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Live at All Star Weekend here in Indianapolis on the NBA Crossover Stage, and we have a guest of honor in about seven eight hours. He'll be coaching the Western Conference All Stars from the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Coach Chris Finch. Good morning, sir.
Good morning, Thanks for having me on Wells Standing Ovation right there.
Minnesota, thirty nine and sixteen, number one seed in the West. You were an eighth seed last season. You're coaching the Western Conference All Stars. I'm guessing this is just how you drew it up back in October when you guys were well in training camp and planning this season out.
Well, not exactly. We thought we'd be a lot better than last year. We figured we could really make a push to have a home court playoff spot, and you know, at the end of the day, hopefully that's where it continues to shake out. But we had a really really good start of the season. I think we've jumped out seventeen and four, played pretty good basketball since then too, to keep our nose in front. But the guys have been been great. We've been locked in. Defense has been
the key. They really enjoy playing with each other. We've got good depth, great flaxibility, you know, a lot. We have been relatively healthy, you know last year we were not. So all the things point in the right direction. And then most importantly, you know, when you make the type of deal we made last year to bring in Rudy, like these things just take time. They just do. I mean, it's just set it time and again, you know, Lebron goes to Miami, takes them a year, you know, to
figure it out. There's a lot of things that you've got to learn about each other, a lot of roles have to adjust, and our guys have done that and we've seen that kind of coming slowly. And then, like anything else, kind of all comes together at one time.
When and where in your career was the last time you coached an All Star game.
I G League coached the G League All Star team my first year. I think they would have been two thousand and ten. Maybe it was in Dallas, Remember they had the snowstorm. By the way, the G League All Star Game might be the best game here all weekend because they all play, because they're all being scouted by the front offices who were do stop by, and it might be the most competitive game of the entire weekend.
And we only had one day of snow here in Indianapolis, but Dallas was NonStop snow and hard, hard for people to get to.
Yeah, I kind of messed up the whole weekend after the well I coached in the game, but I don't think I left the hotel bar the rest of the weekend.
So now we're having a good time here in Indianapolis. This is not quite the worst All Star weekend for me. Was Toronto two thousand. What year was that star sixteen? Twenty sixteen? What did the temperature get?
I don't know what the number was, but it was way colder than that.
Yeah, we didn't step outside, not once. Fitch I have to hit you with the hard hitting question right now.
I just say I was at that All Star Game too, worked on behalf the NBA with basketball down borders, and I can remember the lake freezing. You could see the lake freezing like in one hundred yard segments almost in front of our eyes.
Usually All Star weekend myself, I like to hit up all the shoe events, all the parties and what else. You know, just all the brunches that's going on. Didn't hit not one of them up that that weekend. It was that serious offense. You're not getting it out of this question, hard hitting question right here. With Lebron James not showing up the practice yesterday, are you bringing him off the bench tonight?
Heck? Now, I'm trying to keep my job, So I was. I was.
We were talking a little bit before before we start recording. Like I would think for most coaches, like once you get that NBA head coaching job that you know on the bucket list is to you know, coach an All Star Game at one point because that major team is having success and has the best record leading up to
the All Star break. But I would imagine like after you get one, as you've seen with the commitments you probably have after you get one, you probably want, you know, your all star break to yourself after that, Like, what's what's been the experience like for you?
It's been a great experience. I mean it's a lot of really kind of cool individual experiences come up and just being able to bring you know, friends, family, you know, close ones into the event and they all get a special experience too. It's and then there's a lot of waiting in between, you know, the next, the next things that happen. But it it I've enjoyed the downtime. You know, I took a nap yesterday. I never do that, sleep
in for a while today. I never do that. The mental break is from the grind of the season is just as important as the physical. You know, a lot of people would like to get get away, go to the beach, wherever they go. You know, I think we get in trouble and these if we take these things for granted, you know, and I think we get in trouble if we you know, if we don't really try to enjoy them. So yeah, next year we're assured that
we can't be here regardless. But you know, as long as the great thing about being here is it means your team's playing really, really well, and that's the most important.
You made a bit of a Twitter splash yesterday with your reaction to Anthony Edwards leftfty three's. In practice, they did not go well in the skills competition. What are the chances that you're gonna let him hoist a lefty three tonight in this game?
Can you stop him if.
He said he's shooting lefty all game.
Yeah, We're gonna have a conversation about that, I think, in the spirit of heightening the competition around the game, which I know the league is really pushing everyone to do. We we need to get him to shoot right handed. But he has a he's a left handed player. He likes to attack left handed, he likes to finish left handed. He might be and you know, even unbeknownst to him left handed, he shoots a pretty well left handed. And he's been pushing me to want to shoot one in
a game, a real game. Yeah, And so I said, okay, if you make if you make three out of five, you know you can do that. And he made four out of five. So, but do you know, Anthony's has got got an incredible amount of confidence. Thinks he can do whatever he puts his mind to, and most of the times he can't.
Well, when you think about Anthony Edward, we were talking about him potential super left handed jump shots. Let's talk about the competition level of the All Star Game, Like, do you feel as an obligation to get the guys to play harder? What has been the message for you with the team going into this game.
Yeah, I do feel an obligation that we put on the most the most competitive show we can. I know the league is really pushing the players, and uh, you know, we had a meeting with the league a week or so ago where they went through some of the points of emphasis of the weekend, and that was certainly one is they kind of bringing the competition back. I think one of the reasons they went back to East West is to hopefully it would infuse some natural rivalry between
the game, within the game, between the players. But at the end of the day, it's going to come down to the players willingness to do it. Traditionally, and when we were growing up, you know, these games would kind of grow into a competitive, uh you know, competition. The fourth quarters would probably be you know, more like a regular NBA game. So yeah, I think there's a little bit of anxiety about how this is going to go tonight.
I think if people will be honest with themselves, but I'm hopeful that the guys, you know, bring it and compete.
What realistically, as a coach, can you say to these guys in terms of defense, what kind of defensive messaging will there be pregame or during a timeout?
What do you think you can really I.
Mean, I mean, you just you're gonna you can tell them to try to play some defense.
You know.
It's I mean, it's we're not going to be scheme based. You know, we're not going to be out there with any kind of great philosophy. Just comes down to their level of individual competitiveness. You know, you don't want it to get to the point where it's too cool to play defense, you know, where everything's too cool you don't want to try. People would feel like it's you know, it's not cool to try hard, and I don't think
that looks good or feels good for anybody. I'm sure in the beginning there'll be a lot of like feeling it out, and then somebody's gonna have to set the tone, you know, So the player are gonna have to go out set the tone offensively and defensively, and that'll wake up the rest of the troops.
I'm sure defense has been such a big part of your success with the Wolves this season. I'm sure you're thrilled to have two of your own players on the Western Conference All Stars, but Rudy Gobert is not here.
I thought Rudy Gobert should have been an All Star.
How hard do you think he's taking it that he did not get selected, because you guys have the number one d in the league, top ranked defense, and he's obviously a huge part.
Yeah, we thought he was deserving him an All Star nomination. For sure. He was disappointed. We were disappointed for him, but in true Rudy style, you know, he's used it as great motivation and he's played some of his best basketball ever in the last several weeks since being snubbed, so to speak. So for us, you know, we're kind of happy that he's on a beach somewhere, just.
Relaxing and seething somewhere, seething and.
Relaxing, fueling up for what's going to be a heck of a stretch run. I know he's got his his you know, his site set on bigger and better things for him and us, and that's what's most important.
Coach I've heard in other years prior. I don't know if it's happened to you, but I'll ask, But there have been times where other coaches where they have their players participate in the All Star Games, they'll actually contact the coach that's coaching that game and tell them, hey, don't play my guy to like leave Malone. Has any coaches contacted you about playing time?
That has not happened, you know, but the players have been pretty you know, pretty open and about what they want to do. You know, we kind of checked in where you know, how you're feeling, you know, what's your body like, where you're at, you know, And so they've given us a gauge where they think that they'd like to play. Who wants to play the most? Oh, no, I guess this is these are private conversations. You'll know in a few hours. Yeah, you'll know in a few hours.
If he played Lebron like forty minutes today. How with Darth Ham.
I think I think Lebron's going to tell me, but how much you wanted to play? Yeah, probably right there.
I'd like to go back many, many years because I was fortunate to meet you. I think it's almost twenty five years ago now. You were coaching the Sheffield Sharks in England. After playing for the Sheffield Sharks, Nick Nurse was coaching the Manchester Giants. I love to tell people that I discovered the both of you, but.
That's really kind of an exaggeration.
Our mutual friend Ian Whittle a journalist in England at the time. He was really the only journalist in England, or pretty much the only journalist who was covering basketball, and he introduced me to both you guys now and I didn't ask too many questions because I was just getting to meet the both of you. But had I really put the full court press on you back in nineteen ninety nine, what would you have said was your vision for your career? What were you hoping to accomplish at that point?
Well, I think you know my I just thought I'd come back and be coaching in college, probably in small colleges. You know, that's always been my background. We grew up in a small college environment. I didn't have a big network, certainly in Division one. I didn't have any real network into the NBA at that point in time. I mean,
I was just focused. I was so young then, probably around you know, around about thirty the beginning of my career, just trying to you know, win the British Basketball League every every single season and then go from there. And that's really it. I did have a few kind of things happened in my career, like things that didn't happen. Actually, I had a high school job back in Reading, Pennsylvania.
Is that I didn't get I was offered the job and then the kind of get away from me for political reasons at the last moment before I was even allowed to start. It's a long story, but it's not important. And then I had another really tiny job offer finalists for a job a small school in upstate New York, and I would have had to take a massive pay cut to do it, but I just an effort to
get home. I just wanted to get home. And neither of those things happened for me, And had they happened, I wouldn't be sitting here, you know, I would be either high school coach teaching in Pennsylvania or I'd be, you know, on some small college career path right now or whatever. But when those things didn't turn out for me, I thought, what am I doing? Like, I'm I'm I'm on a good path here in Europe. I need to
like maximize this opportunity, and I switched gears. I was like, Okay, I want to get to I want to get out to the bigger and better leagues. And when I went to Germany, I want to eventually get to Spain. I want to get to these top level countries. So that's why I set my sights on and when I did that, everything changed for me. Went to Germany but got fine. That had to rebuild my career in Belgium, and that was actually kind of the blessing in disguise because the
team there had a lot of money. We were able to play in the European leagues. We did well in European leagues, and then it started to snowball from there.
And what do you think got you on the NBA radar?
Well, I know sam Hinkey got me on the NBA radar. They were when they launched their their D League in the initiative of Rio Grand they were taking over basketball operations, basically implementing the baseball model, and they just wanted somebody that had a totally different profile from what they were
looking for. And unbeknownst to me at the time, they wanted somebody who played fast, inefficient basketball, which we were doing in Europe, not because we were more smart or ahead of the curve, just because these were the types of players I could afford, you know, guys who could shoot threes, undersized centers that we played fast. You know, I couldn't afford to compete in the European leagues against these big centers and his more rugged teams because we
didn't have that type of money. So we built these fast teams that shoot shot a lot of threes. And they started looking for somebody, and my name kept coming up. And Sam Hinkey has a philosophy that he here's something from more than one person, he investigates it and whether it be a book, a movie, some sort of Ted talk, whatever it might be. You know, he's like, Okay, what's going on here? So he reached out to me after
summer league. I was guest coach. Donnie Nelson was kind enough with one of a few contacts because he's so prevalent in Europe, and his scouting had invited me to be a guest coach with the Dallas Mavericks and at Summer League that year, Sam reached out and explained what they were looking for and asked if I would be interested, and I said sure. So that's that's kind of how
it all happened. And so Sam, Darryl mory Gerson rosis you know those that triumpherent was really kind of the crew that brought me to the league.
And now almost twenty years later, you're coaching the West All Stars and you're a tipsy and defense first coach.
What happened to?
What happened? I've always liked defense, just you know, somehow along the way, I got tabbed to being an offensive guy. That's what they wanted me to do in Houston. When I went there, they said, Okay, we're gonna go to the G League. We're gonna tinker around with this stuff, and we're gonna see what we can do and how
far we can push the envelope offensively down there. And it was one of the things that kind of like gave me pause before I took the job, because I thought it was like, it's still gonna be a circus act. You know, it's what kind of I want to play basketball coach, and I don't want to just do crazy things? So now are in yeah, crazy things? I mean, look out, the game's revolutionized, and you know everybody kind of plays
that way. But when we first made it to the league, probably only eight ten teams were playing with pace, you know, valuing shot selection. And then you know, once Golden State kind of hit their stride, everything just exploded from there.
So You've been around a bunch of head coaches and I'm curious your perspective on this. You know, you have coaches that are great at x's and o's, You've got coaches that are great at communicating. You've got great coaches that aren't great at communicating. But when you're coaching the NBA level, what is the balance that you think that you have to have in order to be successful in like commanding the respect of the locker room, not losing guys,
and being efficient? Like, what are what are the features you need to have?
I would say for me, it's seventy thirty. You have the seventy thirty seventy in the man management, you know, just the relationship with the players, controlling the environment, managing the staff, holding everybody accountable. You know, the x'es and o's part is probably thirty percent for me. Staffs are so big now that we can have so many guys specialized in all the x's and o's. You know, we have offensive defensive guys, we have special teams guys, we
have player development guys. I have a staff broken down into transition coach, a pick and roll coach, almost like football model, right, And I like that because it gives those guys like overview, accountability, ownership over something, empowers them in that space. Then it's easy for me to hold them accountable. Hey, you're supposed to be in charge of this,
we're not good enough at that. And then I just can kind of like check in with the players and make sure that the mood is right and you know, manage the roster and deal with the front office and all that stuff. And then come meeting time, we sit down and we all lay it out on the table, and of course it's my job to make the final decisions. But I got a great staff. Trust them implicitly, but yeah, if they're not really good at the ex'es and o's part, I can't be really good at all the other things.
And these jobs right now are so big. They're way more about leadership than they are about basketball.
Is that something you learn.
One of my first encounters with Greg Popovich, I was coaching one of his young kind of draft picks for the national team in Great Britain, Ryan Richards. Yeah, and he could. He had come over and had to watch a tournament in London. You might have actually been there.
France was there in Spain. It was twenty eleven, summer before the Olympics, and I had a tiny little interaction with him talking about Ryan and when we were talking about the jobs, and he said that to me, he said, the job is way more about leadership than it's about basketball. And it always stuck with me and then just being on you know, being in it. He's one hundred percent right.
Wow, I'm glad you brought up the Olympics because just what was that like? Obviously you were an American. Nick Nurse was on your staff. You guys are Americans, but you had been in England for so long to coach Great Britain in the Olympics in London, lou All, Dang, just what are your thoughts when you just think back on that whole experience.
Well, it's not too dissimilar to this weekend, this experience. You know, I've never in my wildest dreams thought it would have happen. You know, with our history, Nick and I are, our history of the England is a huge affinity for basketball there and obviously, you know, our most formative years were there. We feel kind of almost like citizens, you know, with such a special place in our heart for the country and the people in the basketball game there.
But it was one again surreal experience after another. I mean, met the Prime Minister, met the Queen. Really yeah, and how is that? What was meeting the queen like that?
It was incredible and Nick and I it was so the Olympics open on Friday night, the opening ceremonies Saturday morning, we were like in our apartment and we got a knock on the door and guy's sense like, hey, the Queen's coming through to view her you know, basically dormitory block where all the British athletes were living, and she wants to meet half a dozen coaches and half a dozen athletes, and most of the people were out like they're out training they're out wherever, and so Nick and
I were able to do a little receiving line comes down super gracious, you know, somebody with her, with her presence.
I don't even know.
You don't bow, no, you just kind of put your hands behind your back and wait for her to talk to you. And there's all these photocols. You know, I tell the story a lot.
So coaching Lebron is nothing.
You've met the queen, yeah, exactly, yeah, yeah, but like she makes you. She made you feel incredibly at ease, which is quite you know, quite a quite a quite the talent when you're you know, dealing with somebody like the Queen. But the best part was Prince She said, oh, and what do you do? I said, I coach basketball. She said, all that makes sense, you're very tall. Yeah, you know, all the usual things that some grandmother would
say too. Yeah, she did there with me. Well, Nick Nurse was there and Prince Philip, her husband, was right behind, and she said, on what do you Oh, you must be the wrestling coach. At the time. The time, Nick was carrying about twenty five extra pounds than he is right now. So we always laugh about that. But in my office, I have that picture of Nick and I both with the with the Queen. So and then just to get to the games and that you know, growing
up like the Olympics were like this. I mean, we didn't miss them when we were growing up with just they thought this is an incredible sporting event. And then as you get into professional sports you become so cynical about everything, right, and then when it all changed when I was able to be in the Olympics, it's an incredibly pure sporting event and we know it's not pure, but as athletes in the village, it was an incredible,
incredible time. So and then to be able to step out on the floor and what it meant to those players to hear the you know, God save the Queen before the games in the arenas you know, playing basketball, which is not a marquee sport in England, but it become a pretty big event, team event in the run up to the Olympics.
So especially because the Olympic field it's only twelve teams, it's so much smaller than the World World Cup.
So huge. Yeah. So it's just again I can't you know, just lucky think about my career, things that.
Have happened to me, coach, I want to get a get a question from the audience real quick.
And I see a young.
Lady right here, been raising her hand all night. Young lady, come come here police.
What is your name, Charlotte?
Charlotte?
What's your last name? Kane's?
This is my wife, coach.
Yes, well, Coach, I definitely am intrigued with your story. And I just feel like what you've gone through is inspirational and.
Required a lot of endurance.
And I want to know how you really use your your life lessons to you know, help your not only the players, but your staff, because it is about leadership and you've had doors open and doors closed, and you know, with players there, you know they could be traded, they could you know, get hurt, or staff they're not getting opportunities that they think that they deserve or they would be next in line. How do you use your life lessons to like lead them and guide them?
Great question? Thank you. A couple of things. First of all, you know, I I consider myself kind of an NBA outsider, just you know my I think what my path is taught is a lot of humility. I loved everywhere I was at I mean, I really did, and so you know, it kind of bothers me if we go to a hotel and people complain about these five star hotels that we stay in. You know, I'm just like, you know,
kind of it's a reality check. Hey, come on, Like if you were kind of berthed right into the NBA opportunity, you get spoiled quickly. And I think like having to kind of coach, you know, around the edges or take a different path, keeps you, keeps you grounded a little bit more. Sometimes I have to remind our staff of that. You know, hey, let's reduce our footprint. Let's let's be super grateful for the things that we're able to have here.
And then the other thing is it's like you just got to put the work in and it take it takes time. Like you know, everybody wants it so fast, you know, whether it's players or coaches, everybody wants it so fast. And that comes from a good place, it really does. And and but sometimes you know, it just doesn't come. And if it doesn't come where you're at, this is what I've learned. It like you keep trying and keep trying and keep trying, it's probably not going
to come. There, and then it's not until you leave that environment you really realize maybe it was dysfunctional, maybe it wasn't for me. And you always land like we live, We work in a volatile environment and getting fired or they were moving on is just part of it. But I've always landed in a better place, but I couldn't see it until I got there. And and when you get there, you get the chance to kind of like reinvent yourself or go back to what you do best.
And then a whole other people, whole nother you know, group of people that can then appreciate working with you and you with them. So those are some of the things. I think. A person that bodies that on my team is Nikhil Alexander Walker. I was with him as a young player, just kept stubbing his toe, stubbing his toe, wanted it so bad, wanted so bad, and just had
to go through these processes. And now he's like one of our most important players, you know, and it's really been incredible to like watch him kind of develop that way.
I'm glad you brought it back to the Timberwolves because our boss Scott Shapiro, who I want to thank for helping us make this show happen. He is a Minnesota native, massive Timberwolves fan, and he's going to be playing this on Loop in his car driving work probably all week till you guys play another game.
So producer Tim as well.
Our producer Tim, who's working on this show, another Minneapolis.
Well, we appreciate the sport you. One thing that's been great about our current success is we see a ton of Timberwolves fans in visiting arenas right now, and that's pretty cool.
So you guys are thirty nine and sixteen atop the West here at the break. If my math is right, I think this is the thirty fifth season of Timberwolves basketball. But this is a franchise that has not won a playoff series for twenty years, and that run to the West Finals and four it's the only two playoff series
that the franchise has ever won. So how much as a staff, your team, how much do you guys feel that weight of expectation because obviously in the regular season you're building up to this playoff run.
Now, really, really, I've never heard that before, Like most things that you know have happened previously to us. Arriving in Minnesota. We don't pay a ton of attention to it. The history's there, but it doesn't really relate to us. We're trying to forge our own path. We believe what we're doing is real and repeatable. You know, we got some guys that I know are super hungry. They don't
care about individual accolades right now. They're focused on one thing that as pushing this team through the playoffs as far as I can go.
Maybe you can answer this one, because you guys were in Dallas recently and I had a chance to visit with Tim Conley and I said, you know, you took so much, so much grief from all of us media.
Know it all is last season. Don't you want to.
Throw it back in our face? How well the trade is working out now? And of course he was very humble and he wouldn't do it. But how good is he feeling right now after last season and all the heat you guys took, and like you said, a year later, with you time to get everybody acclimated, and we see Rudy bouncing back with such a strong season.
I mean, I think Tim feels extremely proud of this team and its efforts. I think it's the vision he always had. We always knew it took take time. We thought last season it would take at least fifty games to figure it out. We never really got that chance, right. He's an incredible valuator of talent and how that talent fits together. We have a continual dialogue about it all.
I really love working with him. He's never going to be the type of guy who's going to throw it in anyone's face, know, because he knows how quickly these things can change. And that's the that's the league we work in. You got to stay humble through your success. You know. We all sat in that room and we made this the Ruty deal, and we just we were committed to making it work. And even last year we didn't feel like it didn't work. We probably win twenty
five games, we don't have Rudy. We're not in the playoffs last year if we don't have Rudy, and then you know, being able to continually add to the roster, you know, Mike, the emergence of Ni Kiel now Monte Kyle Anderson as a signing. I mean, there's been a lot of home runs that Tim Connley's hit, and it's not just the Ruty deal. But it's really the totality of it all.
And size is back, right. I mean, you're not gonna win in the NBA without size.
In the West.
You got to get through Denver and you can't do that with outsize.
Yeah, and you know they're not going to take their best player off the floor to go small, you know. And and I think also at the height of small ball, and the best team to ever do it was Golden State, and you're just not going to do it better than them. So I think one of the things coming into it all was like can we be different? And can that be good enough?
We had a none of somebody from audience one ask the question.
I go for it, We're good, go for it, and then go for it and then we're gonna all right.
Where are you from?
I had done David Warshowski, Chris as a fellow f and m Alum you had me by a couple of years. One not so serious question. When we used to play pickup ball, you used to make me look the fool by busting me with threes from the outside.
Why'd you have to do that then?
But the more serious question is you took an untraditional route and playing for a legendary coach like Coach Robinson, and being from Franklin and Marshall. Were there positives for you compared to coaches who don't come through that kind of background that have made you the coach that you are today.
Yeah, you know, I appreciate that, and so we need to see some footage.
I need some footage of you playing.
And three, you appreciate people from Franklin Marshall are known as Fummers, so it's a fellow fumber here. I was fortunate in my career to have great coaches at high school and college level. In particular, Coach Robinson will be in the Hall of Fame one day. I'm sure there's one, just shy of a thousand game. It's the only job he ever had. He held it for fifty years he went. When I was there, we were ranked number one in the nation for three out of the four years in
my entire career. We lost fourteen games in college, three of them to Princeton and the other four in the tournament. So we lost basically seven regular season games to Division three opponents. What I learned from Coach was situational basketball. It was outstanding at like, you know, how do you manage through end of games? In fact, I should probably bring them in and have them talked to our team a little bit here, as we have blown a lot of fourth quarter leeds late resily. But I also learned
that it's simple. We had three plays. That's it. We had three plays. He never changed him. It was the same four three plays for all four years, probably the same three plays for thirty of his fifty years coaching there. And it wasn't about the x's and o's. It was just about how well you choose to do what you choose to do. So, you know, when I look back sometimes I have compared my career to my brother, which
who didn't have good coaching. You know, he didn't have the same experience with and he was five years ahead of me. And the only reason I'm in basketball is because I followed him and he just didn't have the enjoyment and the coaching that I was lucky to have. So there's a ton of things I take from Coach Robinson to this day, from the fluidity of the offense, to the simplicity of things to managing the small pieces of the game. You know, so.
Well, look without your star power.
We would not have been granted this stage, so to do this on seriously, to do to come in here and join us on the day you've got to coach the All Star Game on the morning of the game, we are really appreciative. Congratulations to you on a tremendous first two thirds of the season and wishing you and the Timberwolves great luck here in the playoffs to come. Everybody, thanks so much for joining us, Thanks to Chris Finch, coach of the Wolves, and please, as always remember keep
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