Quin Snyder - Robbed the Opportunity To Be Robbed of Coach of the Year

Quin Snyder has been doing amazing things in Utah as the head coach of the Jazz since being hired in 2014. He took over a very messy roster that was in complete rebuild mode still trying to recover from losing their all star Deron Williams and their long time head coach Jerry Sloan just a few years prior.

Snyder quickly started to work with a roster nobody envied. Two season ago, the Jazz finished with a losing record (40-42) and missed the playoffs. Even after trading starter Enes Kanter to the Thunder for a peanut butter sandwich, the Jazz improved a lot and won 51 games last year (51-31) - tied for 4th placed with the Clippers. Also tied with the Cleveland Cavaliers; who got the 2nd seed with that record in the East.

Turning a non-playoff team into a 51 win (in the West) with a bunch of people you've never heard of, except for barely-an-allstar Gordon Hayward, would normally win you Coach of the Year in the NBA.

Unless you coach the Utah Jazz apparently.

However, not only did Snyder not win COY last year, he wasn't even in the discussion! He wasn't even a nominee! "2016-17 Coach of the Year" turned into a three man race between Erik Spoelstra, Mike D'Antoni, and Gregg Popovich.

Erik Spoelstra - His Heat, the year before, got 48 wins and the 3rd seed in the East. Last year? Missed the playoffs with only 41 wins (in the East!). How Erik Spoelstra got COY votes and not Quin Snyder is beyond me.

Greg Popovich - Always in the COY debate and deserving so. However, his team also dropped from last year. They went 67-15 the year before and last year went 61-21. winning 6 less games.

Mike D'Antoni - Ended up winning COY for doing the exact same thing Quin Snyder did but with more talent and in a larger market - going from 8th seed last year to 3rd seed this year (41 wins to 55 wins). He had MVP finalist James Harden instead of couldn't-even-make-All-NBA-3rd-Team Gordon Heyward. And he coached the Houston Rockets instead of the Utah Jazz.

So Speolstra's team misses the playoffs, Popovich's team does worse than last year, and D'Antoni's team does the same improvement as the Jazz (but with a better roster) and they were the three in the COY race. Quin Snyder not even a footnote.

Expect more of the same disregard this season.

The Utah Jazz are currently on a 6 game winning streak. During the win streak, they have been destroying good teams - Including beating the playoff bound Bucks, Pelicans, and Wizards (a 47 point win).

Oh - By the way, they are doing this without the one player that you knew from last year - Gordon Hayward that left in the offseason.

Oh yeah, their best player Rudy Gobert missed 5 of those 6 games with injury. And they are still winning.

Quin Synder should have won or at least been in the conversation for COY last year - but wasn't.

And he will most likely be overlooked again this year.