Red = I think Quin is clearly worse (which I am open to being debated, I gave all championship coaches benefit of the doubt)

Yellow = Toss up, you could argue either way

Green = I think Quin is clearly better

My problem is looking at the landscape of the NBA, if you can't confidently say Quin is definitively better than at least half the coaches in the league, why keep him. He is at best a decent coach. The Hawks have been stuck as a decent team forever. If the goal is to win a championship, then the front office should be looking to upgrade the team through any avenue possible, including through the coaching staff.

I view Quin similar to how I view Landry last year. He's a fine coach, who has his share of good and bad, similar to how Landry was a fine GM. However it was very obvious that a Landry Fields led front office was never leading you anywhere important, and a swing to get a smarter and overall better GM in place was necessary because there was clear potential to upgrade that role. I personally dont think the answer is another retread like Taylor Jenkins or Michael Malone, and would like a swing on a young first time assistant. I just want the Hawks to stop settling for mid and being stuck in NBA limbo.

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  2. This is actually very accurate, I would put Nick Nurse as yellow personally. I know he has a title but the talent hasn’t matched the results in Philly.

  3. Quin has got to fucking go, we have too much talent on this roster for it to fail 4 years in a row. Previous coaches of ours have had a much shorter leash than this, but he is most certainly finishing out the season to keep appearances up for the organization. Otherwise we’re the perpetual .500 squad that’s had 3 coaches in a short time frame and no one will want to come here. Which is already an issue for players around the league, apparently!

  4. >I view Quin similar to how I view Landry last year. He’s a fine coach, who has his share of good and bad, similar to how Landry was a fine GM.

    I view it differently. He was hired to work with Trae and an offensive focused approach. Now that Trae is gone, the identity is gone and he’s trying to recreate his offensive focus with a primarily defensive talented team.

    Not only is he a bad coach but he’s also a coach that doesn’t fit this team nor the future of this franchise.

    At this point, he’s a cancer to the young guys and other than Ressler, who only cares about profits, everyone else is willing to pay the price for him being dumped off.

  5. There are two out there right now…Malone and Jenkins to start but it seems there are numerous young guys around the league that if you give them a chance they can perform as evidenced by what u see from OKC, Spurs, Orlando etc etc

  6. I’m open to Malone and Jenkins but if we want to give a young, up and coming, analytics focused assistant a chance, who are the names to be looking into?

  8. I wanted Quin Snyder gone long time ago before most want him gone now. He was never an upgrade from Nate McMillan (who was drastically better), and truth be told, we’re too dependent on this upcoming draft class, what if it doesn’t go in our favor?

  11. This roster is not a championship roster, it’s a play-in roster. That’s not on Quinn. I think his player development program is top tier and I don’t know who else would be a better fit for such a young team as it currently stands. Development is exactly what this team needs right now. Are his rotations questionable at best sometimes? Sure. But he’s also dealt with four different iterations of the roster since the start of the year and deserves some patience in trying seeing what works/doesn’t. It’s a mid roster that needs another year or two to shape out. I don’t know why anyone is expecting anything else at this point.

  13. I’m not going to lie I’d put Brian Keefe ahead of Quin. He gets his young guys to play hard every night and when we play the Wizards he outcoaches Quin.

    Jamahl Mosley is significantly ahead of Quin in my opinion too. In fact, ANY coach that can teach both sides of the ball and get his guys to play like they give a shit is a better coach than Quin imo.

    I’m taking JJ Redick out of yellow and moving him to red as well. If he wasn’t dealing with the Lakers media stress and everything he’d be seen as a much better coach. He doesn’t really teach defense either but his offensive system is significantly more smooth and planned out than Quin’s so if we going all offense anyways give me the guy who at least does more. Not his fault no one on the Lakers can reliably shoot

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