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Kyle Dubas: “Sheldon will bring to the table his ability to breathe some life into a group that needs it and inspire the players to be free and be creative, but with the expectation it doesn’t come with no regard for the defensive end”

Was Saturday the tipping point for you? You look at a large body of evidence to make decisions; however, when you left that arena on Pittsburgh in Saturday, did you know this had to happen?

Dubas: I think the nature of the loss — you would never leave the arena, no matter where you’re at as an organization, feeling good about a loss like that. I think it just added to a number of the things that were sort of building and entering into our thinking. I wouldn’t say it was the tipping point, but rather, a pretty big contributing piece of evidence to where we were heading as an organization.