Is Quin really on the Hot Seat 17 months after being hired?
NBA coaches on the hottest seats to start 2024-25
Entering the 2024-25 campaign, which begins Oct. 22, a handful of HCs are already on hot seats, and a slow start by their teams could lead to a firing. Here are the five hottest seats at the start of the new season.
Quin Snyder | Atlanta Hawks
After years as a college coach with Missouri, Snyder built a solid reputation by consistently leading the Utah Jazz to the playoffs. After the team went into a rebuild and Snyder resigned in 2022, he landed in Atlanta in the middle of the 2022-23 season, replacing a fired Nate McMillan. So far, he's been unable to replicate the success he found in Utah, posting a 46-57 record.
Atlanta's tumultuous culture and the uncertain state of the roster have left Snyder as the one to blame if Trey Young and the Hawks start poorly.
First overall draft pick Zaccharie Risacher will bolster the bag of tricks for Snyder, who loves to mold young players into stars. That's something he did with Donovan Mitchell in Salt Lake City and with future NBA players with the D- League's Austin team in the late 2000s.
If the Hawks get off to a slow start, though, his time in Atlanta will soon end.
Yardbarker
To bring in who as a replacement exactly?
I understand the malaise.