and i thought this sunday was going to be all about the afc and nfc championships

well, didn't everybody? (my mind was totally in football mode this sunday; big ben is now the 2nd youngest player to make the super bowl, and has made the super bowl in just his 2nd year in the nfl *i think*)

how can you top kobe's 81 in this day and age? i dunno.

but it's funny; ppl watch nights like these, and think that kobe is invincible.

then you watch the games where his team's trailing against great defensive teams, where he gets pissed like he did last night, and then proceeds to hoist roughly the same amount of shots, and none of them fall.

i know that great teams will never do this, and i think that in the future when kobe has a better supporting cast, *hopefully* he doesn't ever do this(or maybe does just to lose so i can mock him and all the laker fans which support him, for thinking this is how you win games); but for the record, right now it is pretty intriguing to just check on espn.com and nba.com occasionally to see him just take off against defensively-weak teams.

keep in mind that if you watched a transcript of the shots he took, almost all of them were in close; a number of them were at the free throw line. only 7 3s were hit for him.

so THAT is why he can't do this stuff against defensive-minded teams; they'll have great big men to contest him when he gets in close, and they'll have great perimeter defenders to prevent him from driving in the 1st place; as a result, he'll have to take a LOT more outside jumpers, which just doesn't fall.