Kirk Goldsberry

He does work the refs.

We all know that, but that's not new.

I think one of the other trends we're talking about, you sort of alluded it to it with the Suns, is teams are playing handsier, more physical defense for longer stretches of the court and throwing more and more guys out there.

So I think because of what Rick Carlisle started in the playoffs last year, I think teams are just being handsier.

But that said, here's a stat for you, dude.

This year, there's been 14 instances of a single player drawing 12 or more fouls.

That's fouling out two guys on the other team, by the way.

Last season, there was only 23 instances of that all year.

Luka has four of those this year.

He never did that once last year.

So we're starting to see single guys drawing fouls.

So I do think the foul baiting is a part of this too, Bill.

There's your scoring.

I mean, I brought up that game in L.A.

for for a reason that had 66 foul calls, 84 free throws.

The game lasted two hours and 54 minutes.

So that's it is a big it's the best place to score on the free throw in the basketball game is the free throw line, according to D. Smith.

So, yeah, like that explains the general scoring uptick since last year.

Is this in like one of the other stats I had in the piece was.

There were just seven teams that committed over 20 fouls per game last year.