Double Whistle

[HokiePaul]

Originally Posted by The_Rookie

3) Coaches complaining about Double Whistles...example: one ref has a hold other has a held ball.

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Happens to me at least once every high school varsity season. Simple fix. Get together. Which came first? "I saw your hold, but I saw my held ball first."

Curious to hear your all opinions of this ... If there is a double whistle for a (hold / held ball), the hold is almost always first. My thinking is that during the loose ball, one official saw the foul before the held ball (if it wasn't before the held ball, that official would have called the held ball). The other didn't see the foul and thus called a held ball. So by default, the hold must have occured first.

Does this make sense to you all? I know this isn't always true, but for the held ball to have occured first, this would mean that one of the officials didn't see the held ball. Given that held balls are pretty obvious to just about everyone in the gym, how likely is it that the held ball occured before the hold?