[Highlight] Joe Mazzulla talks about potentially winning NBA Coach of the Year: “I think it’s a stupid award, they shouldn’t have it… I don’t really ever want it to be asked or talked about again.”
Ok, now I’m fine with Mazzulla getting it over Mitch Johnson (and everyone else) just so we can see his reaction when he receives the trophy
As he’s walking back to the bench he just hands it to a towel boy
Same energy.
Happy cake day!
There will be 0 reaction,
They should probably call it the coaching staff of the year award rather than be given to an individual. Awards are about recognition and recognition of the staff is a good thing
This is pretty much exactly what he has said in the past when he won coach of the month awards. So he’s been pretty consistent about not liking this recognition lmao.
In all sports, coach of the year is just a “surprise team of the year” award, so, could just name it that and give it to the whole team, players and staff.
The fact Spo never won one cements this. It’s the most narrative driven award I’m not surprised he doesn’t care when it doesn’t actually delve into the “coaching” aspect.
This is how I learn Spo has never won?? Hes the best in the league imo, that’s crazy lol
Same. Very much like Duncan never having won a DPOY, it lessens the award to have that big an omission.
Hugely agreed. Duncan is closer to the best defender ever than he is a non-DPOY. It’s not just an omission, it is an indictment of the entire voting process
considering peaks i don’t think that’s true. he had consistency though.
I’m biased and feel like Rick deserves that honor but I can’t really argue with Spo at all.
I wouldnt argue that, he’s certainly up there for me as well. I’ve said I think hes the most underrated coach, what he did last year with that Pacers squad is genuinely insane
Which year do people think Spo should have won? I agree he’s one of the best in the league, but his teams are more known for playoff runs than great regular season performance.
I’d say some time during the Heatle years when he convinced Bosh to play a spread role, but even then there were other coaches doing an excellent job.
And he was never gonna win it with the Heatles teams for obvious reasons lol
Kind of crazy that Phil Jackson and Rick Carlisle only have one award each. It really is a surprise team of the year award more than a coach of the year.
This could be his only chance to get it since it’s unlikely the Celtics would go into another season in similar circumstances.
Not sure how the other candidates look like Charlotte and San Antonio but Celtics have blown their win projection number out of the water.
I mean what year do you think Spo should have won it?
Especially this particular team. The development of Walsh, Queta, Hugo, Scheierman, Pritchard has been developing for a long time but he’s become a damn good offensive player. We all have been impressed with Brown for shouldering the load this year but he couldn’t carry us to a 2 seed without the help of the role players.
Absolutely agree
Least psychotic Joe Mazzulla quote
I hope he wins so he forced to talk about it again
https://youtu.be/whibBlbIF6E?t=58&si=8esLESVz1ebNEEML
This is how it would go down lol
God this show kills me every time
i was expecting joe pesci’s oscar speech
Whoever hands him the plaque(?) is getting a fucking Fight Coin™
“This is a stupid award. They shouldn’t have it. I don’t really ever want to win it again”
“FUCK!” Joe Mazzullla calmy acknowledging he won COTY
This was such a simple and passive response. Now when he wins and I bet the reporters pull straws to see who has to ask him about it.
Be funny if he wins it and just no one mentions it
You’d have a host of Boston media who just ignore it and like two or three national just wondering what the hell is going on
His eyes say otherwise while the reporter was asking the question.
Lmfao. Wish they weren’t always belting my team or I would like him a lot more
He belts women too, you shouldn’t like him more
There it is
I actually agree with him. All we know from the outside perspective are rotations and clock management. How can we really tell if the head coach is really calling all of the shots?
Yeah I always felt coaching discourse was silly. None of us know what’s happening in the locker room and practice. And that’s where 90% of coaching value comes from.
A D J U S T M E N T S
Sorry what? We can see what kind of actions / system the offense is running, what kind of defensive coverage, and then stylistic choices like how often does the team run in transition or are they crashing for offensive boards. These are all tendencies decided by a coaching staff.
This guy. Such a breath of fresh air.
I genuinely wish this man had letterboxd, i dont care if it was just 2 word reviews of The Town 5 times a week
you can see what he thought about nba players on this quizlet from a few years he made while he was an assistant https://pdfhost.io/v/lMHgMiGTc_Joe_Mazzulla_scouting_notes_from_Quizlet
This was when I knew we had a fucking real one.
“I’ve seen Nightcrawler about 167 times and it keeps getting funnier every single time I see it*
I’m a fan just from his statements and watching less then 7 Boston games in the last 4 years
who dares ask mazulla such foolery. O Lord, strike him down, for thy is damned.
“Clown question bro”
‘thy’ means ‘your’
thy big fat mama
10⁄10 no notes, quick learner
I hate that this mf keeps growing on me 🤣
reporter hit a soft spot
Is there a space where someone (a man) can express fatigue about something without being called “soft?” I guess he should have yelled and fired back something rude because of the audacity?
I’m with the spirit of what you wanna get at but bro that’s not what the “soft” in his sentence meant. He wasn’t calling him soft at all
The distinction being “spot spot”? A vulnerability rather than calling the man vulnerable in general? Or is the distinction I missed different?
In this case, a “soft spot” refers to a subject that provokes an unusual reaction – it’s not a value judgment on the soft - hard spectrum.
That’s not that much of a distinction here. Seems like you (hypothetical you) could just leave alone the obviousness of what Mazulla said here. He’s displeased about discussions around the award coming to him. It’s arguably not an unusual reaction from him either. He’s said a ton of “spicy” things, weird or whatever and he’s very transparent and literal with his meaning. All of a sudden he says something with some emotionally clear meaning that other people can recognize and he response isn’t “hm, I can see where he’s coming from” or “I understand him a bit better.” Instead it’s “ooo, hit a soft spot.”
Btw, I’m autistic so this experience runs deep with me. I can say 100 things people find weird and don’t register and don’t care how I take it or mean it. Then I say a thing with a meaning or tone and that is understood and the only response? It’s a frustrating experience because the one time that person is perhaps read right, rather than respond constructively to what happened, you get this almost insult-commentary about it? I know the commenter can’t actually bother Mazzulla, but I was curious.
Yeh he’s saying he touched at a sensitive subject, not that he was a bitch for reacting to it.
Anyway I agree it’s a weird comment to make, if that’s how Mazzula responds to a soft spot being struck he must be borderline in a coma any other time lmao. “Don’t really care, please don’t ask again”, couldn’t get more nonchalant if they paid you for it.
He only blinked once when he started speaking
He has a second transparent set of eyelids
Mazzulla should win the COL, Coach of Life
Well, now I want him to win it even harder
This quote is gonna go hard when he inevitably wins it
I hope he wins it and gives the exact same response.
This guy continuously wins me over
damn that was waaay classier than I expected based on the title
Yep. The title was quite misleading.
He only wants to talk about The Town
This dude more interesting than the free throw contests they call games
Where do I sign up for his newsletter?
Completely agree. Some mix of Ott, Mazula, Bickerstaff, and Mitch Johnson are the ones being talked about for COTY. But that’s entirely based on doing better than expected for all of their teams.
Lets take the Suns. Regardless of how you view Ott, the reason he is in the conversation isn’t because of his coaching but because the team is outplaying expectations. If some other above average coach took the place of Ott and we reran the season, would the Suns somehow just suck? No. The Suns have a decent roster that functions properly without KD so now they’re a play in team. But they had the roster for a play in team going into the season. The media and fans were just too dumb to realize. That doesn’t make Ott the best coach in the league? No. It just makes the media and fans dumb.
And because of the media and fans being dumb, COTY routinely goes to subpar coaches who embarrass themselves pretty soon after. Monty Williams, Byron Scott, Sam Mitchell, and Avery Johnson are all amongst some of the worst coaches. All have COTY. But they were so bad immediately after winning, that even though they’re available, they will never get hired again. And whats annoying is that up until the late 90’s this is not how COTY was determined…
That man is on the spectrum!
I know this trick
Mazzulla looks like he has to remind himself to blink. I hate the Celtics but this man is a treasure
his body language reminds me of the old family guy quote thats something along the lines of “do you listen to yourself when you talk”
“i drift in and out”
Hey don’t like the Celtics either BUT wouldn’t be surprised if he won the award…Losing Tatum almost the entire season and other key players to their last CHIP
I hope he wins it and he has an epic rant at the presentation
They should just call the award “team that ended up being much better than expected of the year”
Which is why he should get it.
What an edgelord
Am I allowed to agree?
He is a very, very strange person.
The award is the NBA meeting society’s demand to glorify the individual, which is a problematic part of our culture
Joe deflects praise because it’s not a one-man-job
His comment shows commitment to the group of people that helped him achieve success
Watch he win it now
I hope he wins it so we can see his reaction
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the problem is not the award itself, the problem is the ppl who votes on these awards. most ppl who get to vote are stupidest of the stupid in a village full of idiots
Sean Penn between drags somewhere rn: “You like Mazzulla? I love him. Love him.”
Definitely an award that’s only relevant to make a point about something loosely related. So many nba coty finalists struggle to get interviews before long. Also easy for him to poo poo after already winning a championship
Never call him 2nd row Joe again. Meanwhile in Houston….
definitely the weirdest coach in the league but i cant deny his talent
The funny thing is he thinks its stupid because of a person like Spo
But he is a national treasure at this point. He honestly believes what he is saying
He knows the award is cursed!!!!!
Amen
the long con lol, now he is gonna win. Everyone wants to see his reaction after winning it, even the voters lol
Welp, you just got yourself one 😂
He deserves it
Yeah he’s gonna win it now lol
Bro is just like me, I truly wish to be imperceptible.
He’s right that it is a stupid award.
It really just ends up going to the coach of the team that most overachieved their preseason expectations, and most of the time that’s due to the front office laying the groundwork over the several years prior (usually through tanking) so that they can have a young core come into their own.
This guy is so funny, also great reason to give it to Jordan Ott lmao
Why is he like this lol. What was his childhood.
Clearly doesn’t like blowing his own horn
He says that publicly, but privately to himself, he probably wants more than anything. it is rare in this game to receive personal accolades, especially as a coach
Joe, you will win the award and you will like it!
He is going to be the greatest one championship win coach of all time.
He’s such a douche
For wanting his staff and players to get the credit?
I had to see what kind of loser makes a comment like this so I looked at your history. Wow. You calling anyone anything derogatory is insane