Coach Snyder bringing in new coaches to fill basketball staff
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Shout out to Hawks Coaching Legend Joe Prunty. Only HC to go undefeated in the NBA last season. He'll now be coaching with AJ's dad in Milwaukee.
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Quin Snyder has a completely new assistant coaching staff. No holdovers.
No movement on the players. Wonder how long this will last? We have the draft upcoming. If the Hawks draft someone then
a player must depart to make room on the roster.
There are, as usual, lots of rumors going around about trades and free agents wanting to move. Something will happen to break
loose the tension. Then things will start to move all over. Until then, we hold our breath and wait.
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The Atlanta Hawks today announced multiple additions to Head Coach Quin Snyder’s coaching staff, as Bryan Bailey, Mike Brey, Brittni Donaldson, Steve Klei, Igor Kokoskov, Antonio Lang, Sanjay Lumpkin, Ekpe Udoh and Jeff Watkinson have joined as assistant coaches; Reggis Onwukamuche as player development coach and Bryan George in DAV (player development/advance scouting/video).
“We have assembled a coaching staff that brings together a diversity of experiences and expertise to develop, connect with and challenge our players,” Snyder said. “Each of our coaches bring something unique to our group and I am excited to work with this staff and find ways to continually improve our team.”Spoiler:
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Different experts on different parts of the NBA game. Sounds like a winning combination!
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But before addressing what the Hawks might do over the next several weeks, it’s important to start with this question: Who’s in charge?
It has been widely believed Snyder would not have come to Atlanta without ultimate control over the roster, effectively above general manager Landry Fields, who is young and operating without the guidance of former executive Travis Schlenk for the first time.
Snyder emphatically denies that. He maintains he is merely part of the Hawks’ “collaborative process,” which has become the organizational buzzphrase.
“The only role Landry and Kyle (Korver, assistant GM) and I talked about when I agreed to come to Atlanta is me coaching the team,” Snyder said. “That’s what I like and it’s also what I’m passionate about. Any speculation about me having a more significant role than providing input on personnel decisions is just not accurate. I have total confidence in Landry and his group to make those decisions. As I see it, my job is to maximize the potential of the personnel, whatever the personnel is. That’s where my focus lies. That speculation is erroneous.”
Counterpoint: Two things can be true at once: 1) Snyder never asked for some level of control; 2) Because of his resume and stature and job security that wasn’t afforded Pierce or McMillan, he’s effectively above Fields and answers only to Ressler.
Snyder’s rebuttal: “That’s just a clever way of saying I have control even though I’m telling you I don’t. It’s a way of saying I’m going to exert influence and that’s not true. That’s not healthy. It’s not the partnership I wanted. I want to be supportive. I want to provide input and then I want to do my job. I understand what you’re saying. But it’s just not accurate.” (Snyder similarly denies narratives about why he left the Jazz, including that he didn’t want to be a part of a rebuilding process.)
Ressler is the only individual with true control over the Hawks’ decisions.
Fields maintains he’s the guy in charge of basketball ops. “Am I going to be perfect? Absolutely not,” he said. “But I promise that any mistakes or successes we have, we’ll reflect on those.”
As for the seeming difficulty and enormity of what faces him, Fields said, “When you use words like difficulty and enormity, I can understand that. But I don’t necessarily feel that, and maybe that’s a good thing. I don’t feel the overwhelming pressure of it all. It almost feels like this is how the NBA is and you’re either built for it or you’re not.”
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Hawks Team SiteBrittni Donaldson wants to make her mark as first female coach in Hawks history
Every season, NBA teams celebrate firsts, milestones, and achievements, from players to coaches, on the court and off. For the 2023-24 Atlanta Hawks, perhaps the most significant first has already happened.
Brittni Donaldson, one of 11 coaches hired onto Quin Snyder’s staff, is the first female assistant coach in Hawks franchise history.
Donaldson arrives in Atlanta following assistant roles with the Detroit Pistons and Toronto Raptors, where she was part of their 2019 NBA Championship team. She is currently one of five female coaches in the NBA, and there have been only 15 total in league history.
“Celebrating, first of all, the women who have come before me and paved the path so that I’ve been able to walk through the door and get an opportunity like this. Just have to think about those women and also celebrate the organization for prioritizing people with different experiences and backgrounds.”
When she broke into the NBA as an assistant, there had only been seven female coaches on staffs around the league. At each of her stops so far, she has been the ceiling breaker – the first in the room yes, but still the only. It’s progress that she recognizes and appreciates, while at the same time wanting to push it further.
“Next layer is ensuring women are able to be retained for a long period of time and that the environments that they’re hired into are safe and supportive and are allowed to let them thrive,” she says. “Avoiding the tokenism of ‘we have our token woman on staff, now we’re good.’ We definitely want to just keep pushing toward a mindset that’s: best person for the job.
One of her strengths is bridging that gap, whether she’s transferring that knowledge to a player, a fellow coach, or the whole team. She describes how that process can play out in multiple directions:
“So if I’m looking more from a data-driven lens, the things that I know about schematically what we’re trying to do, and the details of being on court with the player and understanding how they learn best, all of those things sort of inform what I’m going to care about when I look at the data. And then vice versa: If I see something interesting in the data like a trend or something that sticks out to me, now that can inform where we’re going to focus on the court.”
Additionally, Donaldson applies her player development philosophy broadly throughout a roster of players who are at different stages of their NBA careers, while still maintaining one-on-one specificity and connection. She emphasizes meeting the players where they are and determining how much to distill down the information she and the staff are teaching.
As a result, established players like Trae Young, Dejounte Murray, Clint Capela, De’Andre Hunter, and Bogdan Bogdanovic, young players like AJ Griffin and Jalen Johnson, and rookies like Kobe Bufkin are all receiving information under the same umbrella. But it’s tailored to each of their specific levels and styles of learning so that it sticks and continues to help them get better.
Since being named to Snyder’s staff, Donaldson has spent the summer moving to Atlanta, working with players during workouts and mini camp, helping coach the team at NBA Summer League in Las Vegas, and developing connections with other assistant coaches in what she calls “one of the most collaborative groups I’ve ever worked with.”
The only thing that can come close to matching her excitement for the upcoming season on the court is getting to know her new home off it.
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Hawks have probably the best Hawks coaching staff ever. It's a good step. Have to see if it really improves play and especially development
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