Utah Jazz08/02
'It goes beyond basketball' — Suns coach Igor Kokoskov cherishes his bond with Utah Jazz and Quin Snyder | Utah Jazz
In his living room two decades ago, Quin Snyder knew he’d found a kindred spirit. Snyder, a young assistant coach at Duke University, had met a Serbian basketball coach interested in learning the game from America’s best. The two men spent hours and hours going over Xs and Os, trying to come up with a defensive scheme so chaotic no one could penetrate it, breaking down every aspect of the game.“We were in my living room. Pivoting. Trying to figure out how to teach footwork,” Snyder recalled. “Which is actually something we still do to.”
