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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 4848848, member: 12088"] I finally had a chance to watch the replay of USC's win over UCLA. Juju gets fouled on drives an awful lot. I mean, half her 32 points came from the free throw line, and there were lots of obvious fouls that weren't called, including at least one on Betts. Some of these drives, Juju forces the contact from her very first step and practically rides her defender to the rim. Once she's on the move, it's impossible for the defender to disengage. Bingo, blocking foul. She shot 16-16 from the line, but if the refs had called all the fouls, she might have shot 24-24 or even more. And Betts would have fouled out early, and not just her. I was wondering why the refs failed to call so many fouls. It occurs to me that Juju makes everything look so natural that the refs may be lulled into a sort of trance by it. She leans into a moving defender so effortlessly, and makes the shot as if she needed the defender to help keep her upright, as if the defender becomes a sort of partner in her dance to the rim. [/QUOTE]