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“I just always liked Joe’s work ethic, his focus, his intelligence,” Ainge said. “I feel like Joe is one of those guys — one way that I’ve always measured greatness is how much a person can learn from mistakes they make. Joe’s going to learn from his mistakes, just like Will Hardy learns from his mistakes quickly. … The coaches that learn and move on, they become the legendary coaches.
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It's not that he doesn't learn from mistakes at times, I'm sure he does.
My problem with Mazzulla is the bad basketball that he considers to be good basketball and, thus, doesn't see a need to change.
His offense has been maddening. We played a beautiful brand of offensive basketball the first quarter of the season - off-ball movement, off-ball screening, moving the ball inside and out with the pass and not with the dribble, constantly pushing the pace.
Slowly, it has ground down into occasional glimpses of the early season offense, but predominately having Tatum or Smart walk the ball up, maybe some movement around the 3-point line that ends with Tatum or Brown calling for a screener or simply going into their multiple foot & dribble fakes followed by a step back 3 or a drive to the basket while the rest of the team stands and watches.
We have awful shot selection and jack up way too many 3's and Joe is fine with it, even to the point of criticizing the team when they don't put up enough 3's to suit him. He sees nothing to be learned from playing this way - other than to shoot more 3's.