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Hawks hire Quin Snyder on five-year deal as new head coach
The Atlanta Hawks have employed former Utah Jazz head coach Quin Snyder to fill their very own emptiness on the place.
Snyder reportedly signed a five-year pact with the Hawks and is ready to debut on Tuesday towards the Washington Wizards at dwelling, per ESPN.
Snyder’s hiring comes after the Hawks fired Nate McMillan 5 days prior. Atlanta has been on the hunt ever since, nevertheless it was a fast one with Snyder introduced on Sunday.
Head coach Quin Snyder reacts because the Utah Jazz tackle the Dallas Mavericks within the second quarter of Recreation One of many Western Convention First Spherical NBA Playoffs at American Airways Middle on April 16, 2022 in Dallas, Texas. (Tom Pennington/Getty Photographs)
“From our first dialog, it was clear that Quin had all of the traits we have been on the lookout for in our subsequent head coach. He has each an unimaginable basketball and emotional IQ, and we share the identical core values and basketball philosophies of getting sincere communication and collaboration with gamers, great consideration to element and putting an excellent emphasis on participant growth,” Hawks GM Landry Fields mentioned in an official assertion. “We’re excited to welcome him, his spouse Amy and their household again to Atlanta.”
Snyder was an assistant coach beneath Mike Budenholzer throughout the 2013-2014 season in Atlanta previous to becoming a member of the Jazz the next the season as their head coach.
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“I’m thrilled to return to Atlanta as the subsequent head coach of the Hawks,” Snyder mentioned. “Landry has an incredible repute as an extremely shiny, excessive character, prime quality particular person and it was rapidly evident that we share a ardour and dedication to constructing a successful crew with a robust basis and excessive requirements. I’m excited to collaborate with Landry to create a profitable program that devoted Hawks followers are pleased with and cheer for and am grateful to Tony, Jami and the Ressler household for this chance. My household and I are wanting ahead to immersing ourselves in the neighborhood and calling Atlanta dwelling.”
Head coach Quin Snyder of the Utah Jazz talks to the media after Spherical 1 Recreation 4 of the 2022 NBA Playoffs towards the Dallas Mavericks on April 23, 2022, at vivint.SmartHome Enviornment in Salt Lake Metropolis, Utah. (Melissa Majchrzak/NBAE through Getty Photographs)
Snyder spent eight seasons because the Jazz’s head coach, accumulating a 372-264 document (.585 win proportion) over 636 video games. Snyder was a defensive-minded head coach, with Utah proudly owning the fewest factors per sport allowed within the NBA in his mixed eight seasons. Additionally they gave up the fifth-lowest discipline aim proportion at 44.9%.
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Snyder was capable of convey the Jazz to the playoffs in every of the final six seasons, together with final yr once they went 49-33 to earn the fifth seed within the Western Convention. Nonetheless, the Jazz solely made it so far as the primary spherical of the Western Convention playoffs.
After deliberation, Snyder was relieved off his duties following the Jazz’s first-round exit final season.
Head coach Quin Snyder of the Utah Jazz appears on throughout the second half of a sport towards the Phoenix Suns at Vivint Sensible House Enviornment on April 8, 2022 in Salt Lake Metropolis, Utah. (Alex Goodlett/Getty Photographs)
However he wasn’t and not using a job for too lengthy because the Hawks imagine Snyder is the person who can lead them into the playoffs and past.