He has been instrumental in unfucking a super fucked roster on the heels of the Brian Shaw/Ty Lawson debacles and developing a whole bunch of mildly-regarded-at-best prospects into arguably the most promising core in the league.

But the main point of the post is inarguable, and even regarding Malone... it's still true in the sense that he's gotten plenty of time to get everything together. Hard to imagine a black coach would have gotten the same.