That is exactly my beef with that foul. I know it is just one foul, but that isn't the point. If the refs seen the contact, they HAD to see Battier LEANING backwards BEFORE Kobe even touched him. He was in the same area as Kobe and had his body TURNED so the ref who blew the whistle had a CLEAR, DIRECT view of the whole play. It is a very strange foul in that situation, very strange IMO. Cause if it is hard to apply any objectivity to subjective call, then you CAN'T call that foul under any circumstance what so ever. Since you don't know who actually generated the contact. IMO, David Stern orders Referee's to give road teams a slight edge when contact is made by two players. Look at the Utah game when the Rockets played. Rockets are a much physical team this year, and we generated ALOT of contact in that game. Rockets had a very clear edge at the FT Line. Take it one step further and look at the total number of trips to the FT line the Rockets have gotten since Feb. 10th when on the road, the numbers are staggering. No doubt in my mind Stern is making the referee's officiate games unfairly. It is the only logical explanation you can really conclude from it IMO.
