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Navigating Sports Pressure in Boston: Insight from Coach Mazzulla
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10/22/2024
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Now, we know that playing and coaching in Boston, in any sport, there's a lot of pressure,
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right?
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I mean, that's a tough city to play and coach in.
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This guy, Missoula, though, he's like a different kind of cat.
00:16
With the way, I guess, he thinks, the way he feels.
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They asked him about the pressure of defending and keeping it going, and he just really wasn't
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having any of that, Scotty.
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What kind of pressure do you have, do you feel, to kind of maximize this opportunity
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that you have with this group?
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Zero.
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No pressure.
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We're all going to be dead soon, and it really doesn't matter anymore, so there's zero pressure.
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You're either going to win or you're not.
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And when you win, you try to forget about it a week later, and when you lose, you try
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to forget about it a week later.
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And so, it's not pressure, it's an opportunity.
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And we have an opportunity here over the next few years, however long we're together.
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We've said this in the past.
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We have an opportunity to carry the organization forward, to double down on the tradition and
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the history of what this organization has.
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And what else would you expect in someone expecting you to win all the time?
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I wouldn't want someone expecting me to lose all the time.
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That would be debilitating.
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So we have an expectation to win.
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We have great character, great talent, and we just have to work to maximize that, and
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we're going to rely on the players to do that.
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Listen, all I know is he said, we're all going to be dead soon.
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That's all I heard.
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It's funny.
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He referenced that because there's another seven minutes of that.
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So he mentions, we're all going to be dead, win or lose, one way or the other.
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At the end, he looked at the reporters and he's just like, in my funeral in 40 years,
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none of you guys are invited.
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Like he said, I'm going to have a funeral in 40 years, none of you guys are invited to it.
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He's a different dude, Missoula.
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He's a different cat.
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Yeah, whatever.
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I think he's a tool.
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And he's got a ring, so it doesn't matter what anyone thinks of him in Boston.
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He already won it.
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He won a championship.
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When you win a championship in the NBA, you're set.
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That's it.
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It doesn't matter if you win one.
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It doesn't matter if you win as many as Riley, as many as LeBron, as many as Jordan.
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It doesn't matter.
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I mean, did the big fella get it, the Joker?
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Did he get a ring?
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Yes.
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Did he get the MVP?
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Yes.
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Did he get the finals MVP?
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Yes.
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What else is there?
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No wonder he likes his horses more.
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Once you win one, they don't even care.
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I told you, this league is built around money.
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All they care about is the money they make.
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They make so much G-damn money, it's not even funny.
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None of them care about winning or losing at all.
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All they want is that money.
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I mean, if you make it to the NBA, you are going to be rich.
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That's it.
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You're going to be set for life.
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I don't care who you are.
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The 12th man on the team is making millions.
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I mean, that's it.
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And the best players make hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Every contract.
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Every one.
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And then they stack three or four of them, and by the time they're done,
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they've made a billion dollars.
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Set for life.
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They don't care about winning, losing, playing.
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Do you think that MB gives a rat's ass about playing Wednesday against the
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Bucs that he's not playing, or George?
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Paul George has missed so many games in his career, it's like blowing a fart.
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He could care less.
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How about Kawhi Leonard?
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You talk about a guy that doesn't care about playing.
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That guy hasn't cared about playing since he was at San Diego State.
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Honestly.
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He only cares about payday.
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He knows when payday is.
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