Joe Mazzulla
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586 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 15 Apr
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I wish I could, but I'm not. I would love to just show up to one of their houses and they see me through the bedroom window and I have a shirt from last season on.
I mean, clearly he doesn't want us to win or move forward. That's a good point.
Yeah, I mean, if you guys ever watched The Last Dance and, you know, I think if you listen to if you watch that and you listen to some of the other guys like the Tom Brady's and those guys, they're they're they're intrinsically motivated.
That's what allows them to play for so long and to go after stuff, which I think our guys are intrinsically motivated and, you know, why they've been able to do what they've done up until this point. But then you got to kind of like just make up shit sometimes to be able to like. you know, get yourself through something. Whether you're lying to yourself, you could even be lying to yourself.
And that's why I point out like yesterday's game, like, you know, yesterday's game, I felt like it was like a game seven for me. And I was just like, like if we lose this game, like it's going to be a miserable 48 hours, you know, and I wanted that.
And so I think, you know, I'm not, I don't know if they were sitting there thinking that at the moment, but I think in our relationship, I do try to find small ways to be able to just build, you know, narrative. Sometimes they're made up, sometimes they're not, but I think you need that skill of,
you know, some short-term extrinsic stuff to where you can kind of like, you know, lie to yourself a little bit, put your own back against the wall. I think it's necessary, like, you know, especially when you're playing and being a part of the Celtics. Yeah.
when we were that, that stretch in January where we weren't playing well, I was woke up every day and told myself, I'm getting fired. If you don't tell me, I'm done. Like, and I would tell the staff to like, guys, we're done. Like, you know, we don't figure this thing out. You know, like we, we just, we don't deserve to coach here. Um,
But yeah, I mean, I think you have to kind of find that balance, right? Of, you know, this is my dream job and I would love to be here for, you know, 10, 15 years. But at the same time, like I said today, like you got to be aware of your own mortality. Like the Celtics have been great before I was here and they're going to be great whenever I'm done.
And, you know, you just have a responsibility and ownership to,
to you know to be a part of the community win as much as you can and and you know leave it a little bit better than you found it and then when your time's up it's the next guys and that's just kind of how i look at it like you know the coaching doesn't really define me you know if it happens you know the next day i gotta take my kids to school um and you just focus on the present i got i got my dream job and i gotta be as present as i can as grateful as i can but i'll make i'll make some shit up sometimes and be like man i'm definitely getting fired like you know
When I wrote down, I was like 10. I think I pulled out a letter from my 10-year-old self, and it was like, win Coach of the Month in March.
I sat my kids down and I said, listen, it's not about greatness. It's like, can you just do it for 30 days?
I don't know that we ever – I don't know if there's like one thing. I think like the journey of what we're on can be looked at from different perspectives, right? There's a one-year perspective. There's a two-year perspective. There's the seven, eight years that, you know, most of the core of this team has been together. There's the next three to five.
And so I think when you're on this journey, there's just going to be moments of – of that where I think it's almost a gift because it tests you as if like, do you really want this? You know, do you really want to go after this? Are you only competitive when it's going your way and when you're winning?
Or like, can you be as competitive and locked in and dialed in even when, you know, we're going through small reps? And so I thought it was like one of the best gifts that we could have as a team that we were going through because it made us appreciate the journey more. And like, you can't just be competitive when you're winning. Like you got to find ways to do it even when it's not going your way.
Do you believe that momentum is real? I do. I think in short stints, yeah, I do believe in that. We talk a lot about end of quarters, start of quarters, certain plays that could get a team going on an 8-0 run, a 10-0 run. How do you stop the run? So I do believe in spurtability and stuff like that that can go on within a game for sure.
Yeah.
I think it's a read. I think everything depends on like, you know, the, the situation, you know, kind of like the, where, where I feel like the team's psychology is at, like, is it a time for us to work through this? Is it a time for us to like, you know, really, you know, take a second and kind of, you know, regain the perspective of what's happening.
Cause sometimes a run happens and it's like, that's just the run of the game. And sometimes a run happens because you've allowed it to happen by turning it over, making a bad play, not reading the,
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