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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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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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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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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That kind of turned everybody's thinking on their head. I still think it's going to be tough to win on the road, but this might be one of those years where it's just so equal that you can throw that out the window.
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The competition picks up, but it's good to get a win and build some confidence while doing that.
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You come down here to win tonight and all of a sudden it shifts everything. We need a win. I think you get a win and that can lift some of the burden. But I don't think you get that by wallowing in the fact that you've lost a bunch in a row. You've got to keep moving forward and you've got to learn.
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We showed our youth in the second half. We didn't have the same intensity.
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I've been pretty brutally honest with him this past week about the way I think he's been playing, especially relative to what he's capable of doing. It's good to see him respond the way he did.
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There's humility all over our program. We've been through a lot coming back from the Illinois game getting beat like we did. We don't need to remind ourselves of that every day, but that's clearly in the back of their minds. And these guys, they're hungry. They want to accomplish something.
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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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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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We've gotten some highs this season, and this was a low. We get a chance to play this team again.
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I was really happy to see Marshall play as aggressively as he did on the glass. I thought that was a big lift for us, and that's the one reason he scored, too. We've got to have better play from him. It's good to see him kind of breaking through a little bit since he hasn't played as well as of late.
I was not as hands-on as I think I need to be.