Super Bowl XL and 81
Posted by: Bradley McDonald
Super Bowl
The Super Bowl is set! Pittsburgh will match up against Seattle, who will make their first appearance ever in the big game. Each team looked very strong in their conferernce championship game and The Super Bowl promises to be a competitive, well-played game. Both teams have a very efficient offense; neither team turns the ball over much. Seattle's defense has been susceptible to the pass all season, so Pittsburgh probably has the edge on defense.
Those are my initial thoughts. More analysis later in the week.
81
Kobe Bryant scored 81 points last night against the Raptors! Yeah, EIGHTY-ONE, 81, POINTS! It was the second highest point total in NBA history; second only to Wilt Chamberlain's famed 100 point game. I'm thinking if I'm the opposing coach, once he gets to, you know, 50 or 60, I MIGHT start double or triple teaming him. The rest of the team scored 41 points! Kobe wasn't thinking about passing, so put the whole team on him!
From Royce Webb at espn.com:
Super Bowl
The Super Bowl is set! Pittsburgh will match up against Seattle, who will make their first appearance ever in the big game. Each team looked very strong in their conferernce championship game and The Super Bowl promises to be a competitive, well-played game. Both teams have a very efficient offense; neither team turns the ball over much. Seattle's defense has been susceptible to the pass all season, so Pittsburgh probably has the edge on defense.
Those are my initial thoughts. More analysis later in the week.
81
Kobe Bryant scored 81 points last night against the Raptors! Yeah, EIGHTY-ONE, 81, POINTS! It was the second highest point total in NBA history; second only to Wilt Chamberlain's famed 100 point game. I'm thinking if I'm the opposing coach, once he gets to, you know, 50 or 60, I MIGHT start double or triple teaming him. The rest of the team scored 41 points! Kobe wasn't thinking about passing, so put the whole team on him!
From Royce Webb at espn.com:
How does one describe Kobe's 81 points?
It's the greatest scoring night any of us have ever seen, except for the few among us who were in the arena in Hershey, Pennsylvania, on March 2, 1962. In other words, it's the best performance in NBA history, except for Wilt's 100.
It was 1.7 points per minute, or, in this case, 1.9 points per minute, since Kobe actually sat six minutes against the Toronto Raptors on Sunday, in the Lakers' 122-104, come-from-behind win in L.A.
It was 66 shots -- 46 field goal attempts and 20 free throw attempts. Of those FGAs, 28 found the net (60.9 percent), including seven of his 13 3-pointers. Eighteen of 20 free throws followed suit. (Yes, Kobe's free throw streak ended -- at 62.)
