Sacramento Kings, with a good performance from Andres Nocioni, achieved a great victory last night against Golden State Warriors by 120 – 107 at the NBA.
The Argentine, who played 28 minutes and 5 seconds, added 10 points, 5 of 15 shooting from the field and a poor percentage of 0/5 triples, also took a rebound and made 2 assists and a block.
Evans destroyed the Golden State defensive attempts to stop him in the second quarter and accounted for 18 of Sacramento’s 35 points in the quarter. The Warriors couldn’t do anything to slow him down. In the two games since Kevin Martin went down, ‘Reke has scored 27.5 points per contest on 50% shooting. In face, he’s scored 48 points in his last 50 minutes on the floor.
Sunday night, he just obliterated the interior of the Warriors. On five of the Kings first seven possessions in the second quarter, Evans had a scoring opportunity in the paint with three field goals and two trips to the free throw lines. He made six shots around the basket in the entire period.
After a 9-0 run by the Warriors to cut the lead to four, the Kings went on runs of 12-2 and 10-2 to extend the lead to 19 points. Nocioni had two of the points. Evans had a big three. Udoka scored four, Donté scored five, and JT scored five points.
And also in those big runs, Beno Udrih had six points. Beno finished with 20 points on 9/14 shooting and six assists. Over his past four games, he’s played with a ton of confidence and put everyone who has doubted him (myself included) in their place.
Omri Casspi is the other young guy battling for minutes at the wing position with Donté and continued his brilliant rookie campaign so far. He finished with 12 points, 10 rebounds, 5 assists and 3 steals. He knocked down his first three long distance shots in the first quarter of the game and was able to keep the floor spread so that Evans and Jason Thompson could work inside. And his work on the boards surprised everybody.


