Now I have a problem with how the referees called the first half.

Since they were letting people play, the teams decided to come out playing physical. And the referees have called 8 fouls (6 on Florida) in the first 4 minutes of the second half.

This includes a technical foul on the Florida bench erupting on a 2nd quick foul called on Will Richard (which was clearly a foul – but wasn’t a foul in the first half). LJ Cryer hit one of the two technical free throws, and then off the inbounds, hit a three pointer from the corner, and suddenly Houston is up 42-30.

I just don’t like that. It is not that the 6 fouls were called were wrong. They simply weren’t called in the first half. You can’t set the standard of what is a foul in the first half, and then change the definition in the second half. And while Houston has gotten the best of it so far after the technical foul, it is clearly impacting both teams (as Houston has gotten some touch fouls on them as well).