Utah Jazz head coach Quin Snyder stepped down on Sunday after eight years with the organization.
After spending a handful of seasons as an assistant coach across the league, Snyder earned Utah’s head role ahead of the 2014-15 season. The team had a 372-264 regular season record in Snyder’s eight-year tenure and made six straight postseason appearances.
The postseason is where things have gone awry for Snyder and Co. Utah has won just one playoff series over the last four seasons. That series victory came in 2021 as the top-seeded Jazz beat the No. 8 Memphis Grizzlies in five games. The team’s postseason run came to a disastrous end in the second round as it blew a 2-0 series lead to the No. 4Utah ran it back in 2021-22 with Snyder, Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert as the team’s core. The team earned the No.
, who were without Luka Doncic, in Game 1 of the series, but they quickly dropped the next two games. They rebounded when Doncic returned for Game 4, but Dallas closed out the series in six games. Snyder, 55, was the fourth-most-tenured coach in the NBA, trailing the San Antonio Spurs’ Gregg Popovich,