“The opportunity to join the Utah Jazz and to be part of such a highly respected franchise with an incredibly bright future is a great honor. I approach this opportunity with gratitude and humility and am committed to doing everything I can to help the Jazz become a championship-caliber team.”
Those were the words spoken by Quin Snyder back in 2014, the first week of June, at the announcement that he had been hired to take the wheel of a team that had veered off the road, winning just 25 games the previous season, a team that was all good, except for having forgotten how to score, how to rebound, and how to play defense.