It has been more than two months since the Pistons saw Shareef Abdur-Rahim. They didn't forget the 50 points he hung on them on Nov. 23, and Wednesday they turned it around.
"They did what they were supposed to do," the Hawks power forward said.
"They fronted him and they played behind him. They were all over him," Jason Terry said. "They played it the right way."
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A frustrated Shareef Abdur-Rahim turned as if he wanted to go after Ben Wallace. Wallace stepped right up into his face as if to say, "What are you going to do?"
Seconds later, Abdur-Rahim started jawing at Jerry Stackhouse. Stackhouse gave a wicked smile and pointed up to The Palace scoreboard, which read: Pistons 88, Hawks 71.
It was a bad night for All-Stars, and for the Hawks.
"I think Ben gave all the people who voted on the All-Stars something to think about," Cliff Robinson said.
Wallace, who was kept off the Eastern Conference All-Star squad in favor of Abdur-Rahim and Alonzo Mourning, limited Abdur-Rahim to 4-for-14 shooting and 10 points.
"It wasn't about the All-Star Game," said Wallace, who achieved his 13th double-double (10 points, a season-high 19 rebounds). "I wish him the best of luck at the All-Star Game. But he wasn't about to get 50 tonight. That's what this was about."
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Here we go again. The Pistons just completed another back-to-back set (their 13th) and are in the midst of another stretch of four games in five nights (their fifth).
So, you wonder, do the players have any tricks to help them get through these grueling stretches?
"Just show up," Jon Barry said.
"Get some rest and stay off your feet," Chucky Atkins said.
"Just take care of your body, as always," Ben Wallace said.
The consensus seemed to be that playing four games in five nights is more of a mental strain than physical strain.
"If you think you are tired, you will be tired," Barry said. "I honestly don't mind these. I liked it when we played three games in a row during the lockout year. We are trained to do this. It's no big deal."
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Pistons Jan 2002 Archive
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| Jan 31, 2002
Shareef Abdur-Rahim was the topic of conversation leading up to Wednesday night's game at the Palace between the Pistons and Hawks.
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| Jan 31, 2002
Family members of former Detroit Piston George Trapp say they are outraged because they've been told by Detroit police that the man accused of fatally stabbing Trapp will not face criminal charges.
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| Jan 30, 2002
Why does Michael Curry start? Why does he play so many minutes?
This is why.
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| Jan 30, 2002
For the first time in three years, Jerry Stackhouse wasn't selected for the NBA All-Star Game.
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| Jan 29, 2002
Pistons Coach Rick Carlisle would prefer not to look too far into the future, but there is no denying the importance of the upcoming stretch of games, starting tonight at Washington.
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| Jan 29, 2002
Perry A.
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| Jan 29, 2002
No one knows better than Michael Curry that Michael Jordan is getting his legs back, and the greatest guard ever averaged 40.
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| Jan 29, 2002
A year ago, the Pistons were small across the front line, 15-26 at midseason and had no hope of making the playoffs on their way to 50 losses.
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| Jan 28, 2002
If you are Pistons Coach Rick Carlisle, would you remove the three-point shot from Jerry Stackhouse's repertoire?
Over his career, Stackhouse hits barely 30 percent from beyond the three-point arc.
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| Jan 28, 2002
The Eastern Conference playoff race appears to be down to 10 teams, with the Pistons in the hunt for one of the bottom four of eight spots.
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| Jan 27, 2002
Tough call here.
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| Jan 27, 2002
Perhaps sometime Saturday, as they enjoyed a rare day off following a 107-90 victory at Atlanta on Friday night, the Pistons might have had a chance to peak at the most recent NBA standings.
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| Jan 26, 2002
First, you notice his hair.
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| Jan 26, 2002
Corliss Williamson can't see the Detroit Pistons hitting another long dry spell.
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| Jan 26, 2002
Talk about an identity crisis.
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| Jan 26, 2002
Whether the Pistons were 14-6 or 20-20, President Joe Dumars had the same response to those wondering about his team.
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| Jan 26, 2002
The Pistons are 10-1 when Cliff Robinson scores 20 or more and 6-0 when both he and Jerry Stackhouse reach 20 or better.
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| Jan 26, 2002
"CBA game?" hollered a fan late in the third quarter as he tried to elevate the proceedings.
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| Jan 25, 2002
It seems the floundering Hawks can't get an even break.
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| Jan 24, 2002
Perry A.
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| Jan 24, 2002
Jon Barry isn't making any predictions on Friday's game in Atlanta.
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| Jan 24, 2002
The Pistons punched in for work Wednesday night with energy, defense and the hot hand of Jerry Stackhouse.
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| Jan 24, 2002
Zeljko Rebraca has to earn his playing time after missing two games with a back injury.
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| Jan 24, 2002
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| Jan 24, 2002
The quick and easy explanation for the Timberwolves' 104-83 loss to the Detroit Pistons Wednesday night at The Palace of Auburn Hills was this: They were due.
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| Jan 23, 2002
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| Jan 23, 2002
As he does patiently and with great thought after every game, win or lose, whether he scores 30 points or three, Cliff Robinson stood before the cameras and microphones Monday and tried to make sense out of the Pistons.
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| Jan 23, 2002
We never called George Trapp "Instant Heat.
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| Jan 23, 2002
Same shots, different results.
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| Jan 22, 2002
Say this about the Pistons, they don't quit.
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| Jan 22, 2002
The trouble with the NBA is there are too many teams in too many parts of the country playing too many meaningless games.
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| Jan 22, 2002
Former Pistons forward George Trapp died Monday of complications following a stabbing on Jan.
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| Jan 22, 2002
The Pistons got away with falling behind and playing poorly in the first quarter Saturday against Boston, rallying for a fourth-quarter victory.
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| Jan 22, 2002
When the Pistons visited Memphis, Tenn.
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| Jan 21, 2002
According to Jonathan Feigen of the Houston Chronicle, the draft pick the Rockets owe Memphis from the Steve Francis trade must be paid this year or next.
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| Jan 21, 2002
The cavalry isn't coming to the rescue.
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| Jan 21, 2002
It was a great weekend for the Pistons entering today's home game against Milwaukee:
They ended an 11-game slide on the road with a 96-93 victory at Indiana on Friday night.
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| Jan 20, 2002
The players on the Pistons' bench were standing, waving towels to whip up the frenzied crowd.
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| Jan 20, 2002
The last 20 seconds of Saturday's Pistons game featured enough subplots to fuel a mini-series.
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| Jan 20, 2002
Jerry Stackhouse and Cliff Robinson weren't going to let a 19-point lead on the road go to waste without doing something about it.
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| Jan 20, 2002
When Jon Barry and Cliff Robinson learned that Indiana's Jermaine O'Neal would be out for a while with a strained ligament in his left knee, the first person they thought of was Ben Wallace.
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| Jan 20, 2002
AUBURN HILLS, Mich.
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| Jan 19, 2002
The solution was written in huge letters on the white message board in the Indiana Pacers' locker room after the game.
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| Jan 18, 2002
The details never escape Rick Carlisle.
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| Jan 18, 2002
Once practice was done, a couple of Mikki Moore's teammates pulled him aside and told him the exact same thing he has heard so many times.
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| Jan 18, 2002
As long as Rick Carlisle is coaching the Pistons, and Isiah Thomas is on the Pacers' bench, the games between the two have a little more significance.
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| Jan 17, 2002
It happened again Tuesday against Toronto and it has happened with alarming regularity during the Pistons' recent skid.
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| Jan 17, 2002
Still flush with the satisfaction of their latest effort, the Pistons talked Wednesday with renewed interest in their season.
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| Jan 16, 2002
The Raptors aren't sure what the moral of this story is.
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| Jan 16, 2002
There was no second-guessing after Cliff Robinson missed three shots in the final 35 seconds of the Pistons' 92-90 loss to the Raptors on Tuesday.
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| Jan 16, 2002
The easiest thing to do is to dismiss the Pistons and everything they've done thus far.
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| Jan 16, 2002
Of all the former Pistons on the Toronto roster Tuesday at the Palace -- including Eric Montross and Jerome Williams -- Jermaine Jackson was probably the happiest to be there.
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| Jan 15, 2002
A lot of people will be lured to The Palace tonight by the prospect of seeing a matchup between two of North Carolina's finest alums -- Vince Carter and Jerry Stackhouse.
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| Jan 15, 2002
After using a weak-side-help defense successfully during Saturday night's 104-76 victory over Charlotte, the Pistons practiced it at length Monday as they prepared for tonight's game against Vince Carter and the Toronto Raptors at the Palace.
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| Jan 15, 2002
Jerry Stackhouse and Rick Carlisle talk all the time.
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| Jan 14, 2002
Chris McCosky of The Detroit News sits down and has a short chat with Ben Wallace.
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| Jan 14, 2002
The Pistons are a classic front-running, fair-weather team, aren't they?
When the shots are falling, like they were right from the jump Saturday against Charlotte, everything is peachy.
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| Jan 14, 2002
Scouts will tell you that every draft is important, but this year's draft for the Pistons seems especially important.
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| Jan 14, 2002
When Cliff Robinson is aggressive, takes open shots, uses his ability to get to the basket and keeps shooting -- no matter whether his shots are going in -- the Pistons are a better team.
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| Jan 14, 2002
This time there was no comeback.
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| Jan 13, 2002
This time there was no comeback.
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| Jan 13, 2002
Time to just shut up and play.
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| Jan 13, 2002
For weeks, Cliff Robinson's teammates had been bugging him to bring back the headband he wore earlier in his career in Portland.
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| Jan 12, 2002
When the Pistons were doing well -- which is becoming more and more of a memory -- they moved the ball unselfishly and played defense with fervor.
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| Jan 12, 2002
Mired in a stretch of back-to-back games with little time for practice, the Pistons have little recourse but to talk their way out of a losing trend.
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| Jan 12, 2002
ick Carlisle got a long look at his reserves last night.
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| Jan 12, 2002
CHARLOTTE (17-18) AT DETROIT (16-18)
7:30 p.
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| Jan 11, 2002
Antoine Walker and the Boston Celtics are just relieved that a MRI test performed on Walker's knee did not reveal any structural damage, meaning that he will soon be back in uniform.
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| Jan 11, 2002
The Pistons, according to Coach Rick Carlisle, will not break out of their current funk unless they figure out a way to reinvigorate themselves, particularly at the defensive end.
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| Jan 11, 2002
Rick Carlisle has made another lineup change.
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| Jan 10, 2002
Zeljko Rebraca was selected Wednesday to play in the 2002 Rookie Challenge during All-Star Weekend in Philadelphia on Feb.
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| Jan 10, 2002
So, was that 14-6 start just a fluke? A product of the schedule? A tease? A lie?
Tough questions for the Pistons, and they'd better not blindly accept the easy answer.
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| Jan 10, 2002
The Detroit Pistons today placed guard Dana Barros on the injured list and activated Victor Alexander.
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| Jan 10, 2002
The Pistons' psyche needs an overhaul.
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| Jan 9, 2002
You never want to admit that your opponent is unbeatable.
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| Jan 9, 2002
Pistons guard Jon Barry painfully stared into space during a pause in the fourth quarter Tuesday.
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| Jan 9, 2002
When we were kids growing up on the streets of New York, nobody ever picked Joe DiMaggio as his favorite player.
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| Jan 9, 2002
With the mighty Los Angeles Lakers in town, it would've taken the Pistons' best effort of the season to pull out a victory.
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| Jan 9, 2002
The Pistons are sorely in need of a road victory.
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| Jan 8, 2002
After the Timberwolves' 109-93 blowout victory over the Detroit Pistons Monday night, Bachman Turner Overdrive's classic song "Taking Care of Business'' blared over the speakers at Target Center.
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| Jan 8, 2002
Pistons captain Jerry Stackhouse wants his team to trade for troubled Portland Trail Blazers power forward Rasheed Wallace, just as long as the deal does not involve him or Ben Wallace.
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| Jan 8, 2002
Joe Smith is home with his beloved Timberwolves with a six-year, $34-million deal in his pocket.
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| Jan 8, 2002
The Timberwolves are 24-9, and star Kevin Garnett gives some of the credit to former Pistons forward Joe Smith.
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| Jan 8, 2002
He was part of the Timberwolves' organization, technically, for nearly five years, yet never played a game for them.
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| Jan 8, 2002
Joe Smith isn't the only Piston to have been through the Minnesota Timberwolves organisation it seems.
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| Jan 7, 2002
We are going to get a pretty fair idea of how near or far the Pistons are from the league's elite in the next couple of days.
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| Jan 7, 2002
The Silverdome was home for the Pistons from 1978-79 to 1987-88 and was where they led the NBA in attendance for five straight seasons.
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| Jan 7, 2002
Rodney White didn't realize that being on the injured list meant he'd have to miss five games.
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| Jan 6, 2002
Brian Cardinal got two surprises Saturday -- one bad, one good.
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| Jan 6, 2002
Jerry Stackhouse wasn't going to let this one slip away.
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| Jan 6, 2002
Jerry Stackhouse scored 22 of his game-high 29 points in the second half, as the Detroit Pistons won for just the second time in 11 games, 101-91 over the Cavs last night.
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| Jan 6, 2002
Ben Wallace and Chucky Atkins could have gloated when the Detroit Pistons came to Orlando in late December to take on the Magic.
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| Jan 5, 2002
Too many games, too few days for practice.
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| Jan 5, 2002
When: 7:30 p.
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| Jan 4, 2002
The night started with rookie Rodney White suffering a sprained left ankle in warm-ups.
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| Jan 4, 2002
Pistons Coach Rick Carlisle wasn't accepting any minor or moral victories.
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| Jan 4, 2002
Although Pistons coach Rick Carlisle preaches defense, he knows that his offense also is struggling.
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| Jan 4, 2002
Steve Francis scored 36 points, handed out 8 assists and hit a tremendous game-winning runner with 0.
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| Jan 3, 2002
Smith may have had to flex his vocal cords as much as he did his feet, but no one can argue with the results.
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| Jan 3, 2002
Frankly, Bruce Bowen doesn't mind the "new" Jerry Stackhouse.
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| Jan 3, 2002
President Joe Dumars was positive in addressing the Pistons during the holidays as they battled a seven-game skid.
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| Jan 3, 2002
There's no better time than the start of a new year to wipe the slate clean and start afresh.
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| Jan 2, 2002
The Pistons can forget about starting 2002 by catching the bowl games and lounging on the couch.
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| Jan 2, 2002
Those involved in the Pistons' lineup change -- in which Michael Curry and Dana Barros were replaced by Corliss Williamson and Chucky Atkins -- agreed that the biggest difference is that the first unit now has a legitimate low-post presence in Williamson.
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| Jan 1, 2002
Jerry Stackhouse was asked Monday what he thought about the Pistons' upcoming schedule.
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