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Kobe Scoring Thread (MERGED)

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Should Kobe have gone for more pts?

  • I would have played him the whole game and gone for Wilts 100

    Votes: 12 24.0%

  • I would have done what Phil did

    Votes: 6 12.0%

  • Who cares

    Votes: 32 64.0%
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But seriously guys, no matter how much you may not like the guy, 81 points in this day in age is amazing. Everyone thinks that he just uses the team and that "with all those shots he takes he better be scoring alot", but did his team not win the game? You gotta think, every team Kobe plays knows that he is going to be doing it all, so shouldn't it be easy to stop him? I still think he was a dick for pushing Shaq out of LA (and originally Phil Jackson, too), but 81 points is incredible.
 
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Well its not as impressive as "Wilt's 100 without the three point line" game. I think in that came he went 29-31 from the foul line.

Hell I don't even think this is as impressive as Shaq's 61 he had against the Clippers in 2000. He didn't shoot one 3 that game. What makes it all the more impressive was that he was playing with Kobe.
 
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1/23/06

LAKERS 122 | RAPTORS 104

Bryant pours in 81 points, second most in NBA history

Monday, January 23, 2006
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kobe Bryant scored a staggering 81 points — the second-highest total in NBA history — and the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Toronto Raptors 122-104 last night.

With the fans in Staples Center chanting "MVP! MVP!" Bryant made two free throws with 43.4 seconds remaining for his final points, putting him behind only Wilt Chamberlain on the all-time scoring list.

Chamberlain scored 100 points for Philadelphia against the New York Knicks at Hershey, Pa., on March 2, 1962.

"I couldn’t even dream of this when I was a kid," Bryant said. "There was no way possible."

Bryant left to a standing ovation with 4.2 seconds remaining, having shot 28 of 46 from the floor and 18 of 20 from the line.

Elgin Baylor held the previous franchise record of 71 points at New York on Nov. 15, 1960.

Michael Jordan’s career high was 69 points, and only four players had ever scored more than 70 — Chamberlain, Baylor, David Robinson and David Thompson.

Bryant, 27, made it five.

He played nearly 42 minutes, going the entire second half until being lifted by coach Phil Jackson. He scored 27 points in the third quarter and 28 in the fourth.

Bryant scored all but 15 of the Lakers’ 42 points in the third quarter, shooting 11 of 15 including 4 of 5 from threepoint range. The Lakers outscored the Raptors 38-14 to finish the third period to go ahead for good.
Bryant’s previous career high was 62 points during a 112-90 victory over Dallas in December, but he sat out the fourth quarter.
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tedginn05 said:
Well its not as impressive as "Wilt's 100 without the three point line" game. I think in that came he went 29-31 from the foul line.

Hell I don't even think this is as impressive as Shaq's 61 he had against the Clippers in 2000. He didn't shoot one 3 that game. What makes it all the more impressive was that he was playing with Kobe.
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Actually, I think it's far more impressive for a perimeter player to score that many points even with the three-point line. There's a reason why bigger guys shoot higher percentages, because they are that close to the basket. Kobe was making long jump shots all night. That's ridiculous.

Regardless of what I think of Kobe as a person (and it's not much), last night's performance was remarkable.
 
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Ok, the Cavs crappy defense was able to hold Kobe to 27 pts and he scores 81 against the same Raptors team that lost to the Asslandia national team in the preseason. Not to belittle Kobe scoring 81 because it is impressive, but how bad are the Raptors? I'd like to see how many pts Kobe scores against teams like the Pistons and Spurs that can actually play defense. I wonder if Kobe even cares about winning more titles or just scoring tons of points. The Lakers are never going to win another title until the Lakers start playing like a team rather than the Kobe show.
 
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People give Kobe a lot of crap and it's deserved. But I always wondered if MJ would have been happy playing with Shaq. All these guys have huge egos and I doubt that any amazing player at the level of a Jordan would actually like playing with a giant like Shaq. Pippen was great, but he was no Shaq. The thing that Kobe didn't realize was that Shaq is now getting old, with creaky knees and he can't play all 80 games. If the two were together now, Kobe would be the #1 option on a top team. Now, he's the #1 option on a mediocre team.
 
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BuckeyeNation27 said:
Eh, I'm not OVERLY impressed. It's a big number, but the reason nobody else has done it since Wilt is because nobody has tried.
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I don't buy this statement for one second. Players have tried. I remember specifically a game the great Larry Bird played in where his teammates just kept feeding him the ball so he could score as many points as possible. Rumor has it that because McHale had a 60-point game the game before, Bird just had to top and that was the game plan.

David Robinson made the effort when he scored 72 just to become the scoring champion.

These are guys that were and still continue to this day to be revered as gentlemen of the game. Why should Kobe's accomplishment be diminished?
 
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tedginn05 said:
Well its not as impressive as "Wilt's 100 without the three point line" game. I think in that game he went 29-31 from the foul line.

Hell I don't even think this is as impressive as Shaq's 61 he had against the Clippers in 2000. He didn't shoot one 3 that game. What makes it all the more impressive was that he was playing with Kobe.
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Wilt was 28-32 from the free throw line in that game. Which was amazing because he was Shaq-like at the line.

Thump, I didn't have to look that one up. :wink2:

Thank God Wilt scored 100, or we'd have to hear about Kobe having the record for the next 10 years. But Wilt sure could score!
 
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