The Indiana Pacers and Oklahoma City Thunder combined for 53 fouls in Game 4 of the NBA Finals, and officials handed out a pair of flagrant fouls and two additional technical fouls in a whistle-heavy,

Very frustrated. One gentleman approached me while I was still sitting in a media area, and asked if I was writing about the game, and if so did I know how few times Tyrese Haliburton had been to the free throw line (once).

Indiana coach Rick Carlisle offered an impassioned and somewhat unprompted defense of referee Scott Foster on Sunday, evidently aware of the mountains of online criticism that came after Game 4 of the NBA Finals.