Joe Mazzulla on approach to final four games: ‘I really want to win’

We’re going for it.

With 4 video games to go and their seeding kind of locked up, the Celtics will take their final highway journey of the common season to Philadelphia and it seems like they’ll make a run for the highest of the Jap Convention.

After Thursday’s 41-point blowout in Fiserv Discussion board, Boston owns the tiebreaker in opposition to Milwaukee (2-1), however they’re two video games again heading into the ultimate week of the common season. The Bucks must lose two video games and the Celtics run the desk, together with sweeping the common season collection with the Sixers on Tuesday night time, for a shot at #1 within the East.

The Celtics are just about 4 video games forward of the 76ers within the standings; they’re three up within the loss column, however with the tiebreaker already in hand courtesy of Jayson Tatum’s buzzer beater again in February, any single win clinches the #2 seed.

Per the group’s official damage report, Jaylen Brown is questionable with a sore again. Robert Williams is out for “left knee damage administration,” presumably sitting out the primary sport of Boston’s back-to-back with the Toronto Raptors on the town Wednesday and Friday for a two-game mini-series that may very well be a preview of the primary spherical of the NBA playoffs.

“Recreation-by-game scenario. I actually need to win. I like successful,” Joe Mazzulla mentioned when requested about how he’ll method the rest of the season.

“There’s nothing we are able to do about [the #1 seed],” he continued. “It’s out of our management. What we are able to management is enjoying the way in which we performed the final eleven video games. We’re 8-3 and #1 in each offense and protection. We’re doing numerous good issues. We simply must hold that going.”

So perhaps the #1 seed is out of attain, however enjoying just like the #1 group isn’t.