Trae: I hope Hawks coach Snyder is 'my Steve Kerr'

Atlanta Hawks star Trae Young has high hopes for his new head coach.

Speaking with Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green at the at the UNINTERRUPTED Film Festival, Young said he hopes he can win multiple NBA titles under Hawks coach Quin Snyder.

"Hopefully Quin, for me, is my Steve Kerr," Young said, via The Volume. "I hope Quin is the guy that we win three, four championships with. I mean, that's my plan."

Kerr, the Warriors' head coach for the last nine seasons, took over the team from Mark Jackson in 2014.

Golden State rattled off 67 wins in Kerr's first campaign and captured the franchise's first NBA championship since 1975. The Warriors went on to win four titles in Kerr's first eight seasons as coach.

Many credit Kerr for the pass-heavy, movement-oriented offense that helped maximize Stephen Curry's elite shooting. Curry won back-to-back MVPs in Kerr's first two seasons as coach and ascended to superstar status, leading the league in scoring twice.

Snyder, whom the Hawks hired in February after Nate McMillan's dismissal, was known for a similar team-oriented system in his eight seasons with the Utah Jazz. Utah made six playoff appearances under Snyder and had the NBA's best regular season record in the 2020-21 campaign.

Young averaged 26.2 points and a career-best 10.2 assists last year but did not earn an All-Star appearance after making it in two of the three previous seasons. He feuded with McMillan, including an exchange in December that reportedly led to Young choosing not to attend a Hawks home game while he was sidelined.

The Hawks went 29-30 under McMillan last season and 10-11 under Snyder's watch. They beat the Miami Heat in the play-in tournament to earn the East's No. 7 seed but lost in six games to the Boston Celtics in the first round of the playoffs.