Episode 176: Joe Mazzulla

The Young Man and the Three

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Sports

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

The coaching series is BACK and this week we're delighted to welcome in, Boston Celtics Head Coach, Joe Mazzulla. Joe was gracious enough to give us an hour of his time to cover all sorts of things. So without further ado, let's get into it.

Topics include: JJ's thoughts on the tier 1 teams in The NBA including The Boston Celtics, Los Angeles Lakers and more, then Joe joins us to talk through his sudden rise to becoming head coach of The Celtics, his recruitment of JJ to join his coaching staff, what he did to lead his team through the firing of Ime Udoka last season, how an introvert handles being a head coach, his D2 coaching journey and how he broke into the NBA, learning from his mistakes and building relationships with players, what he learned about last NBA season, his strategy of not calling timeouts at pivotal moments last season, teaching Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown, integrating Kristaps Porzingis into the offense, reacting to The Milwaukee Bucks having both Damian Lillard and Giannis Antetokounmpo, his mindset heading into this upcoming NBA season and what he learned from his father and how he applies it to coaching.

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0:00.0	You're listening ad-free on One Dree Plus.
0:03.0	Welcome to the old Minute 3 with J.J. Retic and Tommy Alter,
0:07.0	brought to you by three, four, two productions.
0:09.0	This is episode 176.
0:11.0	Joe Mazula, the return of our coaching series.
0:14.0	I so enjoy doing these coaching series.
0:18.0	And for me, it's really interesting to get sort of
0:22.0	inside the mind of a coach.
0:24.0	And all that goes into coaching.
0:27.0	And we talk with Joe about X's and O's a little bit.
0:31.0	But Joe is a big on mindset.
0:34.0	And we get into a lot on mindset, both as a coach
0:37.0	and how he sort of views the mindset of players
0:41.0	and kind of connects on a granular level
0:44.0	with each player based on mindset.
0:47.0	Full disclosure.
0:49.0	I flew up to Boston on Friday to interview Joe.
0:53.0	Sat in his office had a lovely chat, pre and post interview.
0:59.0	Had no hint whatsoever that any trade was about to go down.
1:04.0	And then of course, Sunday, we find out Drew Holiday is going
1:09.0	to the Celtics.
1:10.0	So I don't necessarily think we missed anything.
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