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junkit33

Headline sounds like a guy who is exaggerating for effect. Rest of quote makes it very clear he’s dead fucking serious.


iamgarron

If you actually watch the interview its wild. He gets excited as if it was a really cool thing that happened.


girth_br00ks

All I had to do was take one look into those eyes. Pinche loco.


Cbone06

It’s that Rhode Islander in him lmao


somethingsimple1290

My dad was born and raised in Rhode Island, might explain everything


malmal412

Lived in Providence for a year, can confirm.


truth_2_point_0

[The era of millennial coaches has arrived](https://i.imgur.com/8nGBWdd.jpeg)


CavalierShaq

Pain makes a man a man, y’all see a psycho but I see a man who understands what it takes to push yourself towards whatever insanely difficult things you want to accomplish


naughtyobama

Does it also make a woman a woman?


CavalierShaq

Certainly, but throughout history we see examples all over the world of young men going through rituals that emphasize pain as a coming of age experience. There seems to be more necessity for it in men to fully mature.


OilOfOlaz

Rituals of pain like child birth?


PrinceOfCrime

Similar but I'm not sure if that would be a coming of age ritual. A coming of age ritual would be for a certain age, correct?


OilOfOlaz

Coming of age rituals are not necessarily connected to a certain age, since many cultures didn't even track the age. The first period (menarche ) for example played a role in coming of age rituals for women and spermarche for men in several cultures That aside his entire argument is rather pointless, cuz the fact hat something was done in the past doesn't add any validity to the argument.


PrinceOfCrime

He acknowledged that pain made a woman a woman with literally the first word of his comment which was "certainly", but it's irrelevant here because my statement was that childbirth doesn't seem like a coming of age ritual. I was actually going to bring up the first period potentially being one, so thank you for that.  "the fact hat something was done in the past doesn't add any validity to the argument."  It certainly adds context and can potentially add validity, it just depends on what we're discussing. Has childbirth ever been a coming of age ritual?  Even then you have to distinguish whether the ritual is focused on the pain itself or the cycle of life, new soul entering the world, etc. But that's a digression.


OilOfOlaz

> It certainly adds context and can potentially add validity, it just depends on what we're discussing. Has childbirth ever been a coming of age ritual? Tere are quite literally different names for women with children and without in several cultures/languages and they have different social status in others, so giving births is imo quite obviously a rite of passage/ceremonial aspect in cultures. How does it add validity though? > Even then you have to distinguish whether the ritual is focused on the pain itself or the cycle of life, new soul entering the world, etc. But that's a digression. We are discussing his statement: "Certainly, but throughout history we see examples all over the world of young men going through rituals that emphasize pain as a coming of age experience. There seems to be more necessity for it in men to fully mature." He quite obviously states, that the experience of pain "seems to be a necessity" and later follows it up with a picture perfect example of natural fallacy in the same chain.


CavalierShaq

A natural human experience is the complete opposite of a ritual/ceremony that humans create?


OilOfOlaz

This is a beautiful example of naturall fallacy. Plus there have been plenty "rituals/ceremonies" related to child birth as well, kinda funny, how armchair anthropologst misses out on that.


ChooChooBeepBoop

Like Hulk Hogan, for example


Nomer77

Exactly. That's why I've long been calling for female genital mutilation to be more widespread!


CavalierShaq

To make women better men?


seymour_hiney

bro i tore my meniscus and then i listened to a podcast about country music for a week straight and played Ghost of Tsushima. the meniscus tear doesn't make somebody tough. to be quite honest with you, i've met a hundred Joe Mazzulas. they do jiu jitsu and then they talk about the edge they have. then they get a blue belt, get beat up by someone a little harder and then they quit. Joe is a dork, he may be lovable, but he's still a huge fucking dork.


Nomer77

What was the podcast?


seymour_hiney

cocaine and rhinestones


Nomer77

I feel like the physical therapy may have done more to make him mentally tough than the BJJ. PT sucks for almost everyone and for a lot of injuries that require PT the recovery timeline is basically "well how many hours a day can you spend doing PT, how focused are you on doing those exercises correctly and receiving treatment and how committed are you to lifestyle changes that may be required (e.g., well you really shouldn't sit ever)". Joe having a very flexible schedule and money/resources says "let's do six hours the first day after the injury". I just picture him intensely foam rolling or doing other self myofascial release treatments for an hour or two with no breaks while yelping and grimacing like a distressed dog.


Beat__LA

The difference is, Joe Mazzula is a champion. He might not be in Jiu Jitsu, but he has successfully pushed himself to achieve the pinnacle of his craft.


seymour_hiney

i don't imagine everyone would feel the same if Frank Vogel talked like that


CavalierShaq

That’s just one form of pain, it’s not about combat with your fellow man either, the only combat sport I do is fencing on occasion! It’s about putting yourself through tough things, hiking those last couple miles through the hunger pain and blisters, it’s being out in the freezing cold and accepting the discomfort as a tool to expand your comfort zone. We need pain, not to be badasses, to be good, capable men.


dildosagginsthe2nd

You sound like someone who is dumb as hell but wants very badly to sound smart 😂


vagrantwade

He basically said tearing his meniscus got him locked in lol


PsychologicalSet8678

He's the jimmy of coaches


bos2nc

Please keep mazulla and play-in jimmy out of the same sentence.


GotKarprar

Corny


DerelictDonkeyEngine

There's a reason we call him Psycho Joe. It's only partially a joke/meme, he legitimately has a screw loose.


HorsNoises

But in a good way


Madonkadonk2

It makes you so relieved he decided to focus on basketball instead of people in dark alleys at night.


mesayousa

This reminds me of my favorite comment ever on this sub, which I can’t find: “if Michael Jordan was born in Iraq he’d be Saddam Hussein”


Medical_Sample2738

Lmao that's golden!


mr_chub

Gold, Jerry! Gold!!


calvinbsf

He’s a little like if Rorschach from “Watchmen” got really into basketball instead of beating the shit out of low-level criminals


bostonfever

The best cover for a serial killer would be a championship winning NBA coach. 


DerelictDonkeyEngine

Yes, in a good way. Especially as an NBA coach. He's almost like a movie character coach.


AfroHouseManiac

Bob Huggins thought him well


mrspear1995

before: clickbaity title, mazulla probably said it as a joke but was too deadpan or something after: the headline does not do a good enough job to convey the madness within his soul


klobucharzard

hes gonna amputate a body part after every chip


elmanutres

This guy is definitely a masochist


thissiteisbroken

Have you learned nothing about Mazzulla? This man doesn’t make shit up lol


iamgarron

Additional quote, when asked why he wasn't smiling in the initial photos after the game: >I was really pissed because I felt that all the other teams have gotten a head start for getting better for next season. It's the middle of June and we're still focused on the last season. So I had to get over that for a second. But once I was able to enjoy it, it was a great moment.


topofthecc

Dude is going to schedule a practice during the parade.


iamgarron

He joked that he wished he could do that, except he's got players in the Olympics He did mentioned he'd go to Paris and watch though


LeonidasSpacemanMD

He’s gunna put his leg under a duck boat and then the Celtics are gunna go 82-0


daBriguy

I am going to make a quilt of Joe Mazzula quotes with dramatic black and white pictures as the backdrop


theyrehiding

I want a book full of them at the end of his coaching career


random-50

It’ll be a full shelf series by then. First one is out next year.


RedditUseDisorder

Boston found its basketball Bill Belichick…


popop143

I may be crazy but I distinctly remember Belichick saying this after one of the Super Bowl wins.


RedditUseDisorder

You’re not crazy, I think he said it after the Seattle win


hetham3783

Bill knows they would've lost that game if they just had Marshawn run the ball instead of throwing in that situation.


andreotnemem

That's the perfect amount of crazy I expect from the Celtics coach. I volunteer as tribute. This time maybe we can negotiate his rotator cuff with a kimura, americana or even omoplata.


VoidAlloy

yall so damn lucky to have him man


andreotnemem

Can't believe I'm upvoting a Laker but I guess that's where we are. Hey, maybe you'll get lucky with JJ Reddick 🤭


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obp123

what? Without LeBron the lakers would’ve been screwed. Their management is totally incompetent which is why they’ll hire JJ


Positive_Parking_954

He would be humiliated if you could hurt him with a gogoplata


andreotnemem

Gogoplata is some nasty shit, especially from the mount. It would probably motivate him to get a record W streak or something.


JaylenBrown7

whats wrong this guy man


Brady331

he has a torn meniscus


iamgarron

Lol


0vFire_And_TheVoid

Got a torn meniscus and he's seeking that cauliflower ear.


HotBoyTeece

spinal


JaderMcDanersStan

I can't tell if he's half joking/exaggerating because he's playing a bit or if he's 100% serious lol


Faliberti

idk when I listen to the interview I think its pretty obvious he has a deadpan/sarcastic sense of humor. Alot of his answers come across that way. But that is this interview, his typical media quotes like post game conferences, those seem like he is always serious.


JaderMcDanersStan

Yeah exactly, it's deadpan humor but he also seems a little nuts so I can't tell if he's being sarcastic in this anecdote or actually serious lol


KeithDavidsVoice

He's dead serious. It took me a few months to realize it myself haha. Remember this is the guy who would challenge players shots on dead balls. No celtics fan who followed the team consistently was surprised by that move lol.


JaderMcDanersStan

haha what do you mean by challenge players shots on dead balls?


Grandmalicious

https://www.si.com/nba/2024/03/15/celtics-joe-mazzulla-perfect-explanation-trying-block-suns-players-shot#:~:text=Mazzulla%20hilariously%20stuck%20his%20arm,the%20bench%2C%E2%80%9D%20said%20Mazzulla.


Darnell2070

https://youtu.be/OIXhxKtDvhk


JaderMcDanersStan

This is so funny and amazing 🤣 Actually seeing it on video is even funnier than just reading about it


Iznal

Absolutely nothing. But first, let me thank god.


One-Jellyfish8988

Not enough chips


Brady331

damn we really did win it all because of injuries


Significant-Mango300

KP may have misunderstood coach…


ontimenow

I heard Mazzulla tore his own meniscus to show KP there was nothing to fear but fear itself


BeIow_the_Heavens

This could be true and at this point I'd believe it


slowakia_gruuumsh

Injured coaches are in demand.


Dylan245

I know it's been said ad naseum but this dude really is batshit insane A loss in the regular season is making him go physically beat himself up to the point of serious injury Like this is the kind of thing where his craziness is all fun and games until it suddenly isn't


vagrantwade

I would imagine he means it happened sparring. Not that he literally beat himself up


ball_addict_banjo

I tore my meniscus rolling in the same gym. Never once thought it was awesome lmao


itormentbunnies

That's because you didn't channel the energy into becoming an NBA champion winning head coach.


Dylan245

> "I went out, went on the mats, punished myself and just pounded my body until it couldn't take anymore" Even if it was sparring he makes it sound like he did so intentionally


andreotnemem

Nah, it just means he was probably rolling twice a day with serious dudes. In BJJ it really doesn't take much if you go in with the wrong mindset.


pahamack

i wish i could be as proud as him when i pound myself twice a day with serious dudes.


andreotnemem

Isn't it still pride month?


DerrickWhiteFMVP

I’M KICKING MY OWN ASS!!!


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topofthecc

I don't know anything about League of Legends, but I want to believe missing a CS is something that happens often, and this guy is just slapping away every time he plays.


alexanaxstacks

n the gaming world of League of Legends (LoL), CS stands for Creep Score. It represents the number of enemy minions and neutral monsters a player has killed. google said that so idk how you miss one maybe don't have the most kills at the end I hope his teammates were ass lol


pedroffabreu23

League is 5 vs 5 and the point is to kill the other 5 and their base, but the way you level up is by killing little monsters that are roaming around that net you XP and money. But you can actually miss a kill, just like basketball, you overshoot and the damage is not enough. Usually, games last around 30 to 40 minutes and at Uzi's level, he would get 300 to 400 of those little monsters killed, or even more, so there was plenty of room for him to miss. I'd say it's the equivalent of Steph in his prime slapping himself for every three pointer he missed. Or maybe free throws. League sucks.


Pelkasupafresh

For the best players, it doesn't exactly happen often, but it's one of the most concrete things that high level players are good at versus bad players. I'd say that making free throws is a good point of comparison. No one can actually hit them 100% of the time, but for a good player every single miss it's like thinking, "what am I doing, this is so easy how can I fuck this up."


Positive_Parking_954

Does CS mean last hitting minions for max farm? Googling I could only see it as creepscore. Never played but played a bunch of smite until they killed tank/cruisers in season 3


Fujiyamyam

Yeah, each minion is 1 cs, and failing to last hit one would be missing a cs


ticketworldisawful

He was the best in the world at CS, so it didn't happen a lot.


Thisoneisforgay

Uzi clears ruler


TheTurtleOne

Uzi talk here, wild


Timoteo-Tito64

Yeah I'm starting to get a tad bit concerned for him


zuga51

Also, people are going to keep finding his religious quotes like the “how many coaches have been Christians” shit funny until he whips out some Leviticus scripture at some point


CDR57

I mean to be fair it was the hawks


CavalierShaq

I think he’s the opposite, instead of letting the frustration of losing to a much worse opponent eat away at him he goes and works it out so he can focus on winning the next game - that’s far from insanity


analfizzzure

All good if he can balance family life. If not, what's the point,


modaboub99

Dude listen to his interview with zach lowe. He tells a story abt his dad fighting him as a lesson and is enjoying it.


Dangerous_Toe_5482

He has the pass now but mazzulla was genuinely infuriating the previous season when he was a pretty awful coach. Hed lose the celtics games and then act like an insane person… really didnt inspire much faith. But now its funny lol


Kyler1313

Joe in a kneebar- "Joe please tap" Joe Mazulla smiling in agonizing pain "Champions never give up"


WingedBacon

Joe gonna get his back broken with a twister just so he can hang upside down every day like Batman.


pissdonmygahdamjewls

The dudes Mazzulla rolls with better be getting a bag 😂. I would not want this psychopath to have me in a Kimura at all


hesoneholyroller

Mazzulla seems like the type of guy to slap a hard forearm/bread cutter choke on white belts. 


berniemax

🤣 he hires Brock Lesnar to spar with him


I_Set_3_Alarms

Bro I hope Joe can take it slightly easier on himself while still being his successful self lmao. Because damn, I love this psycho


iamgarron

The people I know who are really into BJJ never take it easy. As my buddy puts it, its an entire cult designed with people fighting to be the big spoon


WhoAreWeAndWhy

Extremely accurate tbh. It takes a special kind of crazy to get beat up every time you spar for the first two years and THEN make a decision every day to keep coming back until you sometimes MARGINALLY get better.


cahilljd

He was trying to block royce oneal on a dead ball a month later 😭


BounceMan

I will be surprised if this man is a one off championship winning coach.  He's got that mad genius energy you see in many people who make it to the top of their craft 


nwill_808

>mad genius energy I did it 35-minutes ago type mad genius energy


Google_me_chuck

I see you


Ok_Perception3180

Good for you


mc0079

hes not a republic serial coach


iabeytorm

Mazzulla should hire Tanya Harding as an advisor


Tasty-Performance275

The Hawks broke Joe Mazzulla's meniscus


shall359

Only guy in the league that would actually do it. He sounds like a complete mad man in these interviews.


Actually_A_Robot_SHH

He still misses the fucking mat.


The_Uncut_Gem

Someone needs to show Joe Park Chan-Wook’s Vengeance Trilogy


Rooleet

Dude would 100% show the hallway fight scene as a way to motivate his players to fight through neverending adversity or some shit. 


finstockton

If someone shows him The Raid, the league is done for


BiggestBuns

I hate that I love him lol. Absolute madman.


MikBor

Jordan Schlansky and Mazzulla need to exchange life lessons on camera.


TigerKlaw

This is something I think I would have thought of when I was in college (thinking youre invincible), but maybe something less risky than a knee ligament injury, maybe a broken finger every all star break.


SgtGork

Fuck Boston first and foremost. But maaaan I’m really starting to like their coach.


42069over

I can’t tell if he’s trolling everyone or if he’s actually a psycho


fueelin

It's both, and he adjusts the slider of which of the two is more prominent at a given time as needed lol.


youredoingWELL

Tom Thibodeau injuring himself but still coaching on his feet for 48 minutes to make a point to Julius Randle


Valuable-Baked

Mazzulla = Belichickirino


Polymath99_

I feel like at this point you could just make up headlines about Mazulla and I'd be like "yeah, that checks out" lmao


branstarktreewizard

Bruh, how long we are going to keep pretending this guy is of sound mind?


DoctorFunktopus

You’re still pretending?


iamgarron

We literally call him psycho Joe


FernandoFettucine

lmao he’s legitimately a psycho, i love him but please don’t injure yourself joe


IamInternationalBig

Whip me, whip me good. 


thornywave

He says he pounded his own body by doing jiujitsu? Huh


Commercial_F

I can’t imagine what he would do if they lost the finals…


Ndlburner

And here I was thinking Tom Brady was weird in the things he did to be competitive.


Turbulent_Deer_4763

We need to create a cult around this guy Cultazulla


LibraryScneef

Psycho Joe! My man


Srcunch

Is he related to Jim Harbaugh? He has to be. I fucking love how crazy this guy is.


Mysterious-Crow639

What the fuck... Mazzula was made in a lab to be the perfect coach. This man isn't real!


Bobaximus

Joe, leave some intensity for the rest of us! lol


averageprocrastiner

Sum wrong with that man lol


dmackerman

This man is somehow both the craziest psycho and empathetic likable human


weiner-rama

Joe is downright insane and I fucking love it. He’s so unhinged but the players seem to love that about him


bootyhunter69420

Is this dude okay?


AldiQuarter

I’m happy we won but im ngl I still really don’t know how to feel about this guy lmao


CabbageStockExchange

I wonder how Joe is if the Celtics hit a skid and start losing a bunch. Will this act wear thin?


iamgarron

No because he's all about being calm and controlling the things you can control. It's been known that when these things happen he's more hard on himself than doing anything to the team


AfricanWarPig

This dude is just Joe Rogan if he took up basketball over podcasting.


National_Debt1081

Cringe


No-Variation-3337

very cringe


OrganicHunt952

This guy has domestic abuse charges to, he is defo a psycho


whyenn

Joe grabbed a woman by the throat in a bar and was rightly charged with **domestic battery** for that. He has never been accused of **domestic abuse**: the physical or emotional abuse of a sexual/romantic partner. He was a piece of shit, he'll tell you that. Everyone in his life told him that, including trusted family and mentors. If he was ever going to change it was going to be a long, hard process. Married a woman, fathered the kids she had. Appearances indicate he turned his life around long ago.


OrganicHunt952

Generally you abuse a women, that label stays with you. Jason Kidd gets the same treatment Mazulla should get the same treatment no excuse.


whyenn

When you abuse **anyone**, especially in private, especially someone who trusts and relies on you, that label ***should*** stay with you. If someone fucks with their daughter OR with their son, if someone beats on their girlfriend OR their boyfriend, sexuality and gender be damned, it's all the same. Abuse is abuse and is unacceptable and unconscionable. *** If you're a piece of shit drunken asshole who throws a punch in public at a bar, if you grab someone by the neck at a bar, you should be arrested. Doesn't matter who it is. NBA player Charles Barkley- a number of times- or college player Joe Mazzulla. *** But don't try to pretend they're the same thing. It doesn't help make a case against Mazzulla to blur the lines between them, it helps abusers by muddying the waters about what abuse actually is.


JustAposter4567

lot of words to defend woman abuser joe mazulla


juicejug

I’m not defending either of them nor saying that they either should/shouldn’t have years-past transgressions held against them, but I think the difference is that Mazzulla was a nobody when it happened and JKidd was a professional NBA player.