Is Terry Rozier a Long-term Piece for the Miami Heat? 76ers vs Heat Preview | Miami Heat Podcast

Is Terry Rozier a Long-term Piece for the Miami Heat? 76ers vs Heat Preview | Miami Heat Podcast

The heat are getting ready to host the Sixers for yet another must-win game with a huge impact on the standings and the reigning MVP will be trying to keep Miami away from Victory how did Joel and be look at his return and what’s in store for the heat plus Heat fans are

Buzzing about Terry rosier’s recent stretch and expectations are high leading into the playoffs has he been a perfect fit and the latest breakdown of the Eastern Conference standings all that and more on today’s episode of lock on heat you are locked on heat your daily Miami Heat podcast part of the

Locked on podcast Network your team every day all right welcome to locked on heat your daily podcast on the Miami Heat I’m West Goldberg editor at Allen heat.com and joining me as always it’s NBA media member David R however you’re tuning in on YouTube Odyssey or your favorite

Podcast app thanks for making lock on heat your first listen every day April 5th this Friday we are holding the lock on heat watch party for the Heats game against the Rockets it’s at the Taurus and Coconut Grove happy hour will be extended throughout the game David and I

Will be there again April 5th at the Taurus at Coconut Grove heat Rockets game starts at 8:00 pm Eastern we can’t wait to see you there um we’ll get to why Terry Rosier might be the perfect Heat player and take a look at the updated playoff picture later on but

Let’s start with jool embiid who made his return after missing more than two months with a torn meniscus uh in the Sixers win over the thunder on Tuesday night the 76ers of course are coming to Miami to face the heat on Thursday jolen beid status still questionable as we

Record this the team is sort of waiting to see how that knee responds from playing 30 minutes on Tuesday night but what did you think of how and be looked in his return David it looked okay he looked okay I think it was pretty like you look at the

Final statline they came away with a victory in Oklahoma City against a good team in Oklahoma City and it looks much more impressive but I you watching his performance he did not look dominant which was our biggest concern leading into Thursday’s matchup was if he’s going to be back at anywhere near full

Strength that makes him much more dangerous than any most any other player in the NBA but I I think he looked a little passive again to be under totally understandable considering the return from injury and everything else like that a lot of fatweight jumpers not really much around the rim anyway uh

Over for three from three-point range and what surprised me the most 12 trips to the goddamn free throw line so apparently the new officiating rules apply to everybody except Joel and beid at least on Tuesday night so that was that was a little strange and I understand it’s a byproduct of his size

And again he does sell whatever contact however minimal it might be uh to a huge degree and so that makes things a lot more difficult for referees and it was his first game back so I don’t know I if we’re going to get that version if Miami

Is going to see that version on Thursday of Joel embiid I’m okay with it because I think uh the Thunder didn’t do a particularly good job of defending him giving him a lot of space on those 18 to 25 Footers uh and a lot of Fade Away

Jump shots also and if that’s what gonna if that’s G to be the most of what his offensive repertoire is going to be like uh I’m okay with that and I think Miami would be too you mentioned getting to the foul line I mean one thing I was

Curious to see do we get the Joel embiid stumble right away when he comes back after injuring the knee and within the first couple of minutes of the game he takes a fall and it’s not called his way and Nick nurse goes ahead and challenges it and the whole thing so I’m

Like okay the jolen beid stumble his back he’s right back to falling over and hitting the floor all the time like that was there so um it was look he he did look a little rusty uh he was playing in very short like five and six minute

Bursts to kind of make sure that uh to to maintain his his conditioning and all that stuff and even you know at the end of each one of these bursts I mean hand on the hands on knees sweating like all this stuff again what you would expect

After not played and as long as he hasn’t played but there were also moments where he looked like joelan beid right like he did have some like that fadeaway jumper is back like that free throw line jumper is there it’s never left it’s it’s a weapon and it’s going

To be the biggest thing that the Heat have to contend with uh he ended up with 24 points six rebounds seven assists on the game uh he did have a moment late in the game like defensively you could just tell his presence made so much of a

Difference for Philadelphia uh who had a losing record without jool embid and obviously were awesome with jool embiid and he has not been he’s obviously not 100% but just his size in the middle changes everything for Philadelphia his passing as a hub of offense again on the

Middle of the court on offense changes everything for Philadelphia uh there was a play late in the game actually where he came across the lane and uh blocked a ludor uh layup attempt and that was maybe the most impressive thing that he did the entire night was the defensive play now again

That took a lot out of him right and so I don’t know how much of that kind of stuff he has in him I said as we kind of looked ahead going into this uh and in anticipating jool embiid’s return if he could be 85% of

What he was when he was putting together another MVP C caliber campaign then not only were the Miami Heat in trouble but the Eastern Conference was in trouble because he was that good and I clocked him in as about 70% yesterday I think it might be even overly generous

It might be yeah it might be and if that’s the case then I don’t know how much better he’ll be on Thursday and by the way he’s still listen us questionable on Thursday so we don’t know that he’s going to play also Tyrese Maxi probably not going to play Anthony

Melton probably not going to play so the Sixers are going to be short-handed probably no matter what that said um I thought if I were a Sixers fan I’d be incouraged I think by what I saw from Joel embid considering the time off that he had and then he still has about two

Weeks to ramp up for the playoffs no doubt I mean we’re not talking about bigger picture here although we can in terms of Thursday’s matchup he’s not going to be anywhere near the dangerous player he was so I I I I still again I I remain optimistic on behalf of the heat

That they’ll be able to handle this version of M Pete in different circumstances if he’s significantly better over the next couple weeks and they have to meet for in a one game playing that’s a little different uh for one game on Thursday night I think they

Can do a pretty good job you a lot of the you mentioned him being the The Hub on offense you’re going to pick and roll everybody to death there it’s just a matter of having to find the right switches a lot of those assist numbers too might be a little inflated it was

Basically just running pick and roll and then you know the the ball handler kind of flaring open for a three-point or something like that so he gets credited for the assist it wasn’t exactly uh you know it wasn’t like like he’s making dimes all over the court although there

Was some good passes also to Tobias Harris from Beyond the The Arc and he was able to knock those down so it was a good shooting night for Harrison and I think that helped look it helped make embiid look much more ingrained in the offense but I mean he is he is their

Biggest offensive Hub without a doubt and so that was pretty much on display and I would imagine it would be on Thursday as well I’ll tell you one thing Kyle Lowry picked up that that pick and roll pocket pass to jool and beid right away like that is a weapon for

Philadelphia right now uh they a number of times Lowry just coming off that screen finding him be at that free throw line getting him into that jumper that’s going to be something that Miami needs to watch out for on Thursday night is Just Kyle lry picking him apart with

Those passes to Joel embiid how do you how do you guard that I would assume you send you hedge over towards embiid because the heat know better than anybody else that Kyle lry probably doesn’t want to shoot that ball and it didn’t really feel like the Oklahoma

City Thunder got the got the memo on the fact that Lowry’s probably not going to shoot it a whole lot and it felt like they maybe hedged a little too hard on towards lry and not enough towards uh towards embiid and they were without Jaylen Williams and Shay gilis Alexander

And Chad homr has been a little banged up lately but um the are going to have to look out for that I have the injury report uh here in front of me right now Robert Covington is out DeAnthony Melton is out embiid Tobias Harris who’s dealing with a knee hyper extension and

Tyrese Maxi who’s still dealing with that hip tightness they’re all listed as questionable right now that’s us recording it right before 600 p.m. Wednesday night we’ll see what happens the heat there still without Tyler hero they’re going to be without Josh Richardson but everybody else seems like

They’re going to be a go for this game a big game with a lot of playoff Stakes but should be maybe another maybe even bigger to just see like you’re not going to be able to take a you’re not going to be able to glean

Much from it but it at least is jool embid playing and we’ll be able to glean something from it yeah no I think it it it does have you know one it how does Miami respond like they they the response on Tuesday after beating the Knicks again and I know the Knicks for

Missing some key players that’s fine but being able to handle Jaylen Brunson as well as they did being able to limit that team impose their defensive will I I think was remarkable and so I think if Miami responds in kind on Thursday against the Sixers even with a lesser

Version of Joel embiid it’s still a good indicator of where Miami is from a mental perspective as they kind of get near towards the playoffs you’ve got other matchups there that could be dangerous like I mean Tobias if he does play is a guy who can hurt Miami Kelly

UB is certainly a guy who had a big game against Miami earlier this year so I think there are other players there who could step up as well so it’s it’s if Miami is truly improved in the defensive end and the numbers bear that out is

They are now a top five defense in the NBA I think it’s a good test for them and I’m curious to see how they respond the defense has been trending like you said finally back into the top five in defensive rating Tera Rosier has also been trending in the right

Direction should this recent stretch from T Rosier have the front office rethinking their offseason plans we’re going to talk about that next here unlocked on heat today’s episode is brought to you by Fire TV your destination for sports live games highlights in-depth analysis Fire tv offers amazing viewing

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Team every day here’s what Kevin Love said about Terry Rosier following rosier’s 34-point game against the Knicks was talking about ter roier getting you know that time to get comfortable how much do you see him fully himself up here a game like this uh yeah he’s definitely um you know

Arrived into a uh a role where he’s able to to be himself we we’ve wanted him to be that early on uh you know when he got here but I think he you know it’s like when I first got here I wanted it so bad but he’s even he’s

Been you know a childhood fan of of this organization and this team so um I feel like he’s finally settled in and it’s an amazing thing to see just just him you know getting back to you know being scary and being Terry roier um so Terry’s not been shy about

You know wanting to play for the Miami Heat and his appreciation for heat culture he grew up a huge Dwayne Wade fan all these things uh when you hear Kevin Love say that how even Kevin Love last year when he got to Miami after getting bought out by Cleveland he just

Wanted it so bad and the it there is just like wanting to be an impactful player wanting to help this team win T Rosier obviously wanting it very bad had but as you and I have discussed several times already it was rough right it was a little rough for those first couple of

Weeks Terry Rosier in his first four games or first 14 games in a heat uniform 13.9 points on 38.8% shooting 26 A half% on three-pointers those are just flatly bad numbers but yeah it has turned recently David Terry Rosier in his last 14 games following the the 34-point uh Outburst against the Knicks

On Tuesday night here are his stats in his last 14 games 19.6 points on 46.3% shooting 42.4% on threes much more in line than in terms of what he was able to do in four and a half seasons in Charlotte so look uh he’s trending in the right direction

Right when the heat need him to be sort of having that positive regression back to the mean what do you think of t rosier’s fit now that we’re 28 games into this thing and do you think of him as a long-term piece in Miami I think he’s been a perfect addition for Miami

And it’s all tying together just as we had explained that it could be like when we when the trade first took place and you’re taking an optimistic view of it and you’re looking at what Terry brings to the table the long range shooting the ability to get to the rim Etc like those

We know what Terry was capable of what he had done in Boston and in Charlotte and then you’re kind of hoping that you’ll get that version of him and not only that but also Al as you mentioned before all the factors off the court the love of the team the franchise the

Culture Dwayne Wade all these things are an important factor and yet you know he struggled because I think we underestimate how difficult it is for a player to make that transition right away you know I think with trade culture now and transaction fandom across the NBA this assumption is that you’re going

To bring in a player at the trade deadline and boom he’s gonna make an immediate impact and we rarely see that to be the case I’m trying to think of all the names that were traded at the deadline and and struggling to remember one that has been like overtly impactful

You know like we were just talking about even like buddy healed with the Sixers it just he’s not even starting yeah it doesn’t really feel like he’s doing a whole lot no no and a lot of people again he’s like oh he’s this guy who’s shooting 40% in in in Indiana it’s like

Yeah well it has hasn’t translated as easily and again that’s a loss of embid that you know kind of coincided with that but it’s still it’s a difficult transition and and you know I’m who knows to Kevin for pointing that out is that you know that there’s a lot of off

The court stuff you got to move your family you got to find a new place to live you’re kind of living out of a suitcase and I know a lot of fans might say oh boohoo they’re still millionaires whatever you don’t want to necessarily be under those kind of conditions for a

Prolonged period of time and then have to at the same time be your very best as a professional athlete and going out there in front of 20,000 fans and say you better put up 30 because that’s kind of what we need for you and you know there were Sparks here and there there

Were signs of how good he could be but we’re starting to see him just become more more and more comfortable he is being the perfect version of the player that we thought we the heat were getting when the trade took place and it’s just worked out really well as far as his

Future with a team I don’t see why you wouldn’t want to make him a long-term piece this isn’t a knock on Tyler or anybody else roster construction that ain’t my bag that’s up to you know Andy Ellison and everybody else ellsburg excuse me and and Pat Riley to figure

Out as far as Terry’s fit right now he has been as great as advertised and I think it’s going to be better even in the playoffs we’re going to see big games from him and I think in terms of the long-term future he’s young he’s athletic he still has a bright future

Ahead of him and he’s found a comfortable fit here where he can continue to be the the scorer you know the guy who kind of takes on the brunt of the offensive load and just says you know what I I’ll take those shots if nobody’s capable of or willing to take

Them just leave it up to me and I’ll gu I’ll take us there and and that’s that’s great level of confidence I I’m I’m just happy for him and for the acquisition because it’s worked out so well for both his fit has been exactly what the Heat

Have been looking for Eric sper talked about it last night we talked about it on the podcast just how he’s able to make those tough shots at the end of shot clocks and all these things and the the the stuff that he’s doing with the step back three-pointers and the and the

Side step three-pointers like we have never seen a Miami Heat point guard ever do that and I’m not here telling you that tay rer is the best Miami Heat point guard ever what I’m saying is that we have never seen a heat point guard do these specific things and these specific

Things are exactly what the Miami Heat need right now I I think they hit a home run at the trade deadline and all it cost them was Kyle hour’s expiring contract and a first round pick it was a steal and it might be the steal of the

Trade deadline it was a great point you just made like I could go I don’t have the list in front of me but it it might be a good exercise to go through it at some point but not only is he doing that stuff at the end of the clock the pick

And roll chemistry with bam atab bio has been awesome all a lot of those shots in the fourth quarter last night came out of that initial action of a bam atab bio Tay Rosier pick and roll the lob stuff uh we’ve talked about the numbers here before but like as many lobs since

Acquiring T Rosier and half as many games as they had before getting T Rosier like the lob is a real thing that they can do and T Rosier is great at throwing those lobs to Bam and to heith and to these other and Caleb and everybody else so that’s been a big part

Of his game too also like when he’s not on the ball he’s making an impact off the ball over his last 10 games as a catch and shoot uh shooter Terry Rosier is shooting 48.7% on catch and shoot attempts that’s a ridiculous number and that’s exact when you’re talking about guys who fit

Next to Bam and next to Jimmy the two tent pole Stars what everything is built around T Rosier is a perfect fit because he does the thing off the ball that you need make those catch and shoot shots he does the stuff on the ball that you need

Hey can you run some pick and roll offense and carry the load for a couple of stretches of game so that Jimmy doesn’t have to he’s doing all those things Eric sper talks a lot about how he competes defensively the numbers like the advanced stats haven’t really bore

That out yet but I I the eye test is better is more friendly than than the numbers right now when it comes to Roser on defense he’s got two more years under contract after this he’s 30 years old I I I think if you’re the heat you

Don’t trade a first round pick for Terry Rosier unless you think that he’s going to probably complete his contract with Miami right like you’re not trading like future stuff just for some sort of short-term solution if you think that you’re going to try to move off of him

This Summer that said they do have to move off of somebody this summer it feels like uh between Duncan Robinson Tyler hero and Terry Rosier it just feels like one of those big contracts are going to go because the other two big contracts on this team are Jimmy

Butler and B matab bio and it doesn’t really feel like the heat are moving off of them I know we’ve talked a little bit about Jimmy Butler before but that’s such an extreme thing right now that it feels like not even worth getting to but

I don’t know like the heat are going to have to make a move they’re just they’re too close to that second tax apron it it has nothing to do with the players it just like they literally can’t afford this team because they don’t have enough guys under contract and and they’re

Going to have to go over the second tax apron just to fill out the 15 man roster and we know that they’re not going to do that so some one of these five big contracts has to go that’s a conversation for another day but it with

Ter roir playing like this he is making a strong case to not be that contract that leaves because his fit is so good with the guys who make this team go and he’s been one of the guys that makes this team go lately so anything else on

Yeah no I mean I I I’m glad that we’re not really delving into the idea of is he a long-term piece and who gets traded if he is you know because right now I think the focus for the team the franchise and certainly the fans is just

Like what what can we see from T from Terry excuse me as the the next few games lead into the playoffs because again I think that’s why there’s so much cost for optimism so much Buzz building around his performances of late because he he does provide something that was

Missing like just consider consider the finals right and I know it’s a completely different team and and things have changed since then but you know when Miami’s offense bogged down against Denver and yeah I mean he would have been such a tremendous spark and I’m not saying that they would have outright W

It or anything like that but their chances got a whole hell of a lot better you know had they had somebody like Terry available in the NBA Finals so it’s just I I think fans should have High Hopes because it’s panned out so well and I think again it’s gonna

Continue to do so and this isn’t to preclude like bam stepping up or or Jimmy having monster games or or anybody like that’s the whole thing that’s how it’s worked out it’s like you know what if we’re gonna have situations where you gotta go to a player late in a shot

Clock why can’t it be Terry Rosier and then everybody else still find ways to contribute for the other 46 minutes in gameplay there’s a lot to be optimistic about when you’re looking at this team as it heads into the playoffs one other thing that doesn’t get talked about

Enough when it comes to T Rosier very durable like very durable has played has has only played Le since his rookie year has never played less than 63 games in a season right 63 games 73 games 69 games 63 games the last four years some of those were Co shortened Seasons so I

Know knocking on wood here knocking on wood there um he already had his major injury right so it’s okay don’t look now but the playoff bracket might be breaking right for the heat how’s that for atias coming up next on lock on heat today’s episode is brought to you

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Good Vibes the Miami Heat half game out of sixth place where the Indian a Pacers currently reside um playoff status basketball reference all the various uh playoff seed trackers and odds makers basically have the Pacers and the Heat neck and neck to get that six seed it would take quite a bit

For Philadelphia at this point to pull into six kind of feels like they’re basically just trying to hold off uh not falling back from eight which feels like that they’re going to be able to do now with Jolan beback but um certainly Thursday night’s game is is a big one

For a lot of reasons but if the Heat win on Thursday night and continue to win it still feels like they’ve probably got to win five more games they have seven more games left they probably got to go five and two one two three four yeah 5-2 over

This final stretch to really feel good about getting that six seed but here’s the point that I want to make instead of just standings watching and Counting half games here and and tiebreakers there you look at the current playoff picture in the Eastern Conference and there’s the potential here for the

Bracket in the East to break exactly the way that the Miami Heat would want it to break regardless of if they have to make it out of the playing tournament and into the playoffs or if they actually do get this number six seed and obviously

You prefer to just get the six seed but either way if they end up having to play the 78 game against the Sixers in that playing tournament let’s say they go ahead and win that right then they would obviously be the seven seed they would play the number two seed Milwaukee Bucks

Who even according to Doc Rivers are not professional enough at this juncture of the season and have their own various issues going on right now been taking notes on the Travel staff like I don’t I don’t even need for reference if any just go read the quotes

If you if our listeners haven’t if don’t don’t know what we’re talking about here uh but Doc Rivers of course throwing people under the bus as he is want to do uh nothing shocking there but I don’t know I know that they’ve been without Damen Lillard for a couple games and

Stuff like that but just they’re defense is in the toilet and it’s not like Damen Lillard’s exactly helping them on that end either so um I’m not I’m not scared of the Milwaukee Bucks you know and and if that’s end that if that ends up being the the first round matchup for Miami

Then we could see something very similar to what happened to last season when milwa when Miami upset Milwaukee and then if that were to happen in the second round they would play the winner of Cavs Pacers if the playoffs started today and nothing against the Cavs of

The Pacers but I think no matter who won that series a lot of people would be picking Miami in that series but more importantly it avoids the New York Knicks who are on the other side of the bracket along with the Orlando Magic and the number one seed Boston Celtics so

There’s a chance where Miami even if they had to get it out of the playing tournament would play a disorganized Milwaukee Bucks team and then either the Cavs of the Pacers in that second round all to get to the Eastern Conference Finals which at that point anything can

Happen right and then on the flip side too if the heat end up getting the six se then you just swap places with the Pacers and then the heat had to play the Cavs in the first round which again I think a lot of people most people would

Be picking the heat over the Cavs in that series or yeah and then you play the winner of bucks whoever comes out of the playing tournament the Pacers the Sixers whoever it might be now right who knows what jool and beid looks like at that point

Can EMB in the Sixers and Tyrese Maxi in the Sixers beat the Bucks and are they really a contender if jool and beid looks anything like the MVP guy that he was before the injury all that stuff is a huge and enormous X Factor but my

Point is this kind of feels like the best case scenario for Miami considering that all the teams in the playoffs are version uh of the bracket and and the way that it could break for Miami yeah it does seem that way right um and and

Again a lot of that goes into whether or not Miami can continue to stay healthy especially if they can get Tyler back and and things of that sort so there A lot can change and and we should put that caveat out there is that you know

Obviously a lot can uh on either side whe whe as an opponent or whether it’s Miami themselves but uh as far as potential matchups are concerned it does look like it’s breaking favorably but I’ll be 100% honest with you right now I I feel like Miami isn’t as good a place

As they can be um and I think they’re not scared of any opponent I don’t think that that they have any concerns about taking on if somehow they dropped to the eighth seed if they took on Boston in the first round I think they’d be fine

With it I think they’d be fine just getting kind of getting it out out of the way now and finding a way to advance past the Celtics I know it’s you know it’s going to be a tough challenge it’s going to be a lot of fiery competition

To start off the playoffs but you know what that could be a really fun matchup and if Miami finds a way to Prevail you know I don’t think it would be any different if they shocked his Celtics team than it was last year when they shocked the Bucks like that was again an

A seed taking on a first seed and said guess what we’re gonna be just the second team in NBA history to do it why not be the third team in NBA history to do it so uh I think it would be a lot of fun for them but yeah there a best case

And a worst case scenario though and and also like to me we’re recording this on Wednesday before the games start getting played people are going to hear this Thursday morning so this whole bracket could be different because the magic play the Pelicans tonight and depending

If they win or lose the Knicks could end up back in that four seed and at that point you know then the Knicks are back into the bracket but the point like there’s so much more basketball yet to be played and there is a scenario where if you’re if you’re picking teams that

You have to avoid or that you would want prefer to avoid it probably Boston would be the number one team to avoid and then for Miami’s purposes it might be the Knicks it might be the number two team to avoid and there’s an opportunity where they’re both on the other side of

The bracket if the heat can take care of business and do what they have to do the part the bad part is if they do if they actually do repeat what they did last year and lose the first playing game and end up at the a seed then there’s a

Potentiality of them to end up on the same side of the bracket of both those teams again so there’s that too but you know the the flip side of this is again kind of what happened last year you know for just to prove the naysayers is wrong

Like you know and I know that’s kind of a minimal concern here but so many people look at even last year’s run and be like oh they just cut fire from three or they got a lot of injuries go their way Etc you know whether it’s Tatum’s

Anle or Giannis in the first round so it kind of if I’m the heat my thought process would be like it doesn’t really matter who we’re taking OD but so I you know I I I I see your point I see your point completely I guess logically you

Should try to avoid the Celtics s Nick if possible but Lally you just try to get the six seed which would be in essence also avoiding Boston I mean logically just get out of the playing tournament but I I’m with you they scared any of these teams I’m yeah there

Part of me it’s like I don’t care like I I would just kind of want to take on those challenges right away and be like no no we are this good it’s sorry to remind be the most entertaining version wouldn’t it be more entertaining to see Boston in the Conference Finals again I

I think it would be a little disappointing to see them in the first round like that would be kind of lame I don’t know a personal level I’d kind of like to see the Celtics fans cry a little bit I mean that’s cry even more yeah but maybe if but conversely like if

Their hopes build up over a couple rounds and they beat up a couple teams and somehow manag to get beat up by the Knicks in the second round and then go on to the Eastern Conference Finals where Miami is there waiting for him and Miami gets to beat him again I mean that

Might be like you know that be kind of interesting to see Milwaukee in the first round too and it’s just like hey you made we were trying to get Dame you ended up getting Dame and we still beat you in the first round again after you fired your coach then fired the other

Coach made the huge uh franchise altering move to swap out Drew holiday for Damen Lillard all because we beat you in the first round and then you still ended up losing in the first round to the same team again in the second straight year would

Be so many deep levels of humor it would just it would hit all the check marks really would at the risk of getting two ahead of ourselves we will end the show there uh I do want to give a shout out to Shane who’s an everyday listener from Ireland from CRE College

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