kobe is the best player ever to play in basketball game..
After kobe's most incredible performance in the NBA history, maraming positive and negative reactions...syempre!!!
Sabi ni Pat Riley "It's remarkable, the execution and the efficiency, but we've got a lot of guys in this league, if they took 70 shots, they'd score a lot of points,"
Sabi naman ni Vince Carter "The only bad thing about it is young kids, whose minds are easily warped, are going to think, 'Ohhh, I am going to go out there and do it' instead of the team concept first," (but i think Vince knows nothing.)
Si Shaquille O'neal...syempre, hindi nag-comment.
After he made the 2nd greatest performance in NBA, he has been mocked by sports writers, questioned by opposing players, ignored by all legends except Magic Johnson. (na bilib na bilib sa performance n'ya)
"This goes along with who we are as a society," sabi ni Coach Phil Jackson. "Somebody does something exceptional, people are looking for ways to denigrate them."
Eh pano naman kasi, people have been talking and thinking a lot about Colorado, i mean yung rape case nya...
Tapos lahat ng tao naka focused sa description sa kanya na "ball hog" o "bakaw". Natural kung kobe hater ka, hindi mo na maaalala yung iba nyang important plays before. ( liked yung mga pass nya kay Odom and George before na parehong winning shots )
Lots of people don't like him. Lots of people will never like him.
Kung si Shaq ang naka-score ng 81 points, baka buong sports world would declare a national holiday. If Nash scores 81 points, sigurado kinabukasan may interview siya kay Oprah o Jay Leno.
"In this society, we never give people a chance to come back to grace," sabi ni Phil Jackson.( he's talking about sa trial ni kobe na na-dismissed dahil pumayag ng areglo yung "biktima" kapalit ng pera$$$)
Marami narin NBA players ang nagkaroon nang same problem before like Kobe. Gaya ni Jason Kidd na kinasuhan ng wife n'ya dahil sa pananakit (hehehehe), and Charles Barkley na kinasuhan ng Physical Injury for throwing a young man sa bintana ng isang simbahan (pero cyempre mabait na sya ngayon), si Iverson na kinasuhan din ng asawa nya ng assault at panunutok ng baril at drugs possesion (kagaya ni barkley, mabait narin cya ngaun), at Rodman (matatagalan pag inisa-isa natin kaso nya). Bryant is the one athlete na walang expiration date ang sins nya sa past.
Those who love him, they have always loved him. Those who don't, they never will.
Kagaya ng sinabi n'ya sa Nike commercial," I Hated and Loved In Exact Same Reasons." meaning when he scores 81 points, Lakers' fans will loved him, and when he scores 81 points, Lakers' opponents will hate him (eh ang dami nun! lahat ng fans ng other 29 teams sa NBA). Ganun ka-simple kung bakit maraming negative reactions sa performance n'ya.
"Off the court, I just try to be myself," Bryant said. "I've been through a lot, and I just try to be me. Hopefully as the years go on, people will understand what I'm about."
What makes Bryant so great on the court makes him so unapproachable off the court.
Maraming NBA fans ang nagsa-sabi na a lot of teams are great but boring to watch ( i'm talking about teams like Spurs, Pistons...), i know na yung mga fans na yun will one day embrace Kobe not only for his greatness but for he is a total great entertainer.
Those writers who call him selfish will see how he can lift his ordinary Laker team to the playoffs. ( na hindi nagawa ni Shaq dati sa Lakers in his first year sa team kahit kasama n'ya sila Eddie Jones, Nick Van Exel, Ron Harper etc...)
And all those players who dislike him, well, he is confident they will realize one day that at least he's not a phony like O'Neal.
O'Neal's comments against Kobe and the Lakers and his former team owner made him so immature, he become "The Most Dominant Immature Player In the League". Kasi hindi s'ya ang pinili ng Laker's management instead, na-trade pa s'ya.
As for Vince Carter, well, he is talking about role modeling, eh ano alam n'ya dun? Para n'yang sinabi na wag tularan si Kobe dahil he shot 50 times a game samantalang s'ya 49 times lang. See?
Then there was the quote from Michael Jordan, who told reporters, "If i guarded kobe in that game, I probably fouled out." I think he's trying to say na kung s'ya yung bantay ni Kobe that game, at kayang tumira ni Kobe in any part of the court at lahat counted, he rather fouled kobe na lang para sa freethrow s'ya umiscore ng 81 points. ( that's why MJ is the most respected player in NBA, he admits when a player is really hard to stop )
Sabi nga ni Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, "Yes, it was greater than Wilt. That's because of the wide variety of shots that he used, driving, pulling up, behind the three-point line, it was an incredible feat of versatility." ( he should know )
Phil Jackson said you had to be there. "I think people didn't see the game and just lost context of what the game is about," he said of Bryant's critics. "It's easy to say something that would be derogatory and cut it down a little bit, but if you were there at the game, I think everybody understands how remarkable it was."
And this came from the mouth of a man who once describe Bryant as "uncoachable".
Simly because the critics don't know what really happen in that game. Baka nga hindi nila talaga napanood yung game eh, nagreact lang sila agad. They don't know that the Lakers are down about 15 or 16 points in the starting of the 2nd half when Kobe explode. He single handedly lift his team to victory.
And simply because for Kobe, when your team is down by a large margin during the first 3 quarters, time is running down, and your teammates still can't get their shots behind those good passes from you, what will you do? You have to score 81 points to win. I know everyone will agree. Tama?
"As for a message to the youth," Bryant said, addressing Carter's ridiculous statement. "My message is that if you work hard, you can go beyond anyone's expectations, even your own."
So the main thing is NANGYARI NA, TAPOS NA. Kobe Bryant re-write the history. He scored the 2nd most points in NBA history. It is the only night when he become greater than Jordan, greater than Magic, greater than Baylor, greater than Bird, and yes greater than Wilt, No matter how you see it, 81 was more impressive than 100.
Kaya para sa lahat ng haters and doubters. Can we, for once, just enjoy art for art's sake? Let's just enjoy painting without analyzing the painter, watching the movie without analyzing the director, and listening to a song without analyzing its' composer. ( " , )
