"How We Can Win This Game?"

Study great players, coaches, and teams. Julian Edelman interviews Celtics Coach Joe Mazzulla (language, situations). "Make this about how we can win this game." 

Mazzulla is a different guy. He focuses on the duality of light and dark, life and death, and competition. "I think about that thirty times a day."

"If you're going after a goal, there's probably just as much if not more dark side..."

Mazzulla wanted to discuss the opening of the 2022-2023 season, "the beginning of a journey...you can never stop learning."

Happily Miserable - the state of the Celtics. "We have a responsibility to the city...and to ourselves."

He says that ignoring Wooden, Auerbach, and Phil Jackson, the ratio of success (championships) to failure weighs heavily on failure. 

"You sign up for the journey...every chapter has a different theme."

"You have to understand everything that came before you..."

Mazzulla thinks that it's a healthy exercise to review the mistakes that both great players and great coaches made. See both the successes and the failures.

Mazzulla believes that he never had a bad coach...and that the teaching was always about more than basketball. 

What makes a great coach? 

• Teaching fundamentals.
• Puts players in a position to win.
• Honesty...
• Encouragement within perspective...

Mazzulla asks himself, "Who am I going to be?" at a moment in time. 

He said of his father's techniques (a coach), "he was always trying to win the moment" and "he was relentless." 

"The other side of responsibility is the weight that it carries." 

"Nothing is ever going to be good enough when you have a responsibility to greatness." 

Mazzulla described Huggins as "great to play for" and "**** you" and "I love you" were inextricably linked...to get the best out of you. "Success was hardship." Mazzulla's WVU club went to the Final Four. 

"The Dark Side and the Hero" are not so far apart...like winning and losing.  

Another Mazzulla-ism, on his "playlist" he asks himself whether he can come out to this music for a UFC Championship fight. 

He's a different guy. 

Lagniappe. We can't say this enough. "Control what you can control." Many say effort and attitude. Include choices - on and off the court.