The Utah Jazz formalized and finalized their 2014 2015 coaching staff. They will be promoting Brad Jones to lead assistant, and promoting Alex Jensen to an on the bench coaching job. Johnnie Bryant returns as well as an assistant coach for player development. New members of the staff will be Mike Wells (player development), and Antonio Lang (former head coach in Japan, former Duke basketball player).
How does this batch stack up against last year? Well . . .
Utah Jazz | |||
2013 2014 | 2014 2015 | ||
1 | Head Coach | Tyrone Corbin | Quin Snyder |
2 | Lead Assistant | Sidney Lowe | Brad Jones |
3 | Assistant | Mike Sanders | Antonio Lang |
4 | Assistant | Brad Jones | Alex Jensen |
5 | AST - Player Dev | Alex Jensen | Johnnie Bryant |
6 | AST - Player Dev | Johnnie Bryant | Mike Wells |
Yeah. We don't have a lot of NBA playing experience, but all of these guys are here to coach, which is precisely what a team filled with youngsters who left school early need. They all played in college. And here are their stats.
Coach | College | Seas | G | MPG | PPG | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | |
1 | Quin Snyder | Duke | 4 | 136 | 23.4 | 6.2 | 1.3 | 4.2 | 1.4 | 0.4 |
2 | Antonio Lang | Duke | 4 | 135 | 22.4 | 7.5 | 4.3 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.8 |
3 | Alex Jensen | Utah | 3 | 99 | 10.6 | 7.0 | 2.9 | 0.9 | 0.3 | |
4 | Johnnie Bryant | Utah | 3 | 92 | 14.1 | 2.6 | 2.1 | 0.7 | 0.0 | |
5 | Mike Wells | Mt Vernon | 2 | |||||||
6 | Brad Jones | Lambuth | ? |
Yes, I have no clue how many rebounds a game Brad got in college. But yeah, we do have a few people who have at least played in college. No NBA players, but most of these guys have coached with some great teams in the NBA. So, perhaps that will serve us better in the future.