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I love this as the Boston Celtics did something very interesting in their last preseason game against the Charlotte Hornets where Joe Mazzulla decided to implement something very fun and a learning experience for himself during this game. What happened during this game? Well, I'm going to let you guys know about it here on Celtics Digest. Hello, everybody, Welcome back to another video I am your host, Patrick Billings, and talking Boston Celtics basketball, we're talking about something that happened in preseason that includes Joe Mazzulla and Mike Conley, where Joe Mazzulla gave the reins to Mike Conley to make some subbing for the Boston Celtics during this team, which is something that only Joe Mazzulla will probably do out of any other head coach in the NBA but he said that it was a learning experience for not only Mike Conley but for himself but before we get into this video guys i want to let you know that this video is brought to you and sponsored by Calshi as Calshi you're trading directly against other users not the house like traditional sports books you're buying yes or no contracts on the outcome of events across sports politics or even the weather and for example you can go over to Calshi and trade yes or no on the Boston Celtics total wins this year at 50 plus wins and 25 dollars it shows you that 1.65 multiplier with a 41.33 payout but if you guys go to Calshi and download the app using the link in the description below and use code Digest NBA you get 55 added to your account instantly when you trade 25 and that's only when you use promo code Digest NBA so if you guys are interested in using Calshi make sure you hit that link in the description and the pinned comment below and guys let's get into this one as it's very interesting and a very Joe Mazzulla type of thing to go down as we look at this here by Calshi Hoops as it says that Mike Conley said the Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla put him in charge of Boston substitutions for their preseason game up against the Hornets and the Athletic did a nice little piece talking about all of this and this is a game where the Boston Celtics won 114 to 93 against the Charlotte Hornets and Conley could be seen pointing to teammates when it was time for them to check into the game and he said had coach Joe Mazzulla put him in charge of Boston's substitutions for the contest and it goes on to say that in quote Joe approached me before the game and said what would you think about doing the rotations tonight and Conley said well I was like I'll do it whatever I told him I had never done that before and it was cool for me to experience that and though the Celtics played their expected regulars Conley didn't appear in the game and set to enter his 20th season the 39 year old saw the game from a new perspective participating in such an exercise for the first time he didn't need long to gain greater appreciation for some of what coaches go through on the sidelines even with the help of staff to map out a rotation pre-game he ran into several circumstances that required adjustments or near adjustments and he said that there was one thing that stood out obviously the first thing that he ran into was Derek White picking up his second foul two minutes and five seconds into the game and he needed to choose whether to stick with the plan rotation or throw it away to ensure Derek White would avoid further foul trouble he said that kind of blew up the whole cheat sheet and Conley goes on to say that I was like oh no now I have to make a sub but instead Conley settled for a conversation with White to emphasize that the guard needed to steer clear of his third foul which ended up leading to him telling him you have two fouls you cannot foul coach is trusting me right now I'm gonna leave you in as White rewarded the faith avoiding his third foul and he was able to sub in Peyton Pritchard a minute later without leaving the Celtics rotation in bad shape and I think this is a great learning experience not only for Joe Mazzulla, but for Mike Conley. As Mike Conley, obviously, there's not many people in the NBA that have been able to get to their 20th season, and his role isn't necessarily to go out there and actually make an impact on the offensive-defensive end. His impact is to be that locker room guy, someone that's going to help these guys stick together and just really be the glue that keeps everybody together, honestly. We've seen that with many other veterans in the NBA. and it works out very well for them. And I think for a team like this Boston Celtics team, it's going to help them a lot. And I think on the other end of things, for Joe Mazzulla, just, you know, somebody who's played for so long, they've seen so many different things. And it couldn't be anyone else better to ask him about things in the NBA, what's going on, what he personally sees on the court. And going into later with what Mike Conley encountered, excuse me, with other predicaments, when he said he picked Joe Mazzulla's brain on how to approach them he said it's a lot harder than you think sometimes Conley said you're looking down and you're trying to follow strict regimen but then you look up and a guy's winded or a guy maybe made four or five buckets in a row and it's like I don't want to sub him out yet it's just a feeling out the game so I got to sit next to Joe and he walked me through some things just things like I wouldn't take anybody out right now this five is rolling so it's just really learning the mindset of coaching and what what it's kind of what it's like kind of being in control of that as keeps on going to talk about you know the relationship with Joe and himself and saying from day one uh he's kind of been a guy that's empowered everybody around him i knew when he texted me today he said hey can you come to my office before you get started working out and stuff I knew he was going to have me do something I don't know if I'm going to be coaching if I'm going to just be doing anything so he definitely keeps us all engaged I think the relationship just continues to build because of that and that's something you absolutely love to see is Joe Mazzulla trying to find ways to keep this group together and make their mindset stay on straight I think if you guys had seen some of reports of Joe Mazzulla talking about the team had planned to go on a golf trip but it was pouring rain all weekend and he said if you got you guys need to go and golf you need to still do that keep that same energy you had the whole time and Mike Conley obviously a part of those summer workouts as well with a bunch of other players just really trying to get that connection and this also helps with that connection that's going to help this team way down the line and moving on with this article as well as Conley said that while he and Mazzulla sat together on the bench throughout the second half they spoke not just about rotation but also deeper basketball topics and how they viewed the game with the Celtics ahead of the double digits during the fourth quarter he said Mazzulla brought up how well the players were functioning despite using minimal structure compared with what the staff would use in a regular season game recalled Conley he was like we haven't called a play we haven't drawn up anything we haven't gone over anything on the scout and just look it can be done guys can work it out themselves and if we can get this kind of connectivity going forward it makes everybody's job easier and just moving on with Mike Conley and obviously all these things obviously we won't go through every game without a scout or without plays but it just kind of seeing the game in a different perspective his perspective and what kind of keeps him going different defensive plays different possessions and he flags on as it's one of my favorites right there and that's why and he and he was kind of explaining to me so that was cool to kind of get in on his mind and he kind of just keeps going on about how good of an experience this was for Joe Mazzulla to do that and some of the players absolutely loved it too talk about Sam Hauser telling him that he'd be one hell of a coach as he played with nearby with Conley was discussing whether he would eventually want to enter into the profession and he kind of just went back at him jokingly saying yeah I know I would thanks but he's not sure whether he will eventually follow that career path and going on to say it's harder than people think and honestly he wants to stay in the game he doesn't know if he'd go right into it or work his way up to it but I'm sure that Mike Conley would do a fantastic job especially being surrounded by the group that he is with Joe Mazzulla and all these guys championship coaching they know what type of mentality you have to have to play winning basketball and Mike Conley wants to be a part of that I think him being in his 20th year right now he's doing everything possible to make sure that this team gets to the spots where they want to be I think that this is really going to help them down the line especially when it comes to chasing a championship because this team I can guarantee you is going to be very exciting this season and I want to know what you guys think about all of this with this move with Mike Conley helping out Joe Mazzulla in this preseason game I know it's preseason but a lot of these things can help down the line especially with the veterans seeing it from the coach's view and really picking up on some things that maybe Joe Mazzulla misses during a game and maybe give him a different view so you guys let me know down in the comments below when you look at those comments make sure you check the link in the comments and description below to download the cal sheet app if you guys are interested remember first time you trade your 25 you get 55 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