Mavs' Mark Cuban takes blame for technical foul in win vs. Bucks

Dallas Mavericks assistant coach Monte Mathis can thank owner Mark Cuban for the technical foul he was assessed in Wednesday's dramatic victory over the Milwaukee Bucks. 

The loud-mouthed Cuban was up to his usual antics of jawing at the officiating crew, but they apparently had enough come the third quarter. Since Cuban, who sits behind his team's bench for road games and frequents the majority of Mavericks contests, can't be assessed a technical, it was handed to Mathis. 

Referee Nick Buchert apologized to Mathis for issuing him the technical, Cuban told ESPN's Tim MacMahon.

Cuban disagreed with a call, but didn't think he was overly rude about it. 

"All I said was, 'You've got to make that call,'" Cuban explained. "No cursing. Didn't curse the whole game. Quiet, relatively speaking, the whole game."

Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle said the team emailed the league with the hopes of getting the technical foul rescinded and to clarify that the comments which led to it came from Cuban, not Mathis. 

That wasn't the only dramatics in Dallas' 107-105 win. 

Monta Ellis nailed an improbable off-balance, buzzer-beating fadeaway to sink the Bucks.