Hawks Coach Quin Snyder Explains why he got upset After His Ejection From Game vs Raptors

24/02/2024 Raymond Basketball 0

Snyder was ejected from Hawk’s game vs Toronto.

The Atlanta Hawks hosted the Toronto Raptors in their first game following the All-Star Break with the intention of kicking off the second half of the season strong.

Atlanta fell 123-121 to the Raptors, their third straight defeat, for a variety of reasons. The fact that they were without their head coach for two and a half quarters may have been one of those causes.
Poeltl was not called for a clear moving screen at 4:27 in the second quarter, and Young went down in agony. Snyder got dismissed after complaining with the referee over not getting called for anything.

 

Snyder explained to the reporters after the game why he disagreed with the call in the manner that he did and what infuriated him:

“It was a foul. He turned his body and that is an automatic foul. That is the call and obviously my reaction, I normally don’t react like that to any foul, but in that case, I saw Trae (Young) take a shot in the quad and I was concerned about his knee frankly, then he was on the ground and I was worried that he was hurt. So, I probably deserved the technical, that was the rationale, I don’t know why the second came when it did, typically you get one like that and there is some level of understanding, my player is on the ground and could be hurt.

So, like I said, my reaction was certainly an emotional one and that was the reason why. You see it on the film, it is clearly contact. The feet are wide, which is an illegal screen to begin with, the body turns, and you get a guy that takes a shot in his quad and it looked to me initially like it was his knee so that was why I reacted, but that was not the game.”
This was a game that the Hawks had an opportunity to win. The Hawks would have won if Bogdanovic had shot better, Young had played better, Capela had made fewer early-game mistakes, and the Hawks had shot better in the second half. However, it was the Hawks’ third consecutive defeat, and they are still in 10th place in the Eastern Conference.

The Hawks’ next chance for victory will come on Sunday when they play the Orlando Magic at home.