Brooklyn hasn't become a playoff team under Fernandez yet. So what grade did he receive?
The Brooklyn Nets are currently 41-94 with Jordi Fernandez as head coach.
That type of record will lead many fans and analysts to believe that it's time for a leadership change. Plus cause the belief that this wasn't the strongest coaching hire the Nets made.
Except one NBA columnist doesn't see it that way.
CBS Sports NBA analyst Sam Quinn dropped his latest rankings on the best front office structures across the league. Although he mentioned Fernandez's name in the feature.
Quinn handed the Nets a rather stunning No. 15 ranking -- this despite the current 15-38 record plus general manager Sean Marks setting up a youth movement inside the team facility.
Yet Quinn is one who's a believer in the 43-year-old head coach.
"The Jordi Fernandez hire looks great thus far," Quinn stated. "Their longterm books are clean and they'll have the cap space to do whatever they want this summer."
Quinn added how Fernandez also has prominent backing outside of Marks.
"Their owner has proven willing to pay big luxury-tax bills in the past," Quinn said. "The Nets got enormously unlucky right as their last roster build was supposed to peak. That doesn't make them flawless, but it does mean they deserve some grace as they work to turn that mess into something sustainable."
The Nets pivoted to a rebuilding for the future model. It's even one that lead scorer Michael Porter Jr. accepted recently.
"Everything else the Nets did last summer was a win," Quinn explained. "Day'Ron Sharpe is one of the most underrated big men in the league. The Nets re-signed him for $12 million over two years. Where else are you getting quality front-court defense and stellar rebounding for essentially taxpayer mid-level money?
Quinn adds: "The Michael Porter Jr. trade is a home run. They got an unprotected, deep future first-round pick to take on the contract of a player who probably should have made the All-Star Game. You can argue that the Nets should have dealt him at the deadline. I probably would have. But the Nets have developed a Jazz-esque reputation of holding their veterans until they're offered great returns for them, and history is proving they've been right to do so."
Sounds like Marks isn't the only one earning praise from the veteran columnist.
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