Football and basketball have few similarities. In fact, the most relevant thing and what makes them most different is that The first is played with the feet and the second with the hands. Nor is the number of players per team or where it is played identical. Soccer stadiums are usually open-air and their dimensions exceed 100 meters in length, while basketball courts are inside pavilions and their length does not reach 30 meters.
In the current season, The Boston Celtics lead the NBA standings quite comfortably over the rest of the rivals. They are, by far, the best team in the league and their winning percentage in the regular season makes them one of the best ever. At the same time, Not many months ago, Manchester City managed to win the Champions League, Premier League and FA Cup in one fell swoop, establishing themselves as the best group on the planet. And both are related.
Last week and taking advantage of the All Star break, Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla traveled to England to visit Manchester City’s facilities and exchange impressions with Pep Guardiola, of whom he declares himself an admirer and whom he focuses on to transfer tactical aspects to his sport. “I study a lot about Manchester City. I study Pep a lot. I think he is the best coach at any level, in any sport. He has had a great influence on me.”he acknowledged upon his return to the United States in The Athletic.
In that talk, the coach of the best team in the NBA addressed what for him are some of the similarities that football and basketball have and the way he uses some of Guardiola’s ideas in his franchise. “They are more or less the same sport when it comes to creating tactical advantages,” noted Mazzulla, who established the common aspect of both sports in the transition.
“I think that’s where basketball and football are the same, the transition happens so quickly… You can be in attack and two seconds later, you can be in defense,” he explained. And that is where the figure of Pep Guardiola appears. “Soccer coaches are the best teachers for this because once the game starts, you cannot call a timeout. It was very good to be close to Pep and study their playing philosophies,” he concluded.
It is always said in sports slang that “every teacher has his little book” and Joe Mazzulla, in his second season in the NBA, is showing that his was full of very beneficial ideas for his team. If the Boston Celtics win the ring at the end of the season, the first in more than 15 years. I’m sure the American coach will thank Guardiola a little..
2024-02-27 06:26:46
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