Locked On Lakers - Daily Podcast On The Los Angeles Lakers - Lakers Embarrassed In Sacramento, Lose 124-112 Despite 42 From Luka Dončić

Episode Date: January 13, 2026

When the Lakers lose, they lose loud. Monday in Sacramento, though, was a screamer. Playing a team tied for the worst in the Western Conference, the Lakers feel behind early, and couldn't really thre...aten to complete the comeback. Final score, 124-112. Statistically, the Kings benefitted from a shockingly good shooting night from the perimeter, making 17-26 (65%). DeMar DeRozan, who didn't take a three, was 14-19 from the floor. Meanwhile, the Lakers were a 1.5 man band. Luka Dončić kept them afloat for a while, and finished with 42 points on a very efficient 16-25. LeBron James chipped in 22. But fellow starters Marcus Smart and Jake LaRavia combined for three points. Jarred Vanderbilt, in 26 minutes off the bench, had a goose egg. Bronny James, who checked in with 1:53 remaining, had more points than all three of them combined. But you can't win NBA games shooting the way that the Lakers shoot. 22% from three, which was actually boosted by Bronny's 2-2 at the end of the game. They are a bad, bad, bad shooting team, and it's getting harder for them to paper over the problems. Gold stars for the centers Monday. Both Jaxson Hayes (12 points, four offensive rebounds) and Deandre Ayton (13 rebounds, two blocks) showed up and contributed. But after that? Maybe you give Gabe Vincent a nod for a couple second half triples? But with a Hawks team that has been playing a little better of late (three straight wins) coming to town Tuesday, the Lakers really couldn't afford to give this one away, and they most certainly did.  HOSTS: Andy and Brian Kamenetzky  SEGMENT 1: A terrible, terrible loss in Sacramento.  SEGMENT 2: No supporting cast.  SEGMENT 3: The bad offense creates bad defense.  Everydayer Club  If you never miss an episode, it’s time to make it official. Join the Locked On Everydayer Club and get ad-free audio, access to our members-only Discord, and more — all built for our most loyal fans. Click here to learn more and join your team’s community: https://lockedonpodcasts.com/everydayerclubSupport Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!DoorDashFrom tipoff to overtime, stay in your bag and order on DoorDash.Get snacks, drinks, gear — whatever gets you through the season — delivered right to your door.DoorDash. In your bag all season long. ZocdocStop putting off your doctor’s appointments and get the care you need.Go to htps://Zocdoc.com/lockedonnba to find and instantly book a top-rated doctortoday.WayfairGet last-minute hosting essentials, gifts for all your loved ones, and decor to celebrate the holidays for WAY less.Head to https://Wayfair.com right now to shop all things home. Wayfair. Every style. Every home.  GametimeToday's episode is brought to you by Gametime. Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDONNBA for $20 off your first purchase. Terms and conditions apply.FanDuelToday's episode is brought to you by FanDuel. The NBA and NFL seasons are here, visit the FanDuel App today and start planning your futures bets now. FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN) Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 The Lakers get beamed in Sacramento in arguably the worst loss of the season. What exactly is going wrong here? That's next. You are Locked-on Lakers. Your daily Los Angeles Lakers podcast, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day. Thanks to everybody for making Locked on Lakers. First listen to every day, Monday through Friday,
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Starting point is 00:00:49 the number one sports podcast network in this or any other known universe. Brian Kaminetsky with Andy Kaminetsky. A long time we've spent covering the Lakers, Andy, for a variety of prominent outlets. And my God, it's hard to think of too many losses that are worse than this one. I mean, 1-24-1-12 to the Sacramento Kings.
Starting point is 00:01:13 This is certainly a 5-percenter in terms of the upper echelon of really bad losses. Nearly 20 years covering the Lakers with ESPN, the LA Times, the athletics, 710 ESPN. And you see a lot of bad games in those nearly 20 years, and this one ranks high. among all of them. The Kings just got their 10th win this season. It was fueled by former Laker Malik Monk,
Starting point is 00:01:46 who at one point, Doug Christie was opting not to play for reasons nobody could understand. And also fueled in part by former Laker Russell Westbrook, which I know is just, it's taking like lemon, salt, and every single uncomfortable thing you could put inside an open wound with like a hammer.
Starting point is 00:02:11 Battery acid? Oh, sure, sure. And you're like using the pulling part of a hammer to stir all that stuff around. It's like exfoliating your face with a cheese grater. It's just ungrat. It's nothing good here. It's also, too, it's nothing else.
Starting point is 00:02:27 It is a reminder. And this is sort of the burden that the Lakers bear fairly uniquely across the league and this is not to and you will see that over the course of this show we are not letting the Lakers off the hook for what happened tonight at all but it is a reminder that even the teams that may be in open tanking mode they never tank against the Lakers teams will always play hard want to win against the Lakers especially if that team happens to be the Sacramento Kings right and
Starting point is 00:03:03 And I do want to let people know that today's episode is brought to by GameTime, download the GameTime app, create an account, use the code, locked an NBA for $20 off your first purchase. Yeah, I mean, everybody's going to get up for the Lakers. We know all of these things. And the thing is the Lakers got to get up for the Laker games. Like that's, you know, if the other team is going to show up and get excited to play the Lakers, and the Lakers need to be excited to play Laker games as well.
Starting point is 00:03:34 And look, they got off to a good start. It's not that the Lakers didn't come out playing like it looked for a minute like they might build one of these, you know, 15, 20, 25 point leads and crews to victory. And a lot of things went wrong for them in terms of the quality of their own shooting, which we will get to. they shot 22% needed two late brawny threes to get over 20% or the fact the kings who are equally terrible from three point range as the Lakers are shot 65% from three point range
Starting point is 00:04:13 to put this in perspective only one king Neke Clifford who's not really he takes a couple threes a game but he's not a three point guy He's the only king during the actual minutes that mattered who took a three and didn't make at least one. By contrast, during the minutes that actually mattered, Luca Donchich and Gabe Vincent were the only Lakers who made more than one. You cannot win it or it is damn difficult to win a basketball game when one team shoots. 65% on even lower volume and your team shoots 22% from behind the arc. Like, it is difficult to make the math math in that context.
Starting point is 00:05:08 Combine that with 14 and 19 from DeMarteros and the Lakers were in some real trouble there. I mean, look, the problem here, like the defense was not good. I'm not going to sit here and praise the defense and say it was better than it looked. And all these 65%, some of that is bad defense. some of that is just statistically unlikely good shooting from the Kings. It's fair. We don't need to, you know, they left them open too much. There were some bad rotations.
Starting point is 00:05:35 The Lakers had. I mean, they shot well from inside the arc as well. They shot really well from inside the arc. The opportunities to make wide open, uncontested threes and miss them too. We can talk about the defense. But the Lakers got 42 from Luca, an efficient 42, 16 of 20. He was 8 of 8 from the free throw line. He had eight assists.
Starting point is 00:05:59 He had four steals. You know, like Lucas showed up and, you know, LeBron for much of the game at least was, was sort of game, if nothing else. I thought LeBron was okay in this game. He was fine. He was not bad, but he was not particularly good either. He wasn't great. He wasn't bad, but he was game. The Lakers got three points from co-starters.
Starting point is 00:06:25 Marcus Smart and Jake La Ravia. If you add in Jared Vanderbilt, who played 26 minutes. I know nobody relies on Jared Vanderbilt to score, but in 26 minutes, it's a lot of floor time to have no points. The three of them were outscored, doubled up by Brony in slightly under two minutes of garbage time.
Starting point is 00:06:51 The Lakers were just put on one of the most inept offensive performances that you're ever going to see in an NBA game. And it impacts the defense in a lot of ways. And, you know, JJ alluded to it a couple other people in the post game in the studio. If you watch Spectrum Sportsnet, they were alluding to it. When you shoot 22% from three point range, you are generally speaking, giving up a lot of long rebounds. We're giving up a lot of transition opportunities. The ball doesn't never goes in the basket.
Starting point is 00:07:30 And then there was a stretch in second quarters. Not only they were missing shots, they weren't passing. Like the ball did not move for about eight minutes. And that's when Sacramento goes out. You cannot play defense if the Lakers without running a better offense than this. I mean, what's crazy, though, is I agree there were parts and progressively as the game. went along. I thought the offense got more and more incoherent. It started out great. They ran a essentially one, five, four, Luca Donchich pick and roll with Aiton, Aiton, then finds LeBron
Starting point is 00:08:12 cutting along the baseline, really nice, dump off pass for an easy basket. Like the first, I don't know, maybe seven to ten minutes of the game. I thought the Lakers, yeah, look good. They looked good, but they also, I used the word before, coherent. Like, they looked coherent on that end. Increasingly, as the game went along, I thought they looked less and less coherent after a string of, I don't know, maybe four or five games where it's felt like LeBron and Luca were starting to gains in synergy. That synergy, I think over the last couple games is starting to dissipate. I know it becomes more difficult the more guys you are missing, but even judged through that prism, it feels like it's starting to wane. There were a couple
Starting point is 00:09:05 of plays. We should note Rui Hachemora didn't play in the game. The Lakers held him out to be able to essentially be able to play Wednesday against the Hawks at home, knowing then they're learning that he'd only be able to play in one of these. Tuesday against the Hawks. Tuesday, sorry, thank you. Tuesday at home against the Hawks. And so with the back-to-back, they saved him for, he suited up, but they saved him for Tuesday.
Starting point is 00:09:30 As our friend Anthony Irwin pointed out over Twitter, he noticed that Rui was in both his warm-ups and his jewelry. That's a good sign that you're not playing. I was just, I was watching, because I was sitting there going, man this is a this is a really big minutes restriction here like this is very JJ said after the game he
Starting point is 00:09:51 he I believe he used the word extreme in describing minutes I didn't realize that he wasn't going to play in this game until you know I saw I think it was Mike Trudell you know tweeted about it our source for Monday show when we said Rui was going to play
Starting point is 00:10:07 was Rui Hachamora he felt like a pretty good guy to ask he would know but yeah so I saw that from Trudell that the Lakers were considered. And obviously at that point when Ruey didn't step foot on the floor in the first half, you're like, well, that's probably what's going on here. But let's talk about this one after the break because, you know, yes, when you're missing people,
Starting point is 00:10:35 like what's going on here? How much of this is missing personnel? How much of this is, you know, about the synergy, about his missing personnel, like, how much can LeBron and Luca do together when there is no more really infrastructure at all offensively? We'll get to it next. Locked on Lakers is brought to you by game time during basketball season. There is nothing like being in the building, the energy, the crowd, that first big run that gets everyone in their feet.
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Starting point is 00:13:13 z ocdoc.com slash locked on MBA zock dock dot com slash locked on MBA zock dot com slash lock on NBA zok doc doc.com on NBA, thanks to Zok Dock for sponsoring this message. You know, it's interesting as I was sort of watching throughout the game, the, you know, that interplay, like what there is, you know, between LeBron and Luca. And there were times, you know, when they were working. I thought the worst offense in this game was by far when Luca wasn't on the floor. I mean, like, you know, LeBron is not good enough. at any at this point to carry on you know night night in and night out carry i was going to say he
Starting point is 00:14:00 that to do to do it reliably on command i'm not going to say he can't do it at all because we've seen him he did it the other night right we've seen him do it but he can't just summon it on cue in a way that you can count on which when he's 41 fine right when you when you surround him with that group that was out there with luka off the floor and and LeBron out there. And like, there's just nothing there to work through. There's no secondary threat. There's not,
Starting point is 00:14:33 and LeBron's going to generate all this stuff himself. It doesn't work. And then you end up with these possessions where the ball doesn't move. LeBron takes early clock threes or you get one pass. The other, I mean, guys didn't want to shoot. So they're throwing it right back to LeBron. And then, you know, okay. Luca basically was operating under similar,
Starting point is 00:14:54 circumstances, he's just Luca and he's able to still make that work and create despite, you know, defense is putting a lot of attention on him. You know, there were a couple plays where you know, you see
Starting point is 00:15:10 Luca penetrate, pass back to LeBron. LeBron takes that opportunity, really you know, to catch on the move and attack. Like, he's doing a lot of that and recognizing that ability and taking advantage of any opportunity to put the ball on the floor without, a player standing right in front of him.
Starting point is 00:15:26 I just, I mean, could they, they could do more. I, I, the supporting cast around them, broadly speaking, was so bad and is missing so much like shot creation skill that I, you know, Luca only, the only reason Luca looked the way it is because he's that, just that good. So, well, it's incredibly frustrating to watch. It is frustrating to watch. In particular, too, it was the outside shooting where it really just that lack of production from the supporting cast really was emphasized. Because they did get 13 points, 13 rebounds from D'Andre Aiton, 5 on the offensive glass, a couple of blocks.
Starting point is 00:16:17 No, Aidan played fine. But I was also going to say, Jackson Hayes had 12 points, five of six from the field. He had four offensive rebounds. Like those two guys, whether because they were cleaning up or they were set up off lobs, like they, if you can get 32 points combined from Aiton and Hayes, like if you get a even semi respectable, if you get even semi respectable production from everybody else, that should be
Starting point is 00:16:49 foundationally enough, adequate, maybe even more than enough. But you look up and down the wrong, like in particular, the outside shooting piece of this. Like Jake La Ravia was one of seven from the field. Five of those attempts were from behind the arc.
Starting point is 00:17:07 Marcus Smart, O of five, three were from behind the arc. Like LeBron missed all five of the threes that he tried. I remember one of them was a corner three. he was so wide open, he had time to take a dribble, reset, and he missed it pretty bad. Like, even Lucas Knight for everything he did. And, you know, Lord knows the dude tried to put the team on his back. He was two of nine from behind the arc.
Starting point is 00:17:32 Vando took only three shots in this game. All three of them were threes. It's not a formula I love, but he missed all three of them. Connect six field goal attempts. Four of them were behind the arc. He only made one of them. Like that's Gabe Vincent chipped in his part. Connect did take one when they were down by, you know, with about a minute and a half left when they were down by 17.
Starting point is 00:17:54 I was shocked it didn't go in. Like Gabe was the only guy tonight who made, you know, the, I mean, he was three or five from behind the arc. So 60% that's great for Gabe. But like he's the only guy that you would look at as a floor spreader who did anything along the lines of expectation. still only had nine points on the game. He had a couple big threes in one of the sort of pushes that the Lakers made where it seemed like, well, maybe if they can get a couple stops, they can get back. I think they got as close as seven at one point and gave it to his credit.
Starting point is 00:18:33 He hit a couple big threes to help make that possible. But, I mean, just they are, JJ was asked the other day, you know, if he believes they have enough shooting to win. And he said, yes, because like what else are you going to say? But the answer is no. The answer is so obviously no. And without Rui in the lineup, without, you know, without Reeves in the lineup, it's just, it's, it's, it's, it's that much worse. They're a borderline perimeter team with those guys available. And theoretically, you know, the presence, especially of Reeves makes it makes it easier for everyone
Starting point is 00:19:14 Aiton gets easier shots like all that kind of stuff but there is no universe in which the Lakers are a good perimeter shooting team they're not I mean but again they managed to get a combined nine of 13 inside from Aiton and Hayes like they actually were good sure
Starting point is 00:19:35 and again some of that in particular with Hayes you know Jacks was cleaning up lot of misses, you know, but the point being like, just, we're out of misses. But like the lack of outside shooting, they still managed to get at least respectable production inside. And what's funny is if you look across the different stats, like the Lakers had more rebounds than the Kings. Like I recognize Kings, missed it less, whatever, but like defensive rebound. Like they, they did a good job in, you know, they took reasonable care of the ball. They only turned it over 10 times. Like, you know, they got to the line
Starting point is 00:20:14 28 times. They missed six of them. They need to as a team make more of the free throws that the offense is very predicated on. But they got to the line 28 times, only 14 for the Kings. Like, there were a lot of areas in which they actually held their own or outperformed Sacramento. But But again, that wide of a discrepancy from behind the arc when three is more than two and Sacramento was making a fair amount of twos on top of it. Yeah, De Mardo Rosa was 14 of 19 from the floor. So you're 60. And he did not take a three. So you're 65% from beyond the arc.
Starting point is 00:21:01 and you have a guy taking 19 shots inside the ark who makes 14 of them. And like you say, and yet, if the Lakers were even somewhat competent shooting the ball, still could have won the game. I mean, it's just, it is, it is, I know the defense rightly gets criticized for, for, for, for, for, for, for, for, for, for, for, for, for, for, for, for, for, for, for, for, for. for not being good. And at times, you know, they've, I don't want to say turn to corner over the last, but like they've been a little better, you know, over the last few games. You put, if you are a bad or weak or average, whatever, defensive team,
Starting point is 00:21:51 you put so much extra pressure on your defense if you can't play offense. If you can't make a three-pointer, if you can't make a team, take the ball out of their basket and instead are constantly giving up long rebounds that lead to transition opportunities. You just can't live that way. It makes it so much harder. Well, coming up next, we can talk about if there are any other ways that they can discover to live, at least until they become fully whole, which is not going to be having any time soon. Talk about that coming up next. I carry a lot of responsibility in my household. If something happened to me, there would be serious consequences.
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Starting point is 00:25:04 can start playing, you know, back-to-backs, non-extreme minutes limitation relatively soon. LeBron, his back-to-backs are TBD. He recently said after one of the games last week that it's going to be a TBD situation for the rest of the season. I want to say that after Atlanta, and I have to double check this, but off the top of my head,
Starting point is 00:25:33 I believe they have six more back-to-backs. My hope would be that after the All-Star break, and you really start getting into the nitty-gritty of the season, you really start getting into a place where both you are jockeying for playoff positioning, maybe a round of home court, but at the very least, trying to... Well, they're getting dangerously close to jockeying to avoid the play. Well, I was going to say, or to avoid the play. however you want to put this and you just want to be rounding into your best form possible,
Starting point is 00:26:10 which means the most amount of minutes and reps together. I would like to think that by, say, late February, early March, LeBron will be able to play in back-to-backs. But until then, here's part of the problem. For all of the incoherence that we talked about offensively in terms of how the Lakers were executing a lot from basically quarters two through four. The threes that were missed for the most part were wide open, regardless of how they were being generated.
Starting point is 00:26:48 Like you can make tweaks to the system, make tweaks to the sets that they run, do all of that stuff. None of it makes a damn bit of difference if you are going to miss that many wide open looks. At some point, it's Mike Trudell, our friend who is the sideline reporter for the Lakers Spectrum Sportsnet, started to ask JJ a question about, you know, like makes versus misses, like, you know, is it really that simple or, you know, it's something else? Jay's like, no, it really is that simple.
Starting point is 00:27:18 Like they made their shots. We didn't. You know, Russell Westbrook made four threes in this game. Nobody other than Gabe and Luca made more than two. like Malik Monk had almost as many threes in this game as the Lakers as a team. Yes. Like until Brunny came in and made two in garbage time, Malik Munk had more by himself seven than the Lakers had as a team six. And again, it's not because the Lakers had to take these threes with, you know, two sets of arms in their faces.
Starting point is 00:27:58 They just weren't making makeable shots. And that has a very negative effect on morale. You know, it's like we joke about it's like, you know, you look around the league and like just the guys, they're not even necessarily like just great players, but just dudes that you look at that are just snipers. Like, you know, a Sam Merrill on the Cavs, not a, you know, flashy player, whatever. but like just a dude who on some night's going to hit eight three-pointers you know you know norm powell is obviously a step above that but a guy who can you know just blow up from three-point range like you'll leak monk what malik monk yes the guy they thought they had in malik beasley
Starting point is 00:28:50 that one season yes and like the lakers keep trying keep trying it's it's a it's a ship of at this point, but like this is why it seemed like such a great fit that Connect was available because, you know, you're talking about a guy who was seen as, you know, one of the best pure shooters of the draft. And in addition to the other stuff that they thought he'd be able to do offensively, just, you know, that pure shooting ability was something the Lakers desperately need. And his inability to provide it has become a larger and larger and larger and larger problem because there just isn't anybody like i i like marcus smart i'm glad they
Starting point is 00:29:35 signed him i wish they could have signed him and kept jordan goodwin we don't need to relitigate why they couldn't but like you don't the more you have to depend on marcus smart to be an offensive player the worse you're going to be he's best when everybody's around and he can kind of sneak in and all of a sudden you look up and smart's got 11 points. That's perfect. But the lack of offensive talent on this team behind of guys
Starting point is 00:30:06 who are currently available behind Luca and then LeBron is staggering. You just can't do you know, you can't do it with that supporting cast at this level. Yeah. It's
Starting point is 00:30:22 not doable. Like it these guys, I mean, again, you can tweak schemes. Obviously, they need to do better in transition. Like they need to get back. They need to make sure that they're marking the right guy. Like all of those things that we've known about this team, like the defensive holes and problems on this team, even at full strength, were something that we knew, you know, on paper and then we've seen on reality,
Starting point is 00:30:53 was going to be a thing that the Lakers are going to have to contend with. They're going to try to have to be a sum greater than their parts and then, you know, hopefully play extremely well down the stretches of games if they really have to put together five to eight minutes of strong defense down the stretch, pull out wins, whatever. They were supposed to be, or at least I think they envisioned themselves as an elite offense. and I know it is difficult for them to be that version of themselves without Austin and in a game where Rui doesn't play. Like, for sure. The offensive ceiling on this team has legitimately been lowered with those two guys missing. We are seeing the effects of Austin's absence.
Starting point is 00:31:43 Like the offense has become much gummier. It's more predictable. You have fewer variations and options. All of that. stuff. But none of that changes the fact that these guys need to be able to make open threes, like open shots. What happened tonight, in all honesty, could have theoretically happened with Austin and Rui available. Like maybe they don't have to attack the same way. Maybe they don't go at Sacramento's defense exactly the same way because Austin and Rui offer you
Starting point is 00:32:17 different options, but the same problem of not having enough shooting or guys not making shots, that's happened with this team at full strength. I mean, hell, they don't involve their best shooter, Rui, enough as it is. Like, even when he's available, they barely give him enough shots. It's just there's a wall of things, like you say. Like, I sort of expected, everybody's sort of expected, like, defense is going to be a little bit of adventure this year. like sometimes it's going to be good sometimes not whatever but the the inability and i understand
Starting point is 00:32:53 like this it's this game is incredibly frustrating but not the best this is a monday is about roster construction i to me more than it is about game plan like did they like they they got a lot of wide open shots and they missed them all um and you can't can't just say it up fluky it's going to happen sometimes because more often than not they miss them all which is why they are one of the worst three-point shooting teams in the NBA. When they have everybody back though then it gets into the like something's just not quite doesn't doesn't quite mesh and they they clearly don't have the right mix of players. It doesn't mean they can't be competitive in games.
Starting point is 00:33:43 but like there's not nearly enough depth to the roster. And then there's just the skill sets are all over the bleep in place. Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of games this week. So this week's shows are going to be centered a lot around just post-game reaction. But after we get through this stretch of five games, I believe it's five games in seven days, something like that. I imagine, I, yeah, I imagine, I'll, we'll, see after I wake up for my nap if I'm going to be able to make one of those broadcasts. I imagine we will start getting into questions of not just how much can Rob Belinka
Starting point is 00:34:27 transform this roster at the deadline, but frankly, how much should he? Like how much, how many resources, how much of the very small amount of pathways that they can walk at the deadline, should they actually bother doing, knowing that in the offseason, they will have more options to build a more ideal roster around Luca more methodically. These are going to be questions that I'm sure they have to really, really reckon with over the next month. And how they play in these games is going to make a big difference in how they answer that question.
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