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Grasping at straws?

“He’s got to be better than the point guard we have out there, and X right now is doing a pretty good job,” D’Antoni said. “And the other thing he has going against him, I don’t know him. I’ve seen him play maybe two minutes. I don’t think we’re at the point where, ‘Oh, let’s experiment.’ Maybe when we’re going good, but we’re not going to lose games because I’m over here experimenting. I haven’t had time to see him and he’s trying to find his way in the league. He hasn’t established that yet. But we hope that maybe in garbage time in our favor, or something would happen that we’d get a look at him, but I just can’t just grasp straws.”

Something did happen, of course. Henry went out with a strained right knee in the first quarter and did not return.

- Rapid Reaction: 76ers 111, Lakers 104, ESPNLosAngeles.com, December 29, 2013.

3. On Monday, Jerry Sandusky and his attorney, Joe Amendola, will be given an opportunity to present a defense to the 52 counts relating to Sandusky’s alleged abuse of 10 boys over the past 15 years.

In his opening statement, Amendola indicated that Sandusky would be taking the stand in his own defense, and then last week the attorney filed a motion to have a psychologist testify about histrionic personality disorder, a personality characterized by inappropriate seductive behavior that Sandusky may be suffering from.

Sandusky, 68, has already proven to the nation that he is a disturbed man, admitting in a television interview with Bob Costas that he showers with boys. The idea that he could put forth any testimony that would be helpful in his defense seems farfetched. After a prosecution team put on a trial that was focused, chilling and displayed a legal acumen that impressed the criminal bar throughout the United States, Amendola is now apparently considering putting forth an insanity defense. However, an insanity defense requires a defendant to prove he has a basic inability to distinguish right from wrong. In Pennsylvania, the courts apply the M’Naghten Rule, which mandates a defendant is not guilty by reason of insanity if, at the time of the crime, the defendant was so deranged that he did not know the nature or quality of his actions or, if he did know, he was so deranged that he could not know what he was doing was wrong.