There are indeed hard fouls, and baskets should not go uncontested.

Both teams wanted to win badly and therefore the match had to be stopped many times because of hard fouls.

"I think the league needs to address this situation regarding guys taking hard fouls."

No single reason for the hard fouls is clear.

Dennis Rodman's line for the series: 33 rebounds, 17 points and 9 hard fouls.

Oakley (8 rebounds, 4 points, 3 hard fouls) was nowhere to be found most of the night.

Everybody talked about giving hard fouls, but I think we played good defense, moved our feet, tried to block shots.

China seemed to distract her with hard fouls earlier in these Olympics.

The affair saw numerous hard fouls and seven yellow cards.

They had four hard fouls in the first half.