by Charlie O Mallonee

SACRAMENTO–You look at the two road games that the Sacramento Kings played in Orlando and Miami last week I said that the Orlando Magic should be a win on the road. The Kings got beat up in San Antonio on Wednesday and that wasn’t a surprise and that was the back end of a back to back and that was in New York and San Antonio.

The Kings played back to back on Tuesday the 3rd and Wednesday the 4th before heading out to Florida. It looked they would be able to handle the two games and in Orlando and Miami last Friday and Saturday. On Friday they turned around and let the Magic score 68 points in the first half. It was just insane the way Orlando was playing good defense.

The Kings came out a little slow they came out and picked it up and scored 57 points in the first half but they just let Orlando get out there too far. They were never able to pull the Magic back in, They were able to stay close but there has been a tendency for the Kings and it’s one that they get behind.

The Kings would pull up and get close and get within a point or two and even would take a lead by a point or two but then they would pull back. That’s something that you would see consistently in the NBA when a team does that they wind up losing the game because they spend so much energy putting themselves back into the game.

The other team is just using the energy to stay right there and when it comes to crunch time the Kings don’t have enough to put themselves over the top. Now in the case of Orlando they just owned the Kings they went 14-24 from the field and they scored 32 points a game. The other guy that just tore it up was the Magic’s Channing Frye he finished with 22 points.

Frye was in the game for Orlando to do one thing and that is to throw three point shots. He took a total of 11 shots from the field with three pointers and connected with six of them and wound up with the 22 points. Now the Kings Rudy Gay had a phenomenal game with 39 points and DeMarcus had 29 points. Cousins and Gay came together late in the game but it wasn’t enough and the Magic won the ball game by five points 119-114.

For tonight it’s onto Charlotte and the Hornets as the Kings go into Charlotte with a current road record of 1-3 winning only in New York that started this trip on Tuesday the third.

Charlie O is the Sacramento Kings beat writer for http://www.sportsradioservice.com listen to his podcast below