Kristaps Porzingis raves about Celtics coach after career milestone

Boston — Joe Mazzulla crossed the 100-win mark on Wednesday night following Boston’s 136-86 rout of the Nets, marking an incredible achievement in just his second season with the team. This season’s 50-point victory became the team’s second in franchise history. Mazzulla has led his squad to its best start since 2008, going 43-12

After the win on Wednesday, Mazzulla was given the game ball by Jayson Tatum in the locker room, but he also received some of the player’s highest compliments of the evening from a man who has only been working with the coach for a few months. Speaking candidly, Kristaps Porzingis expressed how important he believes Porzingis has been to this team..

I believe he’s really underestimated, even just based on how people might perceive him from the outside a little bit,” Porzingis remarked. Because he is still a young man, people don’t value who he is as a coach or anything like that. You can always put the blame on him. He’s a really underappreciated coach, though. Extremely unique and underappreciated. Indeed, I believe that many are blind to his true nature and coaching style, and that our team’s talent makes it simple to underappreciate him. But he merits a great deal of praise. Both he and the rest of the coaching staff are deserving of a great deal of recognition.