[Salt Lake Tribune] Quin Snyder defends Utah Jazz’s clutchness, Donovan Mitchell’s passing in epic pregame rant

Famous last words

“You could also look at this and say, we lost the lead, right, and we got it back three times out of seven, which maybe means we’re a resilient team,” he said. “… It also says we played pretty well, because if we’re up double digits in the fourth quarter, for the most part, I’d take that. I’d rather be up double digits than single digits.”

What he didn’t mention is that the Jazz’s seven blown double-digit fourth-quarter leads are still more than any other team in the league has had — going into Tuesday’s slate of games, the Knicks had squandered six such leads, and while the Nets, Celtics, Cavs, Nuggets and Sixers had squandered five apiece.

“Trae Young and Capela, that’s the comp that we’re using, right? You know, out of 3,442 possessions, he’s passed to Capela 472 times. OK. Donovan, out of 1600, he’s passed to Rudy 150 times. So those are roughly the same number, right?”

Well, that Young to Capela percentage is 13.7%. That Mitchell to Gobert percentage is 9.4%. So, not quite the same.

“The suggestion that Donovan would look Rudy off when Rudy’s deep in the paint …” Snyder began, letting the unfinished sentence hang in the air to emphasize how absurd he believes it to be. “… When it gets to the point where Donovan’s answering questions [about it after shootaround], the inference there is that he doesn’t pass to him and there’s a problem between the two. So those aren’t illogical jumps. I haven’t seen that. I haven’t seen that at all. They sit at the same table when they eat sometimes. You know, I don’t know if they’re going to practice together, probably not, but anyway.”

I read the article, dont bother, Snyder just did did some hardcore mental gymnastics to try and counter the narrative and keep the Jazz morale up before the playoffs.

If you just ignore the many blown fourth quarter leads then they didn’t happen.

Quin "future Lakers scapegoat" Snyder with some impressive mental gymnastics

He gone

#HE

if he posted this here as OC it wouldn’t be out of place

He did his best with the situation Lindsey put him in.

Someone should ask Quin Snyder how the floor gum tasted

What he didn’t mention is that the Jazz’s seven blown double-digit fourth-quarter leads are still more than any other team in the league has had — going into Tuesday’s slate of games, the Knicks had squandered six such leads, and while the Nets, Celtics, Cavs, Nuggets and Sixers had squandered five apiece.

He knows this also he knows they blow too many 4th quarter leads. The Donovan Mitchell/Gobert thing is more interesting and its just nature of twitter discourse. People will find things that have an element of truth to them and just take it to the extreme or just make jokes and shit on players. Its the clout chasing nature of social media. That's really what drove his frustration as much as anything not hard to see why a coach would get annoyed with it when again his player have to answer to this stuff. But like I said it is what it is Donovan doesnt pass the ball to Rudy.

Random sampling of Jazz games this yr with Mitchell/Gobert. Plays where Mitchell hit Rudy on the dive, includes many plays where he didnt, includes some plays where you can debate whether he couldve/shouldve. Untold aspect of it is Mitchell is 6'1 all of it is how height matters as a passer(small Trae/CP3 types are outliers). Mitchell also gets blitzed more than he did earlier in his career which is another factor in this. All that said this stuff still isnt ideal

HE GONE

Damn the receipts have the same energy as Daryl sending a video to the refs office.