"Sometimes the opportunity to fix something comes sooner than you or anyone else expected."
Gobert said Snyder instructed his team to purposefully ignore the standings and the external noise. “I remember him telling us to just play,” Gobert said. “Don’t even worry about the rankings and all that. Just come out and compete.”
He said it snapped him and his teammates out of a woe-is-us funk that involved a lot of time spent watching scoreboards from around the league...
“After playing that bad game in Atlanta, if we lose that Detroit game, it’s probably a different story. But we kept fighting. We did what [Quin] said. We just played.”
It didn’t go down like it does in the movies. No one kicked over a table or gave a fiery speech. But it was a crisis of confidence and a moment that led to an unlikely midseason correction. That’s when the fun started.
“It just shows the amount of trust he has in me, and trust even when I make mistakes,” Mitchell said about Snyder. He described his head coach as “stern” and “real firm on what he wants” from his rookie, but Mitchell also said he prefers that approach and credited Snyder for helping him realize that the NBA is a lot different in April than it is in October. “I don’t look at myself as a rookie anymore.”
www.theringer.com/platform/amp/nba/2018/4/10/17217950/quin-snyder-utah-jazz-playoffs-winning-streak
"Trust to a rookie…"
"Patient and development"
"Intelligent fire"
www.slcdunk.com/2018/4/24/17275864/2018-nba-playoffs-utah-jazz-quin-snyder-coach-of-the-year-ricky-rubio-donovan-mitchell
