Two preseason games last night. In the game I wish we had seen, Sacramento edged Seattle. Chelsea Newton scored the winning layup. "I was telling myself not to put [starters] back into the game," said Coach Donovan, "and then I wanted to win the game like everybody else here. Unfortunately, it was probably a little too late."

In the game we did see, the Lynx got blown out in the Barn. The Sun have an offense. The Lynx don't, or not yet: Minnesota still haven't solved the turnover problem, nor the point guard problem, nor the overreliance-on-Katie-Smith problem, and perhaps ought to keep King Borchardt, who looked good.

The Sun have no particular problems, and perhaps ought to keep both Carey and Conlon, who looked very good. Margo Dydek's picks on Kristi Harrower looked silly: the 5'4" Australian kept hitting her head on Dydek's hip bones. Lindsay, who led all scorers, looked unstoppable. T-bone says she'll start at point until 2015.

The game in Seattle tallied 63 fouls, the game in Minneapolis 47; the Kansas City game saw 73. Overeager zebras? Maybe not: the new hand-check rule should bring slow, annoying, free-throw laden games, and fan complaints, early in the season, and faster, higher-scoring games once teams get used to it. That's what happened on the men's side: at least, Mark Cuban thinks so.