The Jazz could block Quin Snyder from coaching next season, Tim MacMahon of ESPN tweets. Snyder, who resigned on Sunday, has one guaranteed year remaining on his contract, which gives Utah leverage if Snyder seeks another coaching job before the 2023/24 season.
Snyder apparently isn’t in any hurry to patrol the sidelines again. He’s looking forward to spending time with his family, Eric Walden of the Salt Lake Tribune tweets.
“I don’t know what I’m going to do next year, as far as coaching,” Snyder said. “I know I’m going to be at Halloween with my daughter. That’s the silver lining of me stepping down now.”
Jazz executive Danny Ainge expects Snyder to return to coaching “very soon, probably next year,” Andy Larsen of the Salt Lake Tribune tweets, though it’s unclear if, by “next year,” Ainge meant next season or 2023.
We have more from the Jazz:
- Despite meeting the media on Monday, Snyder’s motivation for leaving his post remain vague, Walden writes. However, it is clear he – not the team – made the decision and agonized over it for several weeks.
- Minority owner Dwyane Wade might push the front office to strongly consider Lakers assistant and former Knicks head coach David Fizdale as Snyder’s replacement, Marc Stein writes in a Substack post. Knicks assistant Johnnie Bryant is a favorite of Donovan Mitchell, but Ainge may be hesitant to cater too much to his star shooting guard.
- On the draft front, the Jazz are bringing in Illinois’ Kofi Cockburn and BYU’s Alex Barcello for workouts this week, Tony Jones of The Athletic tweets.
Which pair of former Jazz teammates would you rather have if you could have them for their entire career, Deron Williams/Andrei Kirilenko, Pete Maravich/Rich Kelley, Donovan Mitchell/Bojan Bogdanovic or Rickey Green/Karl Malone? Rank if possible..
1. Williams and AK-47 would be my first choice. Williams in his prime could’ve made a claim of the best PG in the game in his prime. Kirelenko was the best all around defender in the game and he could guard anyone. He was very versatile offensively.
2. Maravich and Kelley. Maravich had the sweetest handles and could launch from any distance at almost any angle. Kelley was a bit before my time as I was 3 when he retired so I admittedly don’t know a lot about him, but since you’re giving me Maravich I’ll take him.
3. Rickey Green and Malone. Malone is a horrible human being but one of the greatest players of all time. Growing up in the 80’s/90’s and being a Jazz fan I am familiar with Green but I ranked this duo lower because they didn’t really spend a lot of time playing together. I think Bryon Russell/Malone and Dantley/Green would have made a better Superstar/Roles player combo.
4. Finally Mitchell/Bogdanovic. As above they haven’t played together that long. While there’s a dynamic scoring potential here as we’ve seen over the last 3 years their defensive games are both lacking. I think Spida can develop into being a better defender though seeing as hes got those long arms.
On paper
Lakers coaching job is the best of all time
When you are a lakers coach, you have already won championships next 4 years
But
If Cockburn doesn’t get drafted it would be shocking. I feel like he’s worked out for every team. That much interest has to lead to a second round pick
Plus he’s really good & huge/strong. He’ll def get drafted. Might have an immediate impact like his former teammate Ayo
He’s completely overrated. He’s just big that’s it.
The man has no game. He’s powerful and strong and works hard and appears to have a great attitude and will do whatever it takes. But he has no game.
He cannot sense the double-team coming, he has no vision, no post game, no leaping ability, no shooting ability. Is he a great defender? Not sure about that at the NBA level either.
He’s a decent college center because of his strength, attitude, and hard work.
Oh and one more huge Factor that holds him back from being drafted is he’ll be 23 soon. He’s not 18 and you could put in three years to develop him. He’s close to his ceiling right now.
Is he a great defender?— seriously?— Almost a laugh.
Elaborate. Does that mean he is, or he’s not? I thought he was a little slow afoot. Can’t read your mind.
He’s a slow-afoot standout. He seems to have too much body to match an opponent’s movements. Pros would have a field day.
Sorry for the abruptness but it felt like I have posted insultingly on him too often. He tries. Hopefully I’m done with Kofi evals!
Wasn’t sure if you were laughing at me or with me lol. I think we’re on the same page here with this guy.
Kofi’s workout will be short,
he has, (well, you know) !!
Yea I hope Ainge gets Cockburn. He deserves it
If the Jazz hire Fizdale, they may as well start planning for a lottery pick in 2023.
If Fizdale got it, Alvin Gentry would RUN to Salt Lake to be the interim – ooops! – I mean, lead assistant coach
Snyder resigned due to the bogus team name
“JAZZ”.
Should be the Utah Canyons or the Utah Mormons and return the Jazz name to New Orleans.
Is anyone in NOLA clamoring for the name back?
They’d have to pay Utah serious money to get it back. And who refunds the fans for all the Jazz merch?
I could see Dan Craig or Fizdale making sense for Utah, but all the salty people probably wont give Fizdale an actual chance, the way he didnt get one with the Knicks, and I could see Gobert trying to start some kind of narrative the moment he sits him against a matchup they need to
Fizdale got as good a chance as any Knicks coach has gotten. Which isn’t great, but he also was the Knicks worst head coach of the Dolan era, which is impressive considering the stable of losers they’ve had at the helm. Plus, he also flamed out in Memphis after not getting along with Marc Gasol among other reasons.
They hired a guy that came in and did literally the same things he did…..
He didnt get along with Gasol b/c Gasol got mad he sat him when they were coming back from down 22, and he didnt bring him back in the game b/c it had been so long at that point, and also b/c they were playing better
If the Celtics fail to beat the Warriors, they should consider dealing Brown and Smart for Mitchell. Mitchell wants out and Brown and Smart are Danny’s boys.
While I’d love that as a fan of the Jazz I don’t see how this benefits the Celtics.
Heeeeellll no. Both Celtics players better than Mitchell.
If Wade wants to help Fizdale, he should buy a traveling carnival and hire Fizdale as lead barker. He might actually be good at that. NBA HCs are often caricatures of real coaches; Fizdale was a caricature of an NBA HC being a caricature of a real coach.
He was attempting to build a winning culture, but Knicks fans couldn’t see it b/c they dont know what winning looks like. Then they brought in Thibodeau, as I had predicted when they fired Fizdale, to do the literal exact same things Fizdale did, only he got praised for it
You’re VERY confused, but so was your favorite coach. Fizdale did nothing but lose and lose big, building in the process (wittingly or not) the ultimate losing culture. 17-65 and 4-18 can’t be the foundation of anything good, and it was getting worse by the game. He lost the team, particularly the younger guys he was so fond of giving unearned minutes to.
Thibs is (literally-lol) the anti-Fizdale. Real player assessments, merit-based assignments and accountability. Three things Fizdale was unfamiliar with. Too bad they are the essence of coaching in any sport, at any level.
They played the exact same rotations
Huh? The rosters were similar (from Fiz’s second year to Thibs’ first), so of course they played a lot of the same guys (that’s true of any old to new coach where there isn’t a big roster turnover), but their roles and the minutes played were different (things like assessing players for what they can do well to determine roles, and earning minutes became concepts for the team). Guys like Knox and DSJ didn’t think it was anything close to the same. They were there; you obviously didn’t catch much of the team.
What do you mean exactly, attempted to build a winning culture?— they all say that.
Holding people accountable, instilling good habits, playing the right way, teaching defense and team, celebrating each others successes when you arent playing, trying to help players expand their games, etc
Accountability? Fiz played guys regardless of how poorly they performed (zero connection between performance and minutes, so obviously, there was no accountability).
Defense? That’s a joke, right? He loved guys like Trier, Knox, DSJ and the like who openly dismissed the importance of defense. Seems the worse the player’s defense, the more Fiz liked him.
17-65 and 4-18. Losing, with games over by halftime, was the only habit Fiz instilled in them.
I think they brought Danny Ainge in for a rebuild. I see Mitchell being traded just postering right now for the best deal.
I think they got tired of the previous guy, and Ainge played at BYU.