Golden Nuggets: 20 Questions with Jorge Gutierrez

by Berkelium97 on Mar 5, 2010 5:00 PM PST in Golden Nuggets

This week Jorge is Faraudo's guest for the weekly 20 19(?) questions segment.

Your five-man Dream Team, including yourself in the lineup: I don’t follow the NBA that much. I don’t have a player I look up to. I would like to play with Harper (Kamp) at the 4, Markhuri (Sanders-Frison) at the 5, Theo (Robertson) at the 3, D.J. (Seeley) at the 2 and me at the 1.

Age when you first dunked: I was probably 14. It was just a fastbreak — I think I stole the ball. It was exciting. For everybody else, too.
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Place you’ve never been that you’d love to visit: I would like to go to this hotel in Alaska that’s made of ice (Aurora Ice Hotel in Chena Springs). Everything is ice. I saw it on the History Channel.

Besides Cal, the Pac-10 school with the best basketball fans: Washington.

The worst: Probably Stanford.

If you could be an Olympic athlete, other than basketball, your sport/event: Soccer.

The sport you refuse to watch: Swimming. I like to swim, but I don’t like to watch swimming at all.

The actor who plays you in the movie version of your life: The `Zorro’ guy, Antonio Banderas — that’s what everybody calls me sometimes.

Best concert you ever saw: I went to see Santana in Denver.

Least favorite kind of music: Country.

Favorite meal your mother cooks: Chicken mole.

Food you will not eat: I won’t eat hamburgers from McDonald’s or fastfood restaurants.

Three people in history you’d like to have dinner with: It would be my family. My mom and my father and my brother.

After the jump Tedford gives us a pre-spring update, JO previews QBs, Cal fans rejoice as OSU will not play Cal in the first round of the Pac-10 tourney, and more.

Cal Football

JO previews QBs heading into spring practice. Tedford says Riley has a larger advantage over Mansion/Sweeney than he had last year. They will all receive equal reps during spring practice.
After talking to Tedford, JO has a variety of updates: Charles Satchell is moving to safety, Michael Calvin had his knee scoped again but he should be ready for the start of practice, Vereen will take it easy during spring after taking a beating towards the end of the season (partially torn meniscus, shoulder injury, rib injury), Solomona Aigamaua is moving to TE, and the O-line is coming into shape with Dominic Galas/Chris Guarnero splitting time at center and guard and Donovan Edwards and Mitchell Schwartz starting practice at the left and right tackle spots, respectively.
After undergoing shoulder surgery, Mychal Kendricks will miss spring practice. He should recover in time to participate in the summer workouts.

Cal Basketball

Oregon St beat Washington St last night, making it pretty much impossible that Cal will face OSU in the 1v8/9 round of the Pac-10 tourney.
Although he nearly transferred after Monty was hired, Randle has improved his game tremendously and is on the verge of becoming Cal's all-time scoring leader.
Alexis Gray-Lawson looks back on the path that led her to where she is now. She feels blessed that she was raised in Oakland rather than by Oakland.
Wilner makes his picks for Pac-10 player of the year, Pac-10 coach of the year, and looks ahead to the conference tourney.

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Seth Davis (SI) picks us to beat Stanford 76-63

Cal (20-9) at Stanford (13-16)
Am I the only one who is noticing that Cal is playing its way into an at-large bid if it needs one? I realize the Pac-10 is not exactly murderer’s row, but the Bears have done what they needed to do by winning six of their last seven games. They are ranked 22nd in the RPI and have the No. 1 overall nonconference strength of schedule. Stanford has a very good player in 6-foot-7 senior swingman Landry Fields, who is averaging 22.1 points per game, but when these two teams faced off in Berkeley on Jan. 2, Cal did not get much scoring from Theo Robertson (10 points) or Patrick Christopher (7), and the Bears still won by 26 points. Cal will never be a great defensive team, but it has gotten better at that end of the floor, and the Cardinal do not have enough firepower to beat the Bears when they really need a win.

by boomtho on Mar 5, 2010 5:09 PM PST reply actions

Darn you Calvin and Kendricks for your amazing yet still untapped potential!

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by JrBear on Mar 5, 2010 6:07 PM PST via mobile reply actions

Oregon St beat Washington St last night, making it pretty much impossible that Cal will face OSU in the 1v8/9 round of the Pac-10 tourney.

Also, I think the only way OSU rises into the 4/5 game is if they beat UW and UCLA loses to ASU. It’s looking exceedingly unlikely that Cal will have to play OSU again. Thank Yahweh!

The #1 greatest threat to America: BEARS

by norcalnick on Mar 5, 2010 6:10 PM PST reply actions

UCLA losing to ASU—very likely.
UW losing to OSU—not too likely, but possible.

Let’s wait and see them in that 6-7 seed.

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by Avinash Kunnath on Mar 5, 2010 6:23 PM PST up reply actions

Randle

It’s a big deal that he will likely top Lampley for the total points scoring title for CAL, but I think it would be an even bigger deal if he can manage to top KJ for 2nd in assists at CAL. I’m sure he wants to give the NBA a run and I don’t think his scoring is going to catch anyone’s eye at his height. BUT, if he can show that he is an assist man too, with a little scoring thrown in, then I think he has a shot.

Does anyone know if the Post season (NCAA) counts toward assists and points too?

by YleeXOtee on Mar 6, 2010 1:06 PM PST reply actions

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Golden Bears Football Schedule

Fresno St.	Sat 09/03	W 36 - 21
@ Colorado The Ralphie Report	Sat 09/10	W 36 - 33
Presbyterian	Sat 09/17	W 63 - 12
@ Washington UW Dawg Pound	Sat 09/24	L 23 - 31
@ Oregon Addicted To Quack	Thu 10/06	L 15 - 43
USC Conquest Chronicles	Thu 10/13	L 9 - 30
Utah Block U	Sat 10/22	W 34 - 10
@ UCLA Bruins Nation	Sat 10/29	L 14 - 31
Washington St. CougCenter	Sat 11/05	W 30 - 7
Oregon St. Building The Dam	Sat 11/12	W 23 - 6
@ Stanford Rule Of Tree	Sat 11/19	L 28 - 31
@ Arizona St. House Of Sparky	Fri 11/25	W 47 - 38
@ Texas Burnt Orange Nation	Wed 12/28	L 10 - 21

Pacific-12 Conference Standings

(updated 1.2.2012 at 11:12 PM PST)

North	Conf		Overall
	W	L	W	L
Oregon Ducks Addicted To Quack	8	1	12	2
Stanford Cardinal Rule Of Tree	8	1	11	2
Washington Huskies UW Dawg Pound	5	4	7	6
California Golden Bears California Golden Blogs	4	5	7	6
Oregon St. Beavers Building The Dam	3	6	3	9
Washington St. Cougars CougCenter	2	7	4	8

South	Conf		Overall
	W	L	W	L
USC Trojans Conquest Chronicles	7	2	10	2
UCLA Bruins Bruins Nation	5	4	6	8
Utah Utes Block U	4	5	8	5
Arizona St. Sun Devils House Of Sparky	4	5	6	7
Arizona Wildcats Arizona Desert Swarm	2	7	4	8
Colorado Buffaloes The Ralphie Report	2	7	3	10