Fighting and numerical increase, Celtics coach tips | Relief

Joe Mazzulla is, without a doubt, one of the most remarkable characters in the entire NBA. He starts his days with a cold bath and ends them in the chapel of his house, he plays chess with the masters of the sport, he is learning Spanish and Italian and this summer he underwent surgery after for him to win the ring, due to an injury using jujitsu. And his statements are, almost certainly, news. For the ability to surprise, above all. Last evening, when asked how to solve the number of threes launched and the ability to eliminate the corners, Mazzulla went off the deep end. And his answer is analysis.

“Basketball is one of the few sports that doesn’t power play or similar” began Joe Mazzulla in an interview on the radio program Zolak and Bertrand.Power plays are the two minutes of excellence in the NHL, when a player has a two or five minute penalty, similar to European sports such as water polo or handball.. “Let’s say they call you for a technical or unsportsmanlike foul, you have a free throw, but you don’t get a reward if you miss the free throw,” explained the Celtics coach. His solution is very simple: “after a technique, the favored team has numerical superiority for five seconds, or three passes.”

He used the example of football, with the establishment of the blue card in the future. Mazzulla is a lover of the most famous sport on the planet, Supporter of Manchester City and always use club shares citizen or videos of Messi training his players. “The player who committed the offense must go to the other end and cannot cross the court until time is up,” he suggested. Radical, but not as radical as his second idea. One that NBA commissioner Adam Silver must not be very happy to hear from the mouth of a league coach. Because Mazzulla wants to get fights back, or at least how they’re allowed.

“The biggest thing we stole from the fan, from an entertainment standpoint, is that you can’t fight anymore,” he said. Mazzulla which is already difficult to know if he is pregnant or not. “What’s more exciting than a brawl?” he continued in his defense. And he refused by comparing it to the rest of American sports. “How are the dugouts in baseball allowed to be empty and everyone fighting? How are they allowed to fight in hockey? They have bats and guns, all we have is a ball” he said tightly, referring to the hockey stick or even the puck, the sharp blade of the skates or the ice itself.

And that dealt the final blow to the league itself. “Every time someone gets a hard foul, a hit, there’s no need to go check it with the monitors to see if a crime was committed,” referring to the referee’s regular reviews. That, to be sure, is one of the problems the NBA has right now when it comes to creating a good audiovisual product for the viewer.. The breaks for calls, the slow pace of the game and the intervention of the referees are one of the problems to be solved. Bring back fighting in the NBA? Maybe not.