False Multiple Foul

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

I could see calling an FMF is the 2nd foul were excessive contact. But it's never happened to me yet.

Just to be clear, the plays being talked about above are NOT False Multiple Fouls but Multiple Fouls.

The calling of False Multiple Fouls is actually rather common (relative to real multiple fouls or double fouls).

Neither "false" foul is a single call with two fouls involved.

A false multiple, like a false double, usually occurs when there is one foul called and then, before the clock starts again after the first foul (on the subsequent throwin or rebound of a FT for the original foul), a second foul called. Depending on who fouls who, that is a false multiple or false double because they will have occurred with the same time on the clock.

We don't actually call false multiple/double fouls, ever. We call two independent fouls that happen to be false multiple/double fouls due to the nature of the timing.