Hope this never happens again, but

[BktBallRef]

Originally posted by Hawks Coach
BTW, when the whistles occur should be irrelevant - the whistle is not the act, it is merely the notification that the act occurred. Regardless of the timing of the whistles, the refs must get the proper order of the actions that led to the whistles.

My point wasn't that the whistles were simultaneous, but that the fouls were simultaneous. We associate the whistles with the fouls. You're talking semantics.

People keep throwing things into this scenario. Neither official indicated that they saw both fouls. Since neither saw both fouls, you have no choice but to call a double foul. If an official says I saw both fouls and the PC or the block occurred first, then you go with that. But that wasn't the case. These guys made the right call given the circumstances. If you don't know which foul came first, and they didn't, you HAVE to call it a double foul.

I fail to see why that is so difficult to grasp. :^(