It's been a dizzying spring aboard the NBA's coaching carousel, and the ride hasn't even stopped yet.
Eight different teams are moving forward with a new coach, and another extended a permanent position to its interim skipper. There are still two vacancies (in Memphis and Houston) that haven't been filled yet.
The batch of new coaches runs the gamut from assistants getting their first crack at the head job to those with years of experience. The challenges in front of these coaches are just as varied, with some facing the demand for instant production and others having more time to establish their system and develop young players.
No single grade scale can be used to assess all the hires, because the positions and the people assigned to them are so different. But every job has an area of need, and every coach has provided some type of evidence on how they'll handle that task.
What follows is a lowest-to-highest look at my confidence level in each coach's ability to handle his new gig.
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