Quin Snyder quits Utah Jazz after eight seasons as head coach
Quin Snyder coached the Utah Jazz to six successive playoff appearances, finalized as an NBA Coach of the Year only last season, and succeeded in almost 60% of the team’s games.
But now he decided it was time he went on.
Snyder left the position of a coach on Sunday after eight years of steady success but the team never got beyond the second round of the playoffs while he was coach.
In a message sent to the team, Snyder said it was time.
He reached 372-264 with the Jazz, his winning rate of .585, being number 18 among NBA coaches with the same experience. He and Jerry Sloan were the only two Jazz coaches with a winning record.
After his departure, the Jazz will have an open coach position for the fourth time in 33 years. Snyder replaced Tyrone Corbin, who came after Sloan.
Snyder became coach of the month four times, most recently this February. The Jazz showed the best results in the NBA’s previous season, however, their progress stopped at the semifinals of the Western Conference, when they lost five of six playoff series. You can check the success of various teams and players and place bets on the most promising ones at Betway India.
This season was pretty much a failure: for part of it, Utah seemed to contend for the title, starting at 7-1 and getting to 26-9 by 2022. But then it all went the other direction; the Jazz lost three individual streaks and ended up scoring only 25-28 after January 1.
The failure in the first round continued a worrisome tendency in Utah of achievements from the regular seasons never transiting to the playoffs.
Utah is the second team in the league which is currently looking for a coach, Charlotte being the first. And that means Snyder’s nearest future is vague.
He was noted as a potential contender for some open positions, such as the Los Angeles Lakers, a position that eventually went to Darvin Ham. Snyder has even been deemed a potential forthcoming nominee for a position that hasn’t been open for over twenty-five years, the one in San Antonio currently maintained by Gregg Popovich.
The coaching transition could be the first stage in some major transformation of Jazz.
Gobert’s value will be $85 million in the next couple of years, moreover, he has a player option of $46.6 million for the season of 2025-26. Mitchell’s value for the next two seasons is $67.5 million, and an additional player option of $37 million. Their connection has been difficult at times. For example, at the beginning of the pandemic, Gobert tested positive for COVID-19 and Mitchell had the same result a day later.
Both will have a stake if the Jazz decides to place them on the trade market — and each or both players might be willing for a move, too.
