Zachariah Blott: Something Smells Foul in Cleveland

[KB54]

LeBron James’ statistics are amazing. He’s putting up 30 points, 7 boards, and 8 assists per for essentially the sixth season in a row, and there are exactly zero players who can get close to that trio of numbers for even one season. But he’s doing something else, just as consistently, that no one else of consequence is able to do: not get called for fouls.

Look at the personal fouls column for the top-10 scorers in the league. Nine of them collectively average 2.7 fouls per, falling within the range of 2.3 – 3.4. These nine include some of the NBA’s biggest names who obviously have “earned some calls,” guys who can easily score 10 from the charity stripe in a night while getting the refs’ attention for only their two most obvious hacks.

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This is some foul ish. Anybody that refutes this article is on Stern's payroll.

Oh by the way, this is still plagiarizing

[KB54]

Where I have some concern is how seldom he’s in foul trouble. This gives an unfair advantage to the Cavaliers, since he never has to watch how he plays or sit for any reason other than to rest. The P-values show how extraordinarily unlikely it is for James to end up with these low foul counts, and his style of play and comparison to more-defensive-minded superstars makes his counts even more unbelievable.

Quote of the century.

[TheOUTLAW]

You have not said anything here. Clearly you are just trying to troll since this has been discussed on the GB already. Fact is LeBron had 4 blocks last night and they were all clean. Might someone have called a foul again him? Sure, but it would have been wrong. To be honest, LeBron is just good enough to avoid physical contact on defense unlike players like Kobe and Wade who's defense is predicated on them fouling and it going uncalled.

[Triumph36]

lol laker fans

[mg]

With all the championship rings it blows my mind how jealous Laker fans can be of LeBron. It is usually the Kobe-Philes who start this ish.

[TheOUTLAW]

What's kind of ironic to me is that they also say that Cavs and LeBron fans are "insecure" for correcting the errors that they are trying to convince everyone to be truth in threads that they start. Talk about insecure.

[B Mac]

This article just proves it... LeBron>>>Everyone

[Benedict_Boozer]

Kobe fans are so insecure it's remarkable. If you ever want a good laugh, check out the forums on LakersGround, they have 24/7 Lebron bashing sessions.

[Nirvana]

Wow.... The methodology used was incredibly terrible. Honestly, this is a waste of everyone's time. Just a junk attempt at quantitative analysis...

[Niko23]

Yep - smells like Kobe fan boys reaching for the lube after the Cavs games.