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[QUOTE="CardiacCuse, post: 4611457, member: 6979"]
well, total fouls for and against doesnt really mean much of anything as far as fairness of officiation.

Are you for some reason assuming that fouls are totally random occurences that should be even in the long-term? If so, I could understand why you think as you do.

However, fouls are NOT RANDOM...not at all.  So there shoulde not be an expectation that fouls should even out.

More importantly, the Cuse tries to avoid fouling more than other teams.  The zone alos helps with this.  JB coaches his players to hold their arms straight up in the air and not go for blocks often times, for example.  Not many other coaches do this FYI.

If you look at the way JB coaches and instructs his players on D - it is clear his teams should almost always foul less.  they actively avoid contact as a rule...

Is the 100 gap what it should be? not sure...but a 100 foul gap in and of itself does not imply that everytjhing was called fairly...perhaps the "real gap" was 200...isnt that possible???

Big picture - it shows that this season was a wasted opportunity - being able to earn 100 more foul calls than opponents indicates a more athletic and skilled team...with the record they had, shows they didnt live up to what they couldve been., most likely.
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