41.   They pounded Mourning, who began trading words with Oakley after a hard foul.

42.   Tim Hardaway sent John Starks to the floor with a hard foul as Starks headed in for a layup with less than seven minutes left.

43.   Throughout the postseason, Martin has avoided the hard fouls and questionable decisions that placed a question mark next to his name throughout the regular season.

44.   Todd Day went up to Ferry and told him that if he wants to play hard, he had better be ready to take some hard fouls.

45.   When the series resumes Wednesday at Compaq Center, there undoubtedly will be more hard fouls, concrete picks and elbows in the back.

46.   When Jones drove past Bradley for what might have been a third dunk, Bradley cut him off with a hard foul that knocked him hard to the ground.

47.   When Larry Johnson drove the lane late in the fourth quarter and scored despite a hard foul, the Garden crowd gave a prolonged standing ovation.

48.   Without hard fouls, pro basketball is simply a layup drill.

49.   Yet his opponents contend the big guy is overreacting, and hard fouls are part of the game.

50.   After that, Hamburg had to hang on to win the derby, which featured lots of hard fouls and flaring temperatures.