<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Like he had never experienced a harder day of work in his life.That is the look Michael Beasley had on his face throughout his second day of pro-like basketball Tuesday. Sure, there were a few of his signature grins mixed in, but those were more like the incredulous smiles you offer a police officer when he writes you up a triple-figure ticket for going 45 mph in a 35 zone. B-Easy, they call him. Nothing easy this day. Even getting dressed was arduous. Beasley started the game with a mattress-size pad under his jersey protecting a cracked sternum. ''I couldn't move,'' he said. ``I felt like Iron Man.'' So he took it off after a couple of missed shots, one of them swatted out of bounds by Nets beanpole Sean Williams. He put his jersey back on inside-out, fixed it, then got back in the game. Problem solved. Easy. Eight missed shots later, he was 0 for 10 through more than a half of basketball. He had been yanked in and out of the lineup for the second consecutive game because of foul trouble, had committed a handful of sloppy turnovers and, just for good measure, was kicked so hard in the shin that it left an immediate bruise and had him limping for the rest of the relatively meaningless contest.</div> Miami Herald
