That's one of my two criticisms of basketball....I hate the fact that FOULING is a strategy. The game can be so fun to watch, but then sometimes at the end all you have is inbound pass, foul, FT, repeat. The last two mins of a game can take forever watching this foul/FT crap.
My other criticism was the fact that over 60% of the teams make the playoffs, but the way I got around this is to pretty much ignore the NBA entirely until playoff time. If I do that, I'm much more interested in the games, lol.