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In the late 80's/early 90's, foul counts were a big thing at camps and training sessions - at least out here on the West Coast. Pretty much every camp I went to (all up and down the coast) stressed that "being aware of" the foul count was "good game management". Conversations similiar to this happened multiple times each year (during a time-out, between quarters, at half-time, etc.):
"Partner, the foul count is 9-2. We really need to get on white/red/blue/whatever color"
or
"Partners, we did a great job tonight. Foul count was 17 to 16. That's awesome."
I hated it. But it was the philosophy, at least out here. John Thompson just never moved on from that way of looking at it.
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