by Charlie O Mallonee

SACRAMENTO–The Sacramento Kings who played in New York last night and won soundly at Madison Square Garden 124-86. This was a make up game that was called off due to a snow blizzard in February. The Knicks could have used a cancelation on Tuesday night after getting upended by the Kings.

The Kings who had to go back to New York were not particularly looking forward to the trip to New York not because they didn’t want to play there but because everybody wants to play the Knicks. The junior high school up from Sleep Train Arena wants to play the Knicks because the Knicks are so terrible.

The Kings started this seven game road trip and all of a sudden they do this make up game they had to travel to New York and play a Tuesday night game then fly overnight to San Antonio and the Kings are expected to get into San Antonio about three in the morning Wednesday. Then they play the Spurs on Wednesday night and they’ll go to bed in Orlando Wednesday night because they have to fly right out of San Antonio after the game to Orlando.

So this is a crazy trip, so to get this trip off to such a spectacular start Kings head coach George Karl and the Kings have to be very excited about annihilating the Knicks by 38 points in the Garden. The Kings had a 100 points at the end of three quarters, that was the kind of run away game it was. They were up 65-30 at half time.

The Kings had six players that scored in double figures on Tuesday night that is just incredible and they were playing the kind of ball that Karl wants them to play. They were executing, they were fast breaking, they scored 29 points on fast breaks to 11 points for fast breaks for the Knicks. That just shows you the transition that they were going on.

The Kings Rudy Gay had 25 points in just over 26 minutes, DeMarcus Cousins 22 points in 28 minutes, that was big because Cousins was just coming back after just missing a couple of games. They didn’t have to leave Cousins out there for 35-38 minutes just to get a win. That was a big thing because they could rest Cousins a little bit and he’ll be rested and be able to play in San Antonio on Wednesday night.

Charlie O is a beat reporter for the Sacramento Kings on http://www.sportsradioservice.com listen to Charlie on the Kings podcast below