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Monday, March 19, 2012
March Madness: on Marshall and the Media, Lehigh and Loss, Elton and the Boss
- Photo by Al Drago
- Kendall Marshall, before the fall.
GREENSBORO COLISEUM/ GREENSBORO, N.C.—The thing is, North Carolina was really looking like the real deal. John Henson, back from his sprained wrist, brought energy and attitude back to the Tar Heels, a generally cool-customer team. He got into a little flap with Creighton's Grant Gibbs after he felt that Gibbs was intentionally hacking at his wrapped and taped left wrist down on the low block as Henson tried to get a shot up. Henson's jawing at Gibbs, who later flatly denied any injurious intent, earned him a technical foul about six minutes into UNC's relatively easy 87-73 win over Creighton.
The Bluejays' Doug McDermott made one of two free throws awarded for Henson's technical. That gave Creighton what would turn out to be its last lead of the game, 12-11. North Carolina, angry, scored the next nine points. And while an eight-point lead isn't really all that much, especially with 31 minutes of basketball left to be played, the game became the Tar Heels' to win by the time Henson sank a jumper to make it 20-12. And win they did.
By the time it was over, UNC had netted 87 points on 50.8 percent shooting (including 8-16 three-pointers), put five players in double figures plus a sixth with nine points (James Michael McAdoo), and held Creighton to seven points below its season average on 41.2 percent shooting. The Tar Heels turned the ball over a mere nine times, just five of them in the game's final 36 minutes after some loosey-goose offense early.
In the general hometown happiness of UNC's cakewalk win over Creighton (there was a loud partisan Tar Heel crowd in Greensboro), no one seemed to worry or really even notice when, with about 11 minutes left to play, Kendall Marshall absorbed hard contact from Creighton's Ethan Wragge while driving to the basket for a transition layup attempt and landed on the hardwood with a loud crunch. Why should the fans fret? Marshall sprang back up, and after an official timeout he went and took his free throws. In fact, he played most of the rest of the game.
But Kendall Marshall worried. He was in pain, and trying to tough out what turned out to be a fractured wrist.
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Hoop Cheese: Why you should see Joe Nocera Wednesday, and why all hell could break loose Monday
It's Saturday morning in March in North Carolina. Bradford pears are blooming, young people are in love and the ACC tournament in Atlanta is shaping up to be the most interesting and consequential it's been in years.
It was an inauspicious beginning on Thursday. The referees got taken to task for their forlorn effort to express solidarity with the charming Karl Hess. If it hadn't been for the vigilance of bored, resentful reporters courtside, their act of defiance would have gone completely unnoticed by history.
And yes, the Philips Arena was pretty much empty beyond a few family members and sleepy reporters, but the suits of the ACC assured the media (for no one else was watching) that their eyes were deceiving them, that in fact Thursday's games were capacity-plus SELL-OUTS!
Luke DeCock reported the evidence in front of him early during the game:
But something must have changed in the time it took Maryland to defrock the Demon Deacons, 82-60. The ACC discovered that 19,520 souls had somehow watched the game in Philips Arena.
- theacc.com
As Chico Marx said in Duck Soup, "Who you gonna believe, me or your own eyes?"
Of course, the ACC's barkers technically managed to distribute 19,520 tickets, whether by putting them under people's windshield wipers or stuffing them in schoolchildren's backpacks or hiring homeless people to give them out at highway off-ramps. Or something like that, according to the AJC.
Fortunately, college basketball resumes printing money this afternoon for the aforementioned doubleheader of shining moments and more utterings of "tobacco road" than Scarlett O'Hara's descendants will be able to bear.
Tip-off for UNC-N.C. State is 1 p.m., while Duke and Florida State have a re-re-match at approximately 3 p.m. Triangle Offense will be tweeting like mad with our nacho-cheese covered fingers. Follow us @IndyweekSports. And we expect today's events to be so exciting that we'll write about it before tomorrow's grand showdown between UNC-N.C. State winner and the Duke-Florida State winner.
Before we yield the floor to Mike Potter's explanation of why some blue-tinted china may get broken Monday night, let us deliver the first of the 73 advance plugs we'll make for the following event:
- Earl Wilson/The New York Times
In the Jan. 1, 2012 issue of the New York Times Sunday Magazine, Nocera puts his green eyeshades on and proposed a system by which college football and (male) basketball players might be paid. If you haven't seen it, it's a must-read.
Also a must-read is Taylor Branch's The Cartel: Inside the Rise and Imminent Fall of the NCAA. Branch presently has a teaching appointment at UNC, and he made a few ripples at an event two weeks ago in which he charged that UNC's coaches have forbidden their players from talking to him.
On Wednesday, March 14, we expect the C-word* to be bandied about a bit as Nocera comes to Chapel Hill looking to rumble on the eve of the three-week event that is expected to deliver $771 million to the NCAA coffers each spring. He'll address such topics as, and we quote:
Is it time to kill the N.C.A.A.?Should college athletes collect salaries?
Should universities sponsor semi-pro teams?
Does corporate money threaten the University’s mission?
It'll go down at the Sonja Haynes Stone Center, beginning at 5:30 p.m. We suggest getting there early. We'll be there. Taylor Branch might be there, too.
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Hoop Cheese: Is there a basketball game today, or looking beyond Duke and UNC
- File photo by D.L. Anderson
- Duke fans in April 2010, after watching the NCAA title game versus Butler
Yes, there's a game tonight in Cameron Indoor Stadium. You don't have tickets, so you'll be watching ESPN at 7 p.m., at a safe distance from Dick Vitale's expectorant and the body odor of those so-crazy Crazies. Triangle Offense's Adam Sobsey will be there, however, wearing his most water-resistant yet breathable clothing as he sits at his courtside perch. Follow his tweets @sobsey, and also the rest of us @IndyweekSports.
Adam gives us some thoughts below about the staggering consequence of this game, alongside some thoughts from Rob Harrington. But also stick around for Neil Morris' insights into why N.C. State MUST WIN their game in Blacksburg, Va. that no one outside of the Players Retreat and the Triangle Offense situation room will be watching.
But first, if you're not following Mike Potter's dispatches from the ACC women's tournament in Greensboro, you should be. N.C. State had its biggest basketball success of the year when Kellie Harper's team knocked off the No. 5 Duke Blue Devils to advance to the semifinals.
We have Mike on the line here—probably tweeting as he races past the Burlington outlet stores on I-85: "Duke needs for Maryland to not win the ACC Tournament to give the Blue Devils the No. 1 or No. 2 seed in the Raleigh Regional."
What else do we know, Mike?
"UNC will be playing on its home court in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on March 17."
And?
"And if N.C. State beats Georgia Tech Saturday, there is an outside chance the Wolfpack gets an NCAA berth."
Follow Mike's tweets @mikepotterrdu now!
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Taylor Branch: UNC coaches won't let their players talk to me
- File photo by Jeremy M. Lange
- UNC's Horned Dorset sheep mascot
Moderated by Will Blythe, author of the irreverent chronicle of the Duke-UNC basketball rivalry To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever, the panelists included former UNC president William Friday, Duke professor and author (most recently of Big-Time Sports in American Universities) Charles Clotfelter and UNC alum and Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch.
Branch fundamentally changed the national dialogue about college sports in October with a devastating essay, “The Shame of College Sports,” published in the Atlantic Monthly.
That essay has been expanded into an e-book, whose title, The Cartel: Inside the Rise and Imminent Fall of the NCAA, points up his main contention: that the NCAA, far from being a noble guarantor of fair play, is actually a bloated, corrupt body that deprives young athletes of basic rights.
Last night's event started in a light-hearted fashion, with Blythe’s cheeky introductions of the other panelists, but the tone grew more serious as Branch expertly summed up his case against the status quo.
“If the university wants to enshrine amateurism, then it shouldn’t go into commercial sports for itself either. You can’t have it both ways,” he said.
As the discussion proceeded, the other panelists, who harbored more conventional complaints about the system, largely ceded the stage to Branch and his farther-reaching and passionate arguments.
A Q-and-A followed the discussion; the questioners, among them students and teachers at UNC who seemed largely sympathetic with Branch’s views, as well as football offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach John Shoop, who forcefully complained that the UNC players involved in recent NCAA “scandals” “had no advocates.”
“The university comes first, I’ve heard that a million times,” he said. “From where I sit, the young men and women that make up this university, is the university. And if we’re not going to advocate for them… I’m confused.”
Branch’s larger points required a 15,000-word essay to spell out, and a full discussion of it is beyond the scope of this blog post. But one particular occurrence is worth mentioning: At one point Branch claimed that he’d heard that “… athletes who want to come talk to me… cannot come see me, even privately, because their coaches won’t let them.” This drew murmurs from the crowd.
Listen to Branch's statement here:
Later, after the moderator announced the end of the Q&A, one last attendee approached the questioner’s microphone: Bubba Cunningham, UNC’s new athletic director, newly hired from the University of Tulsa as of October.
He took a moment to praise the event, saying “I can’t think of a better place than the University of North Carolina to have this national discussion."
He went on to say, "I commend you for being here, I thank you for being here, and know that you have our full cooperation in continuing the discussion." At this point, a member of the crowd spoke up from the middle rows, asking, “Does that mean the students can speak to Mr. Branch?”
Cunningham wheeled to face him, surprised. “You’re ordering the coaches to allow them to do that?” continued the questioner, a gray-haired UNC alum and self-described writer of “crank letters” from Carrboro named J. Al Baldwin.
“Absolutely,” Cunningham reassured the gentleman and the assembled crowd.
Listen to the exchange here.
The practical implications of Cunningham's promise are uncertain: If students were indeed warned away from Branch, it’s unlikely they would jeopardize their scholarships by going against their coach’s wishes, regardless of the director’s assurances.
This eyebrow-raising morsel of college sports realpolitik (“This is not a place of free inquiry, which is what it should be, if you have that kind of control vested in people who are not even on the faculty,” Branch said) should make sports fans think long and hard about what other rights revenue-sports athletes have been denied.
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Hoop Cheese weekend special: The not-in-Hollywood edition
You know how people say, "It's five o'clock somewhere"? Well, it's in that sense that we say it's a big weekend somewhere. Maybe in Los Angeles, for example?
But there are a lot of bouncing balls to chase before we bunk down in front of our teevees Sunday night. Mike Potter tells us that the women's teams have had their post-season fates signed, sealed and delivered, but for one small matter.
And Adam Sobsey is, at this very moment (12:19 p.m.) gawking at the stars and tweeting like mad from courtside at Cameron. Wave to him if you turn on your television. He tells us about some troubling trends that might, just might, disturb Mike Krzyzewski's dreams in advance of next Saturday's battle royale with the Tar Heels.
Duke women can't afford to cruise
A couple of things were made clearer over the past week for the Triangle’s three ACC women’s basketball teams, but one more big question is still up in the air.
Barring some sort of catastrophe, UNC is going to be in those NCAA Tournament games at March 17 and 19 Carmichael Arena. Barring the winning of four of its next five games, N.C. State is going to the WNIT.
But whether or not No. 7 Duke is going to be assigned to the Raleigh Regional—as the No. 1 or No. 2 seed—is still very much up in the air.
With one exception all season—that being the still inexplicable home loss to Clemson—the Tar Heels (19-8, 9-5) have won every game they needed to win to stay a default NCAA team. They’ll be solid underdogs Friday night on the road against No. 6 Maryland (23-4, 10-4), and will also be underdogs when they host Duke on Sunday. And of course the number of Senior Day upsets in the Battles of the Blues in just about every sport has been too numerous to count.
Failing an upset of the Terps, the Tar Heels will be locked into that 11 a.m. Thursday game at the ACC Tournament where they’ll probably face off with—of course, Clemson (6-20, 2-13) in front of 10,000 screaming Triad-area schoolchildren. Guess who they’ll be rooting for?
State (16-13, 5-10) guaranteed itself a winning season with its victory at Boston College Thursday night. Now, if the Wolfpack shocks visiting Maryland on Sunday and adds a couple more quality wins, or if Kellie Harper’s club simply wins the ACC Tournament it’s going to the big NCAA show.
Failing that, it’s the WNIT, where conventional wisdom would guess the Wolfpack would get several home games in Reynolds Coliseum.
Now as for Duke, the Blue Devils go for the No. 1 seed in the ACC Tournament tonight at 7 against No. 5 Miami (13-1, 24-3). The Blue Devils have NEVER lost to the Hurricanes in eight tries.
They need to win their final two regular-season games plus complete the three-peat as ACC Tournament Champions to get that Raleigh spot. By doing that the Blue Devils would have leapfrogged the Terps and the Hurricanes, and just need for Notre Dame to fail to win the Big East Tournament to set up the following national No. 1 seeds: Baylor to Des Moines, Stanford to Fresno, Connecticut to Kingston and Duke to Raleigh. —Mike Potter
Friday, February 17, 2012
Hoop Cheese: Are ACC referees really that bad; superior underdog mentalities and more
- File photo by George A. Hoffman Jr.
- Referees who were not involved in N.C. State's loss to Duke Thursday night.
Honestly, we're still sifting through the rubble here at Triangle Offense.
Our friend, co-worker and co-spectator Bob Geary is usually too busy with real journalism and tracking the movements of redistricted Democrats to tell us the awesome things he knows about basketball, but even he had to send a note so full of lividity, this computer is shaking:
State fans are pretty steamed—there's talk of leaving the ACC, or rather, the ACC left us.UNC-Duke are everything now. Time to look at the SEC or Big "East"??
The officiating in the ACC is horrendous, has been for a long time. It isn't just anti-State, it's anti-road team combined with random ticky-tack fouls by guys who can't run with the players or see what's happening.
We were going to write a little bit about Jeremy Lin this week, but we'll save our deepest, most original thoughts about the meaning of this February phenomenon for another edition.
Instead, and after the jump, Neil Morris stops writing about soccer long enough to take up the banner of crying foul over the treatment of N.C. State's basketball team and the remotest possibility that the ACC's referees are intimidated by the screaming lunatics teachers on the sidelines. (Perhaps it serves those Raleigh kids right: Didn't anyone tell them of Durham's reputation for depravity and crime? "Never go to Durham," generations of Raleigh real estate agents have told new arrivals to the state.)
After Neil, we'll move to a few things that were learned by Adam Sobsey, Rob Harrington and Mike Potter.
Friday, February 10, 2012
Hoop Cheese: The Duke-UNC fallout, and why did NC State get left out of the realignment fun?
- Photo by Al Drago
- Did someone in Durham get news about the Facebook IPO?
You may have heard there was a Duke-UNC basketball game in Chapel Hill. That one came down to a buzzer-beater. There was one in Durham, too, on Monday. There was no need to beat the buzzer in that one, as the Duke women hammered Sylvia Hatchell's Tar Heels 96-56. Mike Potter gives us the lay of the land, the high ground of which we're sure is in Durham these days.
Neil Morris and Mike Potter take distinct views on the appalling (or just appallingly unimaginative) realigning of NC State out of the ACC spotlight. (Now they know how all those soon-to-be-retired state Democratic politicians feel.)
Rob Harrington was on hand in Chapel Hill Wednesday night. He saw a dangerously inflexible, lumbering team.
Adam Sobsey, who writes more words than Tolstoy, watched the game on his television and sent us his rolls of parchment.
(Sobsey, by the way, is shipping some of his words to Baseball Prospectus these days. It's a pay site, but allow yourself to be teased out of your money when you click over to his piece on the Durham Bulls of his salad days. But not before you read what we have to say below.)
Friday, February 3, 2012
Hoop Cheese: The Twitter of our discontent, and getting ready for Duke-UNC bonfires
- File photo by D.L. Anderson
- Celebrating victory over Butler. April 5, 2010.
The pagans among us recall that Groundhog Day is a manifestation of the ancient practice of watching the sun go down. Forty-some days after the winter solstice marks the lowest point in meaningless non-conference games, Feb. 2 tells us that spring is on the way, and that we're halfway to the midpoint of March Madness.
But spring is only on the way when Duke and UNC meet in basketball. The women are doing it on Monday, and anticipation is so high for this showdown in Cameron Indoor Stadium that the Duke press office was moved to issue a hopeful memo to the media, alerting us to the possible spontaneous eruption of a bonfire. Duke students "may celebrate afterward with a bonfire in the West Campus residential quad area."
And why, the city fire marshall "has approved plans for a bonfire in front of House P."
The men have a game going on Wednesday, Feb. 8. It's at 9 p.m. in Chapel Hill. If UNC wins, students *may* concoct a daring plan to occupy a street somewhere in town and jump over small bonfire-lets. If Duke wins, we'll be making a beeline for House P.
But, back to the awful winter, the winter of our discontent, made glorious summer by the sum of tweets. But now, there will be tweets no more, as our resident anti-Shakespearean Adam Sobsey relates.
The December run of awful blowouts was made tolerable partly by unfiltered frankness from players via their Twitter thingies. But Mike Krzyzewski and his grim-visag'd henchmen with unwrinkled suits have stepped in to save the players from themselves accept the players' wise self-censorship. No more loose tweets leading to defeats.
By the way, basketball may on the march in Raleigh but the point production is suffering. Neil Morris tells us about it after the jump. Potter, Harrington and Sobsey follow.
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Hoop Cheese: The Blacksburg redemption? and other thoughts about UNC's terrible week
- File photo by Arianna Hoffmann
- UNC benchwarmers prepare to enter a game during garbage time last season.
To recap: The men’s and women’s basketball teams contrived to lose two games Sunday and Monday by an aggregate margin of 84 points. Not good for two teams with an aggregate record of 28-8.
Mike Potter tells us that the women have been battling injuries, and too much shouldn’t be read into the 86-35 drubbing they received Monday in Storrs, Conn. at the hands of the nearly unbeatable Connecticut Huskies.
But what’s the men’s excuse? Roy Williams’ crisis-management skills ended up dominating the discussion after an inexplicable 90-57 defeat to the Florida State Seminoles.
The men (16-3) get back on their horse tonight in Blacksburg, Va. in a tilt versus the Virginia Techsters that will be nationally televised at 9 p.m. on ESPN. Four hours before that, on the same campus, the Tar Heel women (12-5) will try to end their three-game losing streak.
Our writers weigh in below… but first, some links to essential sports reading from the week, for those of you who need non-video sports diversions in your workplace:
Does playing sports build character? Mark Edmundson thinks so—with some caveats.
Sports are many things, and one of those things is an imitation of heroic culture. They mimic the martial world; they fabricate the condition of war. (Boxing doesn't fabricate war; it is war, and, to my mind, not a sport. As Joyce Carol Oates says, you play football, baseball, and basketball, but no one "plays" boxing.)
This fabrication is in many ways a good thing, necessary to the health of a society. For it seems to me that Plato is right: The desire for glory is part of almost everyone's spirit. Plato called this desire thymos and associated its ascendancy and celebration with Homer. A major objective of his great work, The Republic, is to show how for a civilization truly to thrive, it must find a way to make the drive for glory subordinate to reason.
You probably know that American soccer fans cringe whenever their treasured sport is called boring! But Grantland soccer writer Brian Phillips says hell yeah, that’s part of what we love about it.
In sports, pure chaos is boring. Soccer gives players more chaos to contend with than any other major sport. So there's something uniquely thrilling about the moments when they manage to impose their own order on it.
Mark Titus, a former Ohio State scrub cager (as opposed to cage scrubber), is doing good work as one of Grantland's college basketball writers. His writing is funny, knowledgeable and provocative. He did a good dissection of UNC's poor defensive work some weeks ago, and he really has it in for Duke's Austin Rivers (whom he calls "Austin Rivers' Punchable Face," or "ARPF," which he writes is "pronounced like a seal's bark").
As long as those two teams are in the upper echelon of college b-ball, they're sure to get plenty of coverage in his weekly "Mark Titus' Top 12" column.
Friday, January 13, 2012
Hoop Cheese: Paying college athletes, Part 2,817; what we learned from the opening games of ACC play
- Photo by Peggy Boone
- Master of puppets?
As a special bonus for the occasion of this weekend's NCAA convention, to which Triangle Offense was invited to apply for credentials but declined because Indianapolis is too far away, we will treat you to an email flame-throw from a week ago, concerning the conditions of servitude among college Division I athletes. The main correspondents are David Fellerath (editor of this here blog and typer of these words), who plays Karl Marx or perhaps Big Bill Haywood to Adam Sobsey's... gonna go out on a limb here and say Edmund Burke Andrew Carnegie.
But first, let's look at last week, starting with Mike Potter's thoughts on the women's games, then continuing with Neil Morris on the "Roland Ratings" and how they apply to N.C. State's bigs and finishing with Sobsey's thoughts on 9 p.m. starts.
Things we learned this week in the women’s game, other than that the Clemson women certainly aren’t afraid of playing in Chapel Hill
1. Duke’s Tricia Liston should be a force to be reckoned with the rest of her career. Already a great shooter when she arrived in Durham, the solidly-built 6-1 wing has become a more complete player as a sophomore, averaging 11.8 points per game and getting her first double-double Sunday against N.C. State.
- Photo by Chris Baird
- Richa Jackson attacks the basket for Duke.
3. UNC’s Brittany Rountree is a star as a freshman. The Tar Heels’ most decorated recruit this season, she has been the only consistent double-figure scorer behind senior center Chay Shegog, averaging 11.1 and hitting 47.6 from 3-point range. —Mike Potter
N.C. State’s big men aren’t playing so, well, big
- Photo by Peggy Boone
- Maryland dunks over State's non-big.
It would be easy to analyze this is terms of individual output. But, another telling method is the so-called Roland Rating, one of those nouveau statistics that is gradually growing in popularity. In short, the RR is the numerical difference between a team’s net points while a particular player is on the court and the team’s net points while the same player is off the court. While the rating certainly isn’t an absolute measure of a player’s ability, it is a guide to how a team performs with or without that player.
After five straight games with a RR of 30-plus, Richard Howell’s rating sank to minus-9 against Maryland and minus-7 against Tech. Meanwhile, DeShawn Painter, despite playing only 15 minutes against the Terps and 20 minutes versus the Jackets, compiled shocking ratings of minus-27 and minus-15, respectively. Perhaps not surprisingly, the only Wolfpack to post a positive RR in both games was C.J. Leslie, including a telling 23 rating in State’s 11-point loss to Tech, further demonstrating how much the team truly relies on him.
As State enters the meat of conference season and even more formidable front lines (UNC, Duke, Virginia, etc.), it bears watching to see if these numbers stand up...and whether State’s big men can stand tall. —Neil Morris
Starting games at 9 p.m. may be hard on us hacks, but adrenaline knows no bedtime
Quickly here, because I've got to write a game story now and it's well past midnight: Seems like it must vary depending on the game.
Duke-Virginia was a helluva tilt on Thursday, and after 11 p.m., while we were in the Duke locker room interviewing players, no one looked tired. There's a point at which fatigue is overridden completely by the forces of adrenaline. I'm sure things were very different in the UVA locker room, but even at that, I bet the minds of the Cavs are and will be racing well into the small hours as they replay what might have been—especially Virginia guards Jontel Evans and Sammy Zeglinski, both good shooters who went a combined 0-14. (Fittingly, it was Evans's wide-open missed 3-pointer at the buzzer that sealed the Cavs' defeat.)
As the ACC season wears on, I think we'll see cumulative fatigue, but in the, say, 24-hour aftermath of a high-level game like last night's, between two top-20 teams, I don't think anyone on either side cares that it started at 9, not even Tyler Thornton, who tweeted on Thursday at about 11:30 a.m.: "3 classes in a row this morning #sheesh." —Adam Sobsey
And now for the main event, emails about the (appalling exploitation of college athletes)/ (EVERYTHING IS JUST FINE!), mostly between yours truly and Mr. Sobsey, with contributions from Mr. Potter, Rob Harrington and Bob Geary. Emails are lightly edited, but non-standard style and spelling may linger.
It started with a passage from an email David wrote to everyone on Tuesday, Jan. 3 at 1:14 a.m.
Over time, I'd like to find a more complex approach. And perhaps we can fold in thoughts about the world outside of Triangle basketball, as well. For example, although I'm ready to get off my "banish the December garbage games" hobbyhorse, I'd like to keep track of other developments in the NCAA, such as the upcoming convention in Indianapolis Jan. 11-14. And the ever-rising calls to professionalize college sports. Perhaps next week I'll invite everyone's thoughts on Joe Nocera's piece in the Times Magazine this weekend:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/magazine/lets-start-paying-college-athletes.html?_r=1&src=rechp
Sobsey replied at 9:53 a.m., writing in part:
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