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As a coach I can honestly say I never let a foul count difference bother me much. We play very aggressive man and most teams we play sit in a 2-3 zone so we often have double the foul count of our opponents. But last week in a game we were cruising in we happened to have a favorable foul count for some reason. With 30 seconds to go in the half my Point guard picked up 2 fouls in 6 seconds and I agreed with both calls, but while heading to the locker room I was behind the officials and they obviously didn't see me coming because I heard the official who hadn't made either call joking "way to even out the foul count partner". Which I looked at as he was just kidding, but at the same time, when that thought is in your head at all then its possible that you have subconsciously done this at one time or another. In a close game giving a foul or two to a player to help your "game management" can make a huge difference.
Didn't really add much to the discussion but figured I'd share since it was something that happened this past week and was relevant to the discussion.
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