OMG 60!! almost ahlf fropm the line but still!!!http://www.nba.com/games/20061217/WASLAL/gameinfo.html
To go along with 8 rebounds, 8 assists, and 2 steals. Pretty damn impressive. And being guarded by superb defender kobe bryant (I didn't see the game but I assume that KB24 wasn't guarding fellow rapist Deshawn stephenson). Granted he played 49 minutes but still impressive. Kobe got 45-10-8. cool game all around
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (tHe_pEsTiLeNcE @ Dec 17 2006, 10:49 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>To go along with 8 rebounds, 8 assists, and 2 steals. Pretty damn impressive. And being guarded by superb defender kobe bryant (I didn't see the game but I assume that KB24 wasn't guarding fellow rapist Deshawn stephenson). Granted he played 49 minutes but still impressive. Kobe got 45-10-8. cool game all around</div>Kobe wasn't guarding him for most of the game. He switched over on him late in the 4th and overtime, then got in serious foul trouble. Phil didn't switch him off of Gilbert and he just went crazy. He put up 12 or 13 in Overtime. He went to the line 27 times.
Kobe Bryant on Arenas' performance: "You tip your hat and say, 'See you next time. I don't think he has a conscience. I really don't. He was chucking out there. He took some horrible shots and he made some big ones. I don't get a chance to play him much. I'll be ready next time." does anyone else see the irony in that comment? :g:
Incredible, just absolutely incredible. I stayed up to watch this game. Great performance by Gil and a GREAT win by the team in LA.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (tHe_pEsTiLeNcE @ Dec 18 2006, 12:49 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>To go along with 8 rebounds, 8 assists, and 2 steals. Pretty damn impressive. And being guarded by superb defender kobe bryant (I didn't see the game but I assume that KB24 wasn't guarding fellow rapist Deshawn stephenson). Granted he played 49 minutes but still impressive. Kobe got 45-10-8. cool game all around</div>wow, was that really necessary? you don't have to be a troll ALL the time, you know.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Diawsome @ Dec 18 2006, 05:05 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Kobe Bryant on Arenas' performance: "You tip your hat and say, 'See you next time. I don't think he has a conscience. I really don't. He was chucking out there. He took some horrible shots and he made some big ones. I don't get a chance to play him much. I'll be ready next time." does anyone else see the irony in that comment? :g:</div>Did he really say that? do you have the link? Thats crazy. Given that kobe is a crazy competetor and he was probably just frustrated, you gotta give gil credit he was absolutely ON FIRE. Way to go gil
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Delonte4Prez @ Dec 18 2006, 07:20 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Did he really say that? do you have the link? Thats crazy. Given that kobe is a crazy competetor and he was probably just frustrated, you gotta give gil credit he was absolutely ON FIRE. Way to go gil</div>Agent Zero goes for 60Ric BucherLOS ANGELES -- Lakers forward Luke Walton knew his former Arizona teammate, Gilbert Arenas, was in for a big night as soon as he heard about Arenas' allotment of tickets. "I knew when he had 70-some people coming to the game, he was going to go hard," Walton said of the Wizards guard. "He's a showman." With a perfect storm of circumstances, in a building more accustomed to seeing Kobe Bryant blister the scoreboard, Arenas shattered a host of long-standing records by sticking Kobe and the Lakers for 60 points in a 147-141 overtime Wizards' win. Arenas' name now goes next to Wilt Chamberlain as the only players ever to score 60 -- something Wilt did multiple times -- against the Lakers. On top of that, Arenas set the Washington franchise for points in a game, eclipsing Earl Monroe's 56 (also vs. the Lakers) in 1968. His 16 overtime points also is a league record, passing Earl Boykins' two-year-old record of 15. Born and raised in nearby Van Nuys, Arenas was worried about being distracted by the familiar environs. "It's a Christmas present to myself," he said. "If you're not focused, your teammates see that and wonder, 'Was he out late?' I stayed in my room and played video games. That was it." All of which left him ready to take advantage of a rare combination -- a monstrous scoring game from a single player in a close contest. Generally, if a player goes off as Arenas did, his team is coasting by the fourth quarter and he's watching the scrubs clean up. But the Wizards needed every one of Arenas' 60 to keep the pesky Lakers from protecting their homecourt. Bryant did not take Arenas' performance quietly, during or afterward. He had 41 in regulation to offset Arenas' 44 and drive an L.A. comeback from a 17-point deficit to force overtime. He also asked to guard Arenas down the stretch, despite having five fouls, but neither he nor the Lakers' big men could keep Arenas from getting either to the rim or the free-throw line. Trapping someone as quick as Arenas isn't all that easy, and the Lakers were kept honest by Caron Butler (27 points) and Antawn Jamison (25). "We thought we'd take Kobe off but he wanted him and nobody else had really stepped in and found a way to defend him at all," said Lakers coach Phil Jackson. Antonio Daniels anointed Arenas the best guard he's ever played with, putting him ahead of Ray Allen. Had Arenas been better than 21-of-27 at the line or 5-of-12 from the arc, "he could've had 70 easily," said Daniels. "He missed some 3s he usually makes. When he's focused, there's not a man in this league who can guard him." Bryant hopes to disprove that. "You tip your hat and say, 'See you next time,'" he said. "I don't think he has a conscience. I really don't. He was chucking out there. He took some horrible shots and he made some big ones. I don't get a chance to play him much. I'll be ready next time." For those interested in the rematch, set your Tivo now: Feb. 3, 7 ET. Franchise record for points scored by a Wizards opponent: 52.http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/dailydime?pa...ailydime-061218
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Pacers fan forever @ Dec 18 2006, 03:19 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Gilbert got Kobe60 - 45Owned!</div>Of course half of the 60 was from the free-throw line which makes me pissed.
Well, it happens. Good job Gil. It didn't even seem like he scored all that much. Probably because he was fouled so goddamned much.
Well, I give him credit on a great game but it's silly when some people get mad that Kobe didn't congratulate him enough or that he got owned... w/e.
