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That’s Amaury’s News, Commentary & Podcast: A’s need to shore up line up; Padres ready to take the N.L. West

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by Amaury Pi Gonzalez

SAN JOSE–Right now the Oakland A’s line up doesn’t have a lot of power the A’s are going to keep most of their pitching which still looks pretty good. The A’s have pitcher Sonny Gray and the A’s have some veterans who are still around. The A’s made some good trading for pitching they picked up reliever Tyler Clippard from the Washington Nationals and the A’s could use some more power in that line up.

In the off season they lost Yoenis Cespedes to the Red Sox (now a Tiger), Josh Donaldson to the Blue Jays, and with Cespedes and Donaldson your talking close to about 200 runs batted in. So they have a lack of power unless General Manager Billy Beane surprises us again the A’s might miss the playoffs unless Beane pulls a rabbit out of the A’s green and gold hat.

James Shields signs with Padres for $45 M for four years: The San Diego Padres are going to be a contender with the pick up of Sheilds on Monday the Padres had rounded off the staff with pitchers Ian Kennedy and Tyson Ross. The Padres rebuilt their line up they had Justin Upton, Wil Myers and Matt Kemp and they have three quality outfielders. The Padres and the White Sox are the two most improved teams in baseball.

The Royals dealt Billy Butler to the A’s and Shields now going to the Padres, Butler is the designated hitter for Oakland he’s healthy he could hit 20 or 25 homeruns. The A’s Coco Crisp and Josh Reddick the A’s need those guys to be healthy and the A’s could use another but in that lineup. Their going to depend on a lot of stolen bases and the hit and run, A’s manager Bob Melvin is an excellent manager he’s always in the running for manager of the year but this is going to be a tougher season for him.

In the A’s division the Angels are better, the Rangers are healthy, and of course the Seattle Mariners the M’s have really shored up their club they got Nelson Cruz. They picked more talent in the off season than anyone else in baseball with superstar second baseman Robinson Cano and that pitching staff headed by Felix Hernandez. Right now I’m looking at the M’s to be the team to beat in the west.

Pete Rose to be consider back in baseball: New MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred is considering talking with former Cincinnati Red Pete Rose who is currently banned for life from Major League Baseball. I would consider bringing Rose back into baseball he allegedly gambled on his own team when he was the manager of the Reds and on baseball. Still Rose had over 4100 hits more than anyone else in the game and should be considered for Hall of Fame election. So it’s good news that Manfred is thinking about reinstating Rose back into the game.

Amaury Pi Gonzalez is the Oakland A’s Spanish radio voice and does News and Commentary each week on http://www.sportsradioservice.com listen to Amaury’s podcast below

AT&T Pebble Beach PGA Tournament commentary: The course is breathtaking and the tournament historical

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by Jeff Hall and Jeremy Harness

Spyglass Hill at Pebble Beach will be the site of the AT&T PGA Tournament this golf course is enough just to take in the view and almost make the tournament secondary with it’s slight breezes and views of the ocean crashing behind the competitors. When you get ready to club your way thought the first five holes to greet you with sand hill dunes making the golfers use their skills and strategy and the player’s aim carefully.

Get past those five holes and look out for the next 13 holes with pines that are gorgeous to view and greens that are elevated, the bunkers can be tricky to drive the ball around and when you get there you try to skillfully avoid certain conditions. There are holes that are noted for being one big rough. They have even named some of the holes for it’s challenging greens and uneven areas one is named the “Black Dog” and the other is named “Billy Bones”.

After looking at what the participants are up against in this tournament it’s wonder they’re fully aware that Spyglass Hill Golf Course is the toughest course in the world. The course rating is at 75.5 and the slope rating is 147. Look for holes six, eight and 16 amongst the toughest holes on the course. For example the stroke average was a whopping 79 during the U.S. Amateur in 1999.

Historically Spyglass was designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr and opened in 1966, it took the course six years until completion, the course is in rotation for the AT&T as the tournament has been hosted by the Pebble Beach Company. Bing Crosby lent his name for the tournament, after Crosby died in 1977 the Crosby family hosted the event and then in 1985 AT&T bought the naming rights.

In 1937 Crosby first hosted the National Pro Am Golf Championship in Southern California at the Rancho Santa Fe Golf Club. PGA all time tour winner Sam Snead won the first tournament when the tournament had just 18 holes and Snead won the lion’s share of $500. In 1938 the tournament added another round through 1942. In 1947 the game grew and the tournament added 54 holes near the Monterey coast.

Beginning in 1947 the tournament was at the Pebble Beach Golf Links at Cyprus Point Club and the Monterey Peninsula Country Club until 1966. In 1958 the tournament grew to 72 holes and in 1967 Spyglass Hill replaced the Monterey Peninsula Country Club as the third course. In 1991 the Cyprus Point Club was dropped by the PGA when they would not allow an African American member in the club and the tournament was then moved to Poppy Hills.

The players were not happy with Poppy Hills due to it’s unkempt condition and the tournament was later returned to the Monterey Peninsula Country Club in 2010 and the rest is history.

Jeff Hall and Jeremy Harness are covering the AT&T Pebble Beach PGA Tournament for http://www.sportsradioservice.com

Cal Bears basketball commentary & podcast: Time is running out if Cal wants in the March Tournament they got to stay hot

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by Morris Phillips & Michael Duca

BERKELEY–Cal Bears forward Dwight Tarwater who missed 15-19 three point opportunities and got the buzzer beater against UCLA on Saturday night at Haas Pavilion before he sunk the game winner with a defender in his face for the 64-62 nail biter to help Cal win their fourth straight. Tarwater shot it as soon as he caught it it was just NBA style catch and shoot and with the defender closing in on him he just sunk it.

There was 17 seconds left in the game when that happened and Cal got another defensive stop and a steal to close the game out. That’s three in a row at the buzzer for Cal after losing six in a row and the club is now on a four game win streak. This just shows that this team is still engaged in their season and what their coaching staff is telling them.

Things are falling into place as much as they can for the Bears this season obviously their going to have to rip off some wins here in order to do anything in near what they’ve done in previous seasons in NCAA or NIT type stuff. They are still in sixth or seventh place in the Pac 12. The lead does not look too favorable at this point that the Pac 12 will not have more than three representatives in the NCAA Tournament.

This all under consideration with Stanford losing on Thursday to UCLA and kind of damaging their hopes as the third team. Here’s what’s going on with Cal they got this momentum, guard Jabari Bird is back healthy and all of the signs that we hear the rumors the under currents that Cal is ready to make a splash in terms of signing some recruits that may or may not include Ivan Rabb from Oakland.

According a source from the Pac 12 TV Network Cal head coach Cuonzo Martin that Martin is the type of guy like former Cal head coach Todd Bozeman or even former head coach Lou Campanelli who in the past were able to go out and find nationally rated recruits. Cal obviously doesn’t want Martin to get into the same kind of recruiting problem that Bozeman got into. In terms of what’s going on in the program a lot of stuff looks good for Cal’s recruiting future and the future looks bright.

Tarwater’s role will be expanded and right now he’s playing about 20 minutes a game in five of the last four games he’s got five starts under his belt at Cal. He’s an undersized forward and who had bought into what the team is doing defensively and he really helps them there. Right now it doesn’t look like the Bears want him to play more than that and remember he’s only here for this year and they have two players that are behind him that have a bright future at Cal those two players being center Kingley Okoroh and forward Roger Moute a Bidias.

Morris Phillips and Michael Duca cover Cal basketball and do commentary each week on http://www.sportsradioservice.com. Listen to Morris’ Cal commentary below

That’s Amaury’s News and Commentary: Cuba wins first Caribbean Series in 55 years

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by Amaury Pi-González

SAN JUAN PUERTO RICO– At Hiram Bithorn Stadium. The Cuban champion Vegueros de Pinar del Rio, won the first Caribbean Series of Baseball for Cuba since 1960. The Cuban team didn’t wait for President Obama and the Castro’s dictatorship to re-establish relations, they took matters in their own hands, as Cuba beat Mexico 3-2. The first Caribbean Series took place in Havana, Cuba in 1949, Cuba won it, and then dominated for the next ten years, but in 1961 Cuba’s Fidel Castro declared Cuba a communist state and barred all professional sports in the country. This happened because Cuba broke relations with the John F.Kennedy administration.

It was a home run in the eighth inning by Yulieski Gourriel that decided the game and the series for the Cubans. Dozens of major league scouts were in San Juan, Puerto Rico following this series. The Cuban squad lost two players who defected last week and asked for political exile, 19 year old pitcher Vladimir Gutiérrez, who was the Rookie of Year in the Cuban League in 2014, and 30 year old shortstop Dainer Moreira. They did not hang around to see their trophy, but will file papers and start their inevitable journey to the Major Leagues. The Dominican Republic were the favorites, Cuba’s victory is considered something of an upset. Venezuela and Puerto Rico were the other teams in the tournament.

Fifty-five years have gone-by since Cuba won the popular Caribbean World Series. In 1960 neither the Oakland Athletics or the San Francisco Giants had won a World Series for their Northern California cities. The Giants were 2 years old in San Francisco and the Atléticos were the Kansas City A’S. 1960 was the last year that the Havana Sugar Kings of the International League (AAA) played and won that league. Of all Latin American players these days, the ones from Cuba have a great advantage, as many of them rarely go through the minor leagues, but come directly from Cuba, after they defect,to play in the majors. Cuba’s Frederic Cepeda the 34-year old veteran outfielder, who played in Japan last year, won the tournament MVP.

In 2014 the Cuban team had an early exit, so this was a very sweet victory for the Cubanos since they returned to this Caribbean classic. The 2016 Caribbean Series is going to take place at Estadio Francisco Micheli in La Romana, Dominican Republic.

Even prior to Fidel Castro and Raúl Castro birth, baseball was the #1 and most popular sport in the largest island in the Caribbean. Baseball was introduced in Cuba in 1864, and Cubans helped spread the game throughout the Caribbean. Currently, professional leagues exist in Mexico, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and the Dominican Republic. The seasons last from October to January, and since 1949 the winners of each of the four leagues have competed in the Caribbean Series each February.

Amaury Pi-González will begin his 38th season as a Major League Baseball play by play announcer as the Spanish Radio Voice for the Oakland Atheltics and also Fox Sports West TV Play by play for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Amaury was inducted into the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame in 2010. Amaury does News and Commentary each week on http://www.sportsradioservice.com

AT&T Pebble Beach PGA Tournament commentary: Billy Casper winner of 51 PGA Tours passes at age 83

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by Jeff Hall & Jeremy Harness

After passing out at the PGA Masters last year golf great Billy Casper’s son Bob knew that it was the start for his father to get the medical help he needed and later a rehab program for his heart condition. Through all their hard efforts to get Casper back to health again Casper passed away on Saturday at the age of 83 at his home in Utah. Casper in his golf hey day was overshadowed by the “Big three” Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer and Gary Player. Casper was rehabbing from heart problems and pneumonia and recovered by Thanksgiving. Bob said he started feeling bad this past week, Casper was married for 62 years to his wife Shirley who was at his side when he passed.

Casper’s career in golf would have put him in the headlines in today’s game he was among legends in the game and his numbers proved it winning 51 PGA Tours putting Casper at number seven on the all time winning list behind such greats as Sam Snead (82), Tiger Woods (79), Jack Nicklaus (73), Ben Hogan (64), Arnold Palmer (62), Byron Nelson (52), and Casper at 51.

Casper had three major wins to his career and he had a great comeback in his career in 1966 he won the U.S.Open. Casper was down seven holes at the Olympic Club and came back to win it after tying Palmer and won it in a 18 hole playoff. His other two majors that he won was at Winged Foot in 1959 and at the 1970 Masters. Casper went into the Golf Hall of Fame eight years later in 1978.

Casper didn’t get much credit for his hard work, accomplishments, and his place on the all time winningest list but today Nicklaus said that Casper deserves that recognition, “Billy was one of the greatest family men be it inside the game of golf or out. I have had the fortunate blessing to meet. He had such a wonderful balance to his life. Golf was never the most important thing in Billy’s life–family was. There was always much more to Billy Casper than golf. But as a golfer, Billy was a fantastic player and I don’t think he gets enough credit for being one. I have said many times during my career, when I looked up at the leaderboard, I wasn’t just looking to see where a Palmer, or a Player, or a Trevino was. I was also checking to see where Billy Casper was” Nicklaus wrote on Facebook.

Jeff Hall and Jeremy Harness are covering the AT&T Pebble Beach PGA Tournament for http://www.sportsradioservice.com

NCAA basketball commentary and podcast: Legend, leader, mentor, winningest coach of all time Dean Smith passes at 83

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by Michelle Richardson

NCAA winningest coach of all time North Carolina head coach Dean Smith died on Sunday at the age of 83 at his Chapel Hill Carolina home. Coach Smith is legendary and when you talk about Duke head coach Mike Kryzewski or how many championships he’s won. Coach Smith was kind of a renaissance man. He also taught golf at the Air Force Academy he didn’t teach basketball but he taught golf, how many basketball coaches can say that they can teach golf?

Coach Smith and his coaching strategy impacted the game of college basketball after he left the game in North Carolina. He influenced such NBA players such as Rasheed Wallace, Michael Jordan, James Worthy, Sam Perkins, and Billy Cunningham and the names go on and on. Roy Williams the current head coach at NC is part of that Smith legacy. Smith is one of those coaches that other coaches highly respect they wanted to be him.

Coach Smith was a highly respected individual his greatness was not simply what he could do with players on the court but his greatness was definitely about who he was and what he was off the court.Tar Heel Nation is definitely suffering over the loss of Coach Smith. Coach Smith coached at NC State for 36 seasons with a 879-254 he coached from 1967-1991.

Coach Smith had a winning percentage of .776 he retired with more wins than any other coach in NCAA history for Division one. We know that former head coach Pat Summit has gone onto eclipse Smith and so has Kryzewski. Coach Smith is a man who really laid down the framework on how to do that. He had 11 Final Four appearances and had two World Championships in 1982 and 1993 that’s a career.

Some coaches get one national championship and he got two and he got 11 Final Four appearances some people get there once and never return. Coach Smith did it 11 times. There’s a loss in the basketball community one of our elder statesman has passed and nobody will take his place. They will put him on a Mount Rushmore for basketball coaches.

Basically you were glad that you were able to see him coach at one time at the time that he did. For other coaches they could go out and find big talent but can you make that talent better? Can you make them better people? Can you get them to a place that they never imagined before? Coach Smith played basketball at Kansas under head coach James Naismith from 1949-53.

Michelle Richardson does NCAA Commentary every other week listen to the her podcast below on http://www.sportsradioservice.com

Stanford Cardinal basketball commentary & podcast: Cardinal looking to snap losing streak against USC Sunday

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by Matt Harrington

PALO ALTO–When I looked at the final score sheet after the Stanford Cardinal lost to the Washington State Cougars last Saturday 89-88 that was a bit of a stunner. It was a game that the Cardinal were up 27-14 at one point. Cardinal head coach Johnny Dawkins reiterated after the game Stanford didn’t put together a 40 minute effort and it’s been a little bit of a trend lately.

That was something that cost the Cardinal last Saturday as the Cardinal weren’t playing a 40 minute game. It was a little bit of a shocker and it was a bigger shocker the loss to UCLA on Thursday night. Your looking at a team that’s right there in the standings with them in the Pac 12 they both sitting there at 6-4.

UCLA and Stanford are looking to wrap up the number four seed and the bye that goes with it in the Pac 12 Tournament. Stanford with their loss to UCLA on Thursday their getting knocked out of that first round. Oregon and Oregon State are up there at 6-4 so there’s a lot of teams squeezing into this playoff. Stanford doesn’t have the easy road ahead, they do not they still have Utah to play and both Oregon schools, there’s another big one with Arizona on the way.

So the Cardinal are looking at a little bit of trouble if they want they want to dance in the NCAA Tournament they’ve got to start turning things around in a hurry. They know Washington State was a gimmie game but they lost, that was another game that should have been another gimmie game for the Cardinal but it’s not the way things are going right now.

The Cardinal if they show up the way they showed up in the first half of the game against UCLA the Cardinal shot about 30 percent from the field and the Cardinal could find themselves down pretty early. This is a chance for the Cardinal to figure out what’s going on to work on their output or a chance for them to struggle again if they get into their own heads their too worried about this two game losing streak the first one they’ve had all season.

There is a chance they could struggle in Sunday’s game, there is no longer a sure thing in the Pac 12 after that lost to the Cougars. It’s going to be a game where Stanford is going to rebound to struggle to do things right in their own head because so it’s going to be interesting. Washington State their starting to turn things around they looked like the doormats earlier in the year but in the last couple of weeks they looked like they’ve been playing some come back basketball and that’s probably why the Cardinal lost to them because Washington State are getting momentum.

Matt Harrington does weekly commentary on the Stanford Cardinal each week for http://www.sportsradioservice.com

Golden State Warriors commentary & podcast: Could last Fri’s Warriors-Hawks match be a prelude to the NBA Championship?

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by David Zizmor

OAKLAND–The Golden State Warriors who have had not very many problems handling opponents thus far this season was playing a team that played them evenly the Atlanta Hawks on Friday night and this was no second rate team. The Hawks might be the only NBA team that is in the same stratosphere as the Warriors in terms of their record. Were talking about the two best teams in the NBA and the Hawks had the home court advantage on Friday in addition to having the Warriors just flown cross country with very little sleep to Atlanta for the Hawks 124-116 win.

The Hawks just had a slight advantage in that respect this wasn’t exactly a blow out it was a game that was fairly close for most of the way. The Hawks pulled away a little bit I in the fourth quarter and the Hawks were ridiculously hot from outside they were hitting everything and hitting every three pointer it didn’t seem they could miss at all.

Atlanta’s offensive design can get those open three pointers and even by the Hawks standards they were just hitting everything and it didn’t seem like the Hawks missed anything when they had a shot. When you have a offense to give you open looks your going to get a better than average three point percentage but the Hawks were well over 50 percent which is not what teams normally have.

Part of it was the W’s were a little tired from the cross country flight maybe they were a step slower on Friday. Whatever the case maybe it was a very good game definitely worthy of the hype. You had two of the best teams in the NBA, this game looked like it could have went the Warriors way they were playing very well getting the lead but the Hawks fought back in the second half.

It was a great game you tip your hat to the Hawks, the Warriors are going to face them again in Oracle in March and we’ll see what happens in that match up. Although the Hawks (42-9 .824) had a slightly better percentage than the Warriors (39-9 .813) the record doesn’t make a difference and you could look at the records and split them up anyway you want.

You could say the Warriors have the better winning percentage and the Hawks have the better record in terms of overall wins. The differences are really teeny tiny the difference are minot, there aren’t many differences between these two teams, they play very similar style of basketball and their both coached by guys Warriors Steve Kerr and the Hawks Mike Budenholzer who have roots in San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich’s offense. The Warriors and Hawks meet again on March 16th in Oakland.

David does Warriors commentary and podcast each week on http://www.sportsradioservice.com Dave talks more Warriors and Hawks below in his podcast

That’s Amaury’s News and Commentary: The Warriors get no respect, victims of west coast bias

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by Amaury Pi Gonzalez

OAKLAND–Anybody that has lived in Northern California for a while understand that for any of our pro-teams here to get the respect they deserve nationwide, even the Golden State Warriors this season, which lose a game every two weeks, it not easy. During baseball season, even with the San Francisco Giants success of winning three World Series the last five years, we are subjected to the regular Yankee vs Red Sox game on television nationwide. A friend of mine that arrived from Latin America told me “are those the only two teams that play?”.

I have lived in the Bay Area since 1969, and this attitude by the media towards our west coast teams have changed little, even though today California is like a country, in 2013 California’s population was over 38 million people. It is the most populous U.S. state, home to one out of eight people who live in the U.S. and it is the third largest state by area.

If California was an independent bilingual country, our economy would surpass those of many countries in the world, including some in western Europe, especially compared today with Greece, Italy and some of those countries going basically bankrupt.

Efrain Osorio was a Cuban-American professor, editor in Havana of the old and very prestigious Christian Monitor Newspaper, who taught me a lot, and he (who lived in New York City) used to tell me “everything starts here, this is the center of the universe, remember we are born three hours earlier than you guys in the west coast, and we also die three hours earlier”, and yes, he was a character, but not far from the truth. I covered the Golden State Warriors last time they won an NBA title,(their only title in their Northern California history 1974-75), that was a very unexpected win, as they swept the Washington Bullets in four games, with the great Rick Barry winning the MVP.

After they won it all, there was a celebration at Union Square in San Francisco(even though the team played in Oakland)and I was there, as owner Franklin Mieuli, coach Al Attles, announcer Bill King(in my opinion the best ever basketball play by play man) I share great memories of Bill while doing the Warriors and the A’S. They all spoke to thousands crowding that famous San Francisco square.

The Warriors last title was 39 years ago, and they should have their best chance this season to win it again. There are really no dominating teams in the NBA anymore, the Lakers, the Clippers, the Celtics they are not what they were not long ago. First game of any professional team in the Bay Area that I ever covered, were the Warriors, when they played at the Cow Palace, in Daly City, as a writer for El Mundo bilingual news of Oakland, Hal Childs was their Public Relations man.

Childs as I remembered in 1971,the last year the San Francisco Warriors would play at that facility. It hosted the San Francisco Warriors of the NBA from 1962 to 1964 and again from 1966 to 1971. The Warriors temporarily returned to the Cow Palace to host the 1975 NBA Finals due to the fact that the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena was booked for an Ice Follies performance. History will repeat itself, and in a few years the team will move back to San Francisco, and they will probably be named again the San Francisco Warriors. The “Golden State” name never stuck with many people, including me, it made it sound like a college team, not a pro-team.

In the 1970’s the NBA’s biggest and most dominating star was Lakers center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar,(previously known in UCLA as Lew Alcindor) just like in the 80’s Michael Jordan dominated the league, Abdul-Jabbar’s sky hook was unstoppable, if you saw it, and you covered basketball, and are of the age to have been a fan back then, it was a thing of beauty.

Today there are great players in the NBA, but there are definitely no Abdul-Jabbar’s or Michael Jordan’s, these types of players do not grow on trees. The biggest star is LeBron James who leads the league in scoring with and average of 26 points per game, the Clippers Andrew Jordan leads in rebounds with 13 per game, and Warriors Stephen Curry has the fastest hands with 2.1 steals per game leading the pack. The Warriors are a very exciting team, leading their division, second only to Atlanta in total wins, and a team that deserves much more respect than the media across this country is given them. At home, as of today, they are 23-2. No they are not in the Rodney Dangerfield category of “no respect”, but they could get much more…don’t you think so? If the Golden State Warriors go all the way, and there is a parade, someplace in the Bay Area,(Oakland needs a parade much more than San Francisco) will they then get that respect…I am not too sure.

Amaury Pi Gonzalez is the former Spanish radio voice for Golden State Warriors basketball and does News and Commentary on http://www.sportsradioservice.com

Sacramento Kings commentary & podcast: Kings lack of defense and weak offense hands Warriors and Mavs gift wins

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by Charlie O Mallonee

SACRAMENTO–The easy answer about the Sacramento Kings is this is a team that is in total disarray against the Golden State Warriors Tuesday night at Sleep Train Arena the Kings actually had a fairly good size lead in the first quarter and then just watched it get chipped away and chipped away in a whopping 121-96 loss. It was a lack of defense and a lack of cohesive offense on the part of the Kings that just killed them.

The Kings allowed Golden State to complete 46 of 91 shots from the field letting the W’s to shoot 50.5 percent from the field, any team that allows 50.5 percent from the field deserves not to win and in the NBA your not going to win that’s just the fact of the matter. They let them shoot 10-23 from three pointland. 43.5 percent average right there on three pointers that would make the W’s get the higher average in that game in all of the NBA.

The Kings have shot 44.3 percent from the field, they shot 43.8 percent from three pointland which was way too late and once things got going for them they weren’t able to stay consistent for those three point shots. So it was a real difficult situation throughout the whole game and it looked like Ben McLemore was going to get the Kings off to a real good start he came down and had four three point shots.

After the four shots by McLemore in the first quarter he just disappeared and it wasn’t because he wanted to disappear it’s just they feel that they don’t have him working the offense properly. The Kings DeMarcus Cousins said afterwards “I’ve got to do more to get Ben into the offense” because you have a guy who scores 13 points in the first quarter and winds up scoring only 18 for the ball game.

The Kings forgot that McLemore was out there and they can’t afford to do that and if they get McLemore involved that takes some of the pressure off the Big Three because now it’s the Big Four with McLemore. It also makes other defenses have to respect them more because they’ve got more people to watch. Tuesday’s loss to Golden State was not a pretty game, we didn’t expect that it was going to be but it even got a little uglier than we thought it might.

Then they turned around on Thursday night and played the Dallas Mavericks, now here’s the deal the Mavs Rajon Rondo was not available because he’s got that fractured eye socket. The Mavs decide to give Rondo the game off, so now the Kings are going “Game On!” it should be a good chance for the Kings right? Wrong. The Kings just folded up in this game quickly their biggest point total in any quarter was in first quarter with 23, they scored 20 points in the second, 17 points in the third, and didn’t show up in the fourth with 18 points.

Charlie O does Kings commentary and podcast each week for http://www.sportsradioservice.com Click below for the rest of Charlie O’s podcast