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Originally Posted by BillyMac
That's the absolute worst situation with a double whistle. I've had a couple of these over the years. I don't hear my partner's whistle. I sell my call with a strong preliminary signal, and all of a sudden, as the players part like the Red Sea, I see my partner also giving a preliminary signal. Luckily, we've always had the same signal. Someday the signals won't be the same. We could pregame the heck out of this situation, but the bottom line would be that we would have go to the caseplay.
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We had this happen in a game last week in a packed gym. Shooting foul, ball goes in, I'm the C, and the foul is from my side on a player on the block, partially in the lane.
I come up with a whistle, don't hear the L blowing on it at the same time, and look up to see him banging it home and already on his way to the table as I'm doing the same.
No big deal -- but I recognize that it was (1) probably my foul to get since the L reached across and (2) still my fault since I was an outside official and we constantly talk about the L having first crack in the lane.
It was loud, though - the gym was absolutely packed. On one foul I ended up having to tweet a few times to actually stop play.