ESPN article blasts "has-been" Jordan for Kobe comments

[QUOTE=oh the horror]Him going for "90 points" is flat out pure speculation. For all you know, Kobe could have gone cold in the 4th, or just merely scored 10 more points, and been done. We cant sit here, and speculate any of that.[/QUOTE]
Yeah but thats what IMO makes the mystique of that game even greater. He was pissed off in that 3rd quarter, thats why he dropped 30. He was playing even more aggressive in that quarter and was starting to hit long distance shots, where as earlier in the game he kept taking it to the basket and hitting mid range shots.

In the 62 point game, he was just as hot as he was in the 81 point game heading into the 4th, and at the end of the 3rd in the 62 point games he had ten more points then he had finishing up the third quarter in the 81 point game.

Completely outscored the 2nd best team in the league BY HIMSELF through 3 quarters. The Mavs also that year were a good team defensively.

That game was frightening. And he's had a few of those through out his career where he had some asinine point total through 3 quarters and didn't even play a minute of the 4th.

56 in 3 v.s. Grizzlies in 2002 (on Battier)
52 in 3 v.s. Jazz in 2007 (on AK47)

Both ELITE man defenders.

He has a few more but I'm having trouble thinking of them. Imagine if there was no Phil Jackson pulling the reigns back on him in those games.

Imagine a young Kobe Bryant playing for the team that drafted him (Hornets) ... having no offensive options, a coach letting this kid run wild, and of course Kobe always wanting to prove himself and when he was younger thirsty for the attention. We could've seen some ridiculous scoring games.