What can we learn from Quin Snyder era Utah Jazz drafts?

Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty ImagesThe 2023 NBA Draft at long last tips off this week. And with the Hawks holding a mid-first round pick and a mid-second round pick, there are a number of different directions of travel here for the franchise. This will the first draft that head coach Quin Snyder will oversee in Atlanta, but it won’t be the first of his NBA head coaching career.

Quin Snyder was hired by the Utah Jazz mere weeks before the 2014 NBA Draft, taking over for the departed head coach — and one-time Atlanta Hawks player — Tyrone Corbin. During that eight-year stint, the Jazz went from middling performers to consistently at or near the top of the rugged Western Conference regular…