Joe Mazzulla
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586 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 15 Apr
Joe Mazzulla’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You know, the one I hate calling is like when you're down six with like five seconds left and you're just like, it's like you're delaying your own funeral. It's like, let's just get the hell out of here. Like, I don't like, and it's like the coach thing to do to call it and, you know, drop a play.
And it's just like, there was one time like the staff was like, hey, we should call this and run a play. And I was like, we should get the hell out of here as fast as we can.
Yeah, I mean, I think that goes back to like the momentum piece where it's not necessarily the momentum, but it's like every game you can watch the game from a different perspective every time. And in every competitive arena, there's always a play or two or a shift or two to where you're like, OK, that that's it right there. Like that could be the difference between, you know, winning and losing.
That could be the difference between winning. whatever the arena is, winning the round, losing the round. And so, yeah, I mean, we try to find – the staff does that as well. You try to find as many of those situations as you can. They're just constantly coming up, and it just keeps it fresh, like the perspective to just learn different stuff.
But there's always a reason why a game or a situation shifts, and you've got to try to stay on top of that as much as you can.
I've never watched the Wheel of Fortune, but it's not just in sports. It could happen in anything else too. Like I do a lot with the kids, you know what I mean? Like, you know, a kid slipped, one of my kids slips up and does something. I'm like, see, like you keep that habit up, you know, it's going to cost you five years from now. You're never going to get student of the month. Yeah.
are you going to use any clips from Rory's masters win? So I'm going to read some stuff on that. I mean, I got a lot of respect for him and, and that to me is the ultimate, you know, like appreciation of the journey, right?
Like, you know, what, what really is success because you've had all this success and then, you know, it goes away for a little while and people put all the worldly and the external pressure on you again. And then now you're creating this thing of like, you have to have to do this. And, you know, his ability to, uh, to work through it. That was really cool to see.
Um, so yeah, I'm going to, you know, tap into some of the post post post, uh, what would you call it? Match?
I don't ever like to – I'm not the fighting kind of guy. I always try to instigate other people into doing it first. No, I've never tried to fight him, but I try to instigate people all the time if I could just get a reaction out of them. He does a really good job of not responding most of the time.
But I did everything in my power to, you know, instigate, you know, just a little bit of nastiness, you know, after one of the games.
No, I wanted him to – I wanted him to like – I forgot where it was. I think we were in Portland. And I was like, instead of getting another technical, why don't me and you just like break out into a fight like on the court during the game and you just take your – instead of taking it out on the ref and getting a tech, just take it out on me and see where it goes.
Yeah. I mean, how great would it be, like, if instead of, like, going, you know, instead of getting out of ref, you only got two, a guy just, like, beelines to your own bench, and now you're just, like, who knows what could happen.
I think so.
No, you can't. But do you get rollover from season to season, and then you just use it?
If you don't use it, you lose it. So I got to call timeouts and use my use it or lose it. Yes. Yes.
I think like the relationships with the guys, the relationships with like the entire organization. Like I said this a couple of times, like when we walk into the building every day, I'm like the fifth or sixth person that the player sees.
And so if we don't have like ultimate alignment as an organization and the, you know, the security guard or the guy at the front that opens up the door or the kitchen staff, you know, or the janitors or like if we're not all on the same page and, you know, they see the players before I do. And, you know, for whatever reason, their interaction doesn't impact winning.
Then that could change the way, you know, once the guy steps on the court, that could change the way he prepares players. you know, for practice or for a game. And so I think the biggest thing is one, you know, building relationships with the guys, but then building a relationship with all the touch points of the organization, because there's so many things behind the scenes that people don't see.
Like I said, by the time if practice starts at 11, there's like 10 interactions between the players and other employees of the organization before we even step foot on practice. So I think those things are the most important.
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