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0:03[music]
0:09>> It's an overwhelming characteristic
0:11[music] of yours.
0:13Probably if I could pick one word we
0:15have said in our probably thousand hours
0:17now of doing our pre-game conversations
0:19over these years, humility is probably
0:22the word that comes up most
0:24>> but I can also see where like trying to
0:26you know, I would also say like
0:29I can see where trying to remain humble
0:31also comes off prideful. So I think
0:32there's a balance there. Like I wouldn't
0:33I wouldn't necessarily call myself
0:35humble. I would say I'm aware of what
0:36humility looks like and I try to
0:38understand that but I wouldn't
0:39necessarily say I live up to that all
0:41the time and so my wife reminds me of
0:43this sometimes and she's right of like
0:45sometimes in the pursuit of going after
0:46that you actually come off looking
0:47worse. And so like I would say that's
0:49something that like I struggle with too.
0:50So you know, I think that's like a it's
0:52a tough balance, right? Because
0:54uh you know, you want to pursue that but
0:57in your pursuit of it you're you're not
0:59always going to reach it. So I mean that
1:01could be a moment where in my pursuit of
1:03trying to look at it from that
1:04perspective that it comes off a
1:05different way. So that's something that
1:07I could work on.
1:08>> The pushback I think from people came
1:10from the fact that this is the Boston
1:12Celtics and the history is important to
1:14everybody and you say that
1:16KC Jones isn't forgotten. Red Auerbach
1:18isn't forgotten. Doc Rivers just went
1:20into the Hall of Fame. He's not going to
1:21be forgotten and that while it isn't
1:23your goal to be remembered that part of
1:26the responsibility of being the coach of
1:28the Boston Celtics and having the
1:30stewardship you have and being say I
1:32don't know the voice of the Celtics for
1:3426 years
1:35>> Yeah, yeah.
1:35>> you recognize you're a you're a brick,
1:39right? Look at these bricks behind us.
1:41You're a brick and that
1:42that brick isn't going to be forgotten
1:44because when you come back one day as a
1:47cuz you're going to you said you want to
1:48come to the games, right? When it's all
1:49over and you're not the coach anymore,
1:51you're going to come to the games. Feel
1:52free to sit in on the broadcast. Uh
1:54you're going to come
1:55>> Open invite.
1:56>> in the building
1:57>> [laughter]
1:57>> Immediate no.
1:58>> But you're going to look up and you're
1:59going to see
2:012024. No matter what happens from this
2:03day forward, and I think people will
2:05say, "Yes, but what does he mean he
2:06wants to be
2:07>> Well, so I guess it's also two different
2:09perspectives because there's and uh and
2:12and this goes back to like there's three
2:13different people in the room. And the
2:16the people I everyone always says like
2:20the perspective of yes, when it's all
2:22said and done and I'm all done, what I
2:24love to come back here and be one of the
2:26bricks of like yes, we laid that
2:28foundation.
2:29While you're still in the arena.
2:31And I'm actually and I'm asking myself
2:35having only one
2:38And and this is a personal struggle. So
2:39I can you know, they people want to take
2:41this the way they want to, it doesn't
2:42matter. I'm being as vulnerable and
2:43honest as you can. Since winning and
2:46being a part of the Celtics where the
2:47best has won 11, one guy's won three,
2:50two, like
2:51the the pursuit towards the next one
2:54is the hardest thing.
2:56And I'm asking myself, I'm not sure
3:00what's harder, not getting one or only
3:02having one when you're a part of the
3:03greatest organization of all time. And
3:06so the answer to that question when
3:08you're all done and you exit the arena
3:09is very simple.
3:11I'm very you're grateful, your gratitude
3:13Doc Rivers, he's in the Hall of Fame,
3:14he's an amazing coach. The answer to
3:16that while you're in the arena is you
3:18cannot be happy with that because you're
3:20trying to go after another one. So like
3:22the other internal struggle is that of
3:24like there's the in the arena of like
3:27how do you appreciate something knowing
3:29that you have to get you have to get do
3:31it again. You have to.
3:33But then once you exit, whether you do
3:35or you didn't there's an appreciation
3:37there. And so
3:39that's that's a very that's that's the
3:41perspective that I'm always looking at
3:42is like right now for however long I'm
3:44still here.
3:45One's not enough.
3:46So like I I I can't
3:49you know, be a part of history or focus
3:51on one or like man I I set a brick like
3:54they're going to come back in 2024 like
3:55that's not good enough. That's not going
3:56to help us get to getting the next one
3:58sooner than later. What will is
4:02you know the the space of almost
4:03forgetting that you you did it. Because
4:06you got to take your mind to a
4:07completely different level to try and go
4:09after that. And so it's a it's internal
4:12tug of war and conflict of like the in
4:13arena perspective versus once I leave
4:15this you look at things differently.
4:17>> See that's not what got into people's
4:19algorithm.
4:20>> And that's the it's not.
4:22>> but I also didn't elaborate on it well
4:23enough.
4:24>> Yeah. Well that's why you're here.
4:25>> But [laughter] I don't think that's why
4:26I'm here but it came up so thanks.
4:28>> I think part of the thing that I want to
4:30emphasize there
4:31>> But it's a question that I'm asking
4:32myself. It's like while you're still in
4:34this
4:35one's not enough. So you have to have a
4:37balance of being ungrateful and grateful
4:40for already being a part of Celtic
4:41history.
4:42>> Duality.
4:42>> Which is a hundred which is really hard.
4:44It's really hard to look at from the
4:46fans perspective of like yes we made
4:48history you know we're going to be
4:49remembered and while you're in the arena
4:51of like I can't be grateful for that
4:53because I need to get another one. And
4:55we have to take it to another level from
4:57a mentality standpoint and do everything
4:59like you know there's been some people
5:01that I've talked to that I've tried to
5:02learn from since we've lost because
5:04losing hurts more. After you've tasted
5:06winning losing hurts way more.
5:08And that's what I'm learning and so
5:09we're on this journey um we're on this
5:11journey this process is going to take
5:13time. You have to go go through stuff
5:15but the people who have gotten extra
5:16have said the second one is way harder
5:17than the first and like it's almost and
5:19it's all mental. And you have to
5:22you know for lack I can't say the word
5:23that I want to say but you got to you
5:24have to mind
5:25>> Yeah yeah you can absolutely
5:27>> to you have to be able to do that and
5:29and that tug of war stuff. So it's a it
5:31is a duality it is a it is a conflict
5:33but it's something that you have to
5:34learn to leverage.
5:35>> But that drive I think is something that
5:37when someone just sees that clip in
5:39their algorithm
5:41they might lose sight of that that
5:42you're kind of
5:44I don't know if they pick up on the fact
5:45that you still have that drive. Like
5:47that is your goal is to win every year.
5:49You're not saying you want to be
5:50forgotten because you didn't win enough.
5:52You're saying you want to be forgotten
5:53because no matter how much you win, you
5:55want the next group to win more.
5:57>> And that's the responsibility to the
5:58Celtics is leave it the same or a little
6:01bit better than you found it and then
6:02set it up to where
6:04the next guy does so well that they get
6:06happy about him, you know, and and I
6:07think and again it it was a
6:09generalization quote but it's the it's
6:10the principle and the concept of what it
6:12means of like you know, get as many as
6:15you can, build it up as far as you can.
6:17Uh when you surrender to the fact that
6:19your own mortality and it's someone
6:20else's time,
6:22wish for them to do it even better and
6:24and be a part of that. And I think
6:25that's that's kind of what it's about
6:27and that
6:28Yeah.
6:28>> It's part of the privilege and pressure.
6:30>> Yeah, I mean, you know, it's it's it's
6:32part of it.
6:33>> Good transition to uh our favorite game,
6:36random questions with Joe.
6:37>> Oh, no.
6:38>> Shall we get into it?
6:39>> Sure.
6:39>> All right. We do this every year with
6:40Joe. Sometimes it's rapid, sometimes
6:43it's not but
6:44>> People mail these in?
6:45>> Yeah, yeah, yeah. These are straight
6:46from the mailbag.
6:47>> [laughter]
6:48>> It's like leave them door with
6:49>> Yeah, you don't want to know what we
6:50would get in there.
6:50>> I actually I do. I would like to read
6:52those aloud.
6:52>> We can try that. All right, everyone in
6:53the YouTube comments submit your
6:55questions. We'll ask them to Joe later
6:56in the season.
6:57Um all right, so we're just going to run
6:58through these. We've got a bunch of
7:01random stuff here and we'll see what
7:02comes out of this. Number one is easy.
7:05How much coffee do you drink?
7:06>> Uh two to three cups a day, cut off
7:09after 11.
7:10>> Cut off after 11?
7:11>> Yeah.
7:12>> Cuz you won't go to bed?
7:13>> Yeah. Yeah.
7:14>> Don't you have an electronic device that
7:16tells you when you've had too much
7:17coffee? There's nothing connected to
7:18your
7:18>> No, no, no.
7:19The cut off 11 o'clock. Can't have any
7:21after that.
7:22>> Bob from Framingham wants to know.
7:23[laughter]
7:24>> I would love to do that though.
7:27>> Best lesson you've ever learned, how did
7:29you learn it?
7:30>> I mean, that could be answered at
7:32different phases of life. Uh like
7:33there's so many like the one I just
7:34learned like, you know, losing hurts way
7:36more after you win and the space of
7:39being in the arena
7:41of how do you go after, how do you be
7:43grateful for what you've gotten versus
7:44you need to have a level of like
7:47you need to have a level of going after
7:48more. Like it's it's this tough balance.
7:50So like that's kind of the lessons that
7:52I learned. I'm in that that space of
7:54learning right now. I think last year is
7:56also another great lesson of like how
7:58you could get staff of the year and blow
8:00a 3-1 lead in the same year. Like you
8:01could you can like that's just a duality
8:04of competition. Like it's a
8:06you know, you you
8:08accomplish so much as a team and at the
8:09end of the day you you don't live up to
8:12an expectation at the same time. Like
8:13that's another
8:15uh lesson that you have to kind of learn
8:17from and pull on. So like I think those
8:19those are like kind of the two that
8:20stick out right now. But you know,
8:22different phases of your life I guess
8:23you learn different lessons.
8:24>> All right, this one is also kind of
8:26introspective. Do you overthink things?
8:29>> Yeah. Oh, that's probably my worst
8:30quality.
8:31terrible
8:32>> an example.
8:33>> Um I mean I I it's like
8:36just constantly over analyzing. Like it
8:38was like it was interesting like when
8:39how I got the job or like oh, you only
8:40had a couple days before a training camp
8:41blah blah blah. That actually helped me.
8:43Because when it when like the more time
8:45you have the more you like tinker again
8:47like
8:48you know, we have our first uh I think
8:50it's like our first three practices. I I
8:52probably wrote them up 12 times already
8:54and it's going to change
8:55the morning of.
8:57Um so it's like little stuff like that
8:58that like
8:59you know, I always go back to like the
9:01NBA schedule versus the college
9:03schedule.
9:04I don't know what I would do if we had
9:05six five six days in between one game.
9:07Like it's actually easier that you only
9:08have 24 hours because it it shortens how
9:11much you have it teaches me how to be as
9:13efficient as possible in the preparation
9:14and exactly what to focus on versus like
9:17when I was in D2 you know, you play
9:19Saturday you don't play again till next
9:21Thursday or Friday. So you have like
9:22five days. What are you getting in?
9:23What's important? So this structure
9:25helps me with that.
9:26>> You You There's 200 possessions in the
9:28game
9:29and you're driving home afterwards. How
9:31much overthinking is connected to each
9:34one? Now, what amazed me I remember your
9:36first year we'd get on the bus, Mark,
9:37afterwards, and he'd be reading a book.
9:40>> Yeah.
9:40>> And I'd never seen that. I've never seen
9:42a coach not
9:44immediately jumping back into what just
9:46happened. You've got the laptop open and
9:47you're watching or whatever, talking
9:49about the game. And I thought it was
9:50extraordinary discipline to be able to
9:53>> to like this job has taught me to like
9:56create a system on focus on the most
9:59important working for Brad. Like focus
10:00on the most important things.
10:02And then you have to have a level of
10:03like perspective of like, you know, the
10:05coulda, woulda, shoulda. Could I have
10:06done this? Could I have done that? You
10:07have to, you know, have those two. But
10:08like create a system where you focus on
10:10the absolute most important things to
10:11which you can control and then just get
10:13better at those. Like So I you know, I
10:15probably that's the best thing I learned
10:16from Brad and and this this season makes
10:18you do that because
10:20you know, you you you can't live in that
10:21in the past space, you know, because you
10:23only have 24 hours.
10:25Yeah.
10:26>> What is the basketball cliché you hate?
10:29>> I mean there's a there's a lot of them.
10:30>> [laughter]
10:31>> That's the most.
10:32>> There's so many of
10:33>> There's only one that's the most.
10:35>> There's so many of them. Like
10:37I don't know. I I have to hear them.
10:39Like
10:39>> I actually have one that you just said.
10:41>> What is it?
10:42>> Blow a 3-1 lead.
10:45Cuz I
10:45>> it is what it is. Like it is what it is.
10:47Like, you know, we did it.
10:49Is that the first one in Celtic history?
10:50>> Yes. Congratulations.
10:52You're talking about you're not going to
10:53be forgotten.
10:54>> [laughter]
10:54>> There it is.
10:55Now you've done it.
10:56>> I will have to do something else so that
10:58they do forget that. Maybe I like that
10:59that they do want to forget.
11:01>> what's funny? I
11:01>> But isn't that beauty like the duality
11:03of like getting, you know, stabbed from
11:05that? Like that that those things as a
11:06competitor that you have to try and
11:07process. Very difficult, you know,
11:09living in that space.
11:11>> Like you you love that duality. Like you
11:13>> If you sum up what I'm like, that's the
11:15most thing I would do.
11:16>> But I I I also would like to apologize
11:18for I do would like to apologize for
11:20creating a level of hope that we did in
11:22the team and then I think that was some
11:23of it was like we just generated so much
11:25hope throughout the season and it all
11:27came crashing down. So like I will take
11:28full responsibility because there's
11:30nothing worse than hope going the other
11:33way. You know, like that's that's tough.
11:35>> So, you're apologizing for having that
11:39fever dream of a 56 win season
11:41>> the epitome of of what it means to like
11:43be in the in the arena and be a
11:45competitor. Like, you know, one of the
11:47things I read this summer that really
11:48stuck out is like when you really care
11:49about something, your heart's going to
11:51be broken.
11:52And uh it was um you know, it's it's a
11:54book that we read as a as a actually the
11:57whole organization, me and Bill
11:58put it together. Uh it's a great book,
12:00but like it was one of the chapters on
12:01care. And it was like when you love
12:03something and care about something, your
12:05heart's going to be broken. And that's
12:06exactly how I felt of like afterwards
12:08was like just broken heart.
12:11But cliches, they come up all the time
12:13like
12:14you know,
12:16I don't know. I mean, what's one that
12:17comes to mind?
12:18>> You just I Well, I'm just throwing one
12:19out there.
12:19>> You know what? I don't think I've ever
12:20agreed I don't agree with Mark much, but
12:23I have to tell you that interesting that
12:24you would use that term cuz I when
12:26people say they blew a 3-1 lead or Miami
12:28always blew a 3-0 lead, to me it's like
12:30you win or you lose. It's a series. So,
12:32what? How what does the order of the
12:34games
12:35>> how I feel about at the end of the
12:36season like I think because of the hope
12:38and the emotional aspect of like you
12:40know, of it, but like
12:42the I go through this this
12:44like rebuilding phase after the season,
12:47you know, because only one team wins.
12:49So, the other 29 feel some type of way.
12:52And then you're justifying how you feel
12:53about how the loss ended. So,
12:55you know, it's but at the end of the day
12:57you lost. So, you have to rebuild
12:58yourself back up.
13:00Um
13:02There's an off-the-record cliche that
13:03I'm not ready to open up this can of
13:04worms yet, but you know, that's not
13:06probably not in
13:07>> After the cameras go down, I can't wait
13:09to hear it. All right. I think this one
13:11should be interesting. Which player who
13:13you've coached
13:14is the best at debating?
13:16>> Oh.
13:17Man, there's a lot of them.
13:21>> [sighs and snorts]
13:22>> Does what Grant did with Jimmy Butler
13:23count as debating? Was he debating him?
13:25That doesn't seem fair, is
13:27>> Grant I think Grant's a great He was
13:29great
13:29>> in the show.
13:30>> [laughter]
13:31>> He was great. It was good though. Like
13:32it was necessary like um
13:35I think we all I think that that's we're
13:37all like that. Like I enjoy doing that.
13:39I think the players enjoy doing that.
13:41>> Yeah, I think that happens
13:43relatively regularly.
13:44>> Always looking for a good debate. Uh
13:46it's probably one of the
13:48uh things that we do the most like post
13:50practice. Like it was going on today.
13:51Like there was an argument going on
13:53uh about open gym and how it ended and
13:55like so like I'm right up there with
13:57him. Yeah.
13:58>> It says on my sheet, "What's the hardest
14:00thing you've ever done?" But I would
14:02amend it to, "What is the thing that
14:04looks the hardest that you haven't done
14:05yet?"
14:07Cuz I
14:07>> Well, since we're going with the theme
14:08of vulnerability, I'll say the hardest
14:10thing I've done
14:12has been
14:14uh
14:15like life without my dad. You know, so
14:18like the Miami series was the hardest
14:20thing I had ever done in life without
14:21him.
14:22And then, you know, when my youngest
14:25became old enough where I was like,
14:27"Damn, this kid's going to have a
14:28relationship like they would have been
14:29best friends." That was the next hardest
14:31thing.
14:32You know, when you know, you go through
14:34certain things where like you can't pick
14:35up the phone. You can't do it like
14:37that's been the hardest thing of like
14:40uh
14:41you I feel like as you get older your
14:43childhood self comes out. It comes out
14:45in your marriage. It comes out in how
14:46you parent. It comes out in how you
14:47coach. Like you're you're a product of
14:50like your childhood self plus the person
14:51you're trying to be. So to not be able
14:53to call and get the answer that you
14:55needed like, "Hey,
14:57how was I What was I like in this
14:58moment? Why did you do this in this
15:01moment? You know, what what failed for
15:03you that you would you would have told
15:05me if we went and got a cup of coffee."
15:07So like
15:08uh healing my childhood self, growing
15:11into the person I am now, that's been
15:13the hardest thing because I'm I can't
15:15I'm doing it without answers and I don't
15:17have
15:18I the memory or the facts to like to
15:20learn it. That's been the hardest thing
15:21by far.
15:22>> I lost my dad when I was 14. He didn't
15:25get to see anything that I ever did. And
15:27as you just answered that question, it
15:29made me wonder
15:30what was truly hardest, not having him
15:32when you lost to Miami or not having him
15:34to share with the championship?
15:36>> Lost to Miami.
15:37That's just how our our our relationship
15:39was built.
15:40>> would have made you feel better.
15:41>> He would have
15:42No, he would have made me feel worse.
15:44Which [laughter]
15:45What I'm learning is he would have made
15:46me feel worse, which would have made me
15:48>> far from the tree.
15:49>> No, he would have made me feel worse,
15:51which would have made me feel better. So
15:53like I'm That's the part that I'm like
15:55that that is a
15:56a weird thing of the relationship that
15:58we have. But that's the hardest thing.
15:59Like I can't go just say like, "Hey,
16:00like you know, how'd you handle this
16:02situation?" You have to kind of like dig
16:03deep and you got to remember, you got to
16:05like visualize, you got to
16:07like try to get the answer and then you
16:09don't really know what the answer was.
16:10You're going off what you thought the
16:11answer was, you know? So those That's
16:13That's the hardest thing. Everything
16:14else
16:15it's not that hard.
16:15>> All right, what's more important to
16:16success in the NBA, natural skill or
16:19confidence?
16:20>> Ooh.
16:20>> own wild card today.
16:21>> [snorts]
16:22>> Probably confidence.
16:23>> Yeah.
16:24>> I would imagine.
16:25>> Where's humility in this?
16:26>> That's a pursuit that we'll never
16:27understand.
16:30>> That makes me feel pretty fulfilled that
16:31you said confidence because I have like
16:33for my whole life, at least adult life,
16:36I have felt like confidence is the most
16:38important thing that you can have in
16:39sports. Like I I can feel like you know,
16:41someone can walk out onto the court and
16:43if the coach makes them feel
16:45>> Yeah.
16:46>> like they are going to deliver,
16:48they're going to believe they're going
16:50to deliver and it's going to improve
16:51what they do.
16:55>> your your current self as a husband,
16:56father. That's probably something that
16:57I'm not
16:58always the best at of like instilling
17:02quote-unquote confidence.
17:04Um
17:05to where because that wasn't something
17:06that like I was I I dealt with that.
17:10Of like my confidence came from
17:11different things. I also think
17:12confidence is something like
17:14it it all depends on how the individual
17:15person
17:17uh interprets that, right? Like I
17:18interpret
17:20confidence as you should be able to be
17:22your best self regardless of your
17:24circumstances and and just trust that.
17:26As opposed to some people are like, I
17:27need this ritual to be confident. I need
17:30to have this uh type of warm-up or I
17:32need to do this. Like everyone has their
17:35own different interpretation of that.
17:37And so part of going to see people is is
17:39understanding
17:42who they are and what makes them tick so
17:43I could be better at tapping into that
17:45so that I can make them
17:475% more confident during the game. That
17:49that's that's
17:50part of the true answer of like, okay, I
17:52got to go into this person's space and
17:54learn more about him because I got to
17:56connect better so that maybe he feels
17:57more confident. So when that shot goes
17:59up in the middle of the fourth quarter,
18:00it's different than it was in the past.
18:02>> Why does that not translate to
18:03parenting?
18:05Athletes.
18:05>> Well, because I think for me you always
18:07parent your kids the way you were
18:08parented, which is is and and I I again,
18:11this is me. Like I end up parenting my
18:13kids the way I I was parented. And that
18:15might not be how they need it at that
18:17particular time, you know?
18:20>> I got to say something about confidence.
18:21I was so irrationally confident when I
18:24started here that it was like, when did
18:26T Lue get here? Like probably 2011,
18:30somewhere around there. I had only been
18:31here for a couple years. And I walked
18:33out on the court, we were talking, and I
18:34was like, if I had my sneakers right
18:36now, like I would check you. He's an NBA
18:39player, like not that far retired, but
18:41my brain was like I was so irrationally
18:44confident at that time. I don't know if
18:45I would have been successful, but I
18:46really believe
18:47>> think you I also think you need some of
18:49that in order to be successful. Like
18:51it's a weird balance of like irrational
18:53confidence versus reality versus like
18:56truth. Like it's a balance. You need a
18:58little bit of both.
18:59You know?
19:00>> I had the
19:01little bit more of the irrational
19:02portion.
19:02>> Look at Look at last year. Look at what
19:04happened last year. When you
19:07believe things are possible, especially
19:08it's I Is it easier when the rest of the
19:10world doesn't seem to think it's
19:12possible.
19:14>> I mean I don't think
19:14>> it make it harder?
19:15>> It's all It is what it is.
19:18It is what it is.
19:19>> All right, I got one more on here and
19:21then Sean has one. What's the most
19:22addictive part of your profession?
19:25>> I thought [snorts] you were going to say
19:26what's the most like addictive part of
19:27like my personality. I was like, man.
19:29>> [laughter]
19:30>> You don't have time for that.
19:32>> The most addictive part of the
19:33profession
19:35is probably
19:37I again, for me personally it's the
19:40adrenaline that you get
19:42in the middle of the game.
19:44>> In the middle of the
19:45>> Yeah, like you like after the game
19:48you you it's almost like you're coming
19:49it's it's such you're coming so far
19:51down.
19:52And and so for me it's like in the
19:55middle of the game middle of the third
19:57quarter when it's a one or two
19:59possession game and you have no idea how
20:00the game is going to end. From that
20:02space to the end is the most addicting
20:04part of like
20:06you just you're just in it. You have to
20:08take it to a different level. You got to
20:10you got to
20:11see things. You got to make calls. You
20:12got to get guys going. Uh that's the
20:14most addicting part to me.
20:16>> I thought you were going to say film.
20:19>> No. [snorts]
20:19>> Not for you in particular, but like in
20:21the profession in general. I feel like
20:23>> Oh, yeah, I don't know. I mean probably
20:25it's probably guys that you know, I mean
20:26>> Cuz those moments you're talking about
20:28is when you're using That's when you
20:29feel the most alive.
20:31>> Exactly. That's when you're like that's
20:32like you feel like the most alive. Like
20:34>> That's why people love being there.
20:35>> you get like then I'm sitting on the bus
20:37after the game and I'm like
20:39man, I can't wait for that to happen
20:40again.
20:41>> [laughter]
20:41>> You know.
20:42>> Unfortunately, you only have to wait a
20:43few days.
20:44>> There was a game There was game one of
20:46the Miami series
20:48my first year. It's like the tension the
20:49little tensions that build up is the
20:51most addicting. So there was this
20:52tension at the beginning of the fourth
20:53quarter where it was like a cat and
20:55mouse where
20:56it was what we were down 3-2
20:58and they had blown both timeouts and
21:02they had two timeouts going into the
21:03fourth quarter and they They the home
21:05team so they were getting the first
21:07quarter of it. And so we had to hang on
21:09for dear life so that they only had one
21:11heading into the last 6 minutes, you
21:13know, because then that's going to
21:14dictate whether you know, what kind of
21:16decisions that they make for the rest of
21:17the game.
21:18So at the at you know, so we're talking
21:20about it as a staff and at the at the
21:22end of the third timeout I let the guys
21:24know like fellas they have two. We got
21:26to make them call this one. And then
21:28they go on like a six or eight or run
21:29and like everyone's hanging on for dear
21:31life.
21:32>> Except for the fans. You're like call a
21:33timeout Joe. What do you think?
21:35>> And like we're all like I'm walking back
21:36to the bench and I'm like man we are in
21:37it right now. Like we like we got to
21:39hang on. Got to hang on.
21:41And
21:42that that's the most addicting part
21:44right there. That stuff.
21:46>> The last one I have here is what's the
21:47most interesting thought you've had
21:49today? I'm not sure it wasn't that one.
21:53>> Most interesting thought? I mean
21:54this whole thing. You know, it's been
21:56fun.
21:57>> Did people could interpret a comment
22:00innocuous
22:00>> No, I mean I think it No, I think I I
22:02think it's it's gives me a good
22:04opportunity to like you know, actually
22:07I can be better at
22:09um
22:11explaining things better from that
22:12perspective of like not leaving it
22:14open-ended and getting to the the true
22:16the true bottom of that of what you
22:18actually really mean in the perspective
22:20how you look at it. It's also you know,
22:21as a coach I always everyone tells me
22:24like my staff tells me this of like
22:26sometimes I'll come in and I'll just sit
22:28like like that comment right there.
22:31I've thought about it. I've put time
22:32into it. I'll just come into and I'll
22:34just say it. But people don't have the
22:36context of it and so they don't trust
22:37it. Happens with the staff sometimes of
22:39like you know, I'll say something or
22:40like I'll come up with this idea and
22:41like this whack job like what you're at
22:43it again. It's like no, no, no, I
22:45actually like really have been thinking
22:46about this.
22:47And um
22:48>> to the madness.
22:48>> Yeah, [clears throat] and so you know,
22:50but and so there's times where I have to
22:51take three steps back, explain it and
22:53then the staff's like oh, yeah. That
22:55makes sense. Like you're not as dumb as
22:56we thought you were.
22:58And I'm like yeah. And so you know, this
23:00was a good lesson to be able to like
23:01when you're talking about stuff like
23:02that you have to explain it more.
23:04>> Well, you have a novel brain in a
23:0610-second sound bite world and that's
23:08going to happen.
23:08>> Well, that's the other thing. It's I
23:10mean it's nearly impossible in this
23:11>> It's also funny I didn't know this cuz I
23:12don't have any social media. So that
23:14this is the first I'm hearing about this
23:15that it wouldn't go well. So I never
23:17want to let
23:17>> Someone in the room didn't report it to
23:19you.
23:19>> I never want to let the Celtic fans
23:21down.
23:21>> [laughter]
23:22>> So I apologize for
23:24>> [gasps]
23:24>> doing that.
23:25>> We've had enough apologies from you
23:27today. We got to thank you for giving us
23:29almost an hour. This has been great.
23:31Hopefully all the fans out there get a
23:32little bit more perspective
23:35on some of the comments that come out of
23:36your mouth and more some interesting
23:38things about the team this year. We're
23:39looking forward to it and I think this
23:41is a great way to tip off the season. So
23:42Joe, we appreciate it, man.
23:44>> Yeah, of course. We'll see you on the
23:44other side.
23:49>> [music]

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