[just another ref]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

See case book play 5.10.1Sitc. Note the wording "...he/she properly sounds the whistle and gives the signal to stop the clock. While doing this, the official is able to see the exact time remaining in the fourth quarter." Note the phrase--"while doing this." It doesn't say that an an official has to complete blowing the whistle and giving the signal, as you are trying to claim. It simply states that if the official is looking at the clock at any time during the stop-clock process, then that's the time that gets put back on. That includes the start of the process too. You know--when you start blowing your whistle and when you start putting your hand up.

In this case being discussed, if the clock shows 0.00 and the horn has gone off when the official looks at the clock while granting the TO, then no time can be put back on.

We are discussing granting a timeout, are we not? The casebook play here deals with the signal to stop the clock. As noted above, we have concluded that granting a timeout and signaling it are not the same thing.