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Game -4
Sacramento Kings vs. Maccabi Haifa
Game -4
Sacramento Kings vs. Maccabi Haifa
By Stephen Tetsu, Drunk. Exhausted. Have work in six hours. Alrighty then, let's do this!
Yap preseason.
Another Preseason, another incredibly unique situation that we won't possibly see during the regular season. While I appreciate the NBA's attempts to internationalize, I'm not so sure that having NBA teams play against glorified summer league teams is quite the way to go. I mean, you don't see the NCAA trying to branch out by having the Jayhawks play an AAU team. But it's preseason, which of course means that we're going to see a poo-ton of strange things, including but not limited to Trey Johnson getting minutes in overtime, Derrick Williams playing 25 minutes a game, bizarre small ball lineups featuring Williams at the 5 and Carl Landry at the 4, and Eric Moreland at times being the only big man on the floor. Also, we sat the best center in the league and still almost won against a Nets team that is probably better than it was last year despite having lost a lot of talent compared to last season (having Not-Jason Kidd as a coach will probably help them). And at the very least, it was a fun game.
Now, as far as I know, this game isn't being broadcast, so if you're going to be attending the game in person, please do not be afraid to send us a candy gram to let us know what you see. Meanwhile, we're almost at the hump and the season opener looms ahead in the distance. But until then, I'm still in phoning it in mode, which means this is, for the time being, it.
GO KINGS!
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In honor of my neighborhood's local festival, today's random clip of the day is perhaps Japan's closest thing to a timeless summer anthem, Kitajima Saburo's "Matsuri" (lit. trans. "Festival").