Trust is a huge deal for Utah Jazz head coach Quin Snyder, who told former Jazz CEO Greg Miller during his hiring process, “When a team plays defense together well, it’s an indication they trust each other.”
The Jazz started to benefit from that trust factor — gained from months of intensive work on forming solid habits — the last few months of the 2014-15 NBA season. Utah went from the worst defensive team in the league to the best in a Snyder-led transformation that pushed the franchise’s rebuilding project into fast forward.
When Snyder was asked last Tuesday if he’d like to see Rudy Gobert get going before the season began, he delivered this assessment — something that was obviously on his mind: “Yeah, look, the thing about our team is we’ve got some good players.