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But Francis took the departure of his backcourt partner hard.
``I can't put it into words,'' he said. ``Playing with a guy, living with
a
guy, just knowing that every day when I wake up that's something I can
count
on, that I'm going to be in practice or in a game with Cuttino.
``Him not being here is going to be tough for me. I don't know what I'm
going to wake up for.''
``You don't wait 30 minutes before a game to tell a guy he's traded,''
Francis said. ``The way you handle relation****ps, for me, is going to
change
the way that I approach the game, more businesslike than anything.''
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