Very little chance to make the playoffs but even so, I think Whitman has done a good job. The team could easily have quit when they were 5-30 or whatever it was. He's done a good job with turning Beal into a good player but the other young guys are all (understandably) in the doghouse and don't get any burn.
The culture change stuff seems to have worked - they are a hard working, serious team now. They just need add some more good players and lose some of the dead weight.