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TwoDeep3 you really need to be very very careful in making a post like you just did. It might lead people to believe that you can't count or can't read or both. Reading the shot chart carefully you will see that Dirk had a total of 6 makes all taken within the painted area and had another 2 misses within the painted area. You could throw in another 2 makes taken right on the edge of the paint, one at the FT line and another from the left baseline on the border of the paint. Dir had another 4 misses that bordered the paint as well. So lets see a total of 14 of his 27 shots were either in or bordering on the paint. 8 of his 16 makes were either in or bordering on the paint. In addition the majority of his 10 made FT's probably came from either postup action or driving to the basket. This puts it very close to 24 pts. Maybe he didn't get quite that much, but It's very conservative to say at least 20 pts came through drives, postups, or fouls resulting from those 2 actions. So looking at the cold hard facts and comparing them to the media's opinion's, it certainly does look like some bias is involved or the much of the media is functionally illiterate as well as mathmatically challenged.