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Arsenal make Mikel Arteta proud after smashing Sporting LisbonSHENZHEN, China , Dec. 3, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- On November 26, 2024 , Access Advance LLC ("AA") and TCL Electronics Holdings Limited ("TCL" or "Client") announced that TCL had officially joined the HEVC Advance Patent Pool as a licensee. PurpleVine IP Group ("PurpleVine") played a pivotal role in this achievement, providing full-spectrum services, including strategic planning, global litigation management, and licensing negotiation support. PurpleVine's efforts were instrumental in helping TCL finalize agreements with AA and multiple HEVC Advance licensors, resolving years of complex global litigation over HEVC standard-essential patents("SEPs"). Since 2021, leading HEVC Advance licensors - including Dolby, GEVC, Philips, Mitsubishi Electric, JVCKENWOOD, NEC, ETRI, and IP Bridge - have filed dozens of infringement lawsuits and sought injunctions against TCL across jurisdictions such as Germany , the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in Europe , and Brazil . PurpleVine provided TCL with a comprehensive defense strategy tailored to each jurisdiction. Working closely with local counsel, the PurpleVine team devised FRAND-compliant arguments, non-infringement defenses, and patent invalidation strategies that not only neutralized injunction threats but also achieved an outstanding success rate of over 90% in invalidating asserted patents during first-instance rulings. PurpleVine also spearheaded counteractions against AA and HEVC Advance licensors in multiple jurisdictions, including China , Brazil , and Germany . Notably, PurpleVine assisted TCL in filing two landmark cases in Chinese courts - one challenging SEP licensing rates and another alleging abuse of market dominance. These cases were the first in the world where courts asserted jurisdiction over SEP pool licensing rates and alleged monopolistic practices, setting a groundbreaking legal precedent. Daniel Fu , General Counsel of TCL, stated, "We are pleased to have signed a license with Access Advance's HEVC patent pool, with the help of PurpleVine IP. The transaction is beneficial to the licensing ecosystem and the development of cutting-edge technologies for the welfare of consumers." This multi-jurisdictional case, involving complex legal challenges, spanning several years, highlights PurpleVine's expertise in managing high-stakes IP disputes. PurpleVine's strategic leadership, effective litigation management, and skilled negotiations reaffirm its position as a leading provider of cross-border intellectual property services. Disclaimer: This press release is for informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice or an official statement regarding litigation. About PurpleVine IP Group PurpleVine IP Group, based in Shenzhen, China , is a leading intellectual property service provider with a global perspective. The firm offers one-stop IP services, including patent and trademark prosecution, analysis, global transactions, licensing negotiations, and dispute resolution. The core members of PurpleVine's litigation and dispute resolution team have backgrounds in top international law firms and leading corporate legal departments. They have managed patent litigation and invalidation cases in over 50 courts worldwide. The firm also includes SEP (Standard Essential Patent) experts from the telecommunications industry, who have been involved in hundreds of patent licensing negotiations and litigations. View original content to download multimedia: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/purplevine-drives-tcls-successful-entry-into-the-hevc-advance-patent-pool-302320761.html SOURCE PurpleVine IP
The Washington Commanders officially placed kicker Austin Seibert on injured reserve Tuesday two days after he missed two extra points in Washington's 34-26 defeat against the Dallas Cowboys in Week 12. Seibert entered Sunday a perfect 22-for-22 on extra points, but his two misses loomed large on the outcome of Sunday's game. His first miss came after a 17-yard touchdown run by quarterback Jayden Daniels that put the Commanders up 9-3 in the third quarter, and his second one occurred after Daniels connected with top target Terry McLaurin for an 86-yard touchdown with 21 seconds left in regulation when Washington was out of timeouts. Had he made the second, the game likely would have gone into overtime tied 27-27. Had he made all of his extra points, Washington would have led, 28-27, with 21 seconds left. The kicker took full accountability for his mistakes postgame. "I just want to play better for my teammates, you know, definitely don't want to do that," Seibert said, via Yahoo Sports, postgame on Sunday. "Just wasn't striking well, but it means a lot me to be here with these guys, so I just want to put my best foot....moving forward." The second missed extra point included a low snap that his holder briefly bobbled before holding the football upright, but Seibert once again fell on the sword and said that didn't matter. "It didn't make a difference at all. It's on me," he said of the low snap on his final extra point. COMMANDERS 86-YARD TOUCHDOWN WOW 📺: #DALvsWAS on FOX 📱: https://t.co/waVpO909ge pic.twitter.com/apaNEKNCkh He also claimed his right hip, which caused him to miss Weeks 10 and 11, wasn't an issue, either. However, his placement on injured reserve on Tuesday indicates Washington feels otherwise. "I felt fine," he said. "That's why I made the decision to play, and here we are." Cowboys All-Pro wide receiver CeeDee Lamb , who played with Seibert in college at the University of Oklahoma, applauded his former Sooner for his help in Dallas' upset road win. The Cowboys took home the largest upset victory of the 2024 season thus far, emerging as victors as 10.5-point road underdogs thanks to becoming the first team NFL history with two kickoff return touchdowns in the fourth quarter of a game, per CBS Sports Research. "Shoutout (Commanders kicker Austin Seibert ). He went to OU with me. He gave us one," Lamb said .It’s not an apples-to-apples comparison. Maybe apples-to-hot dogs. But the Pittsburgh Penguins traded for a right winger named Phil who is looking for a fresh start. In 2015, they brought in All-Star forward Phil Kessel and that maneuver led to two Stanley Cup banners as well as countless memes about processed meat. More than nine years later, Philip Tomasino is in a somewhat similar — but far from identical — scenario. He wants – needs, really — a reset on his once-promising career and he’ll get an opportunity to do that with the Penguins. A first-round pick (No. 24 overall) in 2019 by the Nashville Predators, Tomasino never gained sufficient traction in meeting expectations with that organization and was dealt to the Penguins on Monday in exchange for a fourth-round draft selection in 2027. “I don’t even know how to describe it,” Tomasino said following his first practice with his new team in Cranberry on Tuesday. “Just exciting. I’ve been in Nashville since Day 1. Obviously, it feels a little bit different. I’m really excited, man. It’s a great place to play. I’ve always loved playing here on the road. Looking forward to (Wednesday) night here.” Expected to make his Penguins debut in Wednesday’s home contest against the Vancouver Canucks, Tomasino’s view appears to be strictly aimed to the front. He politely declined — twice — to discuss his past with the Predators on Tuesday. Last season, Predators coach Andrew Brunette offered fairly blunt critiques of Tomasino who was in and out of that team’s lineup. “The little things that plague him a little bit, the structures and details of our system, are glaring at times,” Brunette said to the Nashville Tennessean in February. “So, you don’t feel completely comfortable and confident in games that are tight. “He’s gotten much better as the season has progressed, but for us to lean on him late in games, he needs to find another level. He has to earn that trust.” Before Monday’s trade, Brunette had scratched the right-handed Tomasino for 10 of that team’s first 21 games. “I don’t even want to say too much about what happened in Nashville,” Tomasino said. “But all I can say is, obviously, I think this is a great opportunity for me. Really excited to be here, and I’m excited for the rest of the year.” His excitement on Tuesday was partially due to skating on the right wing of a line with superstar center Evgeni Malkin during practice. A native of Mississauga, Ont., the 23-year-old Tomasino (6-foot, 179 pounds) was a fan of Malkin and the Penguins well before becoming a teammate. “Yeah, he’s a legend,” Tomasino said. “I mean, honestly, Pittsburgh was my favorite team growing up, so watching (Sidney Crosby and Malkin) was like my whole childhood. So, it’s kind of crazy to be on a line with him today. It’s awesome. Another guy I’ve looked up to and a heck of a player. I’m just going to try to do everything I can to help him and help this team.” One member of the Penguins’ roster who is a bit more familiar with Tomasino than others is forward Cody Glass, whom the Penguins acquired in a trade with the Predators in August. “Nashville, they play high pace, high tempo,” Glass said. “In here, we want to play a little bit more structured. It will be a little bit of a change but he’s a pretty smart player. High IQ. It will probably take him no time to get used to it.” Management seems to be willing to give Tomasino plenty of time to adjust to his new surroundings given the franchise’s overall pursuit of younger players with skilled pedigrees. “Sometimes, in a different environment, players can find their respective games and thrive,” coach Mike Sullivan said. “He’s still a very young player and has shown some capacity, I think, to be an impact player in this league. “From our standpoint, he meets a lot of our own objectives as far as trying to transition this team into bringing younger players into the fold and trying to do everything we can to become more competitive. From that standpoint, I think he meets a lot of the criteria that makes sense for where we’re at right now.” Ideally, Tomasino gets back to where he was as a rookie in 2021-22 when he provided optimism by scoring a solid 32 points (11 goals, 21 assists) in 76 games. Since then, his production and playing time has decreased. This season, he has one assist in 11 games. And a fresh start. “I don’t want to talk too much about what happened there (with the Predators),” Tomasino said. “I’m just excited for this opportunity. I think it’s going to be really good for me. Like I said, just really excited. “Obviously, the last two years for me haven’t been what I wanted it to be in a perfect world. But all I can look forward to is a future here.”
Tarbox Family Office Inc. increased its holdings in Amazon.com, Inc. ( NASDAQ:AMZN ) by 11.5% in the 3rd quarter, HoldingsChannel reports. The institutional investor owned 10,027 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock after buying an additional 1,031 shares during the period. Amazon.com makes up about 0.3% of Tarbox Family Office Inc.’s portfolio, making the stock its 29th largest holding. Tarbox Family Office Inc.’s holdings in Amazon.com were worth $1,868,000 as of its most recent SEC filing. Several other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also modified their holdings of AMZN. Foundations Investment Advisors LLC boosted its stake in Amazon.com by 9.7% during the 3rd quarter. Foundations Investment Advisors LLC now owns 184,594 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock valued at $34,395,000 after purchasing an additional 16,392 shares during the period. Zhang Financial LLC raised its position in shares of Amazon.com by 12.9% during the 3rd quarter. Zhang Financial LLC now owns 51,091 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock worth $9,520,000 after buying an additional 5,828 shares in the last quarter. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. raised its position in shares of Amazon.com by 0.5% during the 2nd quarter. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. now owns 2,847,177 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock worth $550,217,000 after buying an additional 14,766 shares in the last quarter. GAMMA Investing LLC raised its position in shares of Amazon.com by 19.2% during the 3rd quarter. GAMMA Investing LLC now owns 119,205 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock worth $22,211,000 after buying an additional 19,231 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Stonekeep Investments LLC bought a new stake in shares of Amazon.com during the 2nd quarter worth about $2,588,000. 72.20% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds. Amazon.com Stock Up 1.0 % AMZN opened at $207.89 on Friday. The firm’s 50-day simple moving average is $194.78 and its 200-day simple moving average is $186.94. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.21, a quick ratio of 0.87 and a current ratio of 1.09. Amazon.com, Inc. has a twelve month low of $142.81 and a twelve month high of $215.90. The firm has a market cap of $2.19 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 44.52, a PEG ratio of 1.38 and a beta of 1.14. Insider Transactions at Amazon.com In other Amazon.com news, CEO Matthew S. Garman sold 15,260 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Thursday, November 21st. The shares were sold at an average price of $200.19, for a total transaction of $3,054,899.40. Following the sale, the chief executive officer now owns 349,261 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $69,918,559.59. This represents a 4.19 % decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this hyperlink . Also, Director Daniel P. Huttenlocher sold 1,237 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, November 19th. The stock was sold at an average price of $199.06, for a total transaction of $246,237.22. Following the sale, the director now directly owns 24,912 shares in the company, valued at approximately $4,958,982.72. This represents a 4.73 % decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale can be found here . In the last quarter, insiders have sold 6,026,683 shares of company stock valued at $1,252,148,795. 10.80% of the stock is owned by insiders. Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth A number of analysts have commented on the stock. Wedbush boosted their price target on shares of Amazon.com from $225.00 to $250.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research report on Friday, November 1st. Telsey Advisory Group boosted their price target on shares of Amazon.com from $215.00 to $235.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research report on Friday, November 1st. Evercore ISI boosted their price target on shares of Amazon.com from $240.00 to $260.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research report on Friday, November 1st. Benchmark boosted their price target on shares of Amazon.com from $200.00 to $215.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Friday, November 1st. Finally, Truist Financial boosted their target price on shares of Amazon.com from $265.00 to $270.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Friday, November 1st. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, forty-one have assigned a buy rating and one has given a strong buy rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $236.20. 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New AD Eric Roedl comes home, seeking to build ‘championship culture’ at VillanovaMSI has two new versions of the MSI Claw after the original landed with a thud earlier this year. The company’s $900 MSI Claw 8 AI+ and $800 Claw 7 AI+ have Lunar Lake Intel processing , better battery life and quality-of-life improvements like redesigned sticks, bumpers and triggers. The previous model launched “a touch late and a bit too pricey,” according to Engadget’s Sam Rutherford in our review . He said its performance was underwhelming compared to cheaper rivals , its software was too clunky, and it was plagued by an overabundance of optimization updates (presumably because MSI scrambled to fix its long list of problems). We haven’t handled the new models, but their switch to Intel’s latest Core Ultra 7 processor should lead to better performance and lower power consumption — two of the biggest marks against the A1M. The Claw 8 AI+ has an 8-inch (1,920 x 1,200) display, and the Claw 7 AI+ has a 7-inch (1,920 x 1,080) one. Both devices support a 120Hz refresh rate. However, they’re LCD panels; you still won’t find an OLED option here, like in Valve and Lenovo’s alternatives. It... floats, too? (MSI) The Claw 8 has an 80Wh battery, while the 7-inch model has a 54.5Wh battery. It uses MSI’s Cooler Boost HyperFlow tech, which includes dual fans and heat pipes. The company claims it outperforms “competitors” (without stating which) when running at a power-efficient 17W. Each handheld has a pair of Thunderbolt 4 ports , so you could plug the handheld into a monitor and use it as a makeshift Windows PC. They even have CoPilot+ support built-in. MSI redesigned the new generation’s joysticks, bumpers, D-pad and triggers for this generation. Although the last model had Hall effect sticks, the new ones also have it in their triggers. Ergonomics were a rare highlight in the previous model, and MSI touts the new handhelds as being “tailored to fit the natural contours of the hand.” As for the AI in the handheld’s branding, MSI presumably refers to the XeSS upscaling tech in the Intel chip. However, the previous model also used XeSS, so maybe the company just wanted to scream to customers and investors that it uses AI. The new handhelds arrive on December 25. GameRant notes that their pre-order pages are listed without available stock (yet). Regardless, once you can buy them, the Claw 7 AI+ costs $800, and the Claw 8 AI+ will set you back $900. MSI MSI Claw 7 AI+ $800 MSI’s updated Claw handheld promises better performance and battery life. $800 at AmazonThe first anniversary of Hamas’ attack against Israel passed last month, which killed around 1,200 Israelis and took 250 Israelis as hostages. What has continued to unfold following the Oct. 7 attack presents the most appalling scene in recent decades. As anticipated, Israeli forces launched an unprecedented military assault in Gaza, evolving the ongoing war into the deadliest conflict in the century-old Israel-Palestine tension. Today the Jewish state is employing all weapons in its arsenal except the nuclear bomb but ironically the outcome of the military strikes has surpassed the scale of the damage that a nuclear bomb could have inflicted. Gaza has been turned into a mound of debris and another warzone is already unfolding in Lebanon. Soon after the launch of the Gaza bombing, millions across the world poured to the streets against the killing of innocent children and women. All major cities began to resonate with the cry “Stop the war!” Amid the global outcry against the war, the utter silence on Arab streets was not so difficult to fathom but it was of course terrifying to see over-state d states and their growing control over people’s hearts and emotions. There is no point saying that sympathy or antipathy toward the obliteration of Gazans or voices for or against Palestinian rights is a litmus test for political correctness and humanism and the same holds true for the Indian Muslims. Indian Muslims have an old association with the cause of Palestine not only because it houses the Al-Aqsa Mosque but also because of their emotional attachment to the Palestinians. The issue of forceful expulsion of Palestinians from their ancestral land and the growing Jewish settlement there in the early 20th century dominated the first generation of Muslim freedom fighters in undivided India. Mohammad Iqbal, the great philosopher-poet of undivided India attended the World Islamic Congress on Palestine and visited Al-Aqsa Mosque while coming back after attending the Second Round Table Conference in 1931. Similarly, Mohammad Ali Jauhar, a Cambridge graduate is buried in the premises of the Al-Aqsa Mosque. When Ali Jauhar died in January 1931 during the Second Round Table Conference in Britain, Haj Amin al-Hussaini, given the former’s love for Palestine, requested Ali Jauhar’s elder brother, Shaukat Ali to bury him in Jerusalem. With such a cherished memory of affection for Palestine, it is not uncommon for today’s Muslims in India to be in grief over the ongoing annihilation of Palestinians in Gaza. Owing to the emergence of a new diplomatic template and the evolution of a new political landscape in India over the years, the scale of protests witnessed during the heydays of protest in other countries was almost invisible in India. However, several Muslim religious organizations and the members of the Muslim intelligentsia condemned the innocent killing in Gaza in their own ways. For example, the deputy chief of India’s oldest Islam-based organization, Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, Malik Muhtasim Khan says that the core issue for the Palestinians is the establishment of an independent state of Palestine. He also pointed out that it is the state of Israel along with its Western cohort that has continued to deprive the Palestinians of their natural rights and there can be no peace without the state for Palestinians. On the role of Arab leadership, Malik accuses them of betraying the Palestinian cause and failing to fulfill their historical and religious duties. Gaza mayhem, according to him, has further exposed the Western hypocrisy and the myth of Israeli invincibility. The intellectuals in India never shy away from expressing their opinions on global Muslim issues and have always decried the unilateral and hegemonic policy of Israel vis-a-vis Palestine. Akhtarul Wasey, professor emeritus in the Centre of Islamic Studies at Jamia Millia Islamia University (New Delhi), was more critical of the U.S. instead of Israel. He says that the world should ask the U.S. as a principal arbitrator, not Israel, why it failed to implement the Oslo Accord of 1993, which envisaged an independent state of Palestine. On Gaza, Wasey does not buy the Western narrative and claims that Oct. 7 did not occur in a vacuum but was an outcome of the decades-old Israeli brutalities. According to him, today, unlike Israel, Hamas has nothing to lose and he sees the victory for Palestinians as inevitable. India is home to a significant number of Shiite populations that equally associate themselves with the cause of Palestine. When Hassan Nasrullah of Hezbollah was killed, several Shiites considered it the second biggest loss for Iran after Qasim Suleimani and numerous rallies were organized in Shiite-dominated cities. One prominent Shiite clergy is Maulana Noori, who says that genocide is going on in Gaza before the eyes of a global community and with every passing moment, all hope for the state of Palestine is diminishing. Noori believes if the war does not stop soon, the state will be buried in the debris of Gaza before it can see the light of the day. He called it a sad state of affairs where there is no rule of law and "might is right" seems to have replaced the political wisdom of the past. The legal luminaries have their own way of expanding or looking at the horror of Gaza. Fuzail Ahmed Ayyubi, a prominent lawyer of the Supreme Court, looks at the situation in Gaza through the prism of international law. For him, Gaza represents a total collapse of the international legal system. What is more obnoxious for him is the silence of the world’s so-called civilized nations that have allowed the Israeli death machine for so long, which could inspire other powerful nations to do the same against weak nations. He is equally critical of bodies like the U.N. that have failed in their duty to establish peace or deter the mounting tolls. The Palestinian issue has always received significant attention among Muslim political commentators who have never remained oblivious to what is going on in the larger Arab world. Zafrul Islam Khan, who for three decades published a weekly political magazine (Milli Gazette), says that one should distinguish between the views of the Arab states and Arab streets while evaluating the Arab’s diplomacy on Gaza or Palestine. He is quite outspoken in his assessment and says that the Arab masses are with Hamas. However, he believes the regimes are scared of the resistance group and support the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), which is no longer relevant. He says that Arab regimes support the state for the Palestinians but want no role for Hamas in the political sphere of Palestine because they fear Hamas’ resistance ideology could instigate Arab youth against the monarchs. He sees the elimination of the Hamas, as coveted by Israel, as an unachievable goal. Likewise, another prominent journalist and the writer of a masterpiece, published recently, “Being Muslim in Hindu India,” Ziya Us Salam, speaking on the absence of street protests by the Indian Muslims in Gaza, says it is because of growing fear of the government of the day, with Muslims not pouring into the streets and no physical protests, contrary to what was witnessed in other countries. For him, the silence of so-called liberals in the country was equally disturbing as they failed to speak against the atrocities which was not the case earlier. Even the national media in India failed to cover an issue that sought the attention of all the global media from right to left. The student politics in India cannot be seen in isolation from the larger national politics as they have always played a key role in shaping the course of politics. The protest of millions of Muslim students and youth across India in 2019-20 against the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) is still remembered as a watershed moment in the history of student politics. In the capital city of Delhi, one of the most visible faces of the anti-CAA movement was Eeman Usmani, who, on Gaza, says that ongoing Israeli military action in Palestine is highly arbitrary and one cannot be branded as a terrorist merely for taking up arms and particularly when it is against the forces of occupation. Unlike many, she does not blame Hamas for Oct. 7 because one should understand, according to her, that Hamas has a strong political base both in Gaza and the West Bank and no resistance movement such as Hamas can sustain for long without the mass support. She further claims that what Israel is doing today is a replica of what other colonial powers did in the past. Many voices trace the lineage of today’s catastrophe to the Cold War politics when the larger Arab world was in the camp of the erstwhile USSR. Saiful Islam, a retired senior government official and a keen watcher of Muslim politics holds a similar view. He says that the Palestinian cause has been an old victim of global politics and internal division among the Muslim countries has equally damaged the future prospects of Palestine. He sees success in the pursuit of the path of resistance alone. There are voices for the cause of Palestine but they are not visible in the streets owing to innumerable factors, both internal and external. The Muslims in India from across the spectrum have their well-informed opinions and for them, the Palestinians are the victims of the Israeli atrocities, Western explicit bias and the Arab’s silence.
SAN FRANCISCO – Even in the face of their otherwise excellent start, the Warriors on Monday night endured the same lesson they’ve been enduring so often this season. Can’t say they’ve learned that lesson, as failures still are too frequent. Watch NBC Bay Area News 📺 Streaming free 24/7 The recipe to Golden State’s 128-120 loss to the Brooklyn Nets included one part of their typically poor free-throw shooting, one part unusually indifferent defense and – what surely is the most maddening – four parts of voluntary charity. The surest way to compromise any defense is by giving the opponent live-ball turnovers. “It’s impossible to defend it,” said Stephen Curry, who committed three turnovers. “And that can decide a game. We won the possession game, got 10 more shots than they did. Almost the same amount of threes (19 to Brooklyn’s 20). They got 15 more free-throw makes. But that 14 points on easy buckets or easy possessions, whether it’s them knocking down transition threes or getting to the basket, there’s no defense for it.” The Warriors handed out 13 turnovers, not a horrible number. What was damaging is that those turnovers gave Brooklyn 26 points and essentially paved a path to Golden State’s first back-to-back defeats this season – both of which came after coughing up large third-quarter leads. They led by 17 inside the final two minutes of the third quarter at San Antonio on Saturday and lost by 10 . They led by 18 with less than seven minutes remaining in the third quarter Monday and lost by eight before a sellout crowd (18,064) at Chase Center. The Nets began their surge over those final seven minutes and continued until the final buzzer. They outscored the Warriors 60-34 over the final 19 minutes. “We’ve generally done a better job of taking care of the ball, for the most part,” coach Steve Kerr said. “Thirteen turnovers [are] not a bad number, but they scored every time off them. There were some bad ones that really hurt; they were kind of automatic conversations. The ones that we had really took our momentum away, so we’ve just got to keep getting better.” The Warriors are averaging 14.6 turnovers per game, roughly the same as last season (14.3). The league has changed such that they were 23rd in turnovers last season yet have climbed to 15th-best this season. This is, however, the fifth game this season in which their donations have given opponents at least 20 points. The Nets scored 10 points off turnovers in the third quarter, which they closed with a 21-6 run. Much of what fueled their comeback can be attributed to Golden State’s live-ball turnovers. “We can’t set up our defense,” Gary Payton II explained. “At that point, we’re scrambling around. And if we’re scrambling, somebody is going to be open at some point and they get a good look. And teams are hitting them. “If we take away the live turnovers and get back on defense, I’d like our chances with our set defense.” By the time the Warriors reduced their live-ball turnovers, the energy had gone to the Nets, who scored five more gift points while finishing the Warriors in the fourth quarter. Brooklyn after halftime shot 56.1 percent from the field, including 45.5 percent from distance. That’s successive games in which the Warriors staggered toward the finish. The Warriors sit in second place in the Western Conference. They have an impressive 12-5 record. Yet even with their revamped roster, they’re displaying disturbing shades of last season, which ended with them trudging into an offseason without playoffs. “You don’t want to overreact, right?” Kerr said. “Two games ago, everyone was feeling great. We were 12-3. We’ve had big leads in late third in both games. We have to address what’s happened in these last two games. I don’t think it’s a fatigue thing. I think it’s an execution thing. “We need to execute better, and that’s on me as the coach,” he added. “We’ll get them in here tomorrow for a practice, which we need, and we’ll get back to executing better. Giving up 41 in the fourth, that’s tough to overcome.” Practice will, without a doubt, focus on execution. There also will be sufficient time to practice free throws. Either the Warriors will curb their tendency to give free money to opponents, or their impressive first month will be a distant memory – or a wistful game of “If Only” – when confronting the final weeks of the regular season. Download and follow the Dubs Talk Podcast
The Ravens put a couple of players on injured reserve on Saturday. Cornerback Arthur Maulet and tight end Charlie Kolar will both be out for at least the next four games after going on the list. Maulet has calf and knee injuries while Kolar has a forearm injury. It is the second time Maulet is on injured reserve this season. He opened the year on the list and returned to make five tackles in the last three games. Kolar had nine catches for 131 yards and a touchdown in 11 appearances this season. The Ravens also announced that they have elevated defensive end Chris Wormley and linebacker William Kwenkeu from the practice squad on a temporary basis. They will return to the practice squad after Sunday’s game against the Eagles, which is previewed here along with all of Sunday’s other games.Arkansas WR Andrew Armstrong declares for NFL draft, skipping bowlJustice secretary ‘wrong to impose Muslim beliefs on assisted dying’
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