More like a Crawford-cooked 15.5. He gets pissed off when guards can't move into the paint at will. Kobe gets at least 50 tonight.
He has progressively shot less freethrows through his career. Right now he is at like 7 a game, so I think it will be under. It isn't about homecooked, I think he will still get more than he should, BUT he won't get over 15 because he won't take it to the hole. They can only give so many fouls to a jumpshooter.
It won't be because of home-cooking, weren't the lakers at home last game? how many free-throws did Kobe get compared to Yao Ming? exactly.. Kobe Bryant gets the least preferential treatment of any superstar in nba history, and although it would help his game a lot- he really doesn't need it to be dominant. If Kobe gets 15FTA or more it will be because he decided to drive and be more aggressive instead of shooting jumpers as much as he did the last game and only getting into the paint the last 2minutes when the game was already decided.
It's hard to contain Kobe,at least to make him work for anything,that'll do us good for the night. Joe Crawford's in town,and that FT disparity will be huge in this game.
This guy isn't Dwyane Wade or Dwight Howard. He doesn't attack as much as he once did. Kobe attacks a lot in the 4th quarter though, not a lot in the 1st 3.
I almost started this same poll emjohn! Great stuff. I've been thinking for 2 days that Kobe is just going to bullrush his way to the paint....and get calls, and calls, and questionable calls.....2 or 3 of them on Yao. He has to be licking his chops knowing that Joey Crawford is in the house.
