Consider new Utah Jazz guard Emmanuel Mudiay dedicated to his coach Quin Snyder.

The 23-year-old point guard signed by the Jazz in free agency over the summer praised the Jazz coach to assembled media on Tuesday. “He's a smart guy,” Mudiay said of Snyder. “Especially in basketball, not only in basketball.”

Mudiay, a 6-foot-5 big-bodied guard and former lottery pick who last played for the New York Knicks, heaped more praise onto Snyder, calling Utah's coach, entering his sixth year with the franchise, an accountable figure.

Further, on the point about accountability, Mudiay said “If I trust you, I'll run through a wall for you,” per The Salt Lake Tribune's Eric Walden.

Mudiay played one-plus years for the Knicks after New York acquired the former seventh overall pick from the Denver Nuggets in a three-team deal with the Dallas Mavericks at the NBA's trade deadline in February of 2018.

He averaged 14.8 points, 3.3 rebounds, and 3.9 assists in 27.2 minutes per game and 59 appearances in his first, and only, full season with the Knicks, shooting 44.6% from the floor, 32.9% from long range, and 77.4% from the free throw line.

Mudiay, born in now–Democratic Republic of the Congo, spurned Larry Brown and SMU after high school, initially being a top recruit in his class, and opted to play overseas in China. He would be selected by the Nuggets in 2015 but later lost his point guard spot to rising star out of Kentucky Jamal Murray.

The Jazz signed the unrestricted free agent in Mudiay to a reported one-year contract in July.