Milwaukee • It’s not hyperbole or exaggeration to say that Bucks head coach Mike Budenholzer had — and perhaps continues to have — an outsized influence on Jazz coach Quin Snyder.
Though on opposite ends of the sideline on Monday night at the Fiserv Center, the relationship between the two men could hardly be considered oppositional.
Asked before the game how his time serving as an assistant on Budenholzer’s staff with the Hawks helped to shape his career, Snyder waxed nostalgic and extolled the virtues of one of his mentors.
“When I was in Austin [in the G League], Bud was in San Antonio, and I was trying to learn the Spurs’ system because I was gonna have to run some version of that.