This is awesome. As a man who loves the NBA and the UFC this was an incredible synergy of two of my worlds. Absolute mad man tactics but considering they’re one win away from hoisting the championship trophy it’s tough to argue with his methods. I wish there was a camera in the meeting room for the first time he did this.
The entire Celtics team sits down expecting to watch some film and all of a sudden there’s a video of Volkanovski avoiding one of the tightest guillotine’s I’ve ever seen by Ortega in that title fight a few years ago. Can’t even imagine what was going through their minds. Wonder how many of them he’s full blown converted to MMA fans? Has to be at least a couple I’d guess.
Imagine after that huge run by the Mavs last night Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum look at each other and go “Remember how Khabib got out of that guillotine against Poirier? We can weather this storm too” and BOOM, they hit a couple big shots and win the game.
Jaylen Brown has a long way to go to be the “Khabib of basketball” but I think he would be proud of him. Shoutout to Coach Mazzulla for growing the game.