Quin Snyder
Quin Snyder
Quin Price Snyder is an American basketball coach who is currently the head coach of the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association. Snyder was an assistant coach for the Atlanta Hawks for the 2013–14 season following his time with Euroleague's PBC CSKA Moscow for the 2012–13 season and the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers during the lockout shortened 2011-2012 season. Prior to that, he was in charge of player development for the 76ers starting in June 2010 after coaching the...
lead time
We got the lead and let them back in it with Roby. I told them about him every time out.
bounce chance hopefully team
We get a chance to play this team again. Hopefully we can do more than just bounce back.
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We just didn't do a good job of converting those. I thought when we missed those, especially early, we got frustrated. I did feel like we needed to finish better.
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I wouldn't even characterize it as benching. That kind of implies he was doing something that was upsetting me. He wasn't playing well. I felt like there were other guys who were playing better.
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I got into this business to guide kids and mentor and coach them. Although the wins and losses are not secondary, they dictate whether you get questions asked about the resignation or not. It?s never been suggested to me. There?s been plenty of times that option could have come up.
against error good margin small team
Obviously, we had a very small margin for error against a team of Illinois' caliber. They showed us how good they are.
obviously
Obviously we'd like to be winning, but we're not right now. We've got to keep working; there's some things we can do.
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I felt like that gave us the best opportunity to win. There are no after-affects. I absolutely expect Thomas to start and play great basketball against Baylor.
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If certain guys step forward and assert themselves I think you'll see a more steady rotation but until that happens I'm going to keep trying to find who's playing well on a given night and who's got there head in the right place.
obviously
We've had some highs. This is obviously a low.
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There certainly is frustration. As a coach I want my team to play better and I know I'm responsible for that. But until that question poses itself, I'm going to say my party line: It's not about me, it's about our team and trying to win games.
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Thomas was going to have a game like this. People are going to key on him. Our other guys are just going to have to develop, they'll have to give him some help.
game guarded matter took tough
Tucker took the game over. No matter who guarded him, he was tough for us to handle.
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With a game like today, you feel that life has just ended. But there's more games left to play. I've got to figure out how to make my kids get better.