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Groundhog Day feels like “Groundhog Day” for the Minnesota Timberwolves, who face a repeat opponent in the Memphis Grizzlies tonight.

Minnesota scored a 17-point road victory at Memphis on the weekend, with center Rudy Gobert falling just short of what would have been his 23rd double-double of the season. 

My Timberwolves vs. Grizzlies predictions and NBA picks like the 7-foot Frenchman to double-up in this double feature in Memphis tonight.

Timberwolves vs Grizzlies prediction

Timberwolves vs Grizzlies best bet: Rudy Golbert to record a double-double (-110)

Minnesota Timberwolves center Rudy Golbert finished Saturday’s win over the Memphis Grizzlies with nine points and 16 rebounds, taking advantage of a depleted Grizzlies roster.

Memphis is missing several starters and key players, including leading rebounders Zach Edey, Santi Aldama, and possibly Jaren Jackson Jr. (questionable). With holes in the frontcourt, the Grizzlies’ rebound rate has tumbled during the team’s current six-game losing skid.

That depleted interior has also led to a spike in points in the paint from those opponents, with Memphis going from an average of just 48.6 PITP allowed to 53.3 points against in the key over the last six contests.

Gobert’s offense is somewhat limited to putbacks off rebounds and easy looks at the hoop. He leads the Wolves in offensive rebounds as well as second-chance points and picks up 8.8 of his average 10.8 points per game in the paint. Gobert's contributions could see a spike given the questionable designations of stars Anthony Edwards and Julius Randle.

Gobert recorded nine of his 22 double-doubles over his 14 games in January and just missed No. 23 by one point on Saturday (9 points, 16 rebounds). 

Player projections for Monday’s return meeting in Memphis have Gobert’s offensive output north of 11 points with a ceiling of 12.3 while his rebound forecast calls for double figures and a high of 12 boards.

Timberwolves vs Grizzlies same-game parlay

The Timberwolves are picking up steam with four straight wins and ATS victories, including Saturday’s 17-point win at Memphis.

The Grizzlies are missing so many key players and so could the Timberwolves (Anthony Edwards, Julius Randle). I don’t see Minnesota shooting better than 50% from the floor in this return matchup.

Timberwolves vs Grizzlies SGP

• Timberwolves -7.5
• Under 229.5 
• Rudy Gobert to record a double-double

Our "from downtown" SGP: Go long, Gobert!

Our game projections call for a 118-109 Timberwolves win, which would cover the spread and stay below the total. Cam Spencer will put in a better effort for the thin Grizzlies after scoring just five points on the weekend.

Timberwolves vs Grizzlies SGP

• Timberwolves -7.5
• Under 229.5 
• Rudy Gobert to record a double-double
• Cam Spencer Over 10.5 points

Timberwolves vs Grizzlies odds

• Spread: Timberwolves -7.5 | Grizzlies +7.5
• Moneyline: Timberwolves -315 | Grizzlies +255
• Over/Under: Over 229.5 | Under 229.5

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The Wizards swarmed defensively in the first half and built a 17-point lead, slacked off enough to give back the entire advantage, and then let the deep bench mob play the entire fourth quarter to escape with a 116-112 victory.

If you’re worried about The Tank, yeah — be worried. It was Washington’s 13th win of the season, which puts them in a tie with the Brooklyn Nets for fourth worst winning percentage. The Utah Jazz — with their propensity for thoroughly unethical tanking shenanigans — lurk at sixth worst, scant percentage points behind.

Ashamed owners of the league’s worst winning percentage? The Sacramento Kings.

The Kings thought they’d be good. Or hoped they would be. Or something. They’re the Kings, which means they could turn a fairly promising roster with an interesting future into this in just two off-seasons. Their roster-building strategy appears to have been finding guys who have less impact on winning than you’d think based on their reputation and glory stats (points, rebounds, assists). Their big three: DeMar DeRozan, Zach LaVine, and Domantas Sabonis. Check, check, check.

Plus, Sabonis was out. Again.

All three are good-to-very-good players, by the way. None of them have quite the impact you’d want or expect.

The Kings broadcast kept mentioning the trade they’d made, which shipped out some guys and brought back a guy. The deal: Dennis Schroder, Keon Ellis, Dario Saric, and a second round pick for De’Andre Hunter. I’m not sure they missed anyone they traded last night, except perhaps in spirit. It’s doubtful Hunter would have helped much. It’s a classic, “Hey, how ‘bout that.“ kind of move — give up not much to get not much. It doesn’t make them better, younger, or cheaper, and they actually gave up a draft pick to do it. #SoKings.

There was a game, and I was entertained. As mentioned in the lede, the Wizards were all over the Kings defensively in the early going. They kept deflecting passes and poking at the ball and forcing Sacramento to reset their offense. The Kings were working hard to generate difficult shots, and it showed — they shot 4-22 in the first quarter and committed six turnovers.

And then, the Wizards did the kind of thing 19-21 year olds are prone to do: they slacked off a bit. The attention to detail waned, the maniacal effort drooped, and the Kings started getting easier shots and wider paths to the basket. This is normal developmental stuff, and head coach Brian Keefe responded by rewarding the play-hard deep bench mob with all of the fourth quarter minutes.

Thoughts & Observations

• My habit of watching the opposing team’s broadcast may have backfired on me. Not because the Kings broadcast is bad — Kayte Christensen is a strong analyst, and Kyle Draper is decent on play-by-play — but because they never addressed why Justin Champagnie didn’t play. In their defense, I did a quick google this morning and didn’t find a definitive answer.
• My first quarter notes are filled with words like “deflection” and “pressure.” Those words stop appearing midway through the second quarter.
• At 6:32 of the first quarter, Bilal Coulibaly had what I jotted down as a “sleight of hand” steal. It was so quick and casual, I missed it live — DeRozan was dribbling and suddenly the ball was loose. I rewound and on replay, I could see Coulibaly’s superb ball targeting and defensive disruptiveness.
• When Sacramento’s Nique Clifford converted a layup with 9:15 remaining in the second quarter, it was the Kings’ first field goal in more than 10 minutes of game time.
• This is the version of Coulibaly the Wizards want. He defended well, attacked on offense, and set up teammates. He’s so quick and long that he should be able to generate paint touches nearly any time he wants. Big things for him to work on: tighten up the ball handling, trust his athleticism when trying to finish (in other words: go over people, accept the contact, and get to the free throw line), and work on that three-point shooting.
• Want an example of Keefe’s play design prowess? Check the video at 7:15 of the third quarter. The team ran a high staggered pick-and-roll for Middleton with screens from Kyhawn George and Marvin Bagley III. Coulibaly was positioned in the weakside corner; Carrington out top on the wing. The staggered screen forces the weakside defender (LaVine) assigned to Carrington to come over to help on Middleton. Just as Middleton comes off the screens and LaVine has to commit, Coulibaly cuts baseline. The Coulibaly cut has to be covered by the low man (Maxime Raynaud). Meanwhile Carrington drifts to the corner — each step lengthening LaVine’s eventual closeout. Middleton makes the pass, and Carrington suddenly has the ball with literally not a single Sacramento defender on his side of the floor. He nails the wide open three.
• Late in the third quarter, Jamir Watkins got yet another open court strip. This time, his victim was LaVine. It’s not as flashy as Grand Theft Alvarado, but it’s effective.
• Devin Carter was a YODA favorite despite being small — strong production and eye-popping athleticism. That athleticism was on display on a spectacular dunk at 9:09 of the fourth quarter.
• 9:09 — Devin Carter SPECTACULAR dunk in transition — 95-95
• DeRozan wanted to attack Anthony Gill and kept forcing switches to get him. It was mostly successful by DeRozan’s standards — he got the relatively difficult midrange jumpers he wanted, and mostly made them. That said, I thought Gill did his job properly. He kept DeRozan away from the paint and contested the low value shots the Wizards would have wanted him to take.
• One cool thing: Throughout the fourth quarter, the team’s starters cheered for the bench mob like a collective Anthony Gill.
• Amusing moment: Late in the game, Sacramento’s broadcasters were calling for the Kings to foul Washington. Meanwhile, Kings coach Doug Christie was hollering at his players NOT to foul. When they finally did, he was thoroughly disgusted. In that situation — down three with 23 seconds to go in the game and 16 seconds on the shot clock — the Kings didn’t need to foul.
• Sacramento is now on a nine-game losing streak.
• The Wizards have won three of their last four.
• It was fun to see Will Riley leading the team’s offense for an extended stretch. He finished with 18 points, 6 rebounds, 6 assists. His offensive rating (points produced per possession x 100) was a lofty 131 (average so far this season is 115.4).
• Sharife Cooper — generously listed at 6-0 — was the game’s leading rebounder. He had seven boards in 13 minutes of action, including a tip-in with 37 seconds remaining to put Washington up 115-110.
• Bagley punished the Kings (who drafted him, never figured out how to use him, and then traded him for next to nothing) with 15 points (on 7-8 shooting) and 6 rebounds in 19 minutes.

Four Factors

Below are the four factors that decide wins and losses in basketball — shooting (efg), rebounding (offensive rebounds), ball handling (turnovers), fouling (free throws made).

The four factors are measured by:

• eFG% (effective field goal percentage, which accounts for the three-point shot)
• OREB% (offensive rebound percentage)
• TOV% (turnover percentage — turnovers divided by possessions)
• FTM/FGA (free throws made divided by field goal attempts)

Stats & Metrics

PPA is my overall production metric, which credits players for things they do that help a team win (scoring, rebounding, playmaking, defending) and dings them for things that hurt (missed shots, turnovers, bad defense, fouls).

PPA is a per possession metric designed for larger data sets. In small sample sizes, the numbers can get weird. In PPA, 100 is average, higher is better and replacement level is 45. For a single game, replacement level isn’t much use, and I reiterate the caution about small samples sometimes producing weird results.

POSS is the number of possessions each player was on the floor in this game.

ORTG = offensive rating, which is points produced per individual possessions x 100. League average so far this season is 115.5. Points produced is not the same as points scored. It includes the value of assists and offensive rebounds, as well as sharing credit when receiving an assist.

USG = offensive usage rate. Average is 20%.

ORTG and USG are versions of stats created by former Wizards assistant coach Dean Oliver and modified by me. ORTG is an efficiency measure that accounts for the value of shooting, offensive rebounds, assists and turnovers. USG includes shooting from the floor and free throw line, offensive rebounds, assists and turnovers.

+PTS = “Plus Points” is a measure of the points gained or lost by each player based on their efficiency in this game compared to league average efficiency on the same number of possessions. A player with an offensive rating (points produced per possession x 100) of 100 who uses 20 possessions would produce 20 points. If the league average efficiency is 114, the league — on average — would produced 22.8 points in the same 20 possessions. So, the player in this hypothetical would have a +PTS score of -2.8.

Players are sorted by total production in the game.

Michael Porter Jr. is averaging 25.6 points and 3.2 assists, both career-highs. Throw in his seven rebounds a night and the fact that he is true-shooting 61.8% (+3.8% over league-average) on a team devoid of other high-end talent, and it seems like an ironclad All-Star case.

Not so. The NBA announced the full list of All-Star reserves on Sunday afternoon; Porter Jr. did not make the cut. Nearly three weeks after NBA PR released full voting results for All-Star starters, it came as a bit of a surprise. In that round of voting, MPJ was firmly inside the cut line among players, fans, and media. Reminder: for all the silliness of the All-Star game format this season, the selection process remains unchanged, and a dozen players from each conference are selected…

The coaches, however, are responsible for selecting the reserves, and they did not deem MPJ worthy of his first All-Star appearance. They did not heed the words of peer Jordi Fernández: “We’ve competed for a lot of games, and he’s a big reason why we’re there. He’s just doing his job, and it’s not about him; it’s about the group. So if you think about his impact on competitiveness, that’s what All-Stars do, and that’s why Mike should be there.”

So, was MPJ a snub? Well, we can’t say that without examining the rest of the field…

The Locks

• Donovan Mitchell
• Jalen Johnson
• Jalen Duren
• Scottie Barnes

Though 25 points a night ain’t what it used to be, it’s still a steep hill to climb. No 25 PPG scorer (over a full season) has missed the All-Star game since 2017, when Damian Lillard and Karl-Anthony Towns both fell victim to statflation. Of course, MPJ’s averages may fall in March and April, but his scoring output is typically All-Star worthy, even in today’s day and age.

That being said, Porter Jr. was firmly behind these four players in the All-Star race. Only Mitchell is out-scoring Porter, but the other three are simply too impactful on teams much better than the Nets (yes, even the Atlanta Hawks). Moving on.

The Questionables

Pascal Siakam

After a deep-dive, I almost put Pascal Siakam in the category above. The two have similar arguments despite being on 13-win teams, but Siakam is just a little easier to buy.

Brooklyn’s net rating is 11 points per 100 possessions better when MPJ is on the floor; that’s the eighth-highest mark in the NBA (min. 700 minutes). Pascal Siakam is one of the seven guys ahead of MPJ on that list, and crucially, he’s played nine more games (and 338 more minutes) than Brooklyn’s leading scorer. The Indiana Pacers are absolutely horrific — even worse than the Nets — without Siakam, but respectable with him.

If they had played the same amount of minutes, Siakam and MPJ would be neck-and-neck. Siakam is averaging a comparable 24/7/4, on similar usage, but with a 56.4 TS%. However, he has an edge on defense, and though I doubt the coaches went this far down the rabbit hole, Siakam has been considerably better in the clutch.

• Siakam: 8-14 record in clutch games, 52.1% true shooting.
• Porter Jr.: 4-15 record in clutch games, 45.2% true shooting.

The case for Porter Jr. rests on his production for a terrible team, hoping not to be punished for the lack of talent around him. Well, Siakam has been as good if not better, played more minutes, and if we’re really going to dive into their impact on winning, Siakam has been better in the clutch for a team that has a better clutch record.

Norman Powell

If Norman Powell and Michael Porter Jr. magically swapped places, the latter would have made the All-Star game. Is that right? Must the Miami Heat — 27-24, sitting atop the Play-In sect of the Eastern Conference — be rewarded with an All-Star?

Powell is having a great season, no doubt. He’s averaging about 24/4/3 on 61.2% true shooting as the unquestioned leader of a Heat offense that was hyped early in the season for their blinding pace and refusal to set ball-screens. Powell has been firing catch-and-shoot threes per usual, but he’s been getting his own too.

Here’s the thing. The Miami Heat have the NBA’s 17th-best offensive rating and the 6th-best defensive rating. Defense drives them. Yes, Powell has been not just great but vital to Miami’s offense, particularly with Tyler Herro playing just 11 games. However…

• Miami: 111.9 offensive rating without Powell, 117.4 with Powell (+5.5 swing).
• Brooklyn: 105.4 offensive rating without MPJ, 117.5 with MPJ (+12.1 swing).

The Heat have a tough time scoring (and a slightly easier time defending) without Powell, who leads them to decent offense. The Nets have an horrific offense without Porter Jr., who leads them to decent offense. Credit Jordi Fernández for his creativity if you want, but you can’t vote head coaches to the All-Star team.

Porter Jr. has scored more at a more efficient clip. He’s also created more offense for his teammates, whether you only look at assist numbers or also factor in how his gravity as a shooter opens up cuts for others. No doubt Norman Powell has had similar offensive impact for a much better team, but has he been better than MPJ (in 60 more total minutes)? Not quite.

Karl-Anthony Towns

If the All-Star game were about rewarding year-over-year improvements, Karl-Anthony Towns wouldn’t be making the trip to Los Angeles. He’s been substantially worse than last season, converting twos at a career-low rate and making threes at the lowest clip since his rookie season. Per Cleaning the Glass (which filters out garbage time), the Knicks have actually been slightly better with him on the bench. After a stellar inaugural campaign in NYC, this is a clear step back for KAT.

But he’s still a great player. He’s averaging 20-and-12, leading the league in rebounds per game. Because New York rebounds when he’s on the court, their defense survives; they don’t stop opponents on first chances. While he’s struggling to make shots, opponents still respect his 3-point shooting, a necessary ingredient to New York’s offense.

Has he been better than Michael Porter Jr., though? I don’t think so.

Now that he’s no longer operating with world-class efficiency, KAT has less margin for error on defense. Again, he’s not an outright negative on that end thanks to his rebounding, but because he does little else well at such a premium position, it’s tough to argue his defense has made him a better player than MPJ this season. Especially when…

• KAT: 23.33 points per 75 possessions on 59.4% true shooting (+1.4% relative to league-average), 1.15 assist-to-turnover, 25.8 usage%, +0.22 net swing.
• MPJ: 28.95 points per 75 possessions on 61.8% true shooting (+3.8% rTS), 1.30 assist-to-turnover, 30.6 usage%, +11.0 net swing.

Jalen Brunson is the head of the snake in New York. I don’t want to be so reductive as to say any #1 option is better than any #2 option (that’s First Take stuff) but in the case of Michael Porter Jr. vs. Karl-Anthony Towns, it’s clear the latter has been better on offense. Yes, KAT has played about 160 more minutes, but I don’t think minutes + defense are enough to close the gap.

And hey, Pascal Siakam is in the All-Star game. Team success only means so much this year. Advantage: MPJ.

What happened, what’s next?

Erik Slater and I talked about MPJ’s All-Star snub on the latest episode of Locked On Nets…

I would love to avoid homer-ism and call it an “exclusion” and not a “snub” but it’s not my fault the head coaches made the wrong call. If Siakam is in, MPJ should be in. Not because he’s been better than Siakam (he hasn’t, in my opinion), but because it removes the barrier of team success from the equation.

Did something change in the last three weeks, or did the coaches just have far different opinions than players/fans/media? The Nets have suffered some embarrassing blowouts recently, but was that enough to swing opinion? Have Siakam, KAT, and Powell — all in their thirties — just built up that much more goodwill around the league? Or is the Nets’ reputation/brand simply at the bottom of the totem pole?

Whatever the case may be, Porter Jr. still has a chance to be named an All-Star by the commissioner. With Giannis Antetokounmpo set to miss the weekend’s festivities with injury, Adam Silver must select one Eastern Conference reserve to replace him (and, knock on wood, anybody else who gets hurt over the next week or two).

But MPJ may be a victim of timing. Joel Embiid has played just 28 games, but he’s going God Mode right now. LaMelo Ball also has a strong case for a surging Charlotte Hornets team, and like Embiid, has much more name recognition than MPJ.

Michael Porter Jr.’s next chance to get through to Adam Silver will come on Tuesday evening, when the Brooklyn Nets take on the Los Angeles Lakers at home. Tip-off is set for 7:30 p.m. ET.

• Nets’ Michael Porter Jr. snubbed from his All-Star Game dream despite career year – Brian Lewis – New York Post
• Nets’ Michael Porter Jr. did not make the All-Star team. The numbers say he should have ($) – C.J. Holmes – New York Daily News

Thursday night in Dallas looked like one in which the Minnesota Timberwolves were going to play all the hits.

Near double-digit favorites on the road against a severely shorthanded Dallas Mavericks team, anyone who’s followed this team close enough over the last two seasons probably could have predicted how things were going to go.

With so many players out that Mavs PR needed two tweets in a thread to make sure everyone was accounted for, the Wolves came out of the gate with their typical lackadaisical energy, familiar to fans when they play teams they have no excuse to lose to.

Whether it was poor ball containment, bad closeouts on shots, or poor rebounding by the frontcourt, it was clear that once again, the Wolves were short on sources of energy.

But with 2:44 left in the first quarter, in came Joan Beringer.

A big man that plays basketball like the athletic guy who plays another sport in high school, the Wolves first round pick immediately came in and provided a shot in the arm that seemed to wake up others around him.

Down two points when Beringer entered the game, he went to work. Gliding up and down the floor, the seventeenth overall pick immediately pulled in an offensive rebound that resulted in a Mike Conley three, and ended the first quarter with a well-timed alley-oop from Anthony Edwards.

The Wolves would go on to win the game by 13 points.

As for Beringer? Second on the team with a +11.

Perhaps the Wolves would go on to win without him in the lineup purely due to the talent imbalance on the floor alone.

But perhaps not. With several frustrating performances against subpar teams year after year, Chris Finch finds himself in a spot of continuous searching for someone to pull them out of their lulls of disenchantment. With the usual suspects in the starting five not tending to be takers unless a wave of desperation comes upon them late in the game or in the form of a losing streak, a bench of mixed bag performances is sometimes where he’s forced to go.

I think it’s been found.

A Feel on the Floor

Like an attacking midfielder on the pitch, the French rookie’s background in playing soccer gives him a clear understanding of floor positioning.

Even though he hasn’t been playing basketball for very long, his experience proves effective navigation of the dunker area on the offensive end, and good drop coverage and shot blocking instincts on the defensive end.

Many times, rookies come into the league behind the eight ball in the NBA from a positioning standpoint because of how structured the college game is schematically, juxtaposed to a more free-flowing pro game. For a team like the Timberwolves who have always tended to lean towards the latter, Beringer’s feel for the game was something that has caught coach Chris Finch’s eye.

“It’s something I noticed about him right away,” he said after a blowout win against the Golden State Warriors on Monday. “At Summer League, I always thought he kinda knew where to be…his spacing, his timing, and he’s actually been a pretty quick learner [in learning the Wolves’ systems].”

It shows in the advanced numbers.

Out of the 13 people Beringer has shared the floor with, he only has a negative net rating with four of them (Joe Ingles, Leonard Miller, Rob Dillingham, and Terrence Shannon Jr.), making him and an additive to most of the lineup combos he finds himself on the floor with in a small sample size.

“He’s a big energy guy, and he helps tremendously,” Naz Reid said after the win in Dallas. “[He gave us a lift] on the glass, blocking shots, catching lobs, that’s what he does.”

There’s something to be said about a percolating chemistry with Reid and Beringer. More importantly, the lift that the rookie’s presence can have with both Reid and a struggling Mike Conley on the floor together.

Hesitant to be taken off the floor by Chris Finch due to his ability to cover ground of defense and bring a mature offensive approach, Mike Conley has been a source of skepticism among fans for his lackluster play this season and inability to generate the offensive lift that he once did. His decline has been steep, but his presence on the floor next to Reid and Beringer has given a sense of optimism in a small sample size.

With all three on the floor together, the Wolves have an 11 net rating.

A similar tale unfolds with Beringer on the floor with Conley and Reid separately as well.

Simply, Beringer provides the characteristics that Wolves’ bench currently lacks, said perfectly by Reid.

Rebounding, blocking shots, catching lobs, and bringing energy.

To some degree, it’s the Jarred Vanderbilt effect.

On the floor, it’s a shot in the arm.

The Energy Solution

It doesn’t matter who it is, but essentially every player has said it at some point during the season.

This Wolves team, alongside the two that have come before it, tends to come out with an energy level that corresponds to the level of the opponent and the time of year it is.

Some tend to blame this on Chris Finch. I find that misguided.

Finch can only do so much. Confirmed by Anthony Edwards after the game against the Memphis Grizzlies on Saturday, his unhappiness with the effort was unable to throw on a jersey and run up and down the floor with the five people out there.

“Nights like this, it’s super hard to find the, not the why, but the energy to put behind it on every play,” Edwards said. “[Finch] said somethin’ like, ‘I’m not gonna let up on y’all. If we bullshit on games like this, I’m gonna be on y’all ass until y’all stop bullshitting’.”

Whether it be Edwards, Naz Reid, Conley, Julius Randle, Rudy Gobert, or even Jaden McDaniels, everyone has called out the inconsistent energy on both ends of the floor.

The one person who doesn’t care who’s on the other end is Beringer. His ability to flip a switch and make plays that others don’t want to make, and at key points of what seem to be inconsequential games, make himself a lever that Finch needs to pull more consistently.

Whether it be his career-high 13 points on the road in Milwaukee with no Rudy Gobert, his immediate injection of life in Dallas, or his near double-double on the road in San Antonio, his youthful ignorance of who’s on the other end and at what point of the season it is inject urgency into the lineup – or make it an embarrassing discrepancy of effort for all to see.

Whether it be for film sessions or fan viewing, it needs to be an audit we see more often.

The NBA announced their final selections for the All Star game last night. Here are all the selections.

Which begs the obvious question: Who were the snubs?

While this isn’t an exhaustive list, here are some players that were NOT named to the All Star team (in no particular order):

Michael Porter Jr.

Joel Embiid

Kawhi Leonard

James Harden

Josh Giddey

Alperen Sengun

Brandon Ingram

Keyonte George

Lauri Markkanen

Tre Murphy

…and of course Derrick White and Payton Pritchard.

Now remember the rules of this sort of thing. If you are going to call a guy snubbed, you have to name the player(s) you would remove from the squad to make room! (cough-cough-LeBron-cough)

So what are your thoughts? Who belongs on this team and who shouldn’t be on there in the first place?