Do foul counts constitute a good called game?

[M&M Guy]

I think foul counts can be useful information about how a game has been called, but we should be very careful we don't generalize too much. JR's right, in that we should never officiate to foul counts, but just call the fouls the players commit. If the foul count is 9-8 for a half, does that mean we called a good half or game? Not necessarily, if one team was more aggressive defensively and got away with more contact than the other. What if both teams played a soft zone all half? Maybe 9-8 means we actually called way too many fouls. But we agree we called all of the fouls that were committed, and the total just happened to be 9-8, then, yes, we called a good half.