Joe Mazzulla
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Yeah, I mean, I think the season presents like so many tests. And I feel like, you know, we break the season down and try to, you know, give ourselves as many tests as possible. And I think there's something to be said, you know, in moments of, like you said, if a game is, for whatever reason, inconsequential, can you still practice that? You know, all the things that go in the way.
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And can you make that game like the most important game at that time? And so that was that was the goal yesterday was, you know, can we make that game the most important game? Can we make it, you know, the feeling of the anxiety, the pressure, the expectation that where you have to deliver, you have to win. And I thought the guys, you know, did a great job of that.
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No, I don't think so, because I think throughout the season you want to validate every player like one through, you know, 15 or 17. How many ever are with us at the time? Right. And I think, you know, I think sometimes the way you treat some of those games is actually a disservice to those guys because you're not putting the pressure and the expectation and the standard of winning on them.
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And it's almost as like, OK, well, we don't have our top guys today at this game. you know, doesn't matter as much. And I think it's the opposite. We don't have our top guys today. This game matters even more. And cause like, you know, development goes a lot of different ways, right?
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Like there's on-court development, but then there's also like the piece to which, you know, you can't simulate, which is like, you have to deliver every single night when, when, when, you know, when you are a Jalen or a Jason or like the top guys and you don't get to simulate that.
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And so to find moments for the guys that are working their asses off throughout the whole season, to give them three, four nights where they have to deliver, um, That to me is just as important to their development as the skill work that they're doing and the stuff that they do throughout the season.
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I think everything comes first from the DNA of the guys. Our guys have a different mindset and as competitive as they are. They're going after so many different things, whether it's championship, gold medal, what they're doing off the court in their community work, parents. They're just always going after greatness. I think I just try to feed off their personality.
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At the end of the day, you only have so many opportunities to be great and to go after something that's you know, special and bigger than yourself. And so, you know, you can't look, you got to look at, you know, you got to look at it from the standpoint of like, you don't know how many years you're going to have an opportunity to go after something so special and the greatness of it.
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So you kind of have to treat it differently. And I think the guys have that perspective. So I really just kind of feed off them.
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That is, yeah.
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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.
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I mean, clearly he doesn't want us to win or move forward. That's a good point.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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,
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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.
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And, you know, you just have a responsibility and ownership to,
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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
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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Yeah.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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Um, so yeah, I'm going to, you know, tap into some of the post post post, uh, what would you call it? Match?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I think so.
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No, you can't. But do you get rollover from season to season, and then you just use it?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Uh, you know, some anger, like you can't just be back there, like just, you know, whipping up stuff with a smile on your face all the time. You know, like sometimes you got to lock in. Yeah. You know?
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Um, is Jalen Brown going to be healthy, ready to go? He's always healthy mentally, physically, emotionally. I mean, I think that guy like people don't really understand, you know, like the warrior mentality that that guy has. Like they really don't. And his ability to, you know, navigate himself and regulate himself and like put himself through certain things.
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Like there's not a guy that trains his his mind and body the same. And, you know, who knows himself better, like, you know, from that standpoint. And he's talked about that a little bit. So, you know, he'll be gearing up and, you know, he has the ability to take it to another level just like any second.
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The first time I saw those were in Miami and I was like, bro, are we doing something? Like, what do we got going on? I thought he was using something on a fan or... But to me, it's like it's more about like just the self-expression of the guys. I love seeing all the different types of personalities that our team has to offer. And, you know, you got you got dads, you got fathers of five, three.
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You got guys that are single. You got just so many different personalities. And I appreciate that Jalen's comfort and security and who he is and his ability to express that like all the time. You know, I learned a lot from that.
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No, yeah, I was like, dude, you can't miss this. Like, you have to go. You know, like, to me, that stuff is really important to Al. If you could, if you ever, like, I'm sure you guys have, I don't know if you've seen it, but every time he starts, after he goes through the line, he does the gator chop, right? And so, like, you just know that, that...
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that part of his life, uh, you know, that, that school, that organization is that important to him and the pride he takes in it that, you know, 17 years later, he's still doing that.
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And, and, uh, you know, he's big on, on, on family and, you know, experiences that are close to him and for him to bring his son to that and, and have his son kind of be around what his dad has done, you know, throughout his journey, you just can't miss opportunities like that. Like you'll regret that, uh, you know, instantly.
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No. They did, but not to coach the team.
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They should have called in January.
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A couple of people that I knew they were talking about that I had worked with that were up for the job. Got it.
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Yeah. I like that they didn't because then they just know I can't go back.
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Yeah. Are we really good enough to do anything?
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Who ended up getting it? Derek White. Really? I didn't really hear about it until, I think, what, the Memphis game is when Derek got it? Yeah. Yeah, so I heard about it at the Memphis game, and then we kind of joked about it, and then I didn't really mention it after that.
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Love that.
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I got to lock in. Or lay low. I had to lay low for a few weeks after that one.
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We had him yesterday. We were cordial. We were good. We had him yesterday. Yeah.
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it was less about him and more about, you know, the environment. And, you know, I think sometimes, you know, like we talk about like the momentum and shifting things and, you know, that was really just kind of, that had nothing to do with him as much as it did.
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Like, I felt like that was necessary to control the arena, you know, whether it was for that, that particular moment or two weeks down the line. So that, that was like, that was just kind of a little calculated thing.
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Yeah, I haven't reached out to the Revolution coach yet. I've got to do better at that. Not a real sport. Come on. Yeah, it is. You know, I just think, like, we all carry the – it's a little bit of everything, right? We carry the responsibility, the ownership, the expectation to deliver for, you know, for this city. And so I think you can do a bunch of things.
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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.
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You've got to stick together and you've got to use each other to get through that.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Yeah. I don't have that.
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I didn't know he said that.
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So, we got practice tomorrow, so I'll make sure we take care of that.
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We'll have that clip in the Outback Center first thing tomorrow morning. I love it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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The guy's been in front of me all the time because, like, it'll be like a game today and we'll have, like, a practice scheduled on the calendar. I'm like, fellas, like, today's good, but, like, Tuesday's the big day.
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Probably like a couple times, yeah. Yeah, you got it every now and then. I knew we were going to have a tough stretch this season because Sam Cassell is our top assistant, and I rely on him because he's been around the league so much. And to this day, I still wear him out. But we were in Abu Dhabi. And we had gone like two, three days in a row and the travel was bad.
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And I was like, hey, Sam, like, you know, what should we do? Like, I think we should have practice today. And he's like, give him a day off, you know, be nice to him. And I was like, you know, you're going to fucking, you know, you're going to set it like this is going to come back to kill us. No, we're in the middle of January, and we're not playing well.
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And I was like, Sam, this all started when you took the day off in Abu Dhabi.
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No, I mean, I think both teams, like I said, every team in the league is better than us at something. Every team in the league presents a huge threat, and every team in the league is dangerous. And, you know, at the end of the day, like, you don't get to pick who you play, which is part of what I like about the playoffs.
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And whoever it is, they're going to have a great game plan, and they're going to have things that we're going to have to really work at to exploit on both ends of the floor.
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So at the time, remember they beat us on Christmas Day, which was a tough game there. At the time, it was their ability to play on transition and force turnovers. They did a great job heading into game four or three at Philadelphia. They were the best turnover-forcing team in the league, which allowed them to get out and transition.
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And then with their ability to play Yabusele at the floor, they were able to kind of stretch the defense out. So we had to change our matchups and go to some different coverages. So every team in the league can bend your identity and force you to go to different things. And I felt like this season we developed a bunch of different identities playing a bunch of teams like that.
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Yeah, I mean, I think they're, you know, the thing about them is they were really, they were great last year. Yeah, they were. They were great. Like they won 17 out of 18. This year, I think they've stayed healthy longer and they've gotten some depth with that. And, you know, DeAndre Hunter, I think Mobley has gotten better. You know, I think they're just, they're well coached.
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You know, they obviously got a great backcourt and they can play different ways, right? Like they're really versatile defensively and then they can play different ways offensively as well. But they've been this good for like two, three years in my opinion.
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I mean, I think we're going to have to sit Hank down and kind of – Give him a stern talking to about how this all goes down.
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Is there ever such a thing for Hank?
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Or like that haircut. Can you grow like the Dallas, Texas one where just the back of your head? The mullet? The mullet? No, but it's like just the back is hair and everything else is like really, really short.
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So 11 days, we've got The Accountant 2 coming out. Yeah.
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I mean, every off day in between a game. If it's as good as I think it's going to be, I'll watch it every off day in between. That first one's unreal, isn't it?
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What have you been doing for the last 15 years?
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The two, the three, like... Play off Old Faithfuls of the Town, The Dark Knight Rises, and there's a great documentary on Apple TV called Restrepo. Yeah. Have you seen Restrepo? Yeah.
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I need to. You know what I'm learning to memorize is the frog speech from Lone Survivor. Okay. How far along are we? I'll watch that scene before games sometimes. I love that. Yeah. I'm not where I need to be in memorizing it, but I'm pretty close, you know? Been around the world once. Yeah. Been around the world twice. Talked to everybody once. Uh-huh. Seen three girls F'd in the four-world fair.
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Yeah. Never shoot a large caliber man with a small caliber bullet.
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There's 28 potential games. You need 28 large caliber bullets.
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What's the rest of that one? So it's like been around the world twice. Talk to everybody. Once in three worlds. Fuck. Been to four world fairs. Let's see. And then he's like, I even drive those things are. When you hit the brakes, it goes... Here we go.
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They've got a great line about mediocrity. It's like, you know.
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Moderations for cowards.
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I like that line. Cheers, boys. Moderations for cowards. Oh, you missed the part. You missed the part about never shoot a large. I've learned a few things. Never shoot a large caliber man with a small caliber bullet.
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I like moderation.