What "Attributes"?

[rwest]

Originally Posted by jdw3018

The blarge is an actual double foul.

You are correct that it is a double foul, but it is only because the officials didn't follow proper mechanics and this is the only way the Fed has for cleaning it up. If the two officials get together and can't agree on what the correct call is, we are told to go with a double foul. Had one of the officials yielded to the other, there would be no need for a double foul because there would be no blarge.

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by Freddy

This has always been puzzling, and I'd appreciate the understanding you can instill in me regarding 4-19-9: "A false double foul is a situation in which . . . at least one of the attributes of a double foul is absent."

What is meant by "attributes"? What so-called "attributes" of a double foul one would expect to be absent?

A double foul must have all of the following attributes:

1) Both personal or both technical
2) By opponents against each other
3) Approximately at the same time

If any of those is missing, it's a false double foul.

The most common usual example is the time delay.