Thoughts:
1) Not televised. Honestly, who can blame anyone for this? I can only make it through a half of exhibition games in the best of times.
2) Beasley, 16 and 6 on 6-11 in 21 minutes. 13 points in the 3rd quarter, playing with Wade and Marion. Good start. Hasn't proven he can't score yet.
3) Daequan Cook - somehow got up 15 shots in 30 minutes. Getting loose early. Only made 4, though.
4) Quinn got hurt, Chalmers turned the ball over a bunch. Quite a battle for that point guard spot.
Two other thoughts:
1) Traveling to Europe for the week to play the Nets, one game in Paris, one game in London. Quite a treat for European sports fans. Jamal Magloire is from Canada, so there is at least a chance he might speak French. Those games will be on NBA tv.
2) I was never a fan of Shaun Livingston when I watched him on the Clippers. Always seemed a little awkward to me, and lacked explosion. In his defense, he is big, and he was only 21 at the time, so I agree with taking the low risk shot on him. Maybe he can be a big guard in the Ron Harper post-knee surgery mode someday.
In political news:
An acquaintance of mine dated Sarah Palin in college at the University of Idaho. He asserts the following:
1) When they were at Idaho, it was back in the days when they still had the Big Sky conference, not the Mountain West like now. He says the rivalries were a lot more intense then.
2) He says that the dumb thing is mostly an act to seem cute.
3) She is actually pretty cool - when they broke up (it was totally mutual), she had left a bunch of cds at his apartment. Mostly like The Smiths, The Cure, Morrissey, etc. When she asked him if she could come get them, he lied and said that he couldn't find them anywhere. Even though she must have known that they were there, she just kind of let it slide...
