Kobe's going to go for 60+ again (UPDATE: Kobe scores 81!)

http://msn.foxsports.com/nba/story/5270892

"That was something to behold," Jackson said. "It was another level. I've seen some remarkable games, but I've never seen one like that before."
-Phil Jackson

"I never imagined I would see history like that," said Devean George, a teammate of Bryant's with the Lakers for 6 1/2 seasons. "I can't tell you where that came from. He just kept attacking, attacking, attacking - every time he got the ball."

"You're sitting and watching, and it's like a miracle unfolding in front of your eyes and you can't accept it," Lakers owner Jerry Buss said. "Somehow, the brain won't work. The easiest way to look at it is everybody remembers every 50-point game they ever saw. He had 55 in the second half."

The thing about him that is most amazing is that he is relentless," Raptors coach Sam Mitchell said. "We played man-to-man, box-in-one and zone. We tried to put smaller guys on him to deny him the ball.

 

poor sam mitchell. first raefer disses him, now this. at least he's in the history books.

 

Instead of asking basketball fans why they aren't as excited about Kobe's amazing skills, we should perhaps ask Kobe why he makes it tough for us to love him.

The fault, dear Kobe, lies not in the fans but in ourselves

 

Tracy along with the rest of the NBA knows what happened by now.

When Kobe scored 62, Tracy could brush it off, "been there, done that," since he himself once scored 62.

But you know Tracy is in awe of this, just like the rest of us.

You know he's gotta be chewing on this cud, marinating in the back of his mind.

With Yao out..............why the hell not?

T-Mac, you know what you have to do. Let's do this.

 

I know man, I want to give OJ Simpson some love too. he's better than reggie bush, but no one wants to say that.

 

You know it is not T-Mac's best interest to do this. Talent wise, I think T-Mac and Kobe are about equal, but T-Mac is pretty fragile.

 

But hold on, just like me you love vernon maxwell and that guy is in jail for not paying child support.


do you like vernon the person or the game?

 

i like them both. nobody on the rockets (maybe clyde) hated vernon. I didnt want to see him leave the team, but i cant disregard all the great years and charisma he brought. his teammates love him. kenny always talks about him on TNT. He would never sell out Hakeem or he would never say 'well Sam and Horry' cheat on their wives. he's been with questionable women, but none of them accused him of what kobe did. and he's honest too, he did admit to slapping a ho. he got fined and that was the end of it. he didnt force anything on anyone. he didn't just buy a billion dollar ring to save his marriage. when vernon went into the stands in portland, no one wanted a piece of him. compare that to Ron Artest, people wanted to try their luck.

the team voted to give him a 2nd championship ring even though he went awol. child support is a sensitive subject. i cant fault the guy for having bad luck with women. ralph sampson didnt pay his either, he can't he doesnt have the cash. from reading on the vernon story, vernon married a golddigger.

Vernon will be known as loose cannon, but never a dude who sold out his teammates. he quit the team because of pride which was his utlimate downfall. he didnt want to lose his starting job at SG which he had for such a long time.

We love Vernon because he was an emotional guy, not a selfish one.

 

Kobe is too good for his own good, skills like that plus his ego is a horrible combination, if I were that good it would be impossible for me to be humble, IMPOSSIBLE. Nobody is going to be able to tell him to tone his game down now, when people say a player beat a team by himself, most of the time it's uncalled for, but with Kobe he has already outscored the Mavs and Raptors by himself! He's not going to win another championship, because he's too good for his own good, it takes a team, but with skills like his and an ego like his he won't be able to resist the challenge to beat everyone on his own. Enjoy the show people! Haters and fans alike.

 

So what kind of D did Toronto play on him? Did they throw 3 men on him none stop? I would think they would. But him still scoring that much!

 

They double teamed him and even tried their best to deny him the ball. He made many of his points from the free throw line, he'd pump fake the J and they would just foul him almost every time. Many of them were buckets plus the foul so he made a livin from the free throw line. I think 4-5 times he got fouled while shooting a 3 from what I remember.

 

Regardless of how you feel about the guy, 81 points is unreal. He's setting a new bar for scorers. And to think that he is just hitting his prime- wow.

 

Kobe now only needs a Pippen to put Lakers to the top. If Lakers find their Pippen, I think Kobe will get more rings than MJ.

But who would be that Pippen? What about Artest?

 

he quit on his team at the most important time of the season [the start of the playoffs]. there isn't a bigger way he could have sold out his teammates; VM is very selfish.

I still love him, but he quit his team for extremely selfish reasons.

 

it was his emotion. people are bitter towards maxwell, but people didn't like 2pac either. if his teammates felt he sold them out, they wouldn't unamimously vote to give a ring (he has 2 rings now) or give him props on national tv (kenny smith). also, didn't we win a championship because Clyde was starting ? Vernon's awol lead a chain reaction that the Rockets to another championship.

Dream and Maxwell got along well, even though they were opposites in real life. Thanks Vernon for all the great years, fantasic finishes and championships. I speak for all the real Rockets fans, we haven't forgotten you and we haven't forgotten Ralph Sampson. you guys don't need to pay child support, tell those lazy women to get jobs.

 

Kobe only needs to find his Shaq to put Lakers over the top...

 

Thing is how would we know exactly how these players are? We don't know them personally. Some people say Jordan was a prick as well but we don't know for sure. Vernon may have been an emotional person but he could've been selfish as well? Behind closed doors we don't know jack.

 

tinman, that was Kobe's 666th game of his career.

 

i knew it.

On the Jim Rome show, Jim said he wanted Kobe to take every shot in the game to pull 100 pts out. he said he wants to see zeros for Mihm and Odom's shot attempts.

im sure kobe will win player of the week for this. if they dont make it to the playoffs, then he wont get mvp.

 

Real Rocket fans don't spout half-truths from unnamed sources about the Rockets elite. Unanimous vote for his ring? I doubt that, I also doubt Dream really liked VM antics at all; especially at the start of the playoffs. Dream tolerated Maxwell, but they weren't going to bbq's and playing golf together on off days.