BearTalk

In our weekly visit with a Cal player, regrettably we offer only 19 questions today with . . .

JORGE GUTIERREZ
Year: Sophomore
Position: Guard
Height: 6-3
Hometown: Chihauhau, Mexico

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.

How tall you really are, if the doctor measured you barefoot: I don’t know.

How many pairs of basketball shoes you own: 40.

Coolest place you’ve been to play basketball: Orlando, Florida. I played there in an AAU tournament.

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.

The smartest guy on the Cal team: Brandon Smith

The funniest: Markhuri Sanders-Frison

The best athlete: PC