Milwaukee Bucks lose Christmas Day matchup against the New York Knicks, 129-122

Milwaukee Bucks lose Christmas Day matchup against the New York Knicks, 129-122

What it do welcome to another new episode of Locked on bucks on today’s show the buck seven game win streak comes to an end after a Christmas Day L to the Knicks 129 to 122 despite 32 points from Giannis and 32 points from Dame wasn’t enough to overcome Brunson

And the Knicks so what went differently for the bucks in this matchup in comparison to what we saw against the Knicks on Saturday all that and more coming up on today’s episode of lock on bucks you are locked on bucks your daily Milwaukee Bucks podcast part of the

Locked on podcast Network your team every day you are locked on bucks part of the locked on podcast Network your team every day I’m Camille Davis you can catch me weekly on the technical file podcast as well as cheese head TVs Carri the G and MK and to recap this Christmas

Day game we got a trio going on today joining me is Justin Garcia of the Bucks radio network as well as Frank Madden longtime voice of the Pod and founder of Brew hoot.com we all appreciate you tuning in and thank you for making locked on bucks your first listen every

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Fourth quarter comeback the efforts came up short tonight it’s seemed like throughout this game every single time the Bucs were able to cut that lead down to five six points they just weren’t able to get enough stops and the Knicks lead would just balloon right back up to

10 11 points or so I’m sorry did you say enough or any stops I uh I don’t recall any of those and this was kind of the inverse of Saturday where uh the Bucks built up the lead we saw the Knicks twice cut it in

Half where I think it was around 16 and they cut it to eight and five or so a couple of times largely due to Jaylen Brunson but the Bucks answered each time and that’s what the Knicks did that it just got to the point where the Bucks

Knew they had to score on every possession which they did largely down the stretch but it it started to become not only do we have to score every possession we probably need to hit a three every possession and towards the end that just kind of evaded them so uh

It it look I I don’t want to make too much out of one game out of 82 but this one if you’re in that camp of I don’t care about the numbers they haven’t played anybody and I don’t trust this team this one defensively felt a lot

More like the first four games of the Season versus what we’d seen in December and and every game since then yeah and that could be a narrative that one might pick up the Bucks in big game so far this season right we had the big Boston Showdown and they got outworked for most

Of that game made a close at the end you had your inseason tournament game in Vegas against the Pacers that was an L Christmas day another L there Frank when you’re looking at this game and the Bucs performance was there anything that you saw tonight that just kind of had you go

Like hey they could do more of this we could win or was it just a performance in your opinion where you just like the Bucks just they didn’t have it tonight well I mean the the opener season opener was a little bit of weird circumstances for the Sixers um but I

Will say like let’s also throw that in I mean you did beat the the Philadelphia Sixers which right now you know that was the difference between the Bucks you know being the second seed and the third SE ceed um I think now they’re back to

To equal on in losses and we’ll see what happens tonight with the heat hosting the Sixers no Jimmy no Joel so I’m sure the league office loves that but um but yeah I mean I think the you know the second half of the third quarter after

They make the Run Pat hon hits that kind of pull up three in transition to cut the lead to four and it felt like I think it was 7773 felt like okay here’s all this this bucks momentum Giannis was starting to kind of get you know

Downhill and and starting to get into a comfort zone and you felt like okay now it feels like this might be where the Bucs kind of flip the script here but um shout out to a friend of the PO Alex goodkin I was messaging with him I think

He called out that the Bucks uh didn’t get a stop for the last five minutes in 33 seconds of the fourth of the third quarter and then I think Brook Lopez had a block um with under 11 minutes to go early in the fourth quarter where they

Finally got a stop but basically six minute stretch plus almost seven minutes didn’t get a stop so um I would say Camille like not much in that in that sort of section of play probably that we want to say like let’s bottle that and figure out how we kind of you know use

That more moving forward um you know I just felt like anytime the Knicks kind of drove um they were able to either get a layup or a foul you know and some of those are probably bailouts that that one foul that Julius Randle Drew on Brooke where he was just kind of

Spinning and and threw up a really tough fadeaway that one was you know and I didn’t really see a close Replay that that like definitively said it wasn’t a foul but it didn’t seem like it was a foul that was tough but you know again the Bucks again sort of played into the

Nick’s hands and um and again like some of this is you know in the fourth quarter going with Bobby poris over Brook to close is a choice obviously they did that because they wanted to be able to switch problem is Bobby can’t switch and stop Jaylen Brunson either um

And even when Giannis got a switch onto him you know what did Brunson do he drove to the basket stopped on a dime and Giannis went crashing into him send him to the foul line you know so um so unfortunately I think it was you know

Some of it is again wise Bobby Portis closing over Brooke again I wouldn’t do that in a game like this especially because it didn’t seem like Bobby had his a game did have 12 points and I think he had five or six offensive rebounds but um missed all four of his

Threes and you know think there a number of those if they go down maybe the game was a little bit different but Brooke um was shooting better and and again it’s not like there was any obvious answer here playing drop obviously it was not some miracle tonic that was working

Particularly well but I think it someone tweeted at me after the game and said you know are we putting too much on J Crowder to to fix this defense when he comes back and I’d say if you’re expecting Jay Crowder to fix this defense yes you’re putting too much on

Jay Crowder I think Jay Crowder is not going to fix this defense but I think it’s an interesting kind of highlight highlight something interesting about the Bucks which we’ve talked about you know in all the the era of kind of the butd bud era Giannis didn’t play tons of

Center with basically like four wings and and guards but they played a lot of times like up to like 10 15% played a lot more the year that Brooke was out he basically hasn’t done that at all this year and again I don’t think it’s because Adrien Griffin like doesn’t want

To play small or switchy in theory that’s what Adrien Griffin wants to do but there’s really not Personnel to do it and I think Jay Crowder is maybe the only guy on this roster that you can look at and say you could put him at the

Four with kind of the other regular guys in Yiannis at Center that could have been potentially an interesting option to roll out in a game like this where it feels like you’re really getting cooked in pick and roll and you need some kind of other options and heck we saw we saw

Him put Jake Crowder on Brunson in I think that first game that that ninth game of the year or whatever 10th game of the year or whatever it was because Brunson was cooking the buck so badly and they wanted just some size and physicality on Brunson so again Jay

Crowder is not stopping jayen Brunson either but again with situations like this you give up a 129 offensive rating you got to have different pitches I thought the zone that they went to in the second quarter which actually came when Brun was on the bench I thought

That was a little bit weird I thought they would wait until Brunson was in the game I thought that kind of threw the the Knicks off a little bit we’ve seen that work for at least periods for the Bucs at times this year especially relative to how poorest their man

Defense can be so I thought maybe it’d be interesting to see if they went to more of that in the fourth quarter just to try anything because they couldn’t get stops in the conventional way but again I think this just sort of highlights the fact that this team just

Doesn’t really you know have reliable ways to lock down when the other team has kind of figured things out and um you know again you need different pitches in the NBA I think defensively and so far I think this is a team that’s still figuring out what pitches they

Even have kind of in their repertoire you mentioned that we saw Jay Crowder on Brunson earlier in the season I thought it was interesting tonight that we saw Chris Middleton on Brunson because it seemed like that same Theory like let’s throw some size at Brunson to see if

This can slow him down that didn’t make much of a difference Andre didn’t make much of a difference it just didn’t seem to matter too much tonight who the Bucks put on Brunson because he still cooked up at that 38 tonight but a difference in between this performance and last

Times we’ve seen the Knicks and Brunson where Brunton has had good games against the Bucks consistently so far this season but tonight he got some help he got some help tonight RJ Barrett had more points in the first quarter tonight than he did in Saturday’s entire matchup against the Bucks quickley had 20

Randall had 24 and then during down the stretch we saw just some interesting decisions like the Bucs not choosing to file after Middleton hit that floater to cut the lead down to six with like 35 seconds left don’t foul for 17 seconds and then next thing you know like they

Finally do fouls 18 seconds left Randall makes both and now you’re down eight points with 18 seconds left and that’s hard to get back from like Justin what did you think of the late game execution from the Bucks down the stretch as well yeah it wasn’t great um that one

Specifically I mean it it felt like the game was over earlier than it was officially over just because of what we spent the first part of the show talking about and that the Bucks couldn’t come up with stops so it doesn’t matter if you’re scoring on the other end you have

To stop them sooner or later so the the that that possession in that sequence where you waited until seven seconds left and Randall was out there on the perimeter at at a vulnerable spot before following him I mean it was frustrating but I I don’t really think it had all

That large of an impact on the game it was starting to feel like that Celtics game where the Bucks were out of it for large Parts if not all the game but then Damen Lillard just goes nuts and you look up and you think how is this a

Two-possession game or how is this down to to a one possession game at that point um so that’s that’s what I I took from that that their late game execution wasn’t great but I don’t feel like they were totally in the game I know the score would say they were but again you

Just have to come up with stops and it it felt like Brook Lopez was really under attack today that you felt bad for him that it seemed like every time he turned around he was getting attacked and having to contest a shot that I think it was a number of things that we

Could point to of guys just did not have good games I think as much as as we’ve heaped Praise on Andre Jackson Jr he was not very good today in his minutes on the defensive end and it was just the point of attack where it it wasn’t just

Getting beat it was how easy the Knicks made it look with scoring the ball it was like you were playing somebody online in 2K absolutely and I’m a two I love playing NBA 2K so that’s definitely true looks like you’re uh in random wreck or something like that and you like it’s

Easy buckets here but just just to knew that that was playing right into your your wheelhouse you know it you know it you gonna see the the 2K Clips on Twitter soon gave you that to Camille for that one but to your point about just differences that we’ve seen we don’t

Want to overreact from a one game sample size at all but this is the fourth time that the Bucks have seen the Knicks so far this season we see them another time um later on in the season in April but I want to dig into some differences that

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What differences did you see from this matchup in comparison to Saturdays or the earlier two games against the Knicks because one thing that’s been interesting about the Knicks bucks matchup so far this season the Bucks have had some really crazy three-point shooting performances against the Knicks

So far this season the Bucks have shot 50% or better from three in four games this season and three of those have been against the Knicks yeah I mean the three-point shooting is obviously the the kind of thing to start with here and and again both teams ended

Up shooting right at 31% so it’s not like the Bucks were the victim of some you know outlier performance from the Knicks but the Knicks just don’t shoot tons of Threes And they don’t really rely on threes um so I think you know again if you’re the Knicks you probably

Feel pretty good if you come in knowing that you’re going to be about even percentage wise from three as as the Bucks given kind of everything you’ve seen from the Bucks and just generally kind of how they’re constructed so um I think that’s kind of the easy kind of

Point to hit on um but it’s sort of interesting I mean is I thought the physicality of the Knicks in the first quarter um you know we can talk about did Giannis not get some calls sure but um you know overall I thought the physicality was good Taj Gibson had a

Couple sneaky little strips on Giannis when the Knicks were kind of building their lead um so Giannis just four out of 10 I think Chris Giannis and Dame were all four for 10 in the first half and you you look at the kind of total the kind of all-in scoring numbers um

You know I think that was was it two straight games over the weekend here where all of them were 20 plus in both games Chris 20 um was it 20 or 22 on uh on Saturday and today he was for 24 so offensively I mean the net at the end of

The day you were at a 124 offensive rating you were better than you know your already Juggernaut offense in a game against the Knicks who they’ve dropped off a bit they’re now 14th in defense but you know as much as the offense I think wasn’t chis and kind of

Felt like they were in mud a bit in that first half you know at the end of the day you scored enough points to win this game for sure 122 and that really good offensive rating so it really just comes down to to the defense I think and um

You know you look at some of the kind of distribution of the numbers there’s not really a good story anywhere anywhere I mean I thought the the transition story really favored the bucks on Saturday today bucks did get out and were able to do some things in transition but the

Knicks were really good in transition um definitely had a big Advantage there whether it was off steals off rebounds maybe wasn’t quite as egregious as you know some of the like running off a make type type stuff that we’ve seen uh for instance in like the Pacers games and

Things like that but you know definite Advantage for the Knicks there and then you know they were better in half court as well you know the points per play on the first shot they had a clear Advantage there um and the Bucks were more effective getting kind of those

Second Chance points and finishing off offensive rebounds but um you know again it’s kind of hard to to make a living winning games that way maybe the Knicks when have Mitchell Robinson you know they they were able to win a number of games just purely kind of in the

Offensive glass but you know as much as bucks can do that at times um that’s really not kind of the recipe for for how they win basketball game so yeah I think it was just again kind of looking at the defense and I I mean I think this

Is sort of gets back to kind of the big picture right I think you know Jus to your to your point earlier right I mean I don’t think it’s worth kind of using like living and dying game by game right I mean it’s a big season and I think you

Just sort of look and say like okay well did did we learn anything in the grand scheme of things or is it just sort of reinforcing kind of some of the strengths and weaknesses that we already knew they had and that’s pretty much what we saw today right yeah even for

All the the offense not being perfect they scored a crap ton of points Yana struggled early really started to figure out the game as it went on ends up scoring an efficient 32 13 rebounds six assists three stocks um you know Dame gets his points maybe not a great

Shooting night for him and Chris um 24 points you know Season High from him right and I think he had five assists as well and was hitting some shots to keep them in in the second half so um yeah I me the offense will figure it out it

Felt like they were playing more I felt like we saw upsetti or Diet of Dame Yannis pick and rolls um in this game and and perhaps the last couple games than we have maybe previously um and you know again I I think if whether they do that or not I think they’re probably

Going to score a lot of points regardless but again kind of everything just comes back to the defensive side and yes we saw some Andre Jackson and you know I think his energy will always be a positive on that end we saw a lot less Malik Beasley and what do you have

Like practically half as many minutes today as he did on Saturday and he wasn’t hitting a bunch of shots so can’t really argue with it but um but yeah I think again sort of the the eye test right defensively even if the numbers are improving defensively you just

Compare kind of their defensive Wing rotation against all the other contenders there’s nobody there’s nobody that you say is like the guy that’s going to defend the other team’s best ball handler and so we’re kind of just in the same spot that we have been just

Sort of boning like well what are they going to do ahead of the trade deadline right so feels like kind of a broken record but this definitely felt like a game where that was true and and again it’s not just Brunson I think if one guy

Hurts you you know not the end of the world but when Brunson hurts you and then quickly comes in and he really hurts you and Barrett hurts you and everybody Hurts you um it uh it becomes really tough to win a basketball game when everybody Hurts you the story of

The 2010 2017 bucks um and like that last point though is is to me one of the bigger ones is you look back to Saturday and the Knicks they weren’t winning the Brunson minutes their bench was terrible and it it hasn’t been good all season long so today you had to win those

Minutes that Brunson wasn’t on the floor and the the Knicks bench made the bigger impact they only had seven points at halftime and we saw guys start to explode I think quickley had 20 points he reached that 20o Mark in like 19 minutes that he was scoring in bunches

And and CH started to hit some shots too um Dame to to Frank’s Point not a great shooting day especially from three when you look at the four of 13 I think he started 0 of five though so he was much better in those last few quarters and as

As the game went on but you know I know every game is like this but it it really just seemed like the defense started to get away from them around midpoint of the first quarter and that’s where the game was lost when you look at every other number here I mean the Knicks

Offense was Unstoppable against this this defense but the way they closed the quarter to all of a sudden take that nine-point lead every other quarter was even or close that the Bucks were staying with him it was just you let go of the rope in that first quarter and

That proved to be the difference it did and the niick set the tone pretty early they had a season high points in the paint tonight against the Milwaukee Bucks they had 7 I think that’s the third team this season to score 70 or more in the paint against the Bucks you

Know as a Wisconsin sports fan I’m tired of teams getting season highs and careers high against my teams I just have to say that out loud and Frank actually touched on something I want to dig deeper into as well mentioning that Malik Beasley only played 19 minutes

Tonight that was almost a season low outside of the 14 minutes that he played um against Brooklyn earlier in the season so I want to take a look at this like could this be the start of a trend that we’re seeing with Malik Beasley’s minutes or is this just a blip in The

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Where he played 14 minutes and that game was interesting during that time period because we were seeing his minutes Decline and we were wondering hey he started off the season playing in the 20s now he’s down to 14 is this something or is this nothing and they continue to increase there after but

Tonight Malik Beasley was being honest he was getting cooked on defense but the thing is it’s not unlike he hasn’t been getting cooked defensively throughout this season so far it just felt as if adri and Griffin was like you know what tonight we’re not playing those games so

We gotta try something different so Justin I want to ask you first do you think it’s something or nothing with Malik Beasley’s minutes tonight um boy I I think it’s how can I couch this as best I can potentially something like if we see this continue against Brookland and into Cleveland in

The next couple of games where Le Beasley is still like 15 to 19 minute range then it’s definitely something I I think everything was kind of strange today when you look at some of the other minutes played and I saw some people questioning too like why did you have

Bobby poris closing the game well because Griff wanted to switch and we mentioned how you know Brook Lopez was just constantly under attack so I I think there was some weird things there to me the bigger thing um and look we we’ve all talked about this before I

Don’t think Malik Beasley has been um I I don’t think this is best role to be starting there where he’s probably best served to be coming off the bench and giving you your scoring and a little more judicious in the lineups that he’s used in but I just

Think number one I I I don’t know what other options you have because it’s it’s still going to be a learning experience for Andre Jackson um but that’s this is what we’ve talked about of you can’t really do anything until Malik Beasley goes through a stretch where he’s just

Not shooting the ball and then you can examine things this is still just one game he shot pretty well on Saturday but to me the bigger thing is he only took two shots and I get that his his minutes were limited but you’ve got to take more

Than two shots even with Yiannis and Damen Lillard on the floor and that’s part of the the larger discussion of the first point of is this the best usage in those minutes when those guys are on the floor but we know you can shoot and and

That’s your strength you need to get up more than two shots in a game and especially when one of those was a three and the other was not like that’s the bigger thing is look you have to score the basketball Malik and and we got to

Find ways to get you better looks if that’s the case or you just have to be more aggressive in those minutes around the floor yeah absolutely and I should be clear it’s not through like a effort we’ve seen with Malik like Malik is trying his hardest on defense it’s just

That the results that we’re getting tend to see his the guy he’s defending blow passing a lot of times and it was putting Brooke in those awkward situations again wasn’t just Malik tonight on that but his minutes as the starting two guard are definitely worth taking a look at so Frank and your

Opinion is it something or nothing with Malik’s minutes tonight um I would say it’s nothing in the sense that I don’t I don’t think he’s you know I mean he was out we saw Andre start a couple games they won games and then you know Malik

Went right back in the starting five and he played really well um the other day right on Saturday shot it really well we got some of his Wiggles uh after made three-pointers all was right in the world and you know the off the the starting lineup I mean is like a plus 18

Net rating this year right like the the numbers are terrific even the defense is has been good with that group overall it doesn’t really make sense to me why why the defense would be so much better other than the fact that you know you’ve got Giannis and and Brooke out there

Yeah um and just the work that they do but you know there’s really nothing kind of like like the the three-pointer you know own versus opponent three-point numbers with that starting group are also like pretty much even like there’s nothing kind of like weird or outlier about that it’s not like they’re just

Getting really lucky with opponents missing thre so I think it’s kind of this this thing that I sort of continue to kind of go back and forth my brain with right like if Andre Jackson was starting and that lineup had the the net rating numbers that the current starters

Have I think I everybody would feel a lot better because in theory would’ be like well yeah that they’re good defensively because Andre takes the the lead ball handler and he’s got that athleticism and size and he bugs people and it would just sort of like make more

Like intuitive sense to us again sort of like how do you square the numbers with the it test and etc etc in this case you know that group has been really effective and we expect them to be awesome offensively but the defense with that group I think he been better than

Than you would expect and it’s really been a lot worse when you get into any sort of bench groups um outside of that starting five so I don’t know it’s just kind of only things I’ve been wrestling with but again my default I always come back to is you know Denver right yeah

Denver used to have questions about their defense but at the end of the day they have you know kcp Aaron Gordon um that they have out there playing high level defense to kind of uh you know compensate for the fact that they don’t have great Defenders at other spots um

You know Philly yes they have Tyrese Maxi but every other guy that they have aside from embiid and Maxi at this point are like versatile like rangy Defender type guys that they play so um you know I think at this point if you’re thinking the Bucks are going to win a

Championships it’s it’s on the all gas no breaks hypothesis um because look every team tries harder in the last five minutes of basketball games I don’t think you know I think their success defensively late in games again is that because they’re like tapping into some innate ability they have you know

Offensively yes but defensively you know I think you look at it and you would still have major concerns around that group um late in games trying to close out you know big playoff games especially like in the playoffs right like there people are going to attack weaknesses um and exploit things that

Maybe they aren’t as as not interested but you know they just don’t go out of their way to do as much in the regular season I guess the upside is like we saw in that Dallas game when Luca and Kyrie like it was almost like they didn’t even

Really try to do anything complicated because it just like well Deon Beasley we both can take these dudes so we’ll just kind of go one-on-one and maybe that’s a good thing right maybe just like you know tricking these Jedi mind trick it’s the Jedi mind trick right it

Was like Joe Engles remember when Joe Engles would like find himself defending good players last year and it would just be like wait what like okay I guess I’ll just try to take Joe Engles one-onone um it’s not really the way I Want To Live and Die in playoff games defensively uh

So yeah I mean I just keep coming back to I have a hard time banking on you know marjon Ajax like getting the rope and becoming the defensive stopper guys lock down defender in the playoffs yeah in the playoffs yeah I think that’s just that’s just a really tall

Order and so I think the question is just like is there some some move you can make that uh that gives you that guy because again that’s everything it comes down to for me is just is there a move for a you know again a role playing defensive starting shooting guard

Basically it’s kind of what it what it comes down to and whether the guy’s a little bit bigger a little bit smaller I don’t even know if I care that much but just somebody out there that you feel like can force a guy can can really get

Over a screen and just not you know lay out a red carpet in a pick and roll or again just give give up the edge like right when a guy’s attacking because the other thing too is that you know I said it before like it’s not just the kind of

Quotequote bad defenders in a game like this but I think back in fourth quarter like Giannis and and and Andre like basically were trapping Brunson on the left side and he just went around him it’s just like those are your two dudes that you would say okay like those are

The guys I feel good about if they’re like you know playing a pick and role even those guys were making mistakes and you know Giannis especially one-on-one I think has had a pretty up and down year right I mean his stock numbers have recovered a lot the defense is much

Better obviously when he’s on the floor but you know again like I don’t think he’s you know Camille I sold you my de hnis Defensive Player of the Year stock a lot of that was because of the team just not having a good enough defensive

Ceiling I think but I think in a game like this today I again you needed somebody to make an impact defensively and neither Giannis nor anybody else was able to do that in the fourth quarter yeah it seemed like every time Giannis was getting himself involved in

The play defensively it always like it was a second too late um to actually make an impact so it was one of those games for sure tonight for the bugs but as we record this it is Christmas day I appreciate you both for making some time

Out on this holiday to talk some bucks especially after an L after a win it’s a little bit easier to get everybody on like hey guys let’s talk about Bucks basketball but appreciate both of you stopping by today um in order to talk about this loss to the Knicks on

Christmas Day and that’ll do it for us today it’s time back to family and food and and presents and things of that sort I was gonna say we just came in rip rowing ready to complain about stuff and forgot to say Merry Christmas to everybody um so shout out to uh to

Everybody for that and we’ve got some turkey got some turkey dinner here waiting for me in a couple hours so o I’m looking forward to that I don’t know you guys have uh we basically have Thanksgiving on Christmas is what we do we open presents on Christmas Eve but um

Yeah so um we’ll we’ll eat the pain away let’s just do that I hope that everybody has an enjoyable meal day an enjoyable day and again thank you all for listening to us on this Christmas Day episode of lockon bucks we’re going to get out of here

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Make sure that y’all go and check that out uh once you leave here today for Frank for Justin and for myself we’re going to catch you all later thanks again y’all Merry Christmas

The Milwaukee Bucks seven game win streak comes to an end after losing to the New York Knicks, 129-122 on Christmas Day. Despite 32 points from Giannis Antetokoumpo and 32 points from Damian Lillard, it wasn’t enough to overcome Jalen Brunson and the Knicks.

What went differently for the Bucks during this matchup in comparison to the prior three games against the Knicks? Malik Beasley only played 19 minutes — is that something or nothing? Camille, Justin and Frank discuss all of this, and more, on today’s episode.

0:00 Intro
1:24 Bucks couldn’t stop the Knicks
14:23 What was different for the Bucks today vs. the last three games against the Knicks?
23:14 Malik Beasley only played 19 minutes today…is this something or nothing?

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