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...
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Every team has a limited life and days like today, you can feel like that life has just ended. The fact of the matter is it didn't. There's more games for us to play. For me as a coach, I've got to figure out how to help my kids get better.
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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.
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We've got certain standards in practice and in games and we'll play the guy that meets those standards consistently.
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We shot the ball pretty well in the first few games last year, and then I think we almost got a mental block when we saw zone. Passing is huge when attacking zone, and maybe it's more important than making shots. Obviously when you make shots, people don't zone you.
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The turnovers are still frustrating. It didn't hurt us tonight on the scoreboard, but that's something that will continue to cost us ball games if we're not better.
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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.
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We felt to win the game tonight we'd have to rebound with them, we'd have to really guard them and we'd have to make some shots. I think the first half we really played great defense. ... We did not play well offensively.
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At that point there was really no confusion in my mind as to what the course of action was. I knew that it was over.
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Tucker took the game over. No matter who guarded him, he was tough for us to handle.
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We showed our youth in the second half. We didn't have the same intensity.
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We've had some highs. This is obviously a low.
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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.
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Obviously, we had a very small margin for error against a team of Illinois' caliber. They showed us how good they are.