Quin Snyder is Rust Cohle, the Utah Jazz are a flat circle
By Jordan White
Ed note: This guest post is brought to you by Adam Mares. Follow him on twitter at @Adam_Mares
On Friday night at Energy Solutions Arena, The Utah Jazz lost to the Orlando Magic in a much needed home game. The loss was the 8th straight for Utah and was perhaps the team’s worse loss of the season. I was able to meet up with head coach Quin Snyder on Saturday and ask him a few questions about the game and about the season thus far. He had some incredibly candid remarks about the game, his team, and much more.
Adam: Thanks for sitting down with me coach. Oh… oh wait, is that beer? Are you…
Snyder: It’s my day off, and it’s past noon. On my days off I start drinking at noon. You don’t get to interrupt that.
Adam: Okay… um, no worries. Could you describe the mood in the locker room last night after the loss?
Snyder: Well, it was dark… It was bad…. Left a bad taste in my mouth. Like Aluminum. And ash.
Adam: Well, home court has been a big advantage for this organization over the years. Tonight there didn’t seem like there was a lot of energy in the building. Is that something that the team noticed and what will it take to regain what should be a strong home court advantage?
Snyder: There’s no advantage to this place, man. This place is like somebody’s memory. But the memory is fading.
Adam: Wow, that’s… that’s dark.
Snyder: Look, I consider myself a realist, alright? But in philosophical terms I’m what’s called a pessimist.
Adam: I see. As a team, what would you say is your biggest weakness right now?
Snyder: Weakness? Shoot, where should I start? We became too self-aware. Our nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself, we are creatures that should not exist by natural law. We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self; an accretion of sensory, experience and feeling, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everybody is nobody.
Adam: Um, okay. But… this is a young team. Do you think that they will be able to progress throughout the season and fulfill their expectations?
Snyder: We all got what I call a life trap. This gene deep certainty that things will be different. We’ll go to a different city, we’ll make new plays, we’ll work hard and find fulfillment! Fulfillment! Geez, man. And progress? What does that even mean?
Adam: I mean… do you think the team will improve? Will you guys be able to solve some of the problems they’ve had over the last 8 games?
Snyder: This is a world where nothing is solved. Someone once told me that time is a flat circle. Everything mistake this team has ever made or will make, we’re gonna make over and over and over again. Death just created time to grow the things it would kill.
Adam: It sounds like you need some time alone. Maybe sleep on it, we’ll talk more later.
Snyder: I don’t sleep. I just dream.
Utah’s next game will be Monday in Sacramento against the Kings.