Joe Mazzulla on if effort is an issue:
“I don’t think it’s a long term effort thing.”
Added that in the short term, effort has been an issue.
Jayson Tatum on dealing criticism even after winning a championship:
“It comes with being one of the best players in the league. The more you accomplish, the more it gives people opportunity to nitpick at things… I’m not the first superstar in league history to deal with this.”
Jayson Tatum:
“I don’t want to blame why we lost today on it being a trap game. Everybody plays 82 games. Everybody travels. Everybody plays back-to-backs … we’ve gotta be better in all areas of the game.”
Joe Mazzulla on the criticism surrounding Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown even after a championship:
“It’s never gonna [go away]. To ask for that is just impossible. I mean, you guys wouldn’t have a job if that was the case… The most important thing is to maintain perspective.”
Joe Mazzulla says he gave Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown a timeline of a former NBA player, showing the things said about him at the beginning, middle, and end of his career to help put criticism in perspective.
“It was comical — the bouncing back and forth of opinions.”
e Mazzulla on former players taking shots at today’s generation:
“The older you get, the better you were as a player. You forget — and that’s everybody, people say that. If we all just remembered what we were then we probably wouldn’t have so many opinions of other people.”
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