Joe Mazzulla Reveals Valuable Lessons From Celtics' Previous Playoff Runs
Mazzulla has learned a lot from Boston's last three postseasons.
Joe Mazzulla Reveals Valuable Lessons From Celtics' Previous Playoff Runs originally appeared on NESN . Add NESN as a Preferred Source by clicking here . After clinching the two seed in the Eastern Conference with their historic rout of the New Orleans Pelicans on Friday, the Boston Celtics can take a moment to catch their breath before the NBA Playoffs start next weekend .
This will be the Celtics' 12th straight postseason appearance and their fourth in a row under Joe Mazzulla, who's learned a lot from the previous three, including Boston's championship run two years ago. Following Friday's win, Mazzulla revealed his biggest lessons and takeaways from the last three postseasons, two of which ended in crushing defeats. "There's no difference between a preseason game, regular season game, playoff game.
The biggest difference is people don't really watch the regular season and they watch the playoffs," Mazzulla said during his postgame press conference . "Obviously the intensity, the physicality is much different, but you can't be blinded by the margins and the details and you have to understand the process of possession basketball. " Joe Mazzulla to @jakeissenberg on what lessons he's learned from previous playoff runs: "There's no difference between a preseason game, regular season game, playoff game.
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