then teams have incentive to play thuggish d and no one wants to go back in time to heat/knicks style games where the best thing about the game was the fighting
Instead we want fouls to be called for placing your hand on someones hip.
pretty good sign for the Cavs that they didn't need Lebron to carry the team back into the game (of course it was Mo carrying them, which is unlikely to happen again, but still...)