Joe Mazzulla has never been one to stick to conventional wisdom, and that certainly trickles into his coaching style. Celtics guard Derrick White revealed on his podcast one of the bizarre methods Mazzulla used in order to improve the team's conditioning.
White said that during practices, Mazzulla would reward the team that won a scrimmage by having them run. That was, in his own way, Mazzulla's means of changing the way the team viewed running. Rather than deem it a punishment, he wanted Boston to think of running as a well-earned reward.
