By the time I got in later in the day, Team Grey, led by Steve Francis, Cuttino Mobley and Eddie Griffin, had just edged out Team Blue in overtime. Of course the word "overtime" is used loosely there as Rudy really puts about 6-8 minutes on the clock in these 3-team round-robin scrimmages.

Team Blue ran Moochie Norris, Jason Collier, Oscar Torres, Steve Goodrich and Glen Rice. Yes, Rice. Fortunately the 35-year old forward was back in action Sunday.

While I didn't get to see Team Grey in action, I heard Mobley did look strong, taking it to Blue pretty early. Rudy would joke later that it was good to have "Lefty" back, winking as he said how he adds so much to the games (jokingly referring to Mobley's fun-loving yet loud attitude). Francis also supposedly was killing them with the mid-range jumper. Then again, they went to OT, so how much they were "killing them" is probably questionable.

Despite the loss, Blue stayed on the floor though and took on Team Gold, which included Sonny Watson, Terence Morris, Tierre Brown, Pete Mickeal and Bostjan Nachbar.

Maurice Taylor did not scrimmage, instead he worked with one of the trainers with the exercise ball off to the side. Joaquin Hawkins also sat out as a precautionary measure. Rudy said later that he could probably go but "why push it?".

What you will notice right off the bat, when Nachbar plays in these full-court scrimmages, is how well he runs the break. To me, he looks almost like a Brent Barry in that regard. I'm not comparing everything about his game to that of Barry's, but there were some eery similarities in my mind when you see Nachbar flying down the court in transition.

On one play, Boki ran the break and hit Tierre on the left wing. Tierre threw it back to Nachbar, who squared up briefly against his defender then used a very quick step to get by him to the left and went to the rack over a defender for a nice, arching left-handed layin.

Rice played pretty well, though he didn't stick out as looking as strong as he did on Day One. He moved well, but missed a shot he put up over Nachbar's defense. He's still got that smooth stroke though, and if he's got his legs underneath him (which he didn't have last season), he could be in for a good season.

Personally, I thought Terence Morris stuck out the most in the scrimmage. In fact, he's been pretty solid just about every time I've seen him play at camp. His shot has looked stronger and he had a nice alleyoop slam where he came flying in down the middle of the lane.

After practice, Rudy T always makes himself available. I asked him about Nachbar's running ability, how the team is picking up the motion offense (which Rudy said he is very sensitive about the term "motion offense" since it really implies a heavy passing game, which he says this is not) and how Glen looked back in scrimmages. I will have quotes on the site for those shortly.

After speaking with Rudy, I caught Rice. I've been in a group interview with Rice before, but never have spoken to him by myself. Very cool guy and easy to talk to. You can tell he's been around the league a while -- extremely media savvy. You can read some of his comments here.

Then we have the opposite: Eddie Griffin. Don't get me wrong... Eddie is great and is a very nice guy, but he doesn't talk much, seems a little shy with the media and just doesn't have much charisma in interviews, if any. Potential superstar talent, but he'll have to work on his off-the-court game to start reeling in the endorsements.

But Eddie said he was having a lot of fun in camp, despite it starting out a little slow for him, and that he's been working on taking his man off the dribble and his inside game because "I don't want to limit myself to shooting perimeter jumpshots", which he felt was more of the case last season.