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 can figure out how, you know, guys that are doing it a little bit different. And you can't simulate, you know, the guy next to you having – he's got to win a championship. He's got to, you know, win this. And getting into the mindset and some of the tactics and, you know, the things that different coaches do, To me, that's just super important.
You've got to stick together and you've got to use each other to get through that.
I really like the practice plans. Uh, so I love how they, how they build their practice plans and the efficiency with which they get from like drill to drill in a practice. And, uh, you know, so sometimes we'll, you know, I'll use those practice templates, uh, you know, because even though it's three phases to a football game, there's kind of three phases to a basketball game, right?
Like there's offense to defense, defense to offense, dead ball situations after free throw. So there's so many different, it's not just, You're on offense and you're on defense, which I think a lot of people look at the game that way. So, you know, just looking at the different ways that they build practice plans, where they build a language, like how they build their playbook.
And then really fascinated by the pre-snap motion. I think you've seen a lot of teams run these NFL routes at the end of games. And so trying to really be creative about these pre-snap motions and turn those into end-of-game plays, but you see a lot of coaches doing that.
Cutting. The way you cut can open up a two-on-one for the guy next to you or the guy two passes away. Where you kind of attack from, not just attacking from certain spots. You can attack from different spots. But even more than that, the passion that he coaches with and And, you know, what the players say about him, you know, those things are just as important as the tactical stuff.
But, you know, a lot of a lot of the cutting, a lot of the two on one reads, a lot of like to move the defense. That stuff comes from soccer. That's my favorite sport to watch.
So we did, I did bend the rule a little bit because like you said, it was, it was game 81 and 82. Everything was kind of set in stone a little bit. So there was, you know, I kind of got out of the competitive arena a little bit, went to dinner the night before the first game. You know, there was really nothing at stake with the exception of, you know, going against him.
But, you know, he's been really good. Like he, he, he taught me how to be more positive, you know, and how to be more, you know, like some people just have a gift of like positive energy. Yeah.
Yeah. I don't have that.
I didn't know he said that.
So, we got practice tomorrow, so I'll make sure we take care of that.
We'll have that clip in the Outback Center first thing tomorrow morning. I love it.
Working on that today, I think the biggest thing is it's not even really for our team, right? Because we're always bouncing back between short-term, long-term. How does this help us now? The season gives you so many situations to be like, hey, this five-game stretch, we're going to simulate first round of the playoffs. This 10-game stretch, we're going to simulate. So it's not even that.
It's really just like... You just have to go in with an open mind as far as, like, there's just no one way to go about achieving your goal.
Like, if you study... Everybody focuses on the team after they win, but if you study the rounds leading up to, you know, a successful team, there's no curriculum of, like, you have to go five this one, you have to go six this one, you can't go seven here, you can't lose game one, you can't lose game two. And there's just... There's no rhyme or reason to how teams go about winning.
And so, like, we just... You just can't have any expectations. Whatever it takes, however long it takes. If it takes three overtime games six straight times, then that's what it takes. And I think being open-minded to knowing that it'll be one of the hardest things that we ever go through together will make the journey more fun.
Yeah. We were pretty good. We were 6-0. We used that road trip, that six-game road trip as like a playoff series. Okay. I like that.
That's huge. Kind of got our minds off of like being on the road for 13 days. And like every team we were playing, you know, they were better than us at one thing. And we would like really fought to like take that one thing away. And that was a good trip for us. And, you know, I thought that gave us, I thought that brought us closer together as a team.
Yeah, I mean, I'll watch it. And then as soon as it's over, that's when we'll like, you know, tomorrow's a big day. You know, one of the biggest days in our history with practice, which, you know, I think is the best. You know, tomorrow night. I'm being serious.
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