Reading more and more into this I'm pretty happy now with the Snyder hire over Messina for several reasons:
1. Snyder has had an extensive experience in the NBA with various teams dealing with various NBA personnel. Messina has close to none.
2. Snyder had worked extensively with the Spurs offense with the Austin Toros and having spent the last year with Budenholzer trying to implement it on a team of new players. As opposed to Messina's, the Spurs system is a proven system that seems to have worked well with the Hawks this year with limited talent.
3. Snyder is younger and I think can relate much better to our extremely young team (as opposed to Messina who is older and is used to coaching more mature players)