Front office, D, for wining lottery for 2 straight years and more in the coming years Coach, B-, no playoff, developing young players, the inability of the front office on improving the team makes the job hard. Lowry - B Martin - B- Battier - C Scola - B- Hayes - C+ Lee - C Budinger - C+ Miller - D Hill - D- Dragic - C Patterson - C Brooks - C Jeffries - E Williams - E
The problem with grades like these is what one looks for when grading players/coach/management in terms of expectations. Do only results matter? Or how those results achieved also matter? For example, Rudy got the National team a bronze at the world championships, and then a gold in the Olympics. Based on the criteria by some on this thread, his coaching job for the Bronze medal would be a C-, and his gold medal an A+. Yet by the criteria of some others, his bronze should get a A+ and his gold medal a B. In the end, if you go by what the Rockets have, they pretty much did the best they could. Morey patched together a decent group given that he had nothing to work with the past few years. Adelman getting 43 wins is about as much as you can reasonably expect. And our vets played what you'd expect them to do, while young players had mixed results. But by the bottom line, this team was a failure because they're not contending for a title.
