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And they also asked for permission from one of the guys off his staff.

After they fired Tibbs.

To be fair, they asked for everybody in the world during that time, but there were guys that were tied to Carl Anthony Towns that were asked to come in and interview, and a lot of them were denied the interviews.

Absolutely.

Now, we have talked before, and one of the age-old adages, if you're going to get rid of a guy as a head coach, you better know who you're replacing him with.

And there are times where I'll push back on that because sometimes you don't know who is out there.

You haven't talked to everybody.

And you've made a decision on a head coach where, like, this guy isn't the right guy to get us over the hump, so we have to go out there and have a search.

So that's normally my response to that take.

But when it comes to this Tibbs situation...

It's exactly the opposite of what I believe.

Because they didn't have a plan.

They didn't have someone to replace him.

And it was the only real thing that they were changing in this offseason.

And they went out and they asked every coach that was successful in the NBA who was under contract if they could have permission to talk to him, which was just one of the dumbest things in the world.

And they ended up with Mike Brown.

So I'm not... Like, if they really believe that Tibbs couldn't get them over the hump, fine.

But to just kind of go out there blind and then end up with Mike Brown and then think that that is going to be the hire that gets you to the finals, that whole situation might be the reason why they don't get there.

Now, I'm not saying they would have gotten there with Tibbs, but they fired him and then really didn't have any idea what they were doing when it comes to replacing him.

Well, I don't think that's possible.