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Originally Posted by BktBallRef

Crawford didn't try to talk DeRosa out of it. Salvatore did. Why? Because he heard the Mav coaches. But he did not know Howard are made the request. Joe says, "Bennett, he requested it twice and signaled." Then Bennett says. "I didn't realize that." Joe again signals TO. Crawford then just tried to calm Johnson down and then went to Joe and Bennett just to make sure everyone was in agreement. Once DeRosa whistles the TO, it 's a TO.

Bottom line, Howard screwed up and Johnson screwed up. It would have been unfair to Miami to have said, "That didn't mean to call TO. We'll just let that go," after the TO has obviously been granted.

I agree that Howard screwed up...I also think DeRosa could have realized the bench was yelling "no" and not blown his whistle...certainly didn't cost Dallas the game - they blew that all on their own.