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[QUOTE=Kujo]Kobe had no problems with MJ's comments. Much ado about nothing.[/QUOTE]
I think deep down it probably burns him bad, but if I'm Phil Jackson, I'm loving this, lol. :lol
It's obvious Kobe idolizes/worships Jordan to an extent that is a borderline obsession.
[QUOTE=tpols]Are jordan fans all seriously all sucking each other's ***** after losing the initial debate?:oldlol: Haha typical response:roll: :bowdown:[/QUOTE]
Losing what, you have been shut down so many times its pointless to argue with you...you bring nothing factual, just hypothetical garbage like most Kobestans bring to the table
Just posted a chart, go ahead and disprove that with more hypothetical bullshit
[QUOTE=Da_Realist]Seems that way. "He didn't, therefore he couldn't have" only works against Jordan. :facepalm Jordan never scored 81 but it wasn't because he couldn't. It was because to score that many points, you have to let other stuff slide. You're not distributing, you're not rebounding, you're not playing defense. You're ONLY concerned with scoring. Jordan scored a lot but wasn't willing to give up everything in a mercenary attempt to score as many points as possible.[/QUOTE]
Jordan didn't have the range nor the shot variety to score 81.....period!!!!
What's most impressive about Kobe's 81 is that he didit to lead the Lakers back from a 19 point deficit....if he doesn't go off they lose that game.
Toronto was trying to win, this was not a case of them rolling over.
Kobe before that had 62 in 3 quarters outscoring the Mavs all by himself.
Maybe he gets 90-100 if he played the 4th.
MJ is still the GOAT but he's acting like an ASS.....lol.
[QUOTE=DKLaker]Jordan didn't have the range nor the shot variety to score 81.....period!!!!
What's most impressive about Kobe's 81 is that he didit to lead the Lakers back from a 19 point deficit....if he doesn't go off they lose that game.
Toronto was trying to win, this was not a case of them rolling over.
Kobe before that had 62 in 3 quarters outscoring the Mavs all by himself.
Maybe he gets 90-100 if he played the 4th.
MJ is still the GOAT but he's acting like an ASS.....lol.[/QUOTE]
Kobe --> GOAT explosive regular season scorer :bowdown: :bowdown:
[QUOTE=Da_Realist]Kobe --> GOAT explosive regular season scorer :bowdown: :bowdown:[/QUOTE]
lol you do realize winning games is not gonna happen if a guy if putting up 40+ shots a game right? You can go off in the regular season but in the playoffs phil jackson would've lopped his balls off if he threw the team's chemistry off by doing that. His 81 and other games are excuses because he had terrible teams that weren't going very far in the playoffs regardless.
[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.