Gov. Maura Healey ought to ask Joe Mazzulla how to do it.

Maybe she could even name him as the new head of the Massachusetts State Police.

Mazzulla, like so many of Healey’s appointees, is an outsider and a new state law allows Healy to hire a new chief of the troubled State Police from out of state.

The coach of the Boston Celtics, while only 35 years old, not only knows how to win, but also knows a lot about opportunity, challenges and what life is all about.

It will never happen, of course. It is a fantasy.

Yet Healey, like Mazzulla, who is also in his second year on the job, could use a few Mazzulla types — and tips — to help shore up her faltering administration.

She needs to read the State House the way Mazzulla reads Boston Garden.

Right now, the Boston Celtics are one of the few things Massachusetts can brag about these days after decisively defeating the Dallas Mavericks to win the 2024 National Basketball Association Championship.

But it is not only the way he did it, but what he said about it.

Standing under the historic banners of past Celtic championships at the Garden Monday night after clinching the title, Mazzulla said: “You get very few chances in life to be great, and you get very few chances in life to carry on the ownership and the responsibilities of what these banners are and all the great people and players that came here.

“When you have few chances in life, you just got to take the bull by the horns, and you just got to own it.”

Gov. Healey should take note of Mazzulla’s classy and dignified comments. She, too, as governor of Massachusetts, is lucky enough to have the opportunity to be great, not only because she is the first gay person to hold the job, but for the challenges she faces.

Healey was right to note that the Celtics’ victory was due to a team effort. “Team, team, team,” she said in a livestream interview with Java With Jimmy.

Decked out in Celtics’ gear, the governor compared the Celtics’ team effort to state government and “everybody working together.”

Healey can only dream of having a team capable of winning. In fact, she appears to be surrounded by one of the weakest teams a governor can have while faced with problems no other governor has faced in the past.

Her problems begin with the illegal immigrant invasion of the state that is not only costing taxpayers $1 billion a year to house, feed and care for them, but under Joe Biden they keep on coming.

And they will keep on coming as long as Massachusetts continues to dole out attractive welfare benefits to illegal immigrants from around the world. There is no one around to take the bull by the horn and just say no.

Nothing much in the state seems to be working.

Despite the much-publicized 2023 hiring of New Yorker Phillip Eng to run the failed MBTA at $470,000 a year, the transit system is still a mess. Nobody wants to ride it, including Transportation Secretary Monica Tibbits-Nutt. She commutes in her state car.

Back then Eng said, “My pledge to the people of Massachusetts is that you will see meaningful, measurable steps being taken and progress being made in short order.”  Well, the people are still waiting.

Once a Norman Rockwell-like respected police agency, the reputation of the State Police has been severely damaged from one scandal or another over the past several years.

Its reputation has been further blackened by the troubling, forced testimony of State Police Trooper Michael   Proctor and his “regrettable” but explosive sexist emails in the Karen Reed murder trial.

And then there is the scandal of bankrupt Steward Health Care and its years-long failed hospital health care system of hospitals in Massachusetts. The wheeling and dealing were breathless.

It is interesting to note that the decline of these institutions—the MBTA, the State Police and Steward, all took place during the eight years Healey was attorney general before becoming governor.

A modest suggestion.

I’d have Joe Mazzulla come in and hold a seminar on leadership.

Peter Lucas is a veteran political reporter. Email him at: peter.lucas@bostonherald.com