He committed silly fouls and put up a stream of nervous shots.

He took a team-high 17 shots, making 8, and was caught making silly fouls, but it was an encouraging start.

Bill Russell's blessing aside, Mourning still can't get through a hot playoff night without punishing himself with silly fouls.

We're working on it every day, trying to work on certain techniques with our pressure not to commit a lot of silly fouls.

He says, in fact, that he has to stop making silly fouls, something he has been saying for years.

Childs has hit 30 percent of his shots (3 of 10), lost his cool and committed silly fouls.

"All you can do is try to avoid the silly fouls."

Seems to be giving away less silly fouls as well.

If it wasn't turnovers, it was missed free throws, silly fouls and meek moves over the last 7 minutes.

"We also had a lot of silly little reach-in fouls."