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Perhaps he judged that the player should have been able to avoid going OOB to begin with. You did say that the player had enough room/time that he started dribbling before heading OOB. Sounds like it could be possible that the player had a choice to not go out but did anyway.
Having not seen the play, I can't say for sure but this is a possibility.
Perhaps Higgins feels that an interrupted dribble is (as some assert) only an accidental loss of control and that a volunatary cessation of the dribble is not an interrupted dribble. Thus the player left the court while dribbling but he waited until the player touched it again to ensure that it was not a pass.
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