Celtics-produced \u201cView From the Rafters\u201d podcast<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s the equivalent of an NBA player. Being in that car for three hours by yourself is probably how they feel being on the court for 35, 40 minutes every single night. There\u2019s obviously things you have to do to develop a team and grow as a team, but you also have to develop individuals who are going after greatness. So you\u2019re always bouncing back and forth between, \u2018OK, let\u2019s study this team dynamic,\u2019 but we\u2019ve got to study individual dynamics, too, because you\u2019re coaching high-performing individuals.<\/p>\n\u201cAnd the equivalent is high-performing drivers. They\u2019re in a car by themselves for five, six hours \u2026 and then that race is essentially like an NBA season, you know? The weather changes, you\u2019re up all night, you\u2019re working when you\u2019re tired, you\u2019re relying on other people. That one race is probably the equivalent of going through a whole NBA season. So I think finding things outside of that sport that can teach you, that can replicate it, just kind of helps you. Keeps things fresh. You can learn from it. But that was a fascinating experience.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mazzulla made an effort to watch the full race, he said \u2014 which began at 4 p.m. local time and ended the following afternoon \u2014 but had to tap out before the finish.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t really realize what 24 hours is until you\u2019re there and, like, this thing\u2019s going on all day,\u201d Mazzulla said. \u201cI tried to stay up the whole time. We made it to, like, hour 17 1\/2, and we had to go back to the hotel. But you could still hear the race at the hotel. So it was a fascinating experience.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Celtics passed the 12-hour mark of their season this past weekend, and they\u2019re near the front of the pack thus far. Entering Wednesday\u2019s matchup with the Indiana Pacers at TD Garden, Boston boasted the second-best record in the Eastern Conference (26-16) and third-best net rating in the NBA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During the NBA offseason, Joe Mazzulla likes to look outside of the basketball world for coaching inspiration. Last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3766],"tags":[7,45,75,3798,46,2675,75609,75610,75611,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-551658","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-celtics","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-boston","10":"tag-boston-celtics","11":"tag-bostonceltics","12":"tag-celtics","13":"tag-joe-mazzulla","14":"tag-joe-mazzulla-f1","15":"tag-joe-mazzulla-le-mans","16":"tag-joe-mazzulla-podcast","17":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115934944659514412","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}