i actually watched the game, Rose was getting hard fouled like crazy, every time he went to the rim, someone would slap him up...
look at his percentage, he was 0-9 from 3 point range, the Pacers made him work, Rose worked for all his 39 points
See, upon looking at the stat sheet, one would assume he was ice cold shooting and the refs bailed him out whenever possible.
I will believe you that he was being met at the rim, because he is capable. But why would Indy even bother letting him do anything other than shoot? I would have sagged off him and cut him off every time. Make him a shooter. Sound familiar?
Yes. But Rose is a fairly superior shooter relatively to Rondo. He was missing shots because they were defending and contesting them. Give him too much space and he'll start hitting them and get hot.
The Pacers don't have good interior defenders. Hibbert has the length to bother Rose, but he's slow so he was always a bit late. Hansbrough is small, McRoberts is dumb, Foster is old (but should be playing more). Solution? Fouls.
Oh I agree that Indy didn't really handle it the best way, and their personnel simply doesn't allow them to control Rose without fouling too much.
That said, there were a lot of times when they were really going out of their way not to foul and Rose jumped into them for the and-1. Those should have been offensive fouls but they weren't called that way. I'm not even sure if it was due to any conscious effort on behalf of the refs or if they were just calling it how they saw it, but either way it was kind of poorly officiated. Even if they're not gonna call an offensive foul, it should be a no-call when the offensive player initiates it.
The last thing I'd like to add is that when determining if a team got screwed or not, it's kind of key to see who had more points in the paint and then determine who was really being the more aggressive team. Again, the Bulls were definitely attacking way more so the OVERALL disparity in free throws was pretty justified. It's just like Rose was getting some of that "special" treatment if you know what I mean. But hey, I guess MVP's receive that perk.
In retrospect I wish I had waited to post this until the Portland/Dallas game... the Blazers had 46 points in the paint and Dallas only had 18, yet Dallas shot 29 FT's and Portland shot only 13. That's pretty bogus, imo.
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