Quin Snyder resigns as head coach of the Utah Jazz

4 years ago - Sportingbase

According to the Associated Press on Sunday, Quin Snyder resigned as head coach of the Utah Jazz. Snyder has spent the last eight seasons coaching Utah, and has a record of 372 wins and 264 losses in 636 games with a winning percentage of .585.

In that time the Jazz made the National Basketball Association playoffs in six of those seasons. However when it came to the postseason, the Jazz only had a winning record once, and that was in 2020-21, when Utah beat the Memphis Grizzlies in five games in the Western Conference Quarterfinals, before losing to the Los Angeles Clippers in six games.

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In 2021-22, the Jazz had a regular season record of 49 wins and 33 losses for a winning percentage of .598. Utah was fifth in the Western Conference, first in the Northwest Division, but lost in six games to the Dallas Mavericks.

Prior to being a NBA head coach in Utah, Snyder was an assistant coach with four NBA teams. Interestingly, he was with those teams for only one season each. He was with the Los Angeles Clippers (1992-93), the Philadelphia 76ers (2010-11), the Los Angeles Lakers (2011-12), and the Atlanta Hawks (2013-14). In the long time period between 1993 and 2010 when Snyder was not in the NBA, he was in the National Collegiate Athletic Association with Duke University, and the University of Missouri, before joining the G-League with the Austin Toros.

Whenever there is a coaching change with the Jazz, it is notable. It just does not happen often. The late Jerry Sloan was the Jazz coach from 1988 to 2011, and between Sloan and Snyder the only other Jazz coach was Tyrone Corbin, who coached Utah from 2011 to 2014.