Crying Foul

The Celtics aren't playing tonight so I've been following the Lakers game on ESPN Gamecast. Less than two minutes into the second quarter I noticed that two Pacers (centers Roy Hibert and Ian Mahimni) had 3 personal fouls a piece. I understand using the Hack-A-Howard strategy if your Orlando but I can't imagine Indiana actually using it considering they have good inside players. My guess is there were some bad calls. Can't be a 100 percent sure though considering I am not actually watching the game. So I did some very small sample size research. I looked at the last four games of some teams and here is what came up. 

The stats read as follows where the first number represents the personal fouls called on the listed team and the second number represents the personal fouls called against their opponent.

LA Lakers

(16-23)

14-27

16-17

16-35

21-17 

67-96 (+29) or 67-84 (+17)

Boston Celtics

19-23

21-18 

23-22 

17-17

80-80 (0)

Miami Heat

10-22

14-25

29-23

9-20

62-88 (+26)

Oklahoma City Thunder

19-15

22-23

18-20

27-25

86-83 (-3)

Los Angeles Clippers

15-14

17-17

22-25

28-21

82-77 (-5)

Indiana Pacers

26-26

23-29

19-22

13-19

81-96 (+15)

San Antonio Spurs**

(9-15)

17-17

20-18

21-21

10-23

68-79 (+11) or 67-71 (+4)

*The Lakers had one outlier game with the Orlando Magic where Orlando committed 35 personal fouls. If you remove that game and replace it with the fifth to last game in the Lakers schedule (listed first in parentheses) you get second totals of 67-84 for a +14 personal foul margin in favor of the Lakers.

**San Antonio had one outlier game against the Dallas Mavericks where Dallas committed 13 more personal fouls than San Antonio. If you remove that game and replace it with the fifth to last game in the Spurs schedule (listed first in parentheses) you get second totals of 67-71 for a +4 personal foul margin in favor of the Spurs.

What the fuck is up with the Heat's numbers? How is that even possible?