[Back In The Saddle]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

You judge the actions of the players going at it off-ball exactly the same way that you normally judge a common personal foul vs. an intentional personal foul. If they're doing something like jockeying for position, then they're both fouling each other trying to make a "basketball" play of some kind, and you have a normal double personal foul. If instead they do something like giving each other a 2-handed push in the chest almost simultaneously or bang-bang, then you could call a double intentional personal foul. Those pushes aren't a basketball play imo.

Does that make any more sense now?

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