Navigating Sports Pressure in Boston: Insight from Coach Mazzulla

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00:00Now, we know that playing and coaching in Boston, in any sport, there's a lot of pressure,

00:09right?

00:10I mean, that's a tough city to play and coach in.

00:12This guy, Missoula, though, he's like a different kind of cat.

00:16With the way, I guess, he thinks, the way he feels.

00:19They asked him about the pressure of defending and keeping it going, and he just really wasn't

00:24having any of that, Scotty.

00:26What kind of pressure do you have, do you feel, to kind of maximize this opportunity

00:30that you have with this group?

00:32Zero.

00:33No pressure.

00:34We're all going to be dead soon, and it really doesn't matter anymore, so there's zero pressure.

00:38You're either going to win or you're not.

00:40And when you win, you try to forget about it a week later, and when you lose, you try

00:43to forget about it a week later.

00:44And so, it's not pressure, it's an opportunity.

00:47And we have an opportunity here over the next few years, however long we're together.

00:51We've said this in the past.

00:52We have an opportunity to carry the organization forward, to double down on the tradition and

00:56the history of what this organization has.

00:58And what else would you expect in someone expecting you to win all the time?

01:02I wouldn't want someone expecting me to lose all the time.

01:04That would be debilitating.

01:06So we have an expectation to win.

01:08We have great character, great talent, and we just have to work to maximize that, and

01:12we're going to rely on the players to do that.

01:14Listen, all I know is he said, we're all going to be dead soon.

01:17That's all I heard.

01:19It's funny.

01:20He referenced that because there's another seven minutes of that.

01:24So he mentions, we're all going to be dead, win or lose, one way or the other.

01:28At the end, he looked at the reporters and he's just like, in my funeral in 40 years,

01:32none of you guys are invited.

01:34Like he said, I'm going to have a funeral in 40 years, none of you guys are invited to it.

01:37He's a different dude, Missoula.

01:40He's a different cat.

01:42Yeah, whatever.

01:43I think he's a tool.

01:44And he's got a ring, so it doesn't matter what anyone thinks of him in Boston.

01:48He already won it.

01:49He won a championship.

01:51When you win a championship in the NBA, you're set.

01:54That's it.

01:55It doesn't matter if you win one.

01:56It doesn't matter if you win as many as Riley, as many as LeBron, as many as Jordan.

02:01It doesn't matter.

02:02I mean, did the big fella get it, the Joker?

02:06Did he get a ring?

02:07Yes.

02:08Did he get the MVP?

02:09Yes.

02:10Did he get the finals MVP?

02:11Yes.

02:13What else is there?

02:14No wonder he likes his horses more.

02:16Once you win one, they don't even care.

02:18I told you, this league is built around money.

02:22All they care about is the money they make.

02:25They make so much G-damn money, it's not even funny.

02:28None of them care about winning or losing at all.

02:31All they want is that money.

02:33I mean, if you make it to the NBA, you are going to be rich.

02:39That's it.

02:40You're going to be set for life.

02:42I don't care who you are.

02:44The 12th man on the team is making millions.

02:47I mean, that's it.

02:48And the best players make hundreds of millions of dollars.

02:52Every contract.

02:54Every one.

02:55And then they stack three or four of them, and by the time they're done,

02:57they've made a billion dollars.

02:59Set for life.

03:00They don't care about winning, losing, playing.

03:04Do you think that MB gives a rat's ass about playing Wednesday against the

03:08Bucs that he's not playing, or George?

03:10Paul George has missed so many games in his career, it's like blowing a fart.

03:15He could care less.

03:16How about Kawhi Leonard?

03:17You talk about a guy that doesn't care about playing.

03:20That guy hasn't cared about playing since he was at San Diego State.

03:24Honestly.

03:25He only cares about payday.

03:26He knows when payday is.

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