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[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Raymond

It is very rare that both players are committing their first illegal contact at the same time.

Sometimes in the split second it takes an official to mentally process the first contact as illegal contact and a foul (maybe it was close), and during that split second before the official sounds his whistle, the opponent "fouls back" (maybe even harder).

Sure we can go with the first foul and deal with the second foul as a complicated false double foul situation (with two whistles) if we decide if an intentional (or flagrant) foul is warranted (the only type of fouls we can charge during that dead ball after the first foul (not the whistle) makes the ball dead.

But sometimes it's just easier to call an "ordinary" double foul (one whistle) to clean up such action throughout the rest of the game between two such knuckleheads.

Neither player thinks he got away with something, they both got dinged (and both teams/coaches get dinged), which can help one to manage the rest of the game.

Originally Posted by BillyMac

It's just another tool, to be seldom used, in our tool belt.