Boston Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla has been studying cricket, particularly admiring the mental and psychological aspects of the sport where batters can wear down pitchers through intentional foul balls. He believes these strategies could offer valuable lessons for his team.
On Wednesday, Mazzulla turned his attention to a sport that's a little less prevalent in the States: cricket.
"I like watching other sports and seeing how the free-flowing sports do things differently," Mazzulla told reporters after Boston's practice."I just enjoy the 'what if' scenarios of, 'What if one sport adopted the rules of another sport like I like?' "I like in cricket that you can just keep wearing the pitcher down by fouling off on purpose. It's like a huge mental psychological component to just wearing this guy's arm out by just fouling foul balls until he can't pitch anymore. I love the idea of that. So, I just like watching the different sports and the different rules that go into those things.
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