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High School JV game last night where A1 got locked up with B1 displacing him durring rebounding action in a rough manner. I whistled this and my fist went up, simultaneous with the whistle B1 pushed A1 to get loose of the tangle up. In my mind the push by B1 was an unnesecary retaliation AFTER the first foul had been whistled, so I am thinking about the second push as a dead ball technical foul. However I had not given any mechanic for what the foul was to be yet and on the fly I'm thinking what is the best way to get this game under control? So I rationalized that A1 was the rougher player who initiated this scenario and thus B1 did not deserve a harsher penalty (tech) and I signaled double foul, reported this, and went to AP.
At what exact point is ball dead and the second foul a Tech? at the whistle/fist or at the mechanic of the actual call?
Is it appropriate to consider the game circumstances for calls like this or is it not within my authority to rationalize this call into a double foul?
thanks for your opinions,
GTW
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