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We're talking about the rockets.

Second straight embarrassing loss on national TV.

First, it was the spurs.

This time it was the nuggets got absolutely torched in the second half of this game, got

torched across the board from three from the free throw line from the field.

It was not a great game for the rockets.

Denver found a way to completely shut down Kevin Durant and by extension, the entire

rockets offense came grinding to a halt.

We'll talk about some of the offensive issues, the dead legs in this game, the second

out of a back to back at altitude.

Also a couple silver linings from this game and more, of course, I want to thank you so

much for making Lockdown Rockets part of your day every single day, whether it's on

your way to work on your lunch break in the gym.

Thank you so much for being and every day or you know what, this really was a tale of

two halves kind of game.

You know, the rockets didn't have a beautiful, beautiful first half by any stretch of the

imagination, but they only trailed by six points going into halftime was 2347 at halftime and

the rockets were doing all of their damage in the paint.

They had 40 first half paint points in this game, which is the most points in the paint

that the rockets had in any half of this season.

And Kevin Durant only had five points at halftime, which is the second fewest points in any

first half of this entire season.

So Denver found a way to muck things up offensively for the rockets.

And I'll get into some of the specifics with the offensive woes, the issues, but what

it kind of came down to and that we'll kind of unpack the process behind this, but it really

did come down to the three point shooting variants to a degree in this game.

You know, rockets, the quality of some of these threes, the process behind which they generate

them needs to be improved absolutely.

But some of it is also just like this was just flat out missing a lot of shots that that's

a good amount of which would go in under normal circumstances for the rockets.

They shot only 12% from three point land in this game, four of 33.

The nuggets, meanwhile, shot 17 of 32 for 53%.

That's quite the disparity in three point shooting numbers.

And that is quite literally the game right there, plus 13 on made threes, plus 30, was 39

from three point land.

And that's basically the game right there in what was a 30, what is this?

Already six point loss.

That is quite literally the difference in the game was the made three point volume.

The rockets played a good enough game.

And I guess this is one of the silver linings is they were competitive enough in the first

half kind of bullying and bruising and trying to get their damage done in the paint.

But ultimately, the nuggets caught fire, especially there in the third quarter.

And the rockets just could not at any point this game get their outside shot.

They're perimeter game to work for them down the board, you know, across the board, Kevin

Durant, O of two from three, Jabari, one of two, but but low attempts.

Tari, O of four, shingun and men, both O of one.

And then off the bench.

I mean, a lot of these were in garbage time, right?

As a Crawford, O for two, Jeff Green, O for three, Aaron holiday, O for four, a Kogi, two

for five, read shepherd, one of nine.

But like, that is kind of the game is the rockets inability to connect from deep and be able

to keep up with the onslaught of threes from the nuggets, especially there in that third

quarter where the nuggets really started to, their offense was just fire on all cylinders

there in the third quarter.

It made it really, it made it basically impossible for this rocket's team to be able to keep

up ultimately.

And I will say in that stretch in the third quarter, nuggets won that quarter 40 to 22,

but it looks even worse than that when you go back and parse it out to see where the

run really kind of started, where the Denver avalanche, if you will, if you will kind

of came to effect.

And it was from the nine minute mark of that third quarter, Denver went on a 33 to nine

run.

So the first three minutes or so, you know, rockets kind of kept pace and there was a

point where it was 60 to 55.

And from that point on is when the nuggets went on there, absolutely insane run to close

out the quarter and take a massive lead into the fourth.

And you know, the frustrating thing about that stretch was at no point, while the offense

was just continually continuing to unravel, couldn't generate a quality look, wasting, you

know, so many possessions, wasting so much time on each possession, trying to just find

a way to get the ball to Kevin Durant and being unable to do so or getting the ball to

him so late in the shot clock and eating up so much of the clock, wasting so much of

the possession, trying to get the ball to KD and then settling for a really contested

hard, tough shot, you know, it was just really, really painful offense to witness.

And at no point did Eme Odoca elect to call a time out, trying to stop the bleeding to

try and drop a play, get something quality going.

And that has been a fairly consistent trend, unfortunately, with Eme Odoca is, you know,

watching opposing teams go on these massive, you know, 10, 0, 15, 0, 20, 0 runs, whatever.

And not stepping in to stop the bleeding.

I understand wanting to trust your guys to try and figure it out in the moment.

I understand even trying to call a play from the sidelines, right, and trying to get into

an action that you that you can rely on, which I don't know how many of those the rockets

actually have because it doesn't feel like they have many if at all.

But sometimes you just need to steady the troops.

Sometimes you just need to find a way to calm the guys down, get everybody refocused, give

them an easy play that you can execute and run one of your bread and butter plays out

of a time out, a little ATO action, something.

And at no point was that even attempted, right, just just let the nuggets go on a massive

run.

Uh, and that was basically the game like that that from that point on, I mean, it was so

hard to try and recover from that deficit, playing at altitude on the second night of a

back to back.

You can maybe just chalk this up and say it was a schedule loss.

But I feel like that's taking, you know, the easy way out because they played decently

enough in the first half.

Right.

This is a decently competitive game in the first half before the floodgates just completely

opened up in that third quarter.

And it opened up as a result of a lot of the offensive issues that we've seen at play

throughout the season.

We're going to dive into some of those issues, how the nuggets were able to effectively shut

down Kevin Durant and turn defense into offense, getting out, running in transition, really

hurting the rockets in that regard.

We'll also talk about a couple of the silver linings from this game.

We're going to get there in just one moment.

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This game much like many games this season, right?

This is nothing new left a lot to be desired offensively in large part because the nuggets

ability to completely shut down Kevin Durant Katie in this game 11 points five of eight

shooting three turnovers, not a great affair for Katie didn't even hit double digits on

his shot attempts, right?

And here's the issue that that is rockets, often we it's no secret right this rockets

often lacks any semblance of an identity or at least a consistent identity, you know,

and to basically break it down, it's it's essentially just Kevin Durant Alprecht and

Goon, their talent versus your defenders and that's kind of it.

They don't have a lot of designed actions that they run.

They don't have a preferred method of breaking you down or at least it doesn't feel like

a consistent one at that, right?

It's a lot of just Kevin Durant Alprecht and Goon isolation play a lot of the other four

guys standing around and hoping that the defense gets broken down.

And then some games they have, you know, some great ball movement and the guys are really

sharing the basketball and they're getting out and running and transitioning and other

games like this one, it just kind of looks like a train wreck right where they look like

their deer and headlights and they don't know what to do.

And this was game 65 of the season.

And yet here we are at game 65 of an 82 game campaign and this rockets team still has

zero understanding of how to either a get the ball to Kevin Durant at time so that he

can be effective or be how to react when teams are completely selling out on stopping

Katie because that's exactly what the nuggets did in this game.

And the rockets did a decent enough job at taking advantage of that in the first half.

But it's like in the second half, they just completely went away from the things that

were working in the first half.

And then they elected to just try against all odds and everything else to try and get

the ball to Kevin Durant even going so far as wasting, you know, 10, 12, 15 seconds

of the shot clock while Kevin Durant's battling for positioning and then, you know, trying

to get the ball at the elbow so that he can get to his isolation gate like.

And meanwhile Denver is completely shading over multiple defenders.

They're playing, you know, at times they were playing like a pseudo zone or like a weird

like box and one style kind of defense on Katie where he had have his, you know, man defender

on him and then have just every other player on the floor shaded so heavily over

towards Katie because the rockets don't have any design actions to punish the defense either

A when Katie does have the ball in his hands.

Because once it's like, it's like they get so confused every time it happens.

And there are, there were some moments in the first half where like Jabari would flash

to the middle and catch a pass in the middle of like the, the nugget zone and then elevate

and knock down a beautiful shot or somebody would come cutting through the paint.

There were, there were a couple great plays from Josh Akogi in the first half where Josh

Akogi would be like the release valve like in the, you know, in the zone catch the pass

and then as soon as the defense tries to rotate, then Akogi hit a men Thompson a couple

different times with some interior passes, right?

So some like cutting into more cutting and those were some good possessions.

But then in the second half, it's just the offense just completely devolved into the same

old same old that it happens seemingly every game just isolate heavy isolation.

Very predictable offense being run through Katie and Alper and Shingoon leading to turnovers

leading to transition opportunities for the nuggets.

And that's where the rockets got completely killed.

I mean, they got worked over in transition in this game 24 to 12 nuggets managed to score

18 points off of the rockets 16 turnovers.

Rockets only scored 10 points off the nuggets 10 turnovers.

And those turnovers are just their backbreakers, man.

Like this rocket team and it's just, it's easily avoidable turnovers is the thing too.

Like it's just poor execution, poor attention to detail, lack of focus at times offensively

picking up your dribble and doing silly things.

There was a sequence.

This wasn't quite in the second, this wasn't in the second half when the game really started

to get away from them.

But there was like this weird sequence with like some poor body language in the first half

where Shingoon missed a three pointer and then didn't get back in transition and the

rockets gave up a wide open, a wide open layup in transition.

And so like that didn't look great.

And then and Katie's like body language after that happened was not ideal.

And then Kevin Durant had a turnover on the very next possession and like didn't even

make an effort to get back in transition.

Like just just turned and like walked and he could have absolutely been in the play because

it wasn't like Katie turned it over and it was an immediate like to like Katie had

a chance if he had just turned on his heel and like took off.

He could have been in the play and maybe had a chance to salvage that defensive possession.

And then there was another one to cap off that like 80 run, Clint Capel had an offensive

rebound that led into a turnover that turned into a five on two nuggets fast break because

so many rockets were trailing the play because they're trying to attack the offensive glass

and then they couldn't get back in guard in transition.

You know, and talking about the process behind some of these threes, you know, the fact

that one, the rockets really only have one player on the roster who shoots threes at

volume.

Maybe two if you count Jabari sma junior, although he hasn't, Jabari doesn't consistently

shoot threes at volume yet.

Some games will get up, you know, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, threes or whatever, but

he doesn't do it consistently enough.

It's just read shepherd is the only player who can get threes on volume.

And while I do think like early in the game, there were a couple three, I think that for

the most part, the first few shots that shepherd took were okay.

And I think that it's important to remember like with a shooter with shooters like shepherd

and to a degree Kevin Durant because we see this happen with him all the time too.

They might miss their first three, four or five shots.

And then they see that first one go in and then it's like the flood gates are open and

then bang, bang, bang, bang.

They start hitting.

I didn't happen for reading this game.

He missed his first three.

He hit his next two.

And so he was two of five to start the game.

One of those two being a three pointer.

I think he was one of four from three at that point.

And then he just proceeded to miss the rest of his next five threes for the rest of the

game.

But every single three that breed was missing and to an extent, it felt like this for

the entire team.

It felt like dead legs.

And this was very much that the nuggets truly not only do is ball arena a fantastic like

basketball environment.

The nuggets have a great stadium being there for a couple games, a couple seasons ago was

a ton of fun.

But they've got a great environment.

They've got a great fan base.

They also have one of the legitimate like toughest home court arenas and home court advantages

in the entire NBA playing at altitude and let it, playing it out to let alone on the

second night of a back to back.

And so that was a very difficult thing for this rocket squad, I think, to overcome.

And you certainly saw it in the second half, you saw it kind of, you know, just throughout

the game, the fact that the rockets did look so awful from three in this one.

And a lot of threes were coming up short it, you know, just, you know, barely hitting

the front iron, that kind of thing, felt like every single one of reads threes was coming

up just a little bit short.

Even the ones where it felt like, you know, he was like one or two steps behind the three

point line and trying to put like a little extra mustard on it to get it to go and just

still coming up a little short.

And that's, that's a really tough thing to overcome, right?

The rockets have really struggled on the second night of back to backs this season, Kevin

Durant has struggled on the second night of back to backs this season.

And that, that's absolutely, that's an age factor for Katie, probably a little bit.

But the rest of the rocket, these young guys, the young bloods on the team, shingoon,

a men, read, tarage, a bar, these guys shouldn't be struggling on second nights of back to

backs.

Now, some of that might have to do with the minutes burden that they've had this season

and, you know, emails kind of demanding play style or how physically wants team to be

crashing glass, all that stuff, maybe that, you know, bleeds into it a little bit.

But I don't know, it feels like a, it feels like a very convenient excuse to just hide

the fair to, to, you know, sure coat the fact that this rocket's offense is just bad.

It's just bad.

It's very bad under email and, and they look lost at times.

They look like they don't know what they're doing.

And juxtaposed to the nuggets offense, which looks really deadly and lethal.

Like at one point in this game, the nuggets had 19 assists on 22 made shots, 19 assists

on 20.

The amount of ability or the ability to successfully and consistently move the basketball,

find good, you know, generate high quality offense, move the basketball around the perimeter,

make sure it winds up in the hands of an open shooter.

You know, the rockets generate some open looks, but they don't ever feel like really great

clean looks is the problem.

They kind of just feel like, all right, this is what we got out of this possession.

All right, this is okay.

Like we'll take this three here.

I don't know how many different possessions the nuggets had that wound up with a completely

wide open three point shooter out of the result of like really good ball movement, right?

Starts off with an action involving, uh, neatly, yoke at your Jamal Murray gets the rocket's

defense and the rotation.

They're swinging the ball around and then suddenly you've got a wide open shot for somebody

on the perimeter, um, or, you know, swing, swing around and then, you know, yoke hit somebody

on a cut going towards the basket or a good strong straw, you know, drive off a yoke

screen, something like that.

Nuggets offense just looks world ahead of where the rocket's offense is at.

Unfortunately, at this stage, just completely different tiers of offense, um, and I'm

saw like the rockets have talent on this roster.

They do, you know, do they have, you know, a Jamal Murray type, do they have a yoke,

it's, they've got, you know, potentially a baby yoke, right?

But like, there's no reason given the talent on this roster that the offense should look

this bad.

And, and that is very much an issue for EMA O'Doken company to try and resolve if they're

able to, but through two and a half years of evidence at this point, I'm not going to,

I'm not exactly holding my breath waiting for the offense to suddenly get better overnight.

Um, and that's going to be a problem for this rocket scene.

That is going to be their Achilles heel is this coaching staff's inability to find any

semblance of consistent offense or finding creative ways to incorporate and involve their

star players or to beat defensive schemes.

Like, you know, instead of force feeding the ball to Kevin Durant while the defense is

loading up on him, generally you use that star players gravity to your advantage, right?

The nuggets were loading up so heavily on KD you should be able to do something out of

that, right?

Like the other four guys on the floor should have some easier opportunities as a result

of that gravity or you should be able to utilize Kevin's gravity.

And if you're going to put the ball in his hands, then find ways to have actions drawn

up to take advantage of that gravity when the defense sells out to try and stop him.

You know, I can't remember the last time a defense was this aggressive trying to stop

somebody and you weren't able to manufacture decent offense out of it out of the four on

three scenarios.

Uh, that's, that's a death knell for any team, right?

If you can't find some semblance of quality offense when a team is consistently sending

two to the ball, just try and stop your best player coming up.

I do want to share some of these silver linings from this game, the impact and play from

Amin Thompson and Josh Akogi in particular, the strong start for Jabari's, Majunior, some

of the activity for a couple of the other guys on the floor, we're going to get there

in just one moment.

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All right, I will say a couple that stand out kind of silver lining players from this

game.

Amin Thompson.

Just the way in which he was playing in and around the basket his aggressiveness, his

ability to attack 16 points, eight of 14 shooting, five rebounds for a sys steel, had some

solid plays in the second quarter of this game as the rockets were still kind of very

much in this game before the third quarter bludgeoning where the nuggets completely pulled

away in this game.

Amin Thompson had a strong second quarter.

He was four or four from the floor.

He had eight points.

Did a lot of his damage in and around the basket.

And it was great seeing him kind of operate down low.

Right.

He had a good little kind of two way game or two, you know, two man game with Josh Akogi.

Those two guys playing really well off of one another.

And speaking of Josh Akogi.

Josh Akogi was awesome in this game.

His minutes when he does play have been so refreshing compared to the corpse of Dorian

Finney Smith, honestly, at this point in the season with how DFS looks still at game 65.

He even mind, right?

He started December 25th.

So he's had January, he's had all the February that's two whole months.

And we are almost halfway through March right now.

And he still does not look like himself.

At this point, we are well beyond any like, oh, he's playing himself into game shape.

Oh, he's still like at this point, I would just shut DFS down for the rest of the season.

Shut him down, let him get right and just chalk this year up to an L for the first year

of the DFS experience, right?

Let him get back, let him let him rest up, let him get back into physical therapy, whatever.

Get the ankle right for next season because Josh Akogi has been better than DFS in pretty

much every game since, pretty much almost every game since DFS came back from injury.

There have been like two, maybe three games where DFS has had like a solid game and has

been more impactful than Josh Akogi.

And that's about it.

Josh Akogi was playing out of his mind to start this year for the Rockets.

And while he was in a much bigger role than probably any Rockets in would have liked

to see him in, he was excelling in those minutes and making an impact wherever possible

in a role far beyond any of which that that we would have thought he would have had for

this team, right?

So, you know, probably the shoe is a little bit too big for him to try to fill unfortunately.

But when you scale him back down into that, you know, super sub, you know, energy man off

the bench, whatever, 20, 25 minutes a night, that's the perfect role for Josh Akogi.

And you felt his impact in this game against the Nuggets, especially in the first half before

the things before the game kind of came off the rails, Josh Akogi was solid in the first

half of this game.

Good activity, created some offense, offense, you know, created some opportunities offensively,

had a few rebounds, had a few assists, just a solid little game for Josh Gogi.

And again, at this point in the season, Josh go, you should play every single second minute

available moment over DFS and the Rockets should just shut DFS down for the rest of the

year.

Um, also, it was a strong start to the game for Jabari Smith, Jr. and then just completely

tapered off.

He had a four or five first quarter, nine points early on, um, and then he went over

two in the second quarter.

And then it's like the Rockets just completely went away from him and then he had to sit

without trouble in the fourth quarter and didn't come back in until the game was basically

a total blowout, you know, at the end of the third quarter when, uh, the Nuggets run

was more or less almost complete and they were basically up 20 something at that point.

So Jabari was a guy that I thought and I feel like the Rockets do a poor job of this on

a game-to-game night-to-night basis of identifying the hot hand like a guy'll go off in a quarter,

right?

Like, like, you know, shingoon will have a massive quarter or read Shepherd or get really

hot and hit a bunch of shots or like Tariel knocked down a bunch of threes in a row or

Katie will get hot.

And then it's like they just forget that that happened, right?

Especially in between quarters, especially in between quarters.

Like, I feel like in a given quarter, there may be a little better about recognizing,

oh, like reads kind of hot, like getting more shots.

So like, why not keep going back to Jabari in the second quarter?

Why not draw up a player to why not why not have a few more actions where he flashes to

the middle of the floor and catches it at the elbow and turns and hits his little midi pull

up that he loves so much, right?

Like that would have been a perfect opportunity to keep building Jabari's confidence, keep

him engaged offensively.

And then in the second half as they continue to or just throughout the game as they continue

selling out on KD, having Jabari be your offensive release valve, right?

Because then what happens is if the defense is selling out so hard to beat, to stop KD,

right?

Then you elect to beat them with your other guys.

And ideally, your other guys are talented enough to be able to win that equation.

You're also going to have to put them in good enough spots offensively and give them some

stuff to work with to be able to win those moments.

But then one of two things happens, either the opposing team adjusts and they release some

of the pressure, they stop face guarding, stop sitting two to the ball, stop shading

so heavily on the star that they were trying to stop, right?

Which opens things up for Kevin Durant, or they just can completely sell and they say,

you know what?

No, we don't believe that your four other guys can beat our guys over the course of four

quarters.

And we're just going to stick to KD.

And that's exactly what happened because the rockets never found a way to effectively

punish the nuggets.

So they just got to continue sitting on KD the entire game.

So frustrating to say the least.

It was also like this wasn't because it was kind of similar.

They weren't as aggressive with Shingoon defensively as they were Kevin Durant, but they were

still kind of doing the same thing.

The little, you know, the zone looks the shading over, you know, the day basically because

they know the rockets offense relies so heavily on Kevin Durant and Shingoon.

They were loading up so heavily every single time one of those guys caught the ball in

one of their spots, whether it was Katie at the elbow or Shingoon in the post and just

shading guys over trying to basically daring, you know, Kevin Durant and Shingoon to pass

the ball and to make one of their teammates beat them.

And it led to some pretty ugly offense like there was one, oh my god, there was one possession

where Shingoon wasted so much time trying to back down the defender.

He got whistled for a five second back to the basket call, which I can't outrun to

the last time I've seen one of those calls.

It's absurd.

It's the Charles Barkley rule because it's you can't just sit there and pound away, pound

away against a defender.

You have to make some kind of a move.

You can't just sit there and dribble out the clock for five straight seconds without making

some kind of a move towards the basket.

You have to like, I forget what the terminology is like the weird NBA lane going on.

It's like you have to make like some kind of concerted effort towards the basket, like

forward progress kind of something in football, I don't know.

Point being, that was ridiculous.

And so the offense wasn't great from Shingoon, quiet night, 10 points, five of eight shooting.

He did go over four at the free throw line, like the free throw shooting continues to be

a concerning trend for him.

But I will say that defensively his activity was a little bit with continues to be a little

bit more encouraging.

He had multiple possession.

They had three blocks in this game.

He had a lot of activity around the rim and there was one sequence that was pretty encouraging.

It was, uh, Shingoon had some really, really solid defense on Yokech on a post up.

And then he had to help off at the last second on Christian Brown, who would like cut baseline.

And Jabari was kind of down there with Christian Brown and got a good first contest on it.

But then Shingoon came over for the late second contest, completely blocked Christian Brown

at the rim.

And then that sequence turned into a Kevin Durant three pointer and transition that Katie

missed.

And then Shingoon was able to get the offensive rebound and dished it to Kevin Durant

on like the cut for a dunk.

And so like that kind of activity from Shingoon is what the rockets need every single night,

right?

They need that level of activity from him on the interior on the glass, um, contesting

shots around the rim.

You know, and when they get that version of Shingoon, then, you know, the offense, we

know that it'll come, you know, this was obviously a bad offensive night.

Uh, you know, rockets could not convert from three to save their lives.

Um, and that was certainly a, a significant portion of the equation.

There was, you know, other, other problems, certainly to be highlighted, talked about,

which we did throughout this episode.

Um, but I think that's genuinely, like genuinely it's step one for Shingoon is like be consistent

on that into the floor, consistently provide the effort, the energy, work hard on the glass,

that kind of thing, um, although the glass, the rebounding in this game left a decent

bit to be desired from Shingoon, just two boards in this one, um, like that, that has

to be where his game starts, right?

Like the offense we know is going to be there most nights, um, but you look on the other

side of the island, you see, you could put up 16, 12 and 13 and five steals in a block

and you're like, my God, that's why he's a three time MVP baby, baby, okay, that baby

yokich nickname, I haven't seen LP play like baby yokich in a minute.

And this, this certainly would have been a game to be able to show up and, and play

hard against baby yokich, but didn't have it.

Rockets offense didn't have it.

It looks like kind of a mess, um, you know, and weirdly enough, like, uh, the rocket thought

they do some stuff that's really good.

They, they, they have actions that look solid.

And then they don't ever run them like they ran a couple different regions.

Shepard, Alper and shingoon picking roles that generated some, some good quality looks.

Uh, I think it turned into, I think a couple of them turned into a couple threes, um, and

they did it a few like, like two or three times and then they just never went back to

it.

They just stopped doing it.

And it's so weird because they'll do, they'll do something or the like when they ran

the Kevin Durant shingoon, pick and roll that led to the Amin Thompson baseline cut for

the dunk at the rim, right?

Like that should be a staple of the Rockets offense and it feels like they run it like once or

twice a game and they get like one or two buckets off of it and then like, nah, we're

good.

Yeah.

Who cares?

We don't need to run that play anymore.

It's kind of crazy how this, how this team functions.

Um, it is very perplexing, uh, how this team approaches the game offensively on a nights

and night basis.

But I'm curious your thoughts on this Rockets nuggets game.

How did you feel about it?

How did you feel about the offensive approach about the nuggets shutting down Kevin Durant?

What would you have liked to see the Rockets try to do differently?

Um, how'd you feel about the silver linings from this game?

How concerned are you about the Rockets chances against the nuggets in a potential series down

the line, right?

This, this would be potentially a pretty ugly seven game series.

Let's be honest, it might not make it even to five games if we're being completely honest

with how this one looked.

Give me your thoughts in the YouTube comments.

But as always, thank you so much for watching.

Thank you so much for listening and we look forward to having you back right here at Locked

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