[drinkeii]

Another consideration - in most games, when one person instigates, or hits, and another hits back, in that short of a time span, most officials call the double T. Rarely do they do it as an if/then type scenario. Why did they choose to do that in this case?

When you think about it, most cases of a double T are if/then... for two players to swing at each other at exactly (or roughly) the same moment, shove at the same moment, or trash talk at each other (as opposed to an action/reaction) is almost completely unlikely.