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SLAM Online (Free subscription) | 01/08/2009
“If (Natt) doesn’t trust in me as a point guard to be out there at the end of the game, I can’t really do nothing about it. I can’t make him believe in me and make him think that I’ve got to be out there as a point guard and lead my team and set them up in a good situation. It is what it is. It’s a tough situation…He’s the head coach, and what he says goes,” Udrih said before the Kings’ loss in Chicago...
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 01/08/2009
PAUL BEATY Associated Press Kings point guard Beno Udrih, right, has seen his per-game minutes fall from 31.4 under Reggie Theus to 25.8 under interim coach Kenny Natt. CHICAGO Beno Udrih doesn't fight back anymore. The Kings point guard does as he's told, even when it means heading for the bench as his team fails down the stretch in yet another close game. Kenny Natt is the new coach, which means...
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Sactown Royalty (Free subscription) | 01/04/2009
Kenny Natt yanked Beno Udrih early and kept him out but for a spell to open the second half. After the game, Melody Gutierrez got this from the coach : "Not doing his job, that's one way of putting it," Natt said. "Not playing with the intensity and the effort that I know and we all thought he would do and he did last year. So, that's a challenge for him. … Beno is our point guard, but we are having...
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Sactown Royalty (Free subscription) | 01/03/2009
Beno Udrih played worse than he ever had, and Francisco Garcia is still struggling with his shot. Nothing that happened Friday night changed either of those things. We expect Garcia will break out at some point in the near future -- he's a good shooter. Beno is just further cementing his role as local whipping boy. Having trouble staying in front of Rodney Stuckey is expected. Two points in 20 minutes...
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 01/01/2009
Kings coach Kenny Natt has not hesitated to pull guard Beno Udrih, left, for poor execution. Bobby Brown and Bobby Jackson have filled in admirably. If Beno Udrih had any luxury in mind at this point in his career, he figured it would come with his new contract. A five-year, $32.3 million deal signed last summer left ample room for opulence as the Kings point guard's journey went from securing a long-term...
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 12/29/2008
The Celtics had little trouble driving against the Kings, as Paul Pierce demonstrates, making his way past Beno Udrih on Sunday. Michael Phelps had an excuse. He was a fish out of water, a world-class swimmer who had been asked to shoot a halfcourt shot midway through the second quarter at Arco Arena on Sunday night. So the rules were changed in his favor, with the announcer indicating that just drawing...
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 12/24/2008
Bee Sports Editor/Opinion The latest bonfire among Kings fans is the bashing of Beno. That message-board burner features the ripping of point guard Beno Udrih for averaging just four assists over his last four games. In 27 games, he has dished seven or more assists just seven times. Add his .465 field-goal percentage, and you've a pretty good fire going. The five-year, $32 million deal he signed during...
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Sactown Royalty (Free subscription) | 12/23/2008
Beno Udrih isn't the quickest point guard in the league. In fact, he's probably the second slowest in the division, and maybe the entire conference. (Derek Fisher is slow.) As such, we don't actually expect Udrih to blow by his opponent in the halfcourt offense. But the team has been running a ton of picks-and-rolls. And the Kings have some good ball-screeners. Brad Miller's best attribute right now...
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 12/22/2008
Beno Udrih's injury may allow Kings interim coach Kenny Natt to experiment with other point guard options.
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Sactown Royalty (Free subscription) | 12/22/2008
"He worked his tail off last year to really get that contract that he hadn't had," said Kenny Natt, the Kings' interim coach after Reggie Theus' ouster last week. "My objective right now is to get him back to where he was — hungry, like he was last year." Natt on Beno Udrih , quoted by Jeff McDonald of the San Antonio Express-News .
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 12/21/2008
NEW ORLEANS Beno Udrih may not have played well, but he played. And that, in a small way, was something on its own. Questions of durability have surrounded the Kings' point guard since his career began in San Antonio, and they remained when he signed a five-year, $32 million deal over the summer. But when Udrih sat out Saturday's game against New Orleans because of a sore left hamstring, it was...
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ESPN (Free subscription) | 12/21/2008
Sacramento's Beno Udrih missed the Kings' game against New Orleans on Saturday night because of a sore left hamstring.
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 12/15/2008
JOHN RAOUX Associated Press file Tonight the Kings will face Timberwolves forward Al Jefferson, who leads his team in scoring. There was no finger pointing, just confused expressions. Rookie Jason Thompson cited a lack of communication. Point guard Beno Udrih hinted at inexperience. Coach Reggie Theus was busy telling the media that it wasn't about excuses, all the while listing those in his arsenal....
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Sactown Royalty (Free subscription) | 12/14/2008
John Salmons : "They sped our pace up. They forced us into a lot of jumpers. I shot eight threes – that's probably the most threes I've taken in a game in my life. That's what I attribute the loss to." Beno Udrih: "We are just frustrated, because we can't figure out why. We are trying. We are trying to do everything. We are trying to practice, we had a meeting, we talk to each other, we communicate,...
