It barely made an Olympic diver’s splash going through the net. There was one third-quarter possession where Kobe skates from right to left across the lane, with several Knicks defenders passing him off, until he reached the lane line, turned back toward his right and saw the 6-foot-10 Jeffries in trail position with his right arm perfectly placed to contest a shot attempt … so Bryant leaned back a little bit and lofted a moonbeam over Jeffries’ right arm. And once he’d established the rhythm, the rest of it didn’t matter. You’re not going to believe this, but the combination of Quentin Richardson, Al Harrington, sophomore-year Wilson Chandler and cross-matched bigs Lee and Jared Jeffries didn’t exactly dissuade Kobe from attacking at every opportunity. I looked at D’Antoni and told him, ‘I don’t know what’s going on, but something bad is about to happen.’” “Usually Kobe shakes everybody’s hand before the game, but he just stared at everybody. “This is at the jump ball,” the former New York Knicks forward and two-time All-Star recently told Marc Stein of the New York Times. If I hadn’t sat out those six minutes in the first half, maybe I would have had it.” - Dan Devineĭavid Lee knew. There’s a lot of easy opportunities I missed.
I had some really open looks that I missed. I missed two free throws after making 62 straight. 1.) What makes it the signature Kobe moment, though, isn’t the sheer awe-inspiring fact of 81. (And, depending on how you see things, maybe an even more impressive one than No. Twenty-eight makes on 46 shots, 7-of-13 from deep, 18-of-20 at the stripe, good for the second-highest-scoring performance in NBA history.
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