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January-4th-2007, 09:27 AM
http://www.nba.com/blog/gilbert_arenas.html
We should sticky this for the season.
About Kobe
Posted by Gilbert Arenas on December 12 2006, 1:05 p.m. ET
I did it last year. I did it this year. Two weeks in a row. Me and Kobe Bryant was the only players to do it last year.
You know, at the end of the day, all the shots that I take I practice. It’s not like I just go into the game just throwing up shots. I work hard. I’m in the gym every day. I practice my shots. Before every game I shoot 100 threes. You know, I get to the gym, I shoot 100 threes so I feel comfortable taking the shots I take.
Out of that whole game I probably took two bad shots. And, for me not to have a conscience? You’re right. When you’re an assassin, you don’t have a conscience. At the end of the day I thought he didn’t have a conscience, but I guess he does.
For the best player in the league to downplay what I did … I guess, I don’t know. I give him all the respect in the world. He is the No. 1 player in the league, by far. It’s like that. You don’t need to try to shadow box my 60. It was one of them nights when I was clicking and everything was going in so, I ended up having 60. That’s all there is to it.
How can you go back at a guy who scores 45 every night? You can’t. There’s no point of it. There’s no point.
We know who he is.
I know who he is.
I’m a big fan, I’m one of his No. 1 fans, so there’s no point in even throwing shots at him.
With a player like him, he just wants that challenge. I know he is going to be ready for Game 2 in Washington. With a player like him, it was his home crowd, they lost. He’s just that fierce competitor. He doesn’t want to get out-showed. He’s the one who everybody’s afraid of. And he’s right.
My Fans
I had 85 people at the game. You know, most of them came to see Kobe. It was just great because it was just one of those games. I’m not a guy who wants to score 50-60. Every time I had a chance to score 50, I didn’t. My previous career high was 47, and that was in three periods. I’m not one of those players. But, that night, I had to.
When you shoot 27 free throws, I don’t think those shots are bad because most of them are layups.
Denver and the Fight
We’re playing great basketball right now as a team. We’re just clicking as a team. We fell to Denver, but the way we fought back was unbelievable. We put ourselves in a position, even though we were down by 30 points at one point, we put ourselves in a position of two-point game with four minutes left. You know, that’s great -- especially coming off of that emotional game in L.A.
They’re still a good team. And they’re going to go far. I predict they’ll win 12 games while Carmelo is out. Twelve out of the 15 games because 12 out of the 15 is at home.
You know, with situations like that, I can say first hand. It’s easy for people and players who’ve never been in one to talk bad about it. But, I was in one when I played for Golden State when we played against the Portland Trail Blazers.
It’s hard. Your judgment is hard. At the beginning you’re trying to do the right thing. You can see players trying to push other players away and then you got other players who are trying to help their teammate and someone throws an elbow or somebody swings to get somebody off of them. From there it just escalates. You’re caught in the in-between.
So what Carmelo did at the end, it’s hard. That’s another case. I can’t speak on that. He just has to make a better decision next time, especially being the player that he is.
Sacto and Bibby Next
I’m going against them. Me and Antawn know our coach very well, Eric Musselman. A strong guy. He wants to win. He wants the best out of his players. So, we know its going to be a hard-fought game.
It’s going to be great basketball. We’re going to have two days off. We’re going to have our legs under us. We’re going to have three games on this road trip and they’re going to be hard.
The way my mentality right now is just to attack. Going back to the Kobe, it don’t matter who he knows, it’s who he is. He just attacks and attacks and attacks. That’s what I’m trying to put my mindset to. No matter who I’m going against, you know, you guys can be friends after the game but we’re enemies on that floor. I’m just going to attack you.
Followed By Phoenix
I mean, we’re a running team. We want to run. So we’re going to speed up the game. We’re going try to score 130 points. So if they can keep up, they’re going to keep up. If not, we’re going to try our best to keep that tempo up.
We do want to end their streak. We actually do. They’re playing great basketball right now. The way they play, you don’t see that much.
I had a chance to be coached by D’Antoni on the USA Basketball team and you could just see what he was about. He wants to push that score up. You better be in shape to play with him. To play against him, your team better be physically in shape and mentally in shape because they’re gonna come at you.
You can see the way he’s bringing players in. He’s bringing players in to keep that tempo. The addition of Marcus Banks … He’s bringing players in and saying, “Hey, we’re gonna run at you. Good luck.”
I’m happy I’m a 60-point man now. Agent 60. It ain’t 007, but it’s Agent 60.
We should sticky this for the season.
About Kobe
Posted by Gilbert Arenas on December 12 2006, 1:05 p.m. ET
I did it last year. I did it this year. Two weeks in a row. Me and Kobe Bryant was the only players to do it last year.
You know, at the end of the day, all the shots that I take I practice. It’s not like I just go into the game just throwing up shots. I work hard. I’m in the gym every day. I practice my shots. Before every game I shoot 100 threes. You know, I get to the gym, I shoot 100 threes so I feel comfortable taking the shots I take.
Out of that whole game I probably took two bad shots. And, for me not to have a conscience? You’re right. When you’re an assassin, you don’t have a conscience. At the end of the day I thought he didn’t have a conscience, but I guess he does.
For the best player in the league to downplay what I did … I guess, I don’t know. I give him all the respect in the world. He is the No. 1 player in the league, by far. It’s like that. You don’t need to try to shadow box my 60. It was one of them nights when I was clicking and everything was going in so, I ended up having 60. That’s all there is to it.
How can you go back at a guy who scores 45 every night? You can’t. There’s no point of it. There’s no point.
We know who he is.
I know who he is.
I’m a big fan, I’m one of his No. 1 fans, so there’s no point in even throwing shots at him.
With a player like him, he just wants that challenge. I know he is going to be ready for Game 2 in Washington. With a player like him, it was his home crowd, they lost. He’s just that fierce competitor. He doesn’t want to get out-showed. He’s the one who everybody’s afraid of. And he’s right.
My Fans
I had 85 people at the game. You know, most of them came to see Kobe. It was just great because it was just one of those games. I’m not a guy who wants to score 50-60. Every time I had a chance to score 50, I didn’t. My previous career high was 47, and that was in three periods. I’m not one of those players. But, that night, I had to.
When you shoot 27 free throws, I don’t think those shots are bad because most of them are layups.
Denver and the Fight
We’re playing great basketball right now as a team. We’re just clicking as a team. We fell to Denver, but the way we fought back was unbelievable. We put ourselves in a position, even though we were down by 30 points at one point, we put ourselves in a position of two-point game with four minutes left. You know, that’s great -- especially coming off of that emotional game in L.A.
They’re still a good team. And they’re going to go far. I predict they’ll win 12 games while Carmelo is out. Twelve out of the 15 games because 12 out of the 15 is at home.
You know, with situations like that, I can say first hand. It’s easy for people and players who’ve never been in one to talk bad about it. But, I was in one when I played for Golden State when we played against the Portland Trail Blazers.
It’s hard. Your judgment is hard. At the beginning you’re trying to do the right thing. You can see players trying to push other players away and then you got other players who are trying to help their teammate and someone throws an elbow or somebody swings to get somebody off of them. From there it just escalates. You’re caught in the in-between.
So what Carmelo did at the end, it’s hard. That’s another case. I can’t speak on that. He just has to make a better decision next time, especially being the player that he is.
Sacto and Bibby Next
I’m going against them. Me and Antawn know our coach very well, Eric Musselman. A strong guy. He wants to win. He wants the best out of his players. So, we know its going to be a hard-fought game.
It’s going to be great basketball. We’re going to have two days off. We’re going to have our legs under us. We’re going to have three games on this road trip and they’re going to be hard.
The way my mentality right now is just to attack. Going back to the Kobe, it don’t matter who he knows, it’s who he is. He just attacks and attacks and attacks. That’s what I’m trying to put my mindset to. No matter who I’m going against, you know, you guys can be friends after the game but we’re enemies on that floor. I’m just going to attack you.
Followed By Phoenix
I mean, we’re a running team. We want to run. So we’re going to speed up the game. We’re going try to score 130 points. So if they can keep up, they’re going to keep up. If not, we’re going to try our best to keep that tempo up.
We do want to end their streak. We actually do. They’re playing great basketball right now. The way they play, you don’t see that much.
I had a chance to be coached by D’Antoni on the USA Basketball team and you could just see what he was about. He wants to push that score up. You better be in shape to play with him. To play against him, your team better be physically in shape and mentally in shape because they’re gonna come at you.
You can see the way he’s bringing players in. He’s bringing players in to keep that tempo. The addition of Marcus Banks … He’s bringing players in and saying, “Hey, we’re gonna run at you. Good luck.”
I’m happy I’m a 60-point man now. Agent 60. It ain’t 007, but it’s Agent 60.