Don’t tell Boston Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla that this year’s training camp is a tough one. Fresh on the heels of Celtics assistant coach Sam Cassell calling this year’s training camp the toughest he has seen in 34 years of NBA basketball, Mazzulla pushed back on the notion that there was anything extraordinary about this season’s training camp for Boston.
“Everything in this world today is recency bias,” said the Celtics coach via recent reporting from Boston Globe Celtics beat writer Gary Washburn. “Every time is this is the best ever. We don’t remember the way we felt last year or two years ago or three years ago.”
“That’s just a classic recency bias of whatever you’re going through right now is the biggest, the best, the most important, the hardest, the easiest,” he continued. “None of that really matters. It depends on where you’re at in the moment.”
As for Celtics guard Derrick White, camp has not been such a brutal slog, or at least that is what he has been telling the media after practice wraps up.
“It’s been hard. It’s been fun,” offered the University of Colorado – Boulder alum. “A lot of competition, not a lot of breaks, so it’s been fun.”
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