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Message: [QUOTE="willtalk, post: 2674512, member: 1220"] Your response makes my point for me. The fouls and conditions that are created by early fouls can be adjusted too. The team adjusts the way they play to compensate for the effects of that foul. Of course fouls in respect to reaching a players 5 fouls limit does count less when the time left to play is diminished. You would sit a player who got three fouls in the first quarter when you certainly wouldn't sit them in the third quarter. When in a game things happen certainly do carry more weight depending on circumstances. The circumstances I am speaking of are in respect to a dwindling clock. People foul because their options are diminished as the clock is running out. The wrong call that changes a possession with seconds on the clock is critical because it takes away a teams option of getting a stop just playing good defense. Rather then the only option left to them is to foul and hope the other team misses a free throw. The out come is basically taken out of your own hands. The value of plays fouls etc is dependent on when in the game they take place. McCowans 5th foul meant much less because it was with little time left. Which is why she fouled. Conversely the no call had the opposite effect. I depends purely on the the foul. I regret that you thought my statement was nonsensical, because if reflects your inability to comprehend variables in context with time. [/QUOTE]