Phil Jackson's Responses to Kobe Bryant's Historic Perfomances
Written by John MbuguaIn a historic streak of games for Kobe Bryant, he scored 60+ points TWICE and 50 or more points in his last four games.
He is second only to Wilt Chamberlain, and passed Michael Jordan. Yea thats right, I don't wanna hear anything bout Jordan because Kobe is the BEST EVER.
Now for Phil Jackson's remarks on Kobe's greatness.
"He's doing something I've never seen," Lakers coach Phil Jackson said in an e-mail Saturday. "This has been historic."
"Kobe has the verdant green light to hoist it up until he cools down," Jackson said. "Wonders never cease in this game."
"It's phenomenal. It's incredible," Jackson told Los Angeles reporters. "He's shooting [outside] more than Michael was. Michael was probably doing more post-up, more penetration, more at-the-basket kind of stuff. But Kobe's doing a whole range of things. I think his shooting has just been remarkable, the way he is raising up over people and knocking the ball down."
Jackson offered up a nugget to the Los Angeles media Friday after Bryant had 50 against the Hornets.
"Do you remember there was a suspension about two weeks ago?" Jackson said of Bryant's suspension for elbowing for which Jackson later was fined because he termed it an NBA "witch hunt." "I think there's some motivation behind that. I don't know if we'd like to have that suspension all the time to have to work through, but I think there are some things there that motivate him in a certain sense. He has that kind of passion."
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