Every coach in the same position would do he exact same thing....give your star the ball and let him do what he does. Some of you are just being too impatient with DM. He’s 23.....this is still season 3....and some of you guys expect him to be super star status every second of every game. Don is still developing. And the correct answer for that development is to let him make some mistakes and learn from them. Quin does exactly what every good coach would do. Give the ball to your potential super star talent and let him make mistakes, win games, lose games. Let him become what he’s going to be. His playmaking has been great in a lot of situations this season. It’s not going to be perfect every time, but he deserves the opportunity to have the ball EVERY SINGLE LATE GAME POSSESSION. The Jazz hopes of winning games or a title are on how good Donovan becomes not if we lose a game in November to Milwaukee short-handed. You show that dude you have full confidence in his ability to take you there. Quin gives it to him and draws up the play for him every time or let’s him iso and go to work and he should continue to do so every time. What’s good for DM is good for the Jazz in the long run.Okay, so here's the point I'm trying to make: as I said earlier with my reference to Doc Rivers, good coaches have multiple options (and go to players) at the end of games, we have one. And I might add, that one is a 6'1" shooting guard, that to my way of thinking has to work a little harder to get himself open for the shot. (Is there another player at that height in the NBA with a similar usage rate at the end of close games?) And as I said earlier, none of this falls on Mitchell in my view, this is Snyder's coaching scheme. Am I wrong to suggest that this highly respected coach may have some flaws in his designs?
This year, in a very small sample size, we are eighth in close game wins - this is not representative in my view. Last year however, through the course of an entire season of employing our late game Iso Mitchell strategy we came in dead last in close game wins https://www.teamrankings.com/nba/stat/win-pct-close-games?date=2019-06-14 .