Arturas Karnisovas knew it wasn’t what a growing percentage of the Bulls fan base wanted to hear on Saturday.
Then again, the new executive vice president of basketball operations isn’t in to making public sacrifices to appease the masses.
It’s now how he operates and it’s not how he wants the new-look front office to be perceived league-wide.
The old regime often made emotional knee-jerk decisions, but this is a new day.
So head coach Jim Boylen and his staff could sleep easy.
For now.
“We want to spend time internally to assure that we our thorough in our appraisals,’’ Karnisovas said in a Zoom meeting with the media.