He got a pass the first year with the cap problems. Fine.
He tried to- for lack of a better word - half-ass it this past off season and clearly that's not the answer. Nobody is happy about it but with the super short term contracts, it was a very low-risk gamble.
He hardly did anything at the deadline even though he had a lot of cap room to work with. The good news for him is that he wasn't lying or posturing about prices being steep so he gets at least a semi-pass for not going bananas. The bad news is that two of the teams above the Hawks (Van+Nash) did pay a lot and got better. We can only wait to see how that pans out.
Long story short- this year's playoffs
pray
and upcoming off season are huge. He got by today by the skin of his teeth.