersey. Might as well be Philly.</p>
<p>- Jose Calderon and Langston Galloway were shooting flames most of the night, while <span>Arron Afflalo</span> sat most of the second half. I'm in favor of all three of those things.</p>
<p>- Second DNP of the season for <span>Derrick Williams</span>, who appears to be in Rambis's doghouse. True, he's been playing like crap of late, but I'm still confused as to the criteria for entering and/or leaving Rambis's doghouse.</p>
<p>- I will say this for Rambis: He drew up two good plays at the end of the game. Kristaps missed an open look and Melo was able to break free for a desperation three at the buzzer. Also, kudos to him for going for the win. Nobody wanted overtime.</p>
<p>As Chrisp722 said, the memory of 22-22 continues to sting. We must forget about that team ... they're gone. The sooner the coach realizes that, the better.</p>
https://www.postingandtoasting.com/2016/2/24/11110794/pacers-108-knicks-105-its-depressing-to-think-we-were-22-22Joe Flynn2016-02-24T21:42:55-05:002016-02-24T21:42:55-05:00Scenes from a loss that wasn't as bad as others
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<p>Hey I mean uhhhh at least they played somewhat hard and made it a game and stuff! The Knicks got super hot against the Pacers in the first half and the tail end of the third quarter -- Kristaps Porzingis, Langston Galloway, Jose Calderon, and Kyle O'Quinn(!!!) each caught a flame or two to keep the Knicks ahead for a while and weather some Pacer runs. Indiana dominated the paint, but New York didn't go cold from downtown until ... you know, until the end of the game when it was super important to make those shots.</p>
<p>Speaking of cold, Carmelo Anthony was very off and very fidgety, and some miserable (5-20) shooting met a bad late technical foul to sink the Knicks. Paul George had been similarly off to start the game, but very rudely found his stride in the second half.</p>
<p>This really would have been the O'Quinn Game if the Knicks won. He had some great moments on defense, actually finished some stuff on offense, and even found more touch from downtown than he has all season:</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">REPLAY: <a href="https://twitter.com/Kyle_OQuinn">@Kyle_OQuinn</a> beats the buzzer! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NYKvsIND?src=hash">#NYKvsIND</a> <a href="https://t.co/Pgkp7RqohI">pic.twitter.com/Pgkp7RqohI</a></p>
— NEW YORK KNICKS (@nyknicks) <a href="https://twitter.com/nyknicks/status/702654111724994560">February 25, 2016</a>
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<p>Kristaps didn't defend great and got a liiiittle too dainty around the rim sometimes, but led New York in scoring with a mostly splendid game:</p>
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<p>Indiana came out of the tunnel in the second half really sharp, and appeared to run away with the game, but -- with a mostly benchy unit on the floor -- the Knicks got hot again and pulled ahead for a lead through the late-third and early-fourth quarters:</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Go <a href="https://twitter.com/LangGalloway10">@LangGalloway10</a> go. LG buries his 3rd shot from downtown. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Knicks?src=hash">#Knicks</a> 13-of-21 from 3-PT & lead 88-84 4Q. <a href="https://t.co/lYY29kpgia">pic.twitter.com/lYY29kpgia</a></p>
— NEW YORK KNICKS (@nyknicks) <a href="https://twitter.com/nyknicks/status/702672758099021825">February 25, 2016</a>
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<p>Crunch time! Here's the Melo tech:</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Carmelo sick of losing but doing this on a dead ball with 90 secs left in a 3-pt game. Technical. <a href="https://t.co/iH0xRtAxrQ">https://t.co/iH0xRtAxrQ</a></p>
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<p>And here's the simply sweet but unfortunately ineffective play the Knicks ran for their game-winning attempt:</p>
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<p>Melo appropriately air-balled the last-ditch effort, and New York lost. They do that. More later.</p>
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<p>The Knicks lost. They started the game losing, then they continued to lose until they had lost.</p>
<p>- It amazes me sometimes how little Andrea Bargnani does to help. He'll pretend to help, but he does not help. He rarely makes actual contact with his screens and he serially "rotates" without actually jumping or impeding the offensive player. He knows what he should be doing to help, but he won't. I love the guy, yet I would never ever want to play on his team. Well, I would, just for the novelty, like to say I did. But just once. After that, no.</p>
<p>- I did see Bargnani hit a three off the catch, so that's good.</p>
<p>- The Knicks did an admirable job of passing the keys to the tank along. First Shane Larkin fouled George Hill on two made runners within minutes of each other, then Cole Aldrich <a href="http://www.postingandtoasting.com/2015/4/8/8373775/cole-aldrich-tips-ball-into-own-basket" target="_blank">tipped</a> in a Pacers miss, then Lou Amundson somehow tipped OUT a Langston Galloway layup that I swear was going in. Somewhere in there, I saw Quincy Acy jab-step and attempt a contested three.</p>
<p>- Clyde says he can't spin a basketball on his finger. Like, not at all? Not even for a second? I bet he can spin a ball on his finger for minutes at a time, but just hasn't ever tried because he's been too busy buying furs and kissing ladies and whatever.</p>
<p>- Quincy Acy used a Pacer to foul a Pacer, which is a high-level fouling move:</p>
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<p>The next fouling techniques Quincy must master to move up a level:</p>
<p>1. Pick a guy up by his ankles and swing him into his teammate</p>
<p>2. Tie a guy's leg in a knot</p>
<p>3. Set a guy on fire</p>
<p>- Ricky Ledo takes wild swings between looking like he cannot dribble a basketball at all and dribbling his way into pretty good looks for himself or teammates. He showed off a gorgeous inside-out dribble to shake his guy, draw help, and create an open strong-side three for Jason Smith. And then another time he dribbled into Rodney Stuckey's neck.</p>
<p>- Don't think I've ever seen this sequence of events before:</p>
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<p>- Rarely in an NBA game does a straight-up footrace occur, but Shane Larkin had the opportunity in the first half to outrun a couple Pacers for a ball tipped downcourt and good GOD did he outrun them. I doubt his top speed is much greater than other guys, but he accelerates so rapidly, which is really what's important. I just wish that ability could get him clean looks at the rim sometimes.</p>
<p>- Both Larkin and Galloway rush their floaters in a way that suggests they hadn't considered the possibility before it emerged. It's not so much a shot as it is a necessary way to get rid of the ball. Doesn't have to be that way with practice and planning! That can be a really useful shot!</p>
<p>- Five Knicks scored in double figures!?</p>
<p>And uhhh, yeah, like fracon's quote in the headline, I kinda zoned out in the fourth quarter because we were debating whether or not Carmelo Anthony would be a pretty girl. Four more games.</p>
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<p>This morning was scary, with news that Chris Copeland was one of a couple people stabbed outside a nightclub here in New York. It sounds for now like Cope will be okay, and I really hope so.</p>
<p>Tonight, a basketball game. The Pacers are still grappling for a playoff spot. The Knicks are in the spoiling business but should proooobably get back to losing to ensure the best lottery odds.</p>
<p>Tip-off is at 7:30. This is your game thread. This is <a href="http://www.indycornrows.com/" target="_blank">Indy Cornrows</a>. Please don't post large photos, GIFs, or links to illegal streams in the thread. Only four more after this one!!</p>
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<p>Heyyyyyyy the tank had hit some bumps lately, but it just landed a barrel roll off a damn ramp tonight. On the same night the Sixers (!) beat the Hawks and the Wolves beat the Blazers (!!?), New York played competitive game, but faltered late against the Pacers. Andrea Bargnani had been giving it to Roy Hibbert consistently from tipoff, but fouled out with a few minutes to go, and the Knicks just stopped scoring. Alexy Shved's uncanny ability to shved the defense to shveds and a little life from Shane Larkin off the bench weren't enough for New York.</p>
<p>This was one of those games that managed to stay close without ever really inspiring -- the Knicks kept it pretty simple and missed most of everything. They kept getting to the line, though, and actually defended for minutes at a time. And the Pacers are plenty capable of going cold by themselves, so they didn't run all the way away until the very end.</p>
<p>21 more games of this muck. At least tonight was <a href="https://vine.co/v/OEJeV0V02jr" target="_blank">useful</a> muck. Christian's got the recap later.</p>
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