My new theory is that the reason Mullin and Peter decided to fly out immediately to tell Vivek to fire Malone for the quick start was that the team was in serious danger of losing their draft pick if things continued on the positive path they were on. That wasn't part of the plan apparently. So, blow it up. Make absolutely certain the team loses.
I think they vastly underestimated how badly this would detroy the morale of the team. They expected a slip for sure, but nothing like this. They're losing the support of key players. And fans.
It's going to be very hard to recover from this. No team in the nba is playing worse right now.
They might have to trade everyone cause the front office has lost this entire team. I don't see a path to earning them back.
If they were tanking this season to build, they would have taken Vonleh (who is not ready for the NBA, but a better building block than Stauskas) and add no help this year. They were trying to be competitive in the offseason. Then when we were, they decided they didn't like how we were doing it (with defense). So now, it's full chicken with it's head cut off mode.
Basically, we have a horrible front office that's pretty Maloofian in their professionalism and I'm glad the majority of KF has recognized that, instead of going into "lets give him more than a year to evaluate" and "he saved our team, let's give him the benefit of the doubt" crap. Grab the pitchforks guys, I've had them sharpened since the Carl Landry signing.