5/6: CP3 and The Hornets, Clock Madness, etc.

Leading with the association (a shocker)....

• Chris Paul and the Hornets go up 2-0 on the defending champs.....and do it easily....led by yet another 30+ and 10+ assist game from Paul (and despite a bad game from David West), they cruised by double digits...CP3 is playing out of his mind (the picture above says it all) and the Spurs look disoriented; I'd never bury them just yet b/c they haven't played a homegame and after all, they're the Spurs, but I'm not picking them either....


• Detroit wins again at home against Orlando and goes up 2-0.....Obviously, you have seen the clock malfunction at the end of the 3rd quarter...I don't think it won the game for Detroit or anything, but it was certainly a big play, and should've been handled differently...run the whole thing again instead of making the refs do the "eye test" on what is 4.8 seconds...ludicrous....That said, I don't think Detroit sweeps but Orlando is in deep trouble....


• Mike D'Antoni reportedly to fill the Chicago job.....well, now that Phoenix job is up for grabs and that's an interesting fill for sure....D'Antoni will do well in Chicago, they have athletic bigs and some intelligent guards to run that system....that said, I'm interested to see how he'd use Sefalosha and whether he just leaves Ben Gordon in the Barbosa role or changes things up a bit....

Other stuff....

• MLB: Ervin Santana joins Joe Saunders at 6-0...and they pitch right after each other....alot of back-to-back wins for them so far eh? lol.....Max Scherzer will be nasty, but not quite yet....Ozzie Guillen is certifiably nuts if you didn't know already...but his latest tirade made a little sense to me....just a little....Jamie Moyer is STILL pitching well.....it's unbelievable to me that his stuff still gets it done, but thats just pure craftyness I'd assume...


• This whole Marvin Harrison thing gets crazier every time news comes out....waiting on his public statement...


• Rashard Mendenhall (Illinois RB and Pittsburgh 1st-round pick) robbed at gunpoint....this happens alot lately, but not as much as it could....people with guns can get what they want usually, good to see him just turn the stuff over and get out of there...he's got plenty of money, no need to fight it...


• Man, it's getting harder and harder to dislike Tim Tebow...seems like a genuinely great guy....and he can definitely play the game...just overhyped (on the field, not off)