A "berth in the conference semifinals" comes after winning a single playoff series.
Seems like some water carrying for Snyder. "Despite 6 straight playoff appearances, Snyder's teams never won more than one playoff series" is a better description of what actually happened.
ok, but that still compares favorably to more than half the league. Making the playoffs 6 years in a row (out of 8 years in charge; missed in the first 2) without a transcendent talent on the roster (I guess it was Gobert and Mitchell? Some Joe Ingles?) is an accomplishment most coaches don't achieve. It's a consistency that speaks well of team buy-in and health maintenance.
In 2017, the 5-seed Jazz beat the 4-seed Clippers in 7, followed by getting swept by the title-bound Warriors. George Hill was their #3 player behind Gobert and Hayward.
In 2018, the 5-seed Jazz beat the 4-seed Thunder in 6, a team led by Westbrook, Steven Adams, Paul George, and a still-useful Carmelo. Hayward was gone, Mitchell was a rookie, starters included him, Gobert, Ingles, Derrick Favors, and Ricky Rubio. They then lost in 5 to the peak Harden / Paul / Capela Rockets.
In 2019, the 5-seed Jazz again lost in 5 to the Rockets, with mostly the same lineup. Mitchell improved on his rookie season, Jae Crowder played a much bigger role.
In 2020, the 6-seed Jazz lost in 7 to the Jokic-led Nuggets in the bubble. Ingles started falling off at age 32, Bojan, Royce O'Neale and an aging Mike Conley played big roles behind Gobert and Mitchell.
In 2021, the 52-20 Jazz were the 1-seed, the #1 team in the league by SRS. They brushed off a Morant-led Grizzlies team in 5, who had beaten GSW in Overtime in the play-in game. They were then up 2-0 on the #2 team in the league by SRS, the Clippers, before getting blown out in games 3 and 4, lost a close game 5 at home to a monster Paul George performance (the Jazz led at half), and had a 25-point lead in the 3Q of game 6 before it got closed to 3 by the end of that quarter (41-22), and George and Beverley continued the beatdown in the 4th (40-25) to close out the series. Those Clippers would lose in 6 to the Suns, who of course then lost to the Bucks.
In 2022, the 5-seed Jazz lost in 6 to the Doncic Mavs. Was largely the same team (Gobert / Mitchell, backed by Conley, O'Neale, Bojan, and Ingles relegated to bench duty), with a rejuvenated Hassan Whiteside contributing mightily (and who we should maybe consider
signing). Snyder resigns at the end of the season.
I dunno, that's not a bad run given what he had to work with. No real down years, no humiliating playoff exits (always beat by a demonstrably better team with a star-studded top of the roster), except maybe in 2021 - when they lost to their nearest peer by SRS. How sure are we that (say) Tyronn Lue is a better coach? Steve Kerr? Pretty hard to separate the coaching talent from the roster talent, at least for me.