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NBA followers who sustain with the Boston Celtics know that head coach Joe Mazzulla lives and breaths basketball, and the newly topped champion is seemingly already scheming a recreation plan for subsequent season.
Star ahead Jayson Tatum needs his coach to benefit from the offseason and rejoice the championship slightly than diving straight into subsequent season, although.
“Joe is already attempting to attract up s–t for subsequent season,” Tatum mentioned, per ESPN’s Tim Bontemps. “And I used to be like, ‘Joe, f–k that. We simply received a championship. Take pleasure in it. Calm down.’
“Like, I am not nervous about any units that he is attempting to place in proper now. We had fun about it, as a result of he is simply so pushed — which all of us are, nevertheless it’s like, man, we labored so arduous for this. So we obtained to get pleasure from it.”
However Mazzulla’s dedication led Boston to its first title since 2008 final season, and it appears the second-year head coach is already determining how he’ll convey one other Larry O’Brien Trophy to town.
Mazzulla must wait some time earlier than he can focus on recreation plans with Tatum, as he’s in Las Vegas getting ready for the Olympics with Group USA. Tatum, who put up 26.9 factors, 8.1 rebounds and 4.9 assists per recreation final yr, might be competing in his second Olympics when he travels to Paris on the finish of July.
On the Toyko Olympics in 2021, Tatum helped lead Group USA to a gold medal behind his 15.2 factors per recreation.
When he returns from Paris in August, he can possible anticipate to have a brand new playbook drawn up by Mazzulla ready for him.
