Very true. But to return to the examples provided by Astragoth, two of those teams are pretty weak.
Kanazawa Kings are a JBBL team (1st Div in Japan), and played a LI offense. Against Kyoto Shogun and Shikoku Otaku - two of the best 3 teams in my Div - much lower fouling. Kyoto has the best center/PF combo in our league.
I believe you're quite possibly right as far as LI goes. But I still think that there's something missing in that... or maybe those games are simply exceptions. I do know that I've seen other people have similar thoughts with PL games - I'll try get in touch with them and get them to post their experiences.
http://with-malice.com/ - The half-crazed ramblings of a Lakers fanatic in Japan