Brian Winters and the Whoop Collective is presented by YouTube TV, try it free today at youtube.com slash NBA 23. New users only terms apply cancel anytime. Well, hello, welcome to this Whoop Collective low post crossover low post X whoop collective. Well, well, well, Zachary Lowe, we got ourselves at NBA finals.
Yeah, we do. And the heat, man. What can you say about the heat? This whole thing has been incredible from a Max throughs avalanche away from losing to the bulls who I'm probably sitting here brainwashing themselves into thinking they're one break away from being up or tied when one in NBA finals to this.
And I just think you have to conclude now. This is real. The team that went 44 and 38 in the regular season, it was blah, was some version of reality, but it understated how good the team was. Team that was in the finals not long ago, one shot away from the finals last season, had like an 82 game shooting slump, had some injuries, had some uncertainties and has come together and caught lightning in a bottle and this is closer to their true level than that was because all the talk on this game was boy Denver's 13 and three, they haven't lost at home.
Like this could be historically great playoff run and the heat came out. They shot the hell out of it. They took care of the ball. They tried their best to finagle things on defense and they won this game.
Just you can't say enough about the resiliency of this team. This is the heat. This is who they are. This is what they've been doing now for two months is what they've been doing for 30 years, but this particular team has been doing for two months now.
They are a team that has a lot of different tools in its tool belt. They can play a lot of different ways. They have a lot of different guys they can go to. They have excellent, excellent coaching.
They have excellent confidence. And really it was it was not high level strategy. Changes it was just it was actually very simple changes. They went to Kevin Love in the starting lineup because he makes more sense with the way the nuggets were playing.
You will wonder what would happen if they had gone to love starting game one. We'll never know. And they elected to play defense the way they did in the fourth quarter of game one, which is to back off of Yokich and offer him shots. And I also think that it helped them that they got ahead early in the game because Yokich kind of took a score like sort of flipped the score as mentality.
He kind of played into it a little bit because he felt he had to. But the truth is that over the last five quarters, Yokich has taken 35 shots. 35 shots of last four, five quarters and the heat have won. And when it won all five, you know, not each individually, but they've been their better team in those five quarters.
And they'll say this, if you look at this particular game, the nuggets slaughtered the heat in the second, the second quarter. When Yokich went to the bench, basically it was their second units first. This is the Yokich butler resting together stretches, which are going to be critical in every game. And the nuggets in the second quarter slaughtered the heat in that time.
But for the rest of the game, the heat were demonstrably the better team. Yokich scores 41 points and is minus 11. So the heat, the heat won this game with offense, which we're going to get to, because I think the narrative is going to be they turned Yokich into a score. And that helped them win the game.
And I think they did some interesting things, how they defended Yokich, but I'm looking at cleaning the glass, the offensive ratings for these two teams in this game. 129 for Miami, 126 for Denver. Both of those would blow away the best offense in the NBA. And I think the heat won this game mostly with offense.
There are shots on goal team, low turnovers, 48 percent on threes, Gabe Vincent, Duncan Robinson. Max Drew, Max Drew, four of 10, Duncan Robinson in that fourth quarter and the stretches to really zero in on second quarter. You mentioned the nuggets dominating those minutes. They go from down 11 to up 50 to 35.
And at that moment, at 50 to 35, it felt like the avalanche had hit the heat. And this wonderful run was going to just sort of blah to the end that they were going to run out of gas and they closed that game behind their starters. You know, Jean Butler made a couple of plays. Gabe Vincent had an an an one.
They got it to six at the half. And I thought that was huge. And then the fourth quarter, those minutes we talked about before, they go down. I think they enter the fourth down eight.
Duncan Robinson single handedly has an eight over on that includes him missing a free throw. They get the rebound, he hits a three instead. Those two stretches of the game were places where less tough teams, less resilient teams would have lost would have not at least come back and made it again. The game would have maybe have gotten away from them and they each just fought and fought and fought and they smeared shots and they made shots and his own was OK.
I don't think his own was great, but it was OK. Yeah, they made threes tonight. They couldn't buy a three in game one where they make 17 or something like that tonight. 17 of 35.
So you shoot like that, especially on the road. You got a great chance to win. But I know what you're saying about the offensive rating. I get it.
The nuggets are not as potent of a team when you'll choose a shooter. They can still win the championship probably that way. In fact, if you as I was watching this game with eight minutes left in the heat by five, I thought you'll probably figure out a way to bring them bring them back. And I'm sure in the nuggets locker room right now, because one of the things about the nuggets after game one, they did not feel they played well.
So they did they did they did not and that wasn't just public posturing that was privately. That's what they were saying. Like seriously, in the locker room, they were saying like maybe they were using these words exactly just to be clear. They were like, man, Miami's probably kicking themselves that they didn't beat us when we played this rusty game coming off nine days off.
Like they played good in the first half of the second half. They thought they played very poorly and the heat got the nuggets to play the same style of basketball that they did in the fourth quarter in this game. And I know what you're saying about the offensive rating, but when yoga has four assists, the nuggets obviously can still win. That was still great on offense.
They've got a lot of weapons, but that is not the best. We should probably talk about the fact that Jamal Murray had a three pointer at the buzzer to type a game. We should probably get to the end game. Okay, fair point.
Let's get to the end game. Yoge cuts cuts to three. They get a stick and stop right. I can't remember what it's going to take one step back.
OK, when they cut it for the first time on the Jamal Murray hit a second three made up brilliant. Brilliant. Yoge gets the rebound and throws the cross court diagonal pass. The slow motion replay on TV with his eyes wide open.
Yeah, KCP had missed a good three. Yoge offense to rebound against the ball. The ball hits Jamal Murray in the shooting pocket. Talk about a brilliant pass.
So anyway, my point is so that cuts at the three. The heat come down to the other end and it's a vitally important possession. It's inside a minute. They are very calm in that moment, Zach.
They very calmly work through their options. They put Yoge in a pick and roll because that's something they did more of tonight as well. They want to go to move around on defense a little bit. They know that they're bread and butter in the first two games in the series.
It's been to get the ball to the band out of space. So they ran their stuff. They couldn't get what they wanted. They were patient.
They get the ball to the band out of space. He does not freak out with three seconds on the shot clock when he gets the ball in space. He pump fakes, gets the foul. In this environment where you know like the nuggets are flying.
I think it was a 12 to run some at that point for them to execute that play. And then for Bam to be calm and then make the two free throws extraordinarily important. Because interestingly the heat had been on the other end of a lot of games like that where they're the team coming back against the team that's kind of wobbling in the end. They know what that game is like.
They've got a lot of reps. They've got a lot of reps this way. And Bam knocks down both free throws. Yoge gets a floater.
Butler misses a three. A step back three at the end of the clock. No time out. Yoge like just plays bully ball.
You get yoge. Yoge got like yoge was like I don't want to look at Cody's other face anymore. I don't like his face. I like his hair.
I like any bad. I don't care if he wears a mask or not. Get the hell out of this game. So he makes a floater.
Butler misses a three and you wanted to talk about Michael and decision to not call time out. I think it the rebound with 14 seconds left. 11.1 Bruce Brown gets a defensive. There's people talking about whether you should take a time out there.
Which is just an endless point of discussion, right? Well, we also could have where the spultures just fell there. Well, to me, I'm glad you brought that up because that is the much more interesting coaching decision to me. I don't care about the no time out.
I thought they got as good of a look at you. Because Jamal was red hot in that moment. And I thought the bigger story was and we haven't heard supposed press conference. We come right out here and do this.
Where did they want to foul? No, no. I think I saw about 60 from where we're sitting here. I think I saw a spell indicate no foul.
No foul. I mean, I could be wrong, but they didn't they didn't foul. Jimmy reached at one point in a way that made you think is he trying to foul? No, he's just trying to get the balls.
He actually kind of messed the play up a little bit. So it was effective. I thought it was a good a good to look. I had no problems with the nuggets process.
Did you are people? What are people? I just heard a little bit of question about that play as I was watching the ball in the air. I was like, well, we could be going over time.
I was watching it come through the air. It looked good to me. Could have gone in and didn't you know and that's the thing like just think down three. If you get what you would describe as the kind of look you would say in the flow of the regular flow of the game, you'd be like, that's a reasonable look.
I think that's like a win for the whole thing. I would say is like I don't know enough about the what the data is on how much the nuggets have done that this year. I just don't know. Obviously they have a comfort level with you with because ultimately look you're going to put Yokich and Murray in the two man game.
That's probably what you're going to call it a timeout. Right? Aren't you going to call that other timeout? Yeah, or you probably you got the ball has to touch Yokich's hands.
Obviously. And if it ends up with your mom Murray getting a decent look at you're going to live with it. I would I don't know. they have so many weapons you could you could telegraph that.
And then the real play is like a flare screen from Michael Porter Jr. to shoot at three. I don't like it. Michael Porter Jr.
by the way was bad tonight. And I don't even know what his box course that's where offensively he was a complete mess on defense. He was at the center of a lot of their absolute worst breakdowns and twice the different points in the game. He had breakdowns immediately after which Michael Bohm brought Bruce Brown into the game.
And I think if there's something there was money called the timeout where Jeff and Gundy said Michael Porter she's going to get screamed at in the huddle. I mean he walked away from Kevin Love on a three. He was late rotating to BAM on a dunk with like 450 to go in the fourth quarter on a pick and roll. It was his rotation.
He didn't make it. He got lost switching on to game Vincent and just sort of let him and Kevin Love good. It was awful on defense the whole game. A very big regression for a guy who has improved a lot.
And if there's a storyline to watch going into game three and by the way credit the heat because you can sit here and say well the first three three's of the game were all on Denver breakdowns two of them. They botched switches and nobody went with Matt Strues. The third one I think it was Murray was at the nail while Jimmy was isolating at seren Gordon and say well that gets he to stop over helping when Jimmy's isolating on Aaron Gordon's got it. It's fine.
It's three to three. But Miami I keep saying this. The best thing you can say about that he is they just keep playing and when they just keep playing they maximize the chances that somewhere along the line you're going to mess up. Well the way that the nuggets are playing Jimmy Butler is working.
Jimmy is not getting the looks that he's normally likes to get any. He's missing some good ones too. Well he also botched a couple of like he's like he totally blew one layup in this game. It was another one.
Did you think he had a pass from the rim to Strues in the corner right? He had a layup. Look Jimmy came in the fourth quarter. He sat the first four minutes of the fourth.
He actually took the lead and I was wondering what are we going to get from Jimmy here and he did make three or four plays in a big corner three with like. Yes. He was very good. And then he had a pump and go drive past Aaron Gordon.
Yeah that little floater which I think he spent the last few days working on because I think he's realized that he's going to shoot the ball over the big guys. He's working on his floater. They are doing a good job on Jimmy Butler. Let me say something else and I am a staunch defender of the officiating.
I'm a guy who does not believe the officiating makes a difference in games a huge amount of times. I felt that the heat got three or four calls that were either flat out incorrect that went their favor or that were key 50-50 calls that went their favor. A couple out of bounds plays and the goal. Three shot fouls in this game.
A lot of flailing. So that's what the leg left. That Kyle Lowry foul in the fourth quarter when Caldwell Pope came over. That could have been a no call.
The clear path foul on Yokos was the right call. Oh yes. You know what's funny about that? He saw a love about the throat when they put it in slow motion.
He's like no no no. Yeah so that was a no brainer call. Not talking about there was just three or four calls that could have gone. They were either incorrect or could have gone either way and they went the heat's way.
And if you're going to win a game like this on the road, sometimes you need to get a call. And you know me saying this he could probably produce their own reports if they wanted to say that was the other way. But I'm just saying. We definitely need more teams to do their own officiating course and then leak them to the press strategically before critical games.
I think we need more of that. Docees. They should be docees. Yeah well they had there happened.
Docees and I reject them on three four five six. And before that where did they come from? Yeah. Was there a doce in Houston as well?
Houston hello. Anyway, you know I am low to talk about officiating. I think they're not going to punch you at the end of these games. So early.
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Oh Tyler hero. I mean really it depends on his physical readiness right? And if he's ready. He's been doing contact for almost a week now and we're in the finals.
We're not in January. I've been talking with a lot of people around this series about this. They're divided opinions within both teams. I agree.
To me. I if he's going to come back if he's physically ready because this is the finals man. It is hard to agree and he'd have been great for seven weeks now without him. And I look I've said that many times and I said going into this series.
I think this Denver team is so good and they're picking role defense. There are ways to pick at it with pull up jump shooters and that's one thing Tyler hero can do. And obviously the Nuggets are going to go at him defensively just like they go at Robinson and Strouson Robinson. By the way his play has turned this into a more complicated conversation.
I think I think if I feel if I'm if I'm around him Eric Spolcher and I see it and I feel it and I feel confident in it. I think I try him in a very limited role like let me see if you can make a few shots in a four or five minute stretch. Maybe you'll get his off the floor so I don't have to worry about you'll get running things in your direction on the other end. I think it's worth a try but I'm ready to pull the plug early and have a tough conversation.
So my thing is you're left with two things like if you lose the series and you don't play them. You'll always say to yourself I wonder what would happen if we play them or if you do play them you do risk you do risk messing up what you got going. But I think not playing the card is kind of the bigger thing that you'll not let you have a harder time living with. Well would you have a harder time living with it because he will always resent it or because if you lose the series they'll always be a white.
You know look you can't worry about what players want you got to do what's right for the team. But I think you know they paid this guy $30 million a year. You're six minute year. I voted for Tyler here I voted for you six minute year you deserved it.
Why are you saying that you see anger for some reason. I don't know. But this is one of the great things about having a coach with so much credibility experience and airtight job security. He doesn't have to worry about what are people going to say about me am I going to be second guest or like none of that matters him.
He's just going to watch Tyler hero listen to Tyler hero watch his team watch all these games on full to make the decision that he and his staff think is the best one not worried about the repercussions. Who do you think has the edge in the series right now. I would still say Denver because I think they're just better and so I was saying about the Celtics. That's right again maybe the answer is always the heat maybe he could have gone down and they would have still had the edge.
Look let's be honest on balance the walk he was better than them. John has to get injured. Okay. But they've been before they were beating before he got injured right.
Yes they were and they beat him when he came back. Not 100% obviously. Jalen Brunson and Julius and the were nicked up. No pun intended.
But that's a strong team that they beat. They were not favored in that series and the Celtics should still be bashing against the wall that they lost that series in my opinion. So what is the other team being better. I mean that's not going to deter the heat.
No and I mean being better like on the spreadsheet not necessarily in actual play. So I'm going to read you a stat because I think this has become the most interesting subplot of the series. Here are the points per possession on the koliyokage post-ups tonight for Denver. If he shot out of the post or passed to someone who shot off the pass 1.857 points per shot.
I mean that's not even very good. That's just like are you are you playing a video game points per possession overall. If you zoom out any possession on which you'll get touches the ball in the post 2.22 which is like I don't even think I've seen it too. Okay.
No let me give you the most important number. Total post touches for the game. Nine. That's probably middling.
I'm looking at his playoff game log 15 14 12 11 9 9 a bunch of nines. To me the interesting stat is the nine. It's the fact that they limited him to it felt like more than that and you can define post touch one way or another. But the fronting the swarming BAM speed denying the entry passes the zone.
It did limit the amount of times he touched the ball in a traditional back to the basket position. And I actually think despite what you're saying about turning him into a score and not a passer. I think that the Nuggets need to try to private open more than nine post touches because he is so dominant in the post and credit to heat for making it hard to get there now. Remember yeah, it was done in every way whatever point now some of those fronts the nuggets beat them by driving around just like in game one because BAM can't get from the front.
To the paint and if you just drive around it like it's one big double screen you got a layup or KCP got a lot of air and Gordon Bruce Brown got a three out of it. But I think Miami is OK living with that over just giving the ball to go get you the post and I think through screens cross screens. I think one of the items on Michael Malone's desk should be how do we get him better post touches because he'd have done well to just kind of complicated a little bit. I know I said what I said often to read was one 25.
That's good enough to win almost every time for Denver. So it wasn't really a problem. But I think I think they did take them just out of they just weren't that comfortable. It didn't seem like.
It's going to say that the nuggets are extraordinarily potent team and did many things well enough to be up to on the series. But they are kick ass in this building and they have not always been kick ass monster win for the heat to win this game in this building then as good on the road. In the playoffs. The other interesting battle to watch is I thought the heat were better tonight at kind of sussing out what Denver is doing defensively against their pick and rolls particularly butler's pick and rolls which is mostly dropping yokech back and you saw yokech come up higher against Lowry.
They still got a couple of three's out of at least one and it certainly against r couple minutes of the game. I thought their offense was very deliberate and targeted in that way. I don't think that was good offense. They have not had trouble generating open shots.
Yeah, they have it. They're getting good threes. I would just say that BAM is getting the ball in space to go to work. Now this is I wrote a piece that published yesterday about how BAM has had numerous games in his career against the nuggets that are very good games like you know evaluated the output.
Yeah. And then he's been overwhelmed by the other guy because I kill have these brilliant games and on paper this will be another game. I agree but I will say that the heat find comfort in those players where BAM gets the ball on the screen role and has space because yokech they have to account for what yokech does. Well, and I keep I'm calling it the yokech yo-yo and I thought the heat were good about setting up things in that way where I talk about him dropping back on the pick and roll.
So you get him into the paint because you know he's going to drop back and then BAM no pun intended you kick it to BAM up top who's all of a sudden in an action with the shooter and yokech has to go from the paint north right direct north south up to the three point arc rush out of that shooter. BAM can then roll into open space. You'll get back to the paint like right in that yo-yo is how you beat Denver. I just think that if you looked at what he did tonight.
I don't know the number of how many pick and rolls they put yokech in in game two versus game one but I feel like it was more because they like when BAM can get the ball with room to operate. I just think they like it and it's I don't have a problem with another explain that way because they very easily could be up to well playing that way. But BAM was more efficient tonight. What did you think of they parceled out this for the second straight game parceled out this zone very limited in the first half mostly when you'll catch is on the bench and for the second straight game in the fourth quarter were like let's throw caution to the wind and play it while you'll get into the game.
And I thought I thought Miami did an okay job taking them out of their stuff. What did you think of the zone? I think in the fourth quarter was mostly about offense not defense. Yeah.
I'm trying to think about when they mostly got the stops early in the quarter late in the quarter seem like both teams are scoring. I do think they're missing entry passes to yokech in the zone like they've got to be snappy bounce passes right into right into yokech against the zone. But we'll see anything any other parting thoughts on this game? One one one one see in Miami.
You should we talk about Frank Vocal for five minutes? Oh, yeah. The sons who have Kevin Durant, Chris Paul for now and maybe for longer than expected DeAndre Aiden and Devin Booker on their team did not hire Kevin Young as their head coach and instead hired Frank Vocal late of the Lakers than the Magic than the Pacers kind of interesting hire. Certainly I don't think the sexiest hire the sons could have made.
But what are your thoughts early? I think it's a lot like when he got hired a coach the Lakers. It wasn't 100% clear if he was the first choice on this job. They say he is but what else they got to say.
Can we stop the thing where every coach pulls out of the search minutes before the hiring is now. I also wasn't reported. I pulled out of the search. I mean like did you?
I love Nick Nurse. It's my guy. Him pulling out of the Milwaukee. Did you have an NN hat?
I did not have an NN hat. Him pulling out of the search in the walkie was so it didn't look bad when his assistant got the job over him. Right? Well I pulled out of that one a couple weeks before.
Anyway, I just did I didn't. When Frank Vocal got hired in LA they wanted Monty Williams. And in Tyloo. In Tyloo.
The hired Frank Vocal and the day he got hired Magic flamed Rob Polink on national television. And they had. That was a fight at day. And Frank had to sit there while Rob Polink dealt with a fallout from that.
And Frank handled it brilliantly. I'll never forget it. And I commended him for it. And like a year later he was he was kidding the ring.
Okay, or winning the ring. In this situation they had five or six candidates. They can say Frank Vocal is number one. I don't know.
But they went through a big process and they kind of came around to say you know what? This guy is a good choice. That's what the Lakers did too. Same situation.
They have LeBron and AD. How are they going to make everybody happy? Let's pick out a guy who has some success. That's what they did here.
And I think there's no reason to blem out saying they're going to want to title. But I have no reason to believe that it won't lead to success just like it did in LA. Yeah, I think Frank is a good coach. Indiana was a browsing success.
The Lakers you won a title and look. All you have to do is talk to the players about whether they thought that season. Frank Vocal deserves credit for their defense for their defensive mindset for the size and force of which they played. And they would all happily tell you.
Yeah, he was one of the main people set in the tone from the very beginning. That this was the kind of team we were going to be. And it paid off and then they make the rest rate of the whole thing on Rebels. And he's the fall guy and he gets fired.
Orlando was a mess. I don't really think it was his fault. The roster was just a complete mess of like 9,000 big guys. I think Frank's a good coach.
You mentioned the word happy. They really need a happy year next year in Phoenix because they traded all everything for Durant. Their entire supporting cast on being a little suspicious free agents this summer. They can't really pay functionally any of them.
It may be one of them with whatever mid-level they may have. Well, wait a minute. They can pay a couple. They're going to be suitors for those guys.
Yes. I don't I think the Suns have a little bit more than meets the eye depending on how they handle the Chris Paul situation. Right. They've got well, what do you mean by that?
Like whether they trade Chris Paul and what they get for him? There are other things to do besides trading Chris Paul. Stretch Chris Paul. I think Chris Paul may be dumb.
I think Chris Paul's still good. I think Chris Paul will be a son next year. But what if he's a son they don't have to pay him 30 million? I see.
I see. Do you think Aiden will be a son next year? I think there's a better chance than people think. I think the chances went up by a non trivial amount with the hiring of Frank Vogel, who has a good track record with Senators.
I think part of the reason why Frank Vogel got the job was because when he came in, he had an idea of what to do with the Andre Aiden. It's not the mean that's going to work. They obviously have an organization of a complicated relationship there. They did not want to pay him the max, but it was for the last year, he was in an adversarial relationship with his coach.
And I've heard that I've heard that Matt Eshby has a fondness for DeAndre. I'm not sure how true that is. I know this. They will not start the season this year with the coach and the player not liking each other.
Maybe they will get there by January 15th, but they're not there now. So I think there are avenues that the sons can explore that, especially if they have an owner who doesn't mind paying money. Remember the not all of the provisions, I don't know the new rules come into effect this year. No, one year waiting period on some.
I think it's a good hire, but I just think it's a very big year for Phoenix next year. You know, is the rant going to be happy? Is that going to be the place that he ends up being settled and satisfied? Has the rant ever been happy?
Maybe when he was younger, part of the warrior, you're one golden state. I didn't sense it. I think the rant likes playing with Booker. I think so.
I mean, how could you not? But given the outcome of the season, come back to this, let's say you were Coach X. Yeah. Joellen Bead, James Harden, Devon Booker, Kevin Durant, Coach X.
Which one would you like to coach the most? I have an answer. Well, have I pulled myself out of the search yet? Not yet.
Okay. The sons, guys, but that's an easy question because I think it's a guy I want to coach. Oh, you're talking to me to pick one guy. I want to coach Devon Booker.
It's definitely not James Harden. No offense to Joellen. I want to coach Devon Booker. I just feel like that situation.
Those guys are under contract and like, I don't know what team is James going to be on next year. I think there's a little bit more uncertainty with Phoenix. Like you don't know the ownership is brand new. The front office is unclear what's going to happen there.
You know Philadelphia, you know what Josh Harris is. There are more he's firmly established as a donor manager. But Devon Booker is a guy. I'm a I like the way Devon Booker handles his business.
So as we leave a ball arena, anything else? I look up what ball was. I also don't know what it is. I also don't know what Cassaya is in my own.
I don't know what that is. I know it's the Heat Arena. I know there will be people with you and I will be back here for game five. Yes, we will be back here for game five.
I thought the Nuggets did tonight. Well, rally towels instead of shirts. I like that that's old school and there's something else they did with the crowd that I'm forgetting that I'm forgetting that. That's fine.
Maybe that's why they're doing it. But I like a good rally towel. It's old school. I like that.
Any lingering thoughts on the game? We got series. We got a finals. It's exciting.
It is. And now we get two doff days again to luxuriate in a 1-1 series. It's going to be a good start to the week because we're not going to know what's going to happen. I agree with you.
Denver definitely still has the edge. They're definitely still the favorites. But they have not been as good on the road as they've been at home in this postseason. They have four and three on the road.
They were under 500 regular season. It was close to 500. They did look good. They did handle their business in the LA series.
But they lost three and four in the Phoenix series. So I don't make predictions, but it would not surprise me. It would not surprise me if we come back here in six days and it's two to. I'll sign up for that.
I mean, that's a game. That's a capital G game. We get that. But I still think Denver is in good position.
I just think that Miami's feeling this one tonight opened up possibilities. Opened up outs. All right. Thank you.
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