Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell (45), Utah Jazz ahead Royce O’Neale (23), Utah Jazz middle Rudy Gobert (27) and Utah Jazz head coach Quin Snyder speak earlier than the Jazz play the Houston Rockets in Recreation 5 of the NBA playoffs on the Toyota Heart in Houston on Tuesday, Could 8, 2018. Kristin Murphy, Deseret Information
The Utah Jazz introduced on Sunday afternoon that head coach Quin Snyder has resigned, ending a tenure that lasted in the future in need of eight years.
Snyder’s time because the Jazz’s bench chief was marked by an increase from the underside of the Western Convention standings when he arrived in 2014 to the highest in 2021.
In all, Utah made the playoffs in Snyder’s final six seasons, though it by no means acquired previous the second spherical, and its first-round loss to the Dallas Mavericks this spring caused a bevy of questions concerning the way forward for the franchise.
Here's a look again at Snyder’s tenure with the Jazz.
- June 6, 2014: Quin Snyder was employed because the fifth head coach in Jazz franchise historical past, changing Tyrone Corbin, who had been the top coach since legend Jerry Sloan resigned in February of 2011.
- 2017: In Snyder’s third season on the helm, the Jazz made the playoffs for the primary time since 2012. Coming into the postseason because the 5-seed within the West, Utah eradicated the LA Clippers within the first spherical — successful Recreation 7 on the highway — earlier than being swept by the mighty Golden State Warriors within the second spherical.
- 2018: Having misplaced All-Star Gordon Hayward to the Boston Celtics in the summertime of 2017, the Jazz weren’t anticipated to return to the playoffs in 2018. For the primary 47 video games of the season it appeared that will be the case as that they had only a 19-28 report, however they closed with an unbelievable 29-6 run and as soon as once more completed because the 5-seed, this time going through the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder within the first spherical.
As soon as once more, the Jazz weren’t anticipated to win, however they eradicated the Thunder in six video games and Snyder completed second in NBA Coach of the Yr voting, whereas middle Rudy Gobert received his first NBA Defensive Participant of the Yr award and Donovan Mitchell completed second in Rookie of the Yr voting.
- March 11, 2020: The World Well being Group declared COVID-19 a world pandemic, and Gobert turned the primary skilled athlete in North America to check constructive for it. That led to not solely the NBA being shut down for just a few months, however all sports activities leagues, and it was the driving force for a lot of the nation shutting down as nicely. Within the days that adopted, reviews of discord between Gobert and Mitchell started to floor.
- September 1, 2020: Within the NBA’s bubble in Orlando, the Jazz had been eradicated within the first spherical of the playoffs by the Denver Nuggets after main the collection 3-1 when a shot from Mike Conley to win Recreation 7 rimmed out.
- 2021: The Jazz completed the 2020-21 common season with the NBA’s greatest report at 52-20 as Gobert and Mitchell had been named All-Stars for the second straight 12 months, Gobert received his third DPOY award, Jordan Clarkson and Joe Ingles completed 1-2 in Sixth Man of the Yr voting and Snyder completed third in Coach of the Yr voting.
The Jazz beat the Memphis Grizzlies within the first spherical of the playoffs and led the Clippers 2-0 within the second spherical earlier than shedding 4 straight video games and getting eradicated. Within the sixth and remaining recreation, Utah led by a whopping 25 factors within the third quarter earlier than LA got here again and received.
- 2022: With stress on to advance previous the second spherical of the playoffs, the Jazz couldn’t repeat their magical common season run, completed fifth within the West and had been matched up in opposition to the Dallas Mavericks within the first spherical. The Jazz received Recreation 1, misplaced the subsequent two, miraculously received Recreation 4 after which misplaced Video games 5 and 6 to get eradicated. All of the whereas, reviews started to floor that Snyder won't return to teach the crew.
- Could 31, 2022: ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski and Tim MacMahon reported that Snyder’s future with the group remained “unsure.”
- June 5, 2022: Snyder resigned as head coach of the Utah Jazz.