It looked as if Whitt was telling the ref to call a time out when the ball was dead on the next play but called it right then. I’ll post the final 2 minutes on youtube so we call all over analyze it.
Whitt clearly explained in the postgame interview that he did not call for a timeout but was instead trying to explain to the ref to look to him if the clock started running because he MAY want to call a timeout, but the ref didn’t hear him correctly because of the noise.