Joe Macula liked to face the Boston press on the field

Joe Mazzulla surprised Boston reporters, who confronted each other at the Celtics practice facility. Because they ended up clashing with the coach and his staff…

The result: a 57-4 rout of the local press. Did the technician from Massachusetts want to humiliate those who deal with him every day? No way. At the last press briefing, or on the radio, he explained, on the contrary, that this meeting broke the barrier imposed by microphones, recorders and cameras.

“Thanks for yesterday, too, guys. You know, obviously I didn’t know it was going to turn out like this, but I don’t think you realize how much it helped me. I think one of the reasons there’s no stage here today is because after yesterday, I felt like we all let our guard down and were all in the competitive arena together. It meant a lot…” explains like this.

Even if the reporters were obviously no match for the former pros (Tony Dobbins, Amile Jefferson, etc.) that make up Joe Mazzula’s staff, seeing them on the field changed the coach’s perspective.

“Important process of humanization”

“It was cool to see everything in a natural environment. Sometimes you come from a competitive environment and you arrive (in the newsroom) in a non-competitive environment, where you just do your job. And that’s where things get misinterpreted. But there, we were all in the same environment, and that said things. Yesterday was very, very important. People will laugh and make fun of it was a process of humanization, but there was too much of a fun process of humanization. on the one hand and people doing their work on the other. We’ve all seen John Karalis (of the Boston Sports Journal) lose his temper with Jack Simone (of CelticsBlog), which is no different than me getting mad at a question from Jack Simone, right? It is simply a competitive reaction. The moral is that we should do it more because it humanizes the competition. And I realize how much you really love this game and care about to her. I hope we don’t consider it a joke in the long run. It was something serious. I really thought and it was important that we did it yesterday, and we will do it again. THANK YOU. I appreciated that. »

On the journalist’s sidedespite the lag (in a match that lasted only 12 minutes!), the feedback is also positive: the experience visibly brought the two camps closer together.

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