May 1, 2026 • 38 mins
VCU head basketball coach Phil Martelli Jr joins the show as a co-host. Philadelphia legend and current head coach in the NHL Rod Brind'Amour joins the show. Plus, Taylor delivers the results of the polls.
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Speaker 1 (00:25):
Phil Martelli Junior is with us. He's the head coach
at VCU. He said if he wasn't coaching, he'd like
to be a sports radio host in Philadelphia. So we
give him that opportunity every now and again. We have
done it once, we'll do it again here. There's a
lot going on with Philly sports, and Rob Brindamore is
going to join us. Who is the head coach of
the Carolina Panthers they're taking out now. He's a Flyers,
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legend flyer. Fans love Brendamore, but he is coaching against
Martelli's Flyers, and so we'll get to that in just
a second of coach. Let's start here. Nothing says March
like the field of seventy six.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
I mean, we all knew it was coming right like
we knew it was once they with any of this stuff.
If there's one thing we've learned is once they start
talking about it, it's going to happen, right, And it
was just a matter of where they going to go
to seventy two, seventy six.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
But here's what I'll.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Say, Like people are like anything, right, they get up
in arms right away, Oh my god.
Speaker 6 (01:23):
What are we doing?
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Blah blah blah. Well they did that when he went
from sixty four to sixty five how many years ago?
Speaker 6 (01:29):
Yes, and then it.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Went from sixty five to sixty eight, and everybody's like,
and everybody's good with it now, you know.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
So, yeah, it'll be weird next year.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
But the reality is like in a couple of years,
those guys that take off, you know, they like to
take off Thursday and Friday and spend the whole day
watching games. Now they're going to take off Tuesday and
Wednesday too, and they'll watch games all day.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
I can support you know those days coming up.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Yeah, you know what, I shouldn't be criticizing this. That's
a great point by you. Thank you for pointing that out.
Go ahead, Mikey.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
Coach, if your rank seventy seventh.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
You can't complain like that's just waiting.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Yeah, but that's going through hat.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Yes, of course, yeah, right, you.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Would again go back in time, you would have said
that to like, well, if you were sixty ninth, you're
you're you don't have no no gripe. Well what did
we have all year? Was you're talking about this team
and that team? Should this team be in?
Speaker 5 (02:17):
That team be in?
Speaker 4 (02:19):
I mean I do I do miss the days of
the sixty four you know, the one page you know deal,
But yeah, I just think we just adjust to it,
We get used to it, and we build it out
and I don't know if they can ever go beyond
seventy six, you know, in reality. But again we would
have said that. However many years ago, you know, getting
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to sixty eight.
Speaker 7 (02:41):
I think about this the same way I thought about
that golf tournament where they play pairs for some reason?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Who is this for?
Speaker 7 (02:47):
Because I mean, was anybody clamoring for more? What's the
what is it fixing here?
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Well, it's it's the big conferences, right.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
They're sitting there going like, well, how do we squeeze
you know, how do we squeeze some of these lower
level teams.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Out a little bit further in the bracket. How do
we get some more of our.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Teams in, because that is one of the things, Like,
you know, again, I mean for somebody to sit there
and say we weren't going to be in that tournament
this year is insane, right, So I guess we would
have been the first team out, Like that's kind of crazy.
So it does help us, you know, in a year
like this, if we don't win the tournament, we're in.
But yeah, like it's to get that sixteen and fifteen
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you know, high major team in. I don't love that,
but I do love that there's more and there's going
to be more more opportunities.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Phil Please accept my apologies. You're always talking college basketball.
You're not here to talk college basketball. You're here to
talk about Philadelphia's sports. So let's get to Philadelphia sports.
Which sport in Philadelphia? I'm wondering. Let me try it
this way. If I told Philly fans only one of
their teams could win a championship over the next fifty years,
what would the fan Well, I'm just trying to establish
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what's the biggest board in Philadelphia.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
What would the fans choose?
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Yeah, that's I would choose the Phillies, the fans would
choose the Eagles.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
There's no question about it.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Really, not the Flyers about it.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
Wow, No, there's no question. It's the Eagle, like the Eagles,
the Eagles, the.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Eagles, I mean, you know, they all have their backing
for sure, but it's one. If you said there's only
one team that's going to be able to win it, yeah,
it's the Eagles.
Speaker 7 (04:25):
How far back are the seventy six ers, Well, they're
tied down with boxed people.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
That's a good question. I kind of feel like the
rest of them. To me, it's the Eagles number one,
and then it's a two. It's a three way tie
after that, Phillies, Sixers, Uh, Flyers. I feel like there's
like everybody loves everybody loves the Eagles, and I feel
like a lot of people love the Sixers, and then
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there's a group that like the Sixers.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Right, there's a lot of people that love the Phillies
and a group that likes the Phillies.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Right, there's a lot of people that love the Flyers,
and then group that likes the Flyers. Where I feel
like everybody in the city loves the Eagles, right, So
I think those next three I'd put it pretty even.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
I thought it was interesting with Rob Thompson, who has
been a very good manager for the Phillies. They made
the postseason. I think every season he was the manager,
but shortly got fired no longer the Phillies manager. Were
you surprised by that or I guess we shouldn't be
because it's Philadelphia, right.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Yeah, I wasn't surprised, just because of the way that
they were trending.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
I didn't like it.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
I mean, it's not his fault that no one's hitting
the ball. It's not his fault that no one's fielding
the ball like they couldn't get anybody out like it was.
That's not his fault, like I thought. You know, I
thought he was a great manager. Obviously, I'm going to
stick up for the coach, right, so you know, it
certainly wasn't his fault.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Now I understand this day and age.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
That's what that's what you sign up for, right, Like
someone's got to be the scapegoat. Yes they're not, they're
not getting you know, they're not. They're not firing Bryce
Harper today, right or should they?
Speaker 8 (05:58):
Right?
Speaker 4 (06:00):
You know, so somebody has to follow on that sword,
and unfortunately it was our guy Topper.
Speaker 9 (06:05):
Yeah, coach, is it a bit of a misery loves
company thing though, with the Mets being this bad too?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
From your misery? Right, it does? It has to, right?
Speaker 5 (06:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Yeah, it's just miserable that the Philly stink because I
love the Phillies, Like I want to be invested from
game game one to one sixty two and beyond, like
I want to be invested in every pitch and it's
been really, really hard these last couple.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Of weeks to be invested.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
But it does make you feel a little bit better
that you're, like, all right, the Mets stink like that
does make you.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Feel you're welcome, coach.
Speaker 9 (06:37):
As a coach, you guys are wired to think that
you guys always have a chance. Unfortunately my Tario has
found that out the hard way. But how surprised are
you still that the Sixers who looked dead have found
a way to even up the series and force the
game seven?
Speaker 8 (06:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (06:53):
I really I didn't think they had much of a chance. Honestly,
I really didn't, you know.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
But credit to those guys, I mean, they have they
got something. I mean, Nick Nurse is a hell of
a coach, you know, and has made the adjustments that
they need to make, you know. And Maxie is a superstar, right,
Like obviously getting a beeedback healthy is huge, but like,
you know, Maxi is a superstar.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Edge Comb.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
They got something there, right, if those guys can continue
and stay consistent. But yeah, it's I've been telling my boy.
My my sixteen year old and my eight year old
are like, I mean the ten thirty last night that
game ended and they're hooting and holler and running around,
you know, screaming at the eight year old to go
to bed, and he's like, you know, he makes his
first community tomorrow. My sixteen year old is in the
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car this morning dropping him off for school and he's
going like, all right, there's like a six am flight.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
I could go on.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
I could get up there, I go one your brother's community.
They're not going anywhere too. You have no money for
a flight, You have no ticket and no money for
a ticket. Talking about so he's a typical that's who
you should have on because he's the.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
Proto typical irrational Philadelphia fan. I'm like, I'll just fly
up there and go to the game. You don't have it.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Who's buying me that ticket, young man. I gotta tell you,
I love this kid. I do.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
He's he's built for this, built for this.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Absolutely, you're like, what are you talking about?
Speaker 5 (08:17):
You can debate for hours. He's on it.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
I'll bring him on next time. You come on, Okay,
come on together.
Speaker 7 (08:23):
Well maybe I should have asked him this question because
he seems so invested in the Sixers.
Speaker 6 (08:26):
But I'm curious.
Speaker 7 (08:28):
Okay, So part of the reason why you me anybody
didn't really know if they had a chance, because we
didn't know if you were going to get Embiid, And
if we got Embiid, what version of him?
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Where are we going to get? But where are we here?
Speaker 7 (08:38):
Let me just ask this, what do you expect from
Joel Embiid in a game seven? Because most of the
time I close my eyes and picture Joel Embiid in
a high pressure playoff game.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
He's mister trying too hard.
Speaker 7 (08:49):
He is all over the place mentally, and they just
kind of collapse around him. I'm hoping it seems like,
based on what we've seen from this series, that he
sort of advanced beyond that.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
The crazy thing with MB coach is he also has
the ability to be the best player on a floor
that includes Tatum and Jalen Brown.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
It's crazy.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Yeah, I mean he is. He's an incredible talent, right.
I think we talked maybe we might have talked about
this the last time, Like it's he's one of those guys.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
It's just such a unicorn.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
I personally don't trust it, right I you know, the
thing was trust the process. I personally don't trust it
because it is it's just a tough like, yeah, if
he's if he's great, then't forget it. Like they probably
do win Game seven, but I think there's probably a
number of Philadelphia fans that are nervous about that, right,
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like that.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
It seems like you're one of them, to be honest
level of faith in this guy.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Yeah, and I'm not like a crazy Sixers guy, Like
I'm really not, like I'm I'm I'm not.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
I will profess to that that I'm not a uh
you know, but yeah, like I I they need him
to be right.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
If he's not, then forget it, right Like yes, you know,
like Game seven, you need your superstars to be he superstars,
Like if he's supposed to be the megastar, like he's
got to be the megastar, Like it's great with Max,
He's done with Edgecomb's done with these other guys have done.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
But like you need your superstars to show up in
game seven.
Speaker 7 (10:12):
I think we can print those T shirts. By the way,
I personally don't trust it.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
And then just next year game we want him to
come back.
Speaker 7 (10:19):
No, not for he doesn't have that as a name
on it, just for other Philadelphia fans.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
I heard a lot of trust the process over the years.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Yeah, And I worked for him for a year and
he's first year that he played. I worked for the
Sixers and I wasn't sure. And then he came out
to training camp and he did some things to uh
to Jelil Okafhor and no one's no well, And I
was like, there's a reason you haven't heard from those
guys in a long time.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
Like that first day he walked out there, I was like, holy,
you know what.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Yeah, but it's just the health thing, Like if you
can't stay healthy, the best abilities availability, right, that's right, yeah,
be available.
Speaker 7 (10:53):
What do you see when you watch Maxie and Edgecomb together,
because Edgecomb seems to be as a rookie probably should
in this situation, holding back on what he can do.
He is so crazy explosive and Maxi, you know, he
was already an MVP candidate in the first quarter of
the season. So like, if you project that back court
through the next several years, what are you looking at?
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Well, I think, to me, it just depends on how
consistent they can make that right, Like my thing is
always that like there's always these guys or these pairs
or these trios or whatever that everyone goes like nuts, right, like,
oh my god, they're the next fill in the black,
and then it falls off the next year. Now Maxi
(11:32):
has proven it, Edgecombe, I think you need another year
to see it at that level. Then now you're like,
you know what, there's something coming along here. You know,
was that a one year you know, a one year
rookie year kind of high and then you know you
have that that that slump. But if he stays consistent,
I think Maxi's to me at this point, he's proven himself.
As you know, he's an All Star, he's an All
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NBA guy, he's a future potential MVP candidate. If you
get that from edgecumb in year two, you're looking at
like you got something right, Like you're building real future
you know, and those are the kinds of guys that
win it for you, I think, right like you look
at when the Celtics are really good, it's because Tatum
and Brown are really good. They get stuff from those
other guys, but it's Tatum and Brown, right, it's those
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those perimeter I don't even want to say ball dominant,
but just the guys that can make plays, right, they
can score, facilitate, do all those things.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
And both of those guys have it.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
The thing for them is I think, I do think
just from an outside perspective, there's too many times sometimes
where they just fall into a little too iso.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
Yeah, yeah, you.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Know where it's like waiting all right, like Maxi's going
and now everybody's standing around watching, and then Edcom gets
going and everybody's standing around watching, And they used to
run into that with embed right like it was like
now everybody's just standing around watching. It still needs a
little more cohesion where everybody's just kind of playing off
each other.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Is he is loving this? He finally has someone who
wants to talk basketball with him. Fill in the Blank
is an excellent segment Listen Sports Radio. It is all
about benchmarks and creative segment Fill in the blanks with
Phil Martelli is fantastic. So fill in this blank. Who
would the Knicks rather face next round, Boston or Philly?
Fill in the blank.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
I have to I have to figure Philly beating them
in the playoffs before I have to imagine they'd rather
play the Sixers.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Yes, yes, Taylor, you want the Sixers.
Speaker 9 (13:18):
I'm at the point, coach, I don't care who we played.
If Oby's gonna play like this, yes, bring on anybody.
And I like our chances.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
That was shocking, and you just won a game by
ninety nine points. Yet there's a little bit of like, yeah,
we can play anybody. And then and then what happens
is you get punched in the mouth Game one and
you're like, oh, damn, we should have.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
Played the other team.
Speaker 7 (13:38):
Yeah, this is still the same team that was down
two to one Atlanta and everybody scratching their heads. Okay,
And I told you, Taylor, be careful with Ognnobi. Man,
he can look dominant in a game like this, but
when the pressure's on it's a two point game and
you're looking for offense, you look for og.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
He's going to be standing in the corner.
Speaker 9 (13:53):
And I think STU, Yeah, mckel Bridges might have found
his confidence yesterday.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Well, I do wonder because coach is not a big
Philadelphia seventy six er fan by his own admission, and
if they do play the Knicks, all those guys are
from Philly.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
Well, so my Michale Bridges story.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
I was the first one to offer him a scholarship.
I was an assistant at Delaware University of Delaware.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
Wow, he was playing at Great.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
Valley High School. They haven't produced a player.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
In a million years.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
A friend of mine played against them and was like,
there's this kid. So we are playing Villanova that year,
and I'm going to see this kid like the next week.
And I see him walking across the baseline with his friend.
So I stopped and I said, Michael, I'm coach. Martelius said,
I'm coming to see you next week. His eyes were
like this big. He couldn't even believe it. Right, So
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he's sitting behind Villanova's bench. Usually your recruits are sitting
behind your bench. He was there because his friend had
season tickets. They had no idea who he was.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
He was a junior in high school. Man, no clue.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
I'm recruiting and recruiting and recruiting him. All of a sudden,
he starts to blow up. People are going crazy about him.
By the end of that year, there's a bunch of
schools around. They still weren't really in on him.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
To bempletely honest, they would probably tell you otherwise. They
still weren't completely in on him.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
And Florida offered him a scholarship. I remember being on
the phone with him and he's like, Florida just offered
me a scholarship. The next day, Villanova offered him because
he was right in their back pocket, right at their backyard.
Speaker 6 (15:13):
Yes, what a terrible choice by him.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
And I remember him telling me when he committed to Villanova,
He's like, coach, just like I thought I was coming
to Delaware, Like I.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
Couldn't even believe that you were interested in right, And
you're like, I found you. Yes, six months later he's
at Villanova.
Speaker 7 (15:27):
Weren't his arms still ridiculously long? I would have been
I would have been recruiting him just looking at his
own But this is why McVeigh keeps it.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
You know, he doesn't want anyone to know he's taking
ty Simpson because once it gets out that McVeigh likes him.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Everyone likes him. And that's what Martelly did. He showed
everyone he likes McHale bridges.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
I mean, a blind squirrel gets gets another every once
in a while, right.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
Are the blind squirrels.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
Not many?
Speaker 1 (15:54):
What do you make of what Lebron James is doing
at this age? Like you're watching basketball differently than the
rest of us. Maybe you when is he You're watching
it the same way, But you have to marvel at
a guy who's that age playing at that level.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Right, It's just and that's what everybody said, like, Wow,
the playoffs is different because of the rhythm of the
playoffs and you know, the physicality and the minutes and
all that. It's it's incredible, right, Like, and I've always
been the Jordan guy, but what I've been saying recently
is this, like, you know, we have that debate, and
we'll have the Lebron Jordan debate. But I go back
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to my childhood in Philadelphia, and it was Wilt or Mike, right,
Wilt or MJ, all the all the old.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
Philly guys, Will Will Will Will Will Yeah, And I said,
I'm the old Philly guy that's going MJ.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
MJ.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
Mj But in a few years from now, you're going
to look back and go like, yeah, Lebron is the
best player of all time.
Speaker 7 (16:41):
I mean it's people are saying if he you know,
if he goes, if he loses after leading three, that
it's going to hurt his legacy. And all I'm going
to say is it just means he's played in so
many damn playoffs series that the result was going to
happen at some point. It makes sense that it's Lebron.
He's played in fifties seven I believe fifty six.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
This is fifty sixth playoff series. Do you know how
many playoff series Michael Jordan played?
Speaker 2 (17:06):
You arguing, he said, eventually we're gonna say it's Lebron.
Speaker 8 (17:08):
I know.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
And because I'm preparing for what you're about to say,
I'm never gonna say it.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
I'm never gonna agree with Fillmorelly on this with you.
Speaker 7 (17:17):
And that's why I'm raising my book fifty six playoff
series to thirty seven for Michael Jordan. Since since Jordan
last one, okay, Jordan last one is playoff series, he
was like thirty five years and one hundred and seventeen
days old. Since Lebron turned that same age, He's participated
in twenty more playoff series.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
It's insane.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
It's insane.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
I saw him play in the Eastern Conference Finals in
May of two thousand and nine. We were there because
Jamiir was playing for Orlando and de Lante was playing
for the Cavs and my dad was in Cleveland for
a meeting or something, and we all met there and Megan,
(18:01):
my wife.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
Was there with me.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
She was pregnant with Philip, our sixteen year old son
that was. And he hits he had a game winner
at a buzzer beater at top of the key, buzzer beater,
and I think back on that, like, so my oldest
son's whole lifetime, Lebron's been playing in the NBA finals, right, Like, yes,
he's close off like it.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
It's but at that age to do that, like I'm
forty four, almost forty five.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Like just to like touch my toes shower, it tastes like,
all right, I gotta get myself ramped up, and I'm
not in terrible shape, but like this dude's after getting
getting thirty and triple doubles and doing this and doing.
Speaker 7 (18:38):
That, and wait, was that that you said you were
at the Orlando game winner the Orlando I think it's
the only game they win in that series. But still
what a game, right game too.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
And the best part about that about that game had
nothing to do with the game I was sure was
there because he was like a fake, big time Cleveland
fan for that little period of time, and my wife
was obsessed with Usher. And he walked by us in
the tunnel and gave like a head nod and said like,
you know, what's up, y'all? And she completely froze, And
I kill her to this day.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
She choked, He completely froze. He just won, Hey what's up?
And she was like, you're in the headline.
Speaker 7 (19:18):
Usher's done that to a lot of women. But that's
that's quite a moment right there.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
I was like, that was your chance, your chance to
leave me and go on with Usher, and you blew it.
Speaker 9 (19:26):
The best part about Stu Gotts's defense of Michael Jordan
is that if Michael Jordan played today and had the
exact same career, if he didn't win his championship until
that seventh year, Stu Gotts would have been the loudest
person criticizing him.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Yeah, but listen, he won six. He would have won
eight had he not taken the two years off.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
That's it. That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
Coach, that's it.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
That's what he says.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
I'm still team MJ. But it's at some point in
time we're gonna.
Speaker 7 (19:53):
Have You're an enabler here, Phil, when you say that's
a fact, now everyone knows.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
I mean, the only reason Elijawan has two is Jordan
took those two years off.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
That's it, right, Yeah, yeah, I mean he doesn't want
to say that.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
Speaking of Jordan, I gotta ask an Anthony Edwards. Really
it's a Minnesota or Timberwolf.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
And by the way, Rob Brenda Moore the fly the
Carolina Hurricanes, that coach could have joined us taken on
Phill's Flyers.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
It in just a minute, here, go ahead.
Speaker 7 (20:15):
Last thing here, because I cannot figure out this team,
Like did they have this really crazy deep roster the
whole second half of the season and we just didn't
know it?
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Or is it?
Speaker 6 (20:24):
You know? Guys like is it Terrence Brown Junior.
Speaker 7 (20:27):
And Iu Desumu and obviously McDaniel's like, how does a
team have all of this ability and it only shows
up when they really need I'm just very confused by it.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Well, you forgot about our guy here, Bones.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
Highland Bones of course.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Yeah, right, so.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Bones was here. He came to one of our games
late in the year and we were talking about.
Speaker 6 (20:46):
That, Terrence Shannon Jenny.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
He said like like he said, like they got some dudes.
He's like, no, we're pretty good now. Bones is also
a very confident guy.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
But he said it. Then he's like, we got a squad.
He's like, we got a squad, and uh yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
I mean and again, like the playoffs just bring something
out of guys, right, you brought it up like there
are certain guys that cower from it, right, that get
into that and they're like, this is too much. The
pressure is too much, the intensity, the detailed scouting reports
and all these things are too much. And there's other
guys that thrive. And it looks like, you know, it
looks like those guys in Minnesota thribing.
Speaker 7 (21:22):
Jade McDaniels is turning into a star out of nowhere.
Yeah he is, coach, how is this going to work
for you? With the hockey playoffs here, the Flyers have advanced.
They take on Carolina, Carolina best team in hockey. They're
coached by a flyer Alegie and rock Brenda Moore.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
He's going to get booed. He's not going to be
treated well when he goes into that building. Right, even
though you guys love him.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
He won't get booed the way like a real a
real enemy would get booed. Right, He's a he's a
what they call it, a friend of me? Yeah, yeah, right,
he's a he's a he's a friend of me.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Like, uh, he's still very much beloved in Philadelphia, and
he should be.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
But yeah, it's for the next week and a half.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
Or however long the series is.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
You know, they it will not be uh, but they're
the one thing about Philadelphia is they have that anger.
They're gonna find somebody, so it might not be towards him. Yes,
they'll find a guy on on the Hurricane, he says, like,
you know, if that's the guy we're going after, Like,
you know, Sidney Crawlsby's an easy target in Philadelphia.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
They went after him. You know, there's a couple of
those other guys.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Now they'll go after They'll find a guy on the
Carolina you know team, and go after him.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
All Right, We're gonna take a quick time out here.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
We'll come back with Rob Brenda Moore, the head coach
of the Carolina Hurricanes. What I want Phil to do
during the break here is check his wallet, make sure
his son hasn't stolen a credit card and booked himself
fight to Boston. We'll be back after this.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Be sure to catch live editions of Stuve Gotson Company
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Speaker 1 (22:51):
He is the head coach of the best team in hockey,
Rob Brendamore with us. He's a former flyer coach of
the Carolina Hurricanes. He's taking on Phil Martelly Junior's Philadelphi
be a Flyers.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Phil is joining us on this on this interview. We're
excited about that. Rod. How are you? Thanks for doing this, sir.
Speaker 10 (23:06):
Oh good, Thanks for having me a little hostile territory here,
I'm getting.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Yeah, yeah, let's.
Speaker 8 (23:11):
See what we got.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
I still love it.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
How was it for you just being a Philadelphia Flyer
legend and now the head coach of the of the
Carolina Hurricanes.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Any conflict there or no?
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Just like, like, what are the feelings for you coaching
against the team you used to play for?
Speaker 8 (23:29):
Well, no, there's no conflict.
Speaker 10 (23:31):
I mean, I've been this twenty five years, right, but
I I I'm I'm actually happy for the Flyers and
the fans, and they deserve it, you know they I think,
you know, Philadelphia first of all, I obviously the best
sports town in America. They you know, good or bad,
they let you know, and they support their teams. And
when I was a Flyer, I just I love playing there.
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You know, if you're an honest player and you're you know,
your butt off, they're gonna you're all right and it's
not They're.
Speaker 8 (23:58):
Gonna let you know. It keeps you on your tone
as an athlete there.
Speaker 10 (24:00):
So good for them that they made it in Obviously
you know I'm on the other side now, but I
enjoyed my time there for sure.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
Brought some of us. Most of us are down here
in South Florida.
Speaker 7 (24:11):
We've seen your guys, this team play in the playoffs
against the Panthers a few times, and frankly, I can't
stand playing you guys. But wondering what sort of creates
the identity? What are some sort of non negotiables for
a Hurricanes style player.
Speaker 10 (24:24):
Oh, I mean it's cliche, is but you know, everybody's
got the word culture. They flat around, but you know,
you have the good culture, a bad culture.
Speaker 8 (24:34):
Everyone has it.
Speaker 10 (24:35):
And I feel like we've really done a nice job
here of getting just honest players, you know, and come
in and earn their check every day, and you know,
and it starts with your leader.
Speaker 8 (24:47):
We got a great one in Jordan Stall. I said
it the other day.
Speaker 10 (24:50):
I got asked about him, and you know, he's been here,
I don't know, fourteen years or.
Speaker 8 (24:53):
Something, and I've been here every year with him.
Speaker 10 (24:55):
I've never seen the guy take a day off. And
then I mean on the ice practice game, like the
you know move And so when you have something like
that to kind of be the leader, it makes, you know,
everyone else got to kind of fall suit.
Speaker 8 (25:09):
So we we've kind of hung our head on that
just do your best.
Speaker 10 (25:13):
And you know, obviously we got strategy and we got
the same stuff everybody else has, but like, compete level
is kind of the non negotiable for us, and I
think it's served us well.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
Coach.
Speaker 9 (25:24):
I went to school in Chapel Hill, and I love
the dynamic there because you and ce Duke and NC
State fans in the triangle are fighting every day they
can't agree on anything, and then you have the Carolina
Hurricanes where it kind of brings everybody together and you
kind of have that interesting dynamic, no doubt.
Speaker 10 (25:41):
That's been really one of the things that when I
first got here, I, you know, obviously knew all about what
you just said. I didn't realize you had to pick
a team, you know, like I couldn't support all three.
Speaker 8 (25:51):
It was like, no, no, that's not how it works.
Speaker 10 (25:53):
So married into the NC State family, so and they've
all been great to me, So I kind of put
that on and then kind of live that life with
you know, like you said, you got to pick one.
But when we're playing, it's nice to see that we're
kind of the one pro team here and everyone can
kind of jump on board and get together and they
certainly support us, that's for sure.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
Rod. This is Uh, this is Phil.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
We actually played down at your spot. We played NC
State early this year, so we were in that arena.
That's a great place. I can imagine for your games.
It's got to be crazy. But coach, the coach, I'm
asking you, you know, you just played four games in
a week and then you have a week off, Like,
how are you managing that with your group, you know,
keep them, keep them ready, keep them sharp, but also
kind of giving that time to you know, reset their
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minds in our bodies.
Speaker 10 (26:39):
So it's tricky, especially we didn't really know when we
were even going to play. There was like, okay, Saturday
of the earliest, could be Monday, you know, so you're
kind of all right, you know, trying to gauge the rest,
and you definitely physically need to rest them, but it's
a mental grind for our sport that really takes its toll,
(27:00):
and so you want to get them away from the
brink as much as possible. And so we gave him
a few days in this whole stretch to just stay away.
Speaker 8 (27:09):
From the rink and go do something else.
Speaker 10 (27:12):
There's lots to do here in this time of the
year with the weather and because you got to refresh,
and when once we start up here again tomorrow.
Speaker 8 (27:19):
Night, it's just go, go go, So I don't know,
we'll see, you know. We didn't have a ton of practices.
Speaker 10 (27:24):
We had three pretty good ones, which doesn't sound like
a lot.
Speaker 8 (27:28):
In that timeframe, but.
Speaker 10 (27:31):
We aired on kind of give them the more of
a rest and hopefully that translate into being able to,
you know, get that little edge physically wise.
Speaker 7 (27:41):
Coach wondering how you sort of break this down right,
the step to take from contender, which you've been for
several years to champion. Is there something one sort of
note or one sort of theme that you guys talk
about most of the time or is it just like, hey,
every year, it's always something different, But we know we haven't.
Speaker 10 (27:59):
I mean, it's you certainly learned from the past. I
can tell you that.
Speaker 8 (28:03):
I mean we've we've.
Speaker 10 (28:04):
We've had a group here at the core group that
stayed here has been here for eight years now, and
you know, we've been through some tough losses, but you
know we've I think we've learned from long.
Speaker 8 (28:14):
We had a series the other the last series.
Speaker 10 (28:16):
Where things didn't go our way in the last game,
everything was kind of working against us, and I just
I felt like guys have been there before, like we've
seen this and handle it really well. So you're hoping
that that experience days off as you move along. And
you know, I know, the hunger is there these guys,
they know they only get so many shots at this,
so our goal certainly stays the same every year.
Speaker 8 (28:38):
I don't know that. You know, one year bleeds into
the next two months. It's starting fresh.
Speaker 10 (28:43):
But the experiences that you've had in the past, certainly
you rely on those moving forward here at this time
of year, Rod.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
When when you're obviously so locked into your series and
upcoming series, do you pay attention much to the other
series going on in the playoffs or you just so
locked into the previous reason?
Speaker 10 (29:02):
I mean yeah, I mean, you know, I watched mostly
it's all hockey with us because the playoffs.
Speaker 8 (29:08):
There's so many games, you know, I got.
Speaker 10 (29:10):
I have a little basketball connection. I got some good
friends in the NBA, Sydney Low who used to coach
NC State. I became good friends with him, and mostly
because my father and I was coached and played at
NC State, So that's why I'm connected there. And I
know he's with the Piston, So I kind of keep
my eye on everything going on. But yeah, you're listen,
(29:30):
that's my job, right I got to know what's going on,
and you're looking to a further series.
Speaker 5 (29:35):
It's trends.
Speaker 8 (29:36):
You know what's going on.
Speaker 10 (29:38):
If there's something you can pick up, and obviously down
the road, if you end up having to play teams.
You're you're kind of getting an idea, what what.
Speaker 8 (29:45):
What's working for them? So yeah, it's it's a fun
time of year. It's a busy time though, all.
Speaker 7 (29:50):
Right, right, would be honest, Okay, you're going into your
watching the game. It's Mammoth and it's Golden Knights. It's
going into over time. It's a two am. Tell me
when when these games going to overtime in the playoffs.
You're just like folding it out and just like, hey,
I'll just read about.
Speaker 6 (30:03):
In the morning.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Right, there's no way you stay up and see how
long Agoes gets.
Speaker 10 (30:07):
Listen, I said, there's a couple of games on the
watch them all right, I'm in bed.
Speaker 8 (30:12):
I'm in bed. There's a zero chance that I'm watching
that overtime. No, it's eleven o'clock. It lights out of
my house.
Speaker 6 (30:20):
Smart Rod.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
We have been making the joke down here. You're from Ottawa.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
I'm wondering, do you think Canada hates South Florida because.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
We stole hockey from them? I mean, what do you think?
Speaker 10 (30:30):
I don't know about that. I can't think it probably
born in Ottawa, but I'm you know, I didn't spend
any time there.
Speaker 8 (30:36):
But yeah, there's Listen, the US.
Speaker 10 (30:39):
Was taken over here on almost everything. So when it
comes to the hockey in their sport, which Canada, that's
what the Hanger had on. It's kind of taking a
turn here the last few years. So yeah, it's not
just down in South Florida, it's kind of in US
in general.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
I want to play a game with you. Hockey player
or not a hockey player? Okay, and really just one question,
uh Taylor, our executive producer, open bar at a wedding.
He walked up to the bar. The drinks are free.
He ordered a Shirley Temple hockey player or not a
hockey player.
Speaker 8 (31:12):
I mean, oh, that kind of obvious.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
I thank you, man, very obvious.
Speaker 8 (31:19):
I don't know, don't have to answer that. Yeah, layup.
You just gave me a layup question there.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Yeah, go ahead, coach, if you have something for him.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
I got to ask you, you know now, it's the
Philadelphia and I got to.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
Ask you what was your favorite when you played in Philly?
Speaker 4 (31:36):
Besides you know, going to the to the rink and
playing in front of the fans, what was your favorite
thing to do off ice in Philadelphia?
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (31:44):
Great question, man.
Speaker 6 (31:45):
I went to Temples.
Speaker 8 (31:48):
No, I didn't.
Speaker 10 (31:48):
I didn't engage in that, but I, uh, I did
a lot of I actually took a UH. I went
to Temple for a summer.
Speaker 8 (31:56):
Like I loved all.
Speaker 10 (31:57):
The the UH classes. I loved the college sports. Whenever
they would back line was there. They would played a
lot of college games at the Spectrum. I don't remember
they had it, well, the tournament they had there. I
forget what it's called now been it's too long, but tournament.
Speaker 5 (32:13):
I played in that tournament.
Speaker 8 (32:14):
Yeah, there you go. I probably was at one of
your games. You know, I go and you know we can.
Speaker 10 (32:19):
Get in obviously, So I loved watching that. UH spent
my summers there.
Speaker 8 (32:24):
Watch all the baseball, went to the Phillies games, so that.
Speaker 10 (32:27):
You know, anything I could do. I was young back
then when I was there, single guy, so you can
imagine run around. But I certainly enjoyed all the sport
and the events that you know you can do there.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Ron, Thank you so much for doing this. Good luck
in the next round. I think I don't know. I mean,
Phil's not with you. By the way, if Martinelli saw
needs tickets to one of these Flyers game, he's going
to hit you up.
Speaker 6 (32:48):
Okay, just so you know, no lose my number.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Thank you, good luck moving forward here. We appreciate it.
Speaker 8 (32:59):
Thank you.
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Speaker 1 (33:33):
Our Thanks to Rod Brendamore and Phil mart Talley Junior
for joining us.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
That was fun.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
I enjoyed that. Yep, Phil enjoyed it. I mean doing
a mount rushmore of flyers.
Speaker 6 (33:42):
That wasn't my favorite part, but it was his.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Yeah, it was his favorite part. That and talking about
his kids.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
I mean, Jesus, let's update the balls here like we
do to end the week.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Every single week. Oh, we have music for it.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
This is fantastic at Steg got seven ninety on X
Taylor take it Away?
Speaker 9 (33:59):
Is Lebron James up three to one this series against
Father Time?
Speaker 5 (34:04):
That poll looked a lot different a few days ago.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
What you heard was a lot of phlegm just come
up from my lungs because I was laughing so hard.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Yes, father Time has made a big comeback.
Speaker 9 (34:15):
The audience voted eighty seven percent saying yes, all right,
Reggie Miller did get out of here?
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Yep, yes, get out of here? Yeah? Leave.
Speaker 9 (34:26):
I hate Reggie Miller so much.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
I hate a strong word.
Speaker 6 (34:29):
I hate all right.
Speaker 9 (34:31):
I don't hate CJ. McCallum anymore, though, Right.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
You like him again?
Speaker 8 (34:33):
Now?
Speaker 9 (34:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (34:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (34:34):
And the play by play guy from the Hawks, Steve Hollman,
He's got an entire summer to walk his dog.
Speaker 9 (34:42):
Seventy four percent of the audience said, yes, get Reggie
Miller the heck out of here, all right?
Speaker 6 (34:46):
Good?
Speaker 9 (34:48):
Has Dan Orlovsky been walking around with a peppinist step
ever since? Ty Simpson went thirteen?
Speaker 1 (34:55):
This is Taylor's take. It's a big one for Taylor.
Here I said it, but Taylor fed it.
Speaker 9 (34:59):
To me, This is a big one for me. Ninety
six percent of the audience said yes, they've noticed the
pep and his step.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
It's hard not to notice.
Speaker 6 (35:09):
Yep, it's a big number.
Speaker 9 (35:12):
This one comes from our softball game.
Speaker 6 (35:13):
Is he wha?
Speaker 2 (35:15):
What's the next game?
Speaker 6 (35:15):
By the way, Monday?
Speaker 9 (35:17):
I would assume Monday, but there's always the rain outs.
There's always a chance it's our bye week.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Well, for Izzy, as long as there's enough players, he
won't be there.
Speaker 9 (35:26):
Does somebody named big Rob have to play first base
in a softball game?
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Yeah, I don't know if it has to be Rob,
but it needs to be big something.
Speaker 7 (35:35):
Big robs the perfect the perfect combination syllables. It's very easy,
and you just there's something about a rob. If it's
got a big in front of you just kind of
know exactly what he looks like.
Speaker 6 (35:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
If Big Robin Big Mike both playing on the same team,
who's at first?
Speaker 7 (35:47):
I think big Rob big Mic has different options. Big
Mic can be a big burley guy.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Yeah, yeah, I think I'm with them. I think big
Rob is I don't know, it makes make sense, just
might be tall, I catch Yeah.
Speaker 9 (36:00):
Ninety percent of the audience said yes, he has to
play first base. Is it easy to kill an hour?
And the Barnes and Noble What year?
Speaker 5 (36:09):
I shouldn't even be a quest.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
So me and Taylor both like a good stroll arounding
Barnes and Nobles, preferably one with a Starbucks with those
Rice Prisby treats.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
I could spend an hour in there easily, easily reading
Lindy's sports fantasy magazines.
Speaker 9 (36:22):
Yes, eighty two percent of the audience said, yes, it
is easy to kill an hour there.
Speaker 6 (36:26):
See still got will be in there for five minutes
and be like, has it been an hour? I'm tired?
Speaker 9 (36:30):
This one is a massive one for me. Do you
wish Shirley Temples were more socially acceptable?
Speaker 1 (36:39):
I'm just laughing because Izzie is so long to me,
I'm such a fraud.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
I mean, Barnes and Nobles for an hour? Get the
hell out of here. What was the question again? I'm sorry, Dale?
Speaker 9 (36:48):
Do you wish Shirley Temples were more socially acceptable?
Speaker 6 (36:52):
We already know if Rod Brindemore voted that at least
one note yes Simms as well.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Yeah, yeah, of course that was obvious. That's why I
asked those two. Taylor went to an open bar to wedding.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
Alcohol is free. He ordered a Shirley Temple and he
was judged.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
And now he's being hailed as some sort of king
in the Shirley Temple community because everyone agrees with them.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
I agree with him.
Speaker 6 (37:15):
Those things are delicious thing of the temple. Oh they're good.
Speaker 8 (37:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (37:18):
Sixty three percent of the audience said, yes, they wish
they were more socially acceptable.
Speaker 6 (37:24):
Never more disappointed in our audience.
Speaker 9 (37:26):
I told you the people are behind me on this one.
Speaker 6 (37:28):
Yeah, you are mocking it.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
You're their king. Yes.
Speaker 9 (37:31):
Two more pole questions, should popa roach and Beyonce ever
be on the same playlist.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
That's the only reason we talked about Dianaiver City was
to get to the playlist for Taylor.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
That was an observation from Israel Gudieires.
Speaker 9 (37:45):
This one is a bit disappointing because only sixty one
percent of the audience said no.
Speaker 6 (37:51):
Really, wow, U no musical taste whatsoever?
Speaker 5 (37:55):
Put my life into peace.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
I mean I voted yes, I'm sorry.
Speaker 9 (37:58):
This is a This is a mass one for everybody
from her think about it Thursday. To make it colder?
Do you turn the ac up or do you turn
the AC down?
Speaker 7 (38:08):
You know what, I've been thinking about this that happened. Really,
have you changed your stance? No, because Taylor and I
were turned the AC down. Because you're turning the temperature down,
You're not actually cranking up any.
Speaker 6 (38:18):
Sort of air any harder. It's the same level of
air being pushed out of the events.
Speaker 7 (38:23):
It's just for a longer period of time until the
total temperature can drop.
Speaker 9 (38:28):
Fifty percent of the audience voted turn it down. Turn
it down for what big?
Speaker 2 (38:35):
Yeah, but just fifty nine percent.
Speaker 6 (38:36):
That's big, It's enough majority.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
I mean, you're asking me if I've changed my opinion
on this, and I would answer that if I knew
what my original opinion wants
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Phil Martelli Junior is with us. He's the head coach
at VCU. He said if he wasn't coaching, he'd like
to be a sports radio host in Philadelphia. So we
give him that opportunity every now and again. We have
done it once, we'll do it again here. There's a
lot going on with Philly sports, and Rob Brindamore is
going to join us. Who is the head coach of
the Carolina Panthers they're taking out now. He's a Flyers,
(00:47):
legend flyer. Fans love Brendamore, but he is coaching against
Martelli's Flyers, and so we'll get to that in just
a second of coach. Let's start here. Nothing says March
like the field of seventy six.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
I mean, we all knew it was coming right like
we knew it was once they with any of this stuff.
If there's one thing we've learned is once they start
talking about it, it's going to happen, right, And it
was just a matter of where they going to go
to seventy two, seventy six.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
But here's what I'll.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Say, Like people are like anything, right, they get up
in arms right away, Oh my god.
Speaker 6 (01:23):
What are we doing?
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Blah blah blah. Well they did that when he went
from sixty four to sixty five how many years ago?
Speaker 6 (01:29):
Yes, and then it.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Went from sixty five to sixty eight, and everybody's like,
and everybody's good with it now, you know.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
So, yeah, it'll be weird next year.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
But the reality is like in a couple of years,
those guys that take off, you know, they like to
take off Thursday and Friday and spend the whole day
watching games. Now they're going to take off Tuesday and
Wednesday too, and they'll watch games all day.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
I can support you know those days coming up.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Yeah, you know what, I shouldn't be criticizing this. That's
a great point by you. Thank you for pointing that out.
Go ahead, Mikey.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
Coach, if your rank seventy seventh.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
You can't complain like that's just waiting.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Yeah, but that's going through hat.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Yes, of course, yeah, right, you.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Would again go back in time, you would have said
that to like, well, if you were sixty ninth, you're
you're you don't have no no gripe. Well what did
we have all year? Was you're talking about this team
and that team? Should this team be in?
Speaker 5 (02:17):
That team be in?
Speaker 4 (02:19):
I mean I do I do miss the days of
the sixty four you know, the one page you know deal,
But yeah, I just think we just adjust to it,
We get used to it, and we build it out
and I don't know if they can ever go beyond
seventy six, you know, in reality. But again we would
have said that. However many years ago, you know, getting
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to sixty eight.
Speaker 7 (02:41):
I think about this the same way I thought about
that golf tournament where they play pairs for some reason?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Who is this for?
Speaker 7 (02:47):
Because I mean, was anybody clamoring for more? What's the
what is it fixing here?
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Well, it's it's the big conferences, right.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
They're sitting there going like, well, how do we squeeze
you know, how do we squeeze some of these lower
level teams.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Out a little bit further in the bracket. How do
we get some more of our.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Teams in, because that is one of the things, Like,
you know, again, I mean for somebody to sit there
and say we weren't going to be in that tournament
this year is insane, right, So I guess we would
have been the first team out, Like that's kind of crazy.
So it does help us, you know, in a year
like this, if we don't win the tournament, we're in.
But yeah, like it's to get that sixteen and fifteen
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you know, high major team in. I don't love that,
but I do love that there's more and there's going
to be more more opportunities.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Phil Please accept my apologies. You're always talking college basketball.
You're not here to talk college basketball. You're here to
talk about Philadelphia's sports. So let's get to Philadelphia sports.
Which sport in Philadelphia? I'm wondering. Let me try it
this way. If I told Philly fans only one of
their teams could win a championship over the next fifty years,
what would the fan Well, I'm just trying to establish
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what's the biggest board in Philadelphia.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
What would the fans choose?
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Yeah, that's I would choose the Phillies, the fans would
choose the Eagles.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
There's no question about it.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Really, not the Flyers about it.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
Wow, No, there's no question. It's the Eagle, like the Eagles,
the Eagles, the.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Eagles, I mean, you know, they all have their backing
for sure, but it's one. If you said there's only
one team that's going to be able to win it, yeah,
it's the Eagles.
Speaker 7 (04:25):
How far back are the seventy six ers, Well, they're
tied down with boxed people.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
That's a good question. I kind of feel like the
rest of them. To me, it's the Eagles number one,
and then it's a two. It's a three way tie
after that, Phillies, Sixers, Uh, Flyers. I feel like there's
like everybody loves everybody loves the Eagles, and I feel
like a lot of people love the Sixers, and then
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there's a group that like the Sixers.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Right, there's a lot of people that love the Phillies
and a group that likes the Phillies.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Right, there's a lot of people that love the Flyers,
and then group that likes the Flyers. Where I feel
like everybody in the city loves the Eagles, right, So
I think those next three I'd put it pretty even.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
I thought it was interesting with Rob Thompson, who has
been a very good manager for the Phillies. They made
the postseason. I think every season he was the manager,
but shortly got fired no longer the Phillies manager. Were
you surprised by that or I guess we shouldn't be
because it's Philadelphia, right.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Yeah, I wasn't surprised, just because of the way that
they were trending.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
I didn't like it.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
I mean, it's not his fault that no one's hitting
the ball. It's not his fault that no one's fielding
the ball like they couldn't get anybody out like it was.
That's not his fault, like I thought. You know, I
thought he was a great manager. Obviously, I'm going to
stick up for the coach, right, so you know, it
certainly wasn't his fault.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Now I understand this day and age.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
That's what that's what you sign up for, right, Like
someone's got to be the scapegoat. Yes they're not, they're
not getting you know, they're not. They're not firing Bryce
Harper today, right or should they?
Speaker 8 (05:58):
Right?
Speaker 4 (06:00):
You know, so somebody has to follow on that sword,
and unfortunately it was our guy Topper.
Speaker 9 (06:05):
Yeah, coach, is it a bit of a misery loves
company thing though, with the Mets being this bad too?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
From your misery? Right, it does? It has to, right?
Speaker 5 (06:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Yeah, it's just miserable that the Philly stink because I
love the Phillies, Like I want to be invested from
game game one to one sixty two and beyond, like
I want to be invested in every pitch and it's
been really, really hard these last couple.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Of weeks to be invested.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
But it does make you feel a little bit better
that you're, like, all right, the Mets stink like that
does make you.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Feel you're welcome, coach.
Speaker 9 (06:37):
As a coach, you guys are wired to think that
you guys always have a chance. Unfortunately my Tario has
found that out the hard way. But how surprised are
you still that the Sixers who looked dead have found
a way to even up the series and force the
game seven?
Speaker 8 (06:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (06:53):
I really I didn't think they had much of a chance. Honestly,
I really didn't, you know.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
But credit to those guys, I mean, they have they
got something. I mean, Nick Nurse is a hell of
a coach, you know, and has made the adjustments that
they need to make, you know. And Maxie is a superstar, right,
Like obviously getting a beeedback healthy is huge, but like,
you know, Maxi is a superstar.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Edge Comb.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
They got something there, right, if those guys can continue
and stay consistent. But yeah, it's I've been telling my boy.
My my sixteen year old and my eight year old
are like, I mean the ten thirty last night that
game ended and they're hooting and holler and running around,
you know, screaming at the eight year old to go
to bed, and he's like, you know, he makes his
first community tomorrow. My sixteen year old is in the
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car this morning dropping him off for school and he's
going like, all right, there's like a six am flight.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
I could go on.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
I could get up there, I go one your brother's community.
They're not going anywhere too. You have no money for
a flight, You have no ticket and no money for
a ticket. Talking about so he's a typical that's who
you should have on because he's the.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
Proto typical irrational Philadelphia fan. I'm like, I'll just fly
up there and go to the game. You don't have it.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Who's buying me that ticket, young man. I gotta tell you,
I love this kid. I do.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
He's he's built for this, built for this.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Absolutely, you're like, what are you talking about?
Speaker 5 (08:17):
You can debate for hours. He's on it.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
I'll bring him on next time. You come on, Okay,
come on together.
Speaker 7 (08:23):
Well maybe I should have asked him this question because
he seems so invested in the Sixers.
Speaker 6 (08:26):
But I'm curious.
Speaker 7 (08:28):
Okay, So part of the reason why you me anybody
didn't really know if they had a chance, because we
didn't know if you were going to get Embiid, And
if we got Embiid, what version of him?
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Where are we going to get? But where are we here?
Speaker 7 (08:38):
Let me just ask this, what do you expect from
Joel Embiid in a game seven? Because most of the
time I close my eyes and picture Joel Embiid in
a high pressure playoff game.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
He's mister trying too hard.
Speaker 7 (08:49):
He is all over the place mentally, and they just
kind of collapse around him. I'm hoping it seems like,
based on what we've seen from this series, that he
sort of advanced beyond that.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
The crazy thing with MB coach is he also has
the ability to be the best player on a floor
that includes Tatum and Jalen Brown.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
It's crazy.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Yeah, I mean he is. He's an incredible talent, right.
I think we talked maybe we might have talked about
this the last time, Like it's he's one of those guys.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
It's just such a unicorn.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
I personally don't trust it, right I you know, the
thing was trust the process. I personally don't trust it
because it is it's just a tough like, yeah, if
he's if he's great, then't forget it. Like they probably
do win Game seven, but I think there's probably a
number of Philadelphia fans that are nervous about that, right,
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like that.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
It seems like you're one of them, to be honest
level of faith in this guy.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Yeah, and I'm not like a crazy Sixers guy, Like
I'm really not, like I'm I'm I'm not.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
I will profess to that that I'm not a uh
you know, but yeah, like I I they need him
to be right.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
If he's not, then forget it, right Like yes, you know,
like Game seven, you need your superstars to be he superstars,
Like if he's supposed to be the megastar, like he's
got to be the megastar, Like it's great with Max,
He's done with Edgecomb's done with these other guys have done.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
But like you need your superstars to show up in
game seven.
Speaker 7 (10:12):
I think we can print those T shirts. By the way,
I personally don't trust it.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
And then just next year game we want him to
come back.
Speaker 7 (10:19):
No, not for he doesn't have that as a name
on it, just for other Philadelphia fans.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
I heard a lot of trust the process over the years.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Yeah, And I worked for him for a year and
he's first year that he played. I worked for the
Sixers and I wasn't sure. And then he came out
to training camp and he did some things to uh
to Jelil Okafhor and no one's no well, And I
was like, there's a reason you haven't heard from those
guys in a long time.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
Like that first day he walked out there, I was like, holy,
you know what.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Yeah, but it's just the health thing, Like if you
can't stay healthy, the best abilities availability, right, that's right, yeah,
be available.
Speaker 7 (10:53):
What do you see when you watch Maxie and Edgecomb together,
because Edgecomb seems to be as a rookie probably should
in this situation, holding back on what he can do.
He is so crazy explosive and Maxi, you know, he
was already an MVP candidate in the first quarter of
the season. So like, if you project that back court
through the next several years, what are you looking at?
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Well, I think, to me, it just depends on how
consistent they can make that right, Like my thing is
always that like there's always these guys or these pairs
or these trios or whatever that everyone goes like nuts, right, like,
oh my god, they're the next fill in the black,
and then it falls off the next year. Now Maxi
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has proven it, Edgecombe, I think you need another year
to see it at that level. Then now you're like,
you know what, there's something coming along here. You know,
was that a one year you know, a one year
rookie year kind of high and then you know you
have that that that slump. But if he stays consistent,
I think Maxi's to me at this point, he's proven himself.
As you know, he's an All Star, he's an All
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NBA guy, he's a future potential MVP candidate. If you
get that from edgecumb in year two, you're looking at
like you got something right, Like you're building real future
you know, and those are the kinds of guys that
win it for you, I think, right like you look
at when the Celtics are really good, it's because Tatum
and Brown are really good. They get stuff from those
other guys, but it's Tatum and Brown, right, it's those
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those perimeter I don't even want to say ball dominant,
but just the guys that can make plays, right, they
can score, facilitate, do all those things.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
And both of those guys have it.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
The thing for them is I think, I do think
just from an outside perspective, there's too many times sometimes
where they just fall into a little too iso.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
Yeah, yeah, you.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Know where it's like waiting all right, like Maxi's going
and now everybody's standing around watching, and then Edcom gets
going and everybody's standing around watching, And they used to
run into that with embed right like it was like
now everybody's just standing around watching. It still needs a
little more cohesion where everybody's just kind of playing off
each other.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Is he is loving this? He finally has someone who
wants to talk basketball with him. Fill in the Blank
is an excellent segment Listen Sports Radio. It is all
about benchmarks and creative segment Fill in the blanks with
Phil Martelli is fantastic. So fill in this blank. Who
would the Knicks rather face next round, Boston or Philly?
Fill in the blank.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
I have to I have to figure Philly beating them
in the playoffs before I have to imagine they'd rather
play the Sixers.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Yes, yes, Taylor, you want the Sixers.
Speaker 9 (13:18):
I'm at the point, coach, I don't care who we played.
If Oby's gonna play like this, yes, bring on anybody.
And I like our chances.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
That was shocking, and you just won a game by
ninety nine points. Yet there's a little bit of like, yeah,
we can play anybody. And then and then what happens
is you get punched in the mouth Game one and
you're like, oh, damn, we should have.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
Played the other team.
Speaker 7 (13:38):
Yeah, this is still the same team that was down
two to one Atlanta and everybody scratching their heads. Okay,
And I told you, Taylor, be careful with Ognnobi. Man,
he can look dominant in a game like this, but
when the pressure's on it's a two point game and
you're looking for offense, you look for og.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
He's going to be standing in the corner.
Speaker 9 (13:53):
And I think STU, Yeah, mckel Bridges might have found
his confidence yesterday.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Well, I do wonder because coach is not a big
Philadelphia seventy six er fan by his own admission, and
if they do play the Knicks, all those guys are
from Philly.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
Well, so my Michale Bridges story.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
I was the first one to offer him a scholarship.
I was an assistant at Delaware University of Delaware.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
Wow, he was playing at Great.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
Valley High School. They haven't produced a player.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
In a million years.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
A friend of mine played against them and was like,
there's this kid. So we are playing Villanova that year,
and I'm going to see this kid like the next week.
And I see him walking across the baseline with his friend.
So I stopped and I said, Michael, I'm coach. Martelius said,
I'm coming to see you next week. His eyes were
like this big. He couldn't even believe it. Right, So
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he's sitting behind Villanova's bench. Usually your recruits are sitting
behind your bench. He was there because his friend had
season tickets. They had no idea who he was.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
He was a junior in high school. Man, no clue.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
I'm recruiting and recruiting and recruiting him. All of a sudden,
he starts to blow up. People are going crazy about him.
By the end of that year, there's a bunch of
schools around. They still weren't really in on him.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
To bempletely honest, they would probably tell you otherwise. They
still weren't completely in on him.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
And Florida offered him a scholarship. I remember being on
the phone with him and he's like, Florida just offered
me a scholarship. The next day, Villanova offered him because
he was right in their back pocket, right at their backyard.
Speaker 6 (15:13):
Yes, what a terrible choice by him.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
And I remember him telling me when he committed to Villanova,
He's like, coach, just like I thought I was coming
to Delaware, Like I.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
Couldn't even believe that you were interested in right, And
you're like, I found you. Yes, six months later he's
at Villanova.
Speaker 7 (15:27):
Weren't his arms still ridiculously long? I would have been
I would have been recruiting him just looking at his
own But this is why McVeigh keeps it.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
You know, he doesn't want anyone to know he's taking
ty Simpson because once it gets out that McVeigh likes him.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Everyone likes him. And that's what Martelly did. He showed
everyone he likes McHale bridges.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
I mean, a blind squirrel gets gets another every once
in a while, right.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
Are the blind squirrels.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
Not many?
Speaker 1 (15:54):
What do you make of what Lebron James is doing
at this age? Like you're watching basketball differently than the
rest of us. Maybe you when is he You're watching
it the same way, But you have to marvel at
a guy who's that age playing at that level.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Right, It's just and that's what everybody said, like, Wow,
the playoffs is different because of the rhythm of the
playoffs and you know, the physicality and the minutes and
all that. It's it's incredible, right, Like, and I've always
been the Jordan guy, but what I've been saying recently
is this, like, you know, we have that debate, and
we'll have the Lebron Jordan debate. But I go back
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to my childhood in Philadelphia, and it was Wilt or Mike, right,
Wilt or MJ, all the all the old.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
Philly guys, Will Will Will Will Will Yeah, And I said,
I'm the old Philly guy that's going MJ.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
MJ.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
Mj But in a few years from now, you're going
to look back and go like, yeah, Lebron is the
best player of all time.
Speaker 7 (16:41):
I mean it's people are saying if he you know,
if he goes, if he loses after leading three, that
it's going to hurt his legacy. And all I'm going
to say is it just means he's played in so
many damn playoffs series that the result was going to
happen at some point. It makes sense that it's Lebron.
He's played in fifties seven I believe fifty six.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
This is fifty sixth playoff series. Do you know how
many playoff series Michael Jordan played?
Speaker 2 (17:06):
You arguing, he said, eventually we're gonna say it's Lebron.
Speaker 8 (17:08):
I know.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
And because I'm preparing for what you're about to say,
I'm never gonna say it.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
I'm never gonna agree with Fillmorelly on this with you.
Speaker 7 (17:17):
And that's why I'm raising my book fifty six playoff
series to thirty seven for Michael Jordan. Since since Jordan
last one, okay, Jordan last one is playoff series, he
was like thirty five years and one hundred and seventeen
days old. Since Lebron turned that same age, He's participated
in twenty more playoff series.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
It's insane.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
It's insane.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
I saw him play in the Eastern Conference Finals in
May of two thousand and nine. We were there because
Jamiir was playing for Orlando and de Lante was playing
for the Cavs and my dad was in Cleveland for
a meeting or something, and we all met there and Megan,
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my wife.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
Was there with me.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
She was pregnant with Philip, our sixteen year old son
that was. And he hits he had a game winner
at a buzzer beater at top of the key, buzzer beater,
and I think back on that, like, so my oldest
son's whole lifetime, Lebron's been playing in the NBA finals, right, Like, yes,
he's close off like it.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
It's but at that age to do that, like I'm
forty four, almost forty five.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Like just to like touch my toes shower, it tastes like,
all right, I gotta get myself ramped up, and I'm
not in terrible shape, but like this dude's after getting
getting thirty and triple doubles and doing this and doing.
Speaker 7 (18:38):
That, and wait, was that that you said you were
at the Orlando game winner the Orlando I think it's
the only game they win in that series. But still
what a game, right game too.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
And the best part about that about that game had
nothing to do with the game I was sure was
there because he was like a fake, big time Cleveland
fan for that little period of time, and my wife
was obsessed with Usher. And he walked by us in
the tunnel and gave like a head nod and said like,
you know, what's up, y'all? And she completely froze, And
I kill her to this day.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
She choked, He completely froze. He just won, Hey what's up?
And she was like, you're in the headline.
Speaker 7 (19:18):
Usher's done that to a lot of women. But that's
that's quite a moment right there.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
I was like, that was your chance, your chance to
leave me and go on with Usher, and you blew it.
Speaker 9 (19:26):
The best part about Stu Gotts's defense of Michael Jordan
is that if Michael Jordan played today and had the
exact same career, if he didn't win his championship until
that seventh year, Stu Gotts would have been the loudest
person criticizing him.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Yeah, but listen, he won six. He would have won
eight had he not taken the two years off.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
That's it. That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
Coach, that's it.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
That's what he says.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
I'm still team MJ. But it's at some point in
time we're gonna.
Speaker 7 (19:53):
Have You're an enabler here, Phil, when you say that's
a fact, now everyone knows.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
I mean, the only reason Elijawan has two is Jordan
took those two years off.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
That's it, right, Yeah, yeah, I mean he doesn't want
to say that.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
Speaking of Jordan, I gotta ask an Anthony Edwards. Really
it's a Minnesota or Timberwolf.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
And by the way, Rob Brenda Moore the fly the
Carolina Hurricanes, that coach could have joined us taken on
Phill's Flyers.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
It in just a minute, here, go ahead.
Speaker 7 (20:15):
Last thing here, because I cannot figure out this team,
Like did they have this really crazy deep roster the
whole second half of the season and we just didn't
know it?
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Or is it?
Speaker 6 (20:24):
You know? Guys like is it Terrence Brown Junior.
Speaker 7 (20:27):
And Iu Desumu and obviously McDaniel's like, how does a
team have all of this ability and it only shows
up when they really need I'm just very confused by it.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Well, you forgot about our guy here, Bones.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
Highland Bones of course.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Yeah, right, so.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Bones was here. He came to one of our games
late in the year and we were talking about.
Speaker 6 (20:46):
That, Terrence Shannon Jenny.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
He said like like he said, like they got some dudes.
He's like, no, we're pretty good now. Bones is also
a very confident guy.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
But he said it. Then he's like, we got a squad.
He's like, we got a squad, and uh yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
I mean and again, like the playoffs just bring something
out of guys, right, you brought it up like there
are certain guys that cower from it, right, that get
into that and they're like, this is too much. The
pressure is too much, the intensity, the detailed scouting reports
and all these things are too much. And there's other
guys that thrive. And it looks like, you know, it
looks like those guys in Minnesota thribing.
Speaker 7 (21:22):
Jade McDaniels is turning into a star out of nowhere.
Yeah he is, coach, how is this going to work
for you? With the hockey playoffs here, the Flyers have advanced.
They take on Carolina, Carolina best team in hockey. They're
coached by a flyer Alegie and rock Brenda Moore.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
He's going to get booed. He's not going to be
treated well when he goes into that building. Right, even
though you guys love him.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
He won't get booed the way like a real a
real enemy would get booed. Right, He's a he's a
what they call it, a friend of me? Yeah, yeah, right,
he's a he's a he's a friend of me.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Like, uh, he's still very much beloved in Philadelphia, and
he should be.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
But yeah, it's for the next week and a half.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
Or however long the series is.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
You know, they it will not be uh, but they're
the one thing about Philadelphia is they have that anger.
They're gonna find somebody, so it might not be towards him. Yes,
they'll find a guy on on the Hurricane, he says, like,
you know, if that's the guy we're going after, Like,
you know, Sidney Crawlsby's an easy target in Philadelphia.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
They went after him. You know, there's a couple of
those other guys.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Now they'll go after They'll find a guy on the
Carolina you know team, and go after him.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
All Right, We're gonna take a quick time out here.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
We'll come back with Rob Brenda Moore, the head coach
of the Carolina Hurricanes. What I want Phil to do
during the break here is check his wallet, make sure
his son hasn't stolen a credit card and booked himself
fight to Boston. We'll be back after this.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Be sure to catch live editions of Stuve Gotson Company
Live weekday said three pm Eastern, twelve pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
He is the head coach of the best team in hockey,
Rob Brendamore with us. He's a former flyer coach of
the Carolina Hurricanes. He's taking on Phil Martelly Junior's Philadelphi
be a Flyers.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Phil is joining us on this on this interview. We're
excited about that. Rod. How are you? Thanks for doing this, sir.
Speaker 10 (23:06):
Oh good, Thanks for having me a little hostile territory here,
I'm getting.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Yeah, yeah, let's.
Speaker 8 (23:11):
See what we got.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
I still love it.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
How was it for you just being a Philadelphia Flyer
legend and now the head coach of the of the
Carolina Hurricanes.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Any conflict there or no?
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Just like, like, what are the feelings for you coaching
against the team you used to play for?
Speaker 8 (23:29):
Well, no, there's no conflict.
Speaker 10 (23:31):
I mean, I've been this twenty five years, right, but
I I I'm I'm actually happy for the Flyers and
the fans, and they deserve it, you know they I think,
you know, Philadelphia first of all, I obviously the best
sports town in America. They you know, good or bad,
they let you know, and they support their teams. And
when I was a Flyer, I just I love playing there.
(23:52):
You know, if you're an honest player and you're you know,
your butt off, they're gonna you're all right and it's
not They're.
Speaker 8 (23:58):
Gonna let you know. It keeps you on your tone
as an athlete there.
Speaker 10 (24:00):
So good for them that they made it in Obviously
you know I'm on the other side now, but I
enjoyed my time there for sure.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
Brought some of us. Most of us are down here
in South Florida.
Speaker 7 (24:11):
We've seen your guys, this team play in the playoffs
against the Panthers a few times, and frankly, I can't
stand playing you guys. But wondering what sort of creates
the identity? What are some sort of non negotiables for
a Hurricanes style player.
Speaker 10 (24:24):
Oh, I mean it's cliche, is but you know, everybody's
got the word culture. They flat around, but you know,
you have the good culture, a bad culture.
Speaker 8 (24:34):
Everyone has it.
Speaker 10 (24:35):
And I feel like we've really done a nice job
here of getting just honest players, you know, and come
in and earn their check every day, and you know,
and it starts with your leader.
Speaker 8 (24:47):
We got a great one in Jordan Stall. I said
it the other day.
Speaker 10 (24:50):
I got asked about him, and you know, he's been here,
I don't know, fourteen years or.
Speaker 8 (24:53):
Something, and I've been here every year with him.
Speaker 10 (24:55):
I've never seen the guy take a day off. And
then I mean on the ice practice game, like the
you know move And so when you have something like
that to kind of be the leader, it makes, you know,
everyone else got to kind of fall suit.
Speaker 8 (25:09):
So we we've kind of hung our head on that
just do your best.
Speaker 10 (25:13):
And you know, obviously we got strategy and we got
the same stuff everybody else has, but like, compete level
is kind of the non negotiable for us, and I
think it's served us well.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
Coach.
Speaker 9 (25:24):
I went to school in Chapel Hill, and I love
the dynamic there because you and ce Duke and NC
State fans in the triangle are fighting every day they
can't agree on anything, and then you have the Carolina
Hurricanes where it kind of brings everybody together and you
kind of have that interesting dynamic, no doubt.
Speaker 10 (25:41):
That's been really one of the things that when I
first got here, I, you know, obviously knew all about what
you just said. I didn't realize you had to pick
a team, you know, like I couldn't support all three.
Speaker 8 (25:51):
It was like, no, no, that's not how it works.
Speaker 10 (25:53):
So married into the NC State family, so and they've
all been great to me, So I kind of put
that on and then kind of live that life with
you know, like you said, you got to pick one.
But when we're playing, it's nice to see that we're
kind of the one pro team here and everyone can
kind of jump on board and get together and they
certainly support us, that's for sure.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
Rod. This is Uh, this is Phil.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
We actually played down at your spot. We played NC
State early this year, so we were in that arena.
That's a great place. I can imagine for your games.
It's got to be crazy. But coach, the coach, I'm
asking you, you know, you just played four games in
a week and then you have a week off, Like,
how are you managing that with your group, you know,
keep them, keep them ready, keep them sharp, but also
kind of giving that time to you know, reset their
(26:39):
minds in our bodies.
Speaker 10 (26:39):
So it's tricky, especially we didn't really know when we
were even going to play. There was like, okay, Saturday
of the earliest, could be Monday, you know, so you're
kind of all right, you know, trying to gauge the rest,
and you definitely physically need to rest them, but it's
a mental grind for our sport that really takes its toll,
(27:00):
and so you want to get them away from the
brink as much as possible. And so we gave him
a few days in this whole stretch to just stay away.
Speaker 8 (27:09):
From the rink and go do something else.
Speaker 10 (27:12):
There's lots to do here in this time of the
year with the weather and because you got to refresh,
and when once we start up here again tomorrow.
Speaker 8 (27:19):
Night, it's just go, go go, So I don't know,
we'll see, you know. We didn't have a ton of practices.
Speaker 10 (27:24):
We had three pretty good ones, which doesn't sound like
a lot.
Speaker 8 (27:28):
In that timeframe, but.
Speaker 10 (27:31):
We aired on kind of give them the more of
a rest and hopefully that translate into being able to,
you know, get that little edge physically wise.
Speaker 7 (27:41):
Coach wondering how you sort of break this down right,
the step to take from contender, which you've been for
several years to champion. Is there something one sort of
note or one sort of theme that you guys talk
about most of the time or is it just like, hey,
every year, it's always something different, But we know we haven't.
Speaker 10 (27:59):
I mean, it's you certainly learned from the past. I
can tell you that.
Speaker 8 (28:03):
I mean we've we've.
Speaker 10 (28:04):
We've had a group here at the core group that
stayed here has been here for eight years now, and
you know, we've been through some tough losses, but you
know we've I think we've learned from long.
Speaker 8 (28:14):
We had a series the other the last series.
Speaker 10 (28:16):
Where things didn't go our way in the last game,
everything was kind of working against us, and I just
I felt like guys have been there before, like we've
seen this and handle it really well. So you're hoping
that that experience days off as you move along. And
you know, I know, the hunger is there these guys,
they know they only get so many shots at this,
so our goal certainly stays the same every year.
Speaker 8 (28:38):
I don't know that. You know, one year bleeds into
the next two months. It's starting fresh.
Speaker 10 (28:43):
But the experiences that you've had in the past, certainly
you rely on those moving forward here at this time
of year, Rod.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
When when you're obviously so locked into your series and
upcoming series, do you pay attention much to the other
series going on in the playoffs or you just so
locked into the previous reason?
Speaker 10 (29:02):
I mean yeah, I mean, you know, I watched mostly
it's all hockey with us because the playoffs.
Speaker 8 (29:08):
There's so many games, you know, I got.
Speaker 10 (29:10):
I have a little basketball connection. I got some good
friends in the NBA, Sydney Low who used to coach
NC State. I became good friends with him, and mostly
because my father and I was coached and played at
NC State, So that's why I'm connected there. And I
know he's with the Piston, So I kind of keep
my eye on everything going on. But yeah, you're listen,
(29:30):
that's my job, right I got to know what's going on,
and you're looking to a further series.
Speaker 5 (29:35):
It's trends.
Speaker 8 (29:36):
You know what's going on.
Speaker 10 (29:38):
If there's something you can pick up, and obviously down
the road, if you end up having to play teams.
You're you're kind of getting an idea, what what.
Speaker 8 (29:45):
What's working for them? So yeah, it's it's a fun
time of year. It's a busy time though, all.
Speaker 7 (29:50):
Right, right, would be honest, Okay, you're going into your
watching the game. It's Mammoth and it's Golden Knights. It's
going into over time. It's a two am. Tell me
when when these games going to overtime in the playoffs.
You're just like folding it out and just like, hey,
I'll just read about.
Speaker 6 (30:03):
In the morning.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Right, there's no way you stay up and see how
long Agoes gets.
Speaker 10 (30:07):
Listen, I said, there's a couple of games on the
watch them all right, I'm in bed.
Speaker 8 (30:12):
I'm in bed. There's a zero chance that I'm watching
that overtime. No, it's eleven o'clock. It lights out of
my house.
Speaker 6 (30:20):
Smart Rod.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
We have been making the joke down here. You're from Ottawa.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
I'm wondering, do you think Canada hates South Florida because.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
We stole hockey from them? I mean, what do you think?
Speaker 10 (30:30):
I don't know about that. I can't think it probably
born in Ottawa, but I'm you know, I didn't spend
any time there.
Speaker 8 (30:36):
But yeah, there's Listen, the US.
Speaker 10 (30:39):
Was taken over here on almost everything. So when it
comes to the hockey in their sport, which Canada, that's
what the Hanger had on. It's kind of taking a
turn here the last few years. So yeah, it's not
just down in South Florida, it's kind of in US
in general.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
I want to play a game with you. Hockey player
or not a hockey player? Okay, and really just one question,
uh Taylor, our executive producer, open bar at a wedding.
He walked up to the bar. The drinks are free.
He ordered a Shirley Temple hockey player or not a
hockey player.
Speaker 8 (31:12):
I mean, oh, that kind of obvious.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
I thank you, man, very obvious.
Speaker 8 (31:19):
I don't know, don't have to answer that. Yeah, layup.
You just gave me a layup question there.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Yeah, go ahead, coach, if you have something for him.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
I got to ask you, you know now, it's the
Philadelphia and I got to.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
Ask you what was your favorite when you played in Philly?
Speaker 4 (31:36):
Besides you know, going to the to the rink and
playing in front of the fans, what was your favorite
thing to do off ice in Philadelphia?
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (31:44):
Great question, man.
Speaker 6 (31:45):
I went to Temples.
Speaker 8 (31:48):
No, I didn't.
Speaker 10 (31:48):
I didn't engage in that, but I, uh, I did
a lot of I actually took a UH. I went
to Temple for a summer.
Speaker 8 (31:56):
Like I loved all.
Speaker 10 (31:57):
The the UH classes. I loved the college sports. Whenever
they would back line was there. They would played a
lot of college games at the Spectrum. I don't remember
they had it, well, the tournament they had there. I
forget what it's called now been it's too long, but tournament.
Speaker 5 (32:13):
I played in that tournament.
Speaker 8 (32:14):
Yeah, there you go. I probably was at one of
your games. You know, I go and you know we can.
Speaker 10 (32:19):
Get in obviously, So I loved watching that. UH spent
my summers there.
Speaker 8 (32:24):
Watch all the baseball, went to the Phillies games, so that.
Speaker 10 (32:27):
You know, anything I could do. I was young back
then when I was there, single guy, so you can
imagine run around. But I certainly enjoyed all the sport
and the events that you know you can do there.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Ron, Thank you so much for doing this. Good luck
in the next round. I think I don't know. I mean,
Phil's not with you. By the way, if Martinelli saw
needs tickets to one of these Flyers game, he's going
to hit you up.
Speaker 6 (32:48):
Okay, just so you know, no lose my number.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Thank you, good luck moving forward here. We appreciate it.
Speaker 8 (32:59):
Thank you.
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Speaker 1 (33:33):
Our Thanks to Rod Brendamore and Phil mart Talley Junior
for joining us.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
That was fun.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
I enjoyed that. Yep, Phil enjoyed it. I mean doing
a mount rushmore of flyers.
Speaker 6 (33:42):
That wasn't my favorite part, but it was his.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Yeah, it was his favorite part. That and talking about
his kids.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
I mean, Jesus, let's update the balls here like we
do to end the week.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Every single week. Oh, we have music for it.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
This is fantastic at Steg got seven ninety on X
Taylor take it Away?
Speaker 9 (33:59):
Is Lebron James up three to one this series against
Father Time?
Speaker 5 (34:04):
That poll looked a lot different a few days ago.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
What you heard was a lot of phlegm just come
up from my lungs because I was laughing so hard.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Yes, father Time has made a big comeback.
Speaker 9 (34:15):
The audience voted eighty seven percent saying yes, all right,
Reggie Miller did get out of here?
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Yep, yes, get out of here? Yeah? Leave.
Speaker 9 (34:26):
I hate Reggie Miller so much.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
I hate a strong word.
Speaker 6 (34:29):
I hate all right.
Speaker 9 (34:31):
I don't hate CJ. McCallum anymore, though, Right.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
You like him again?
Speaker 8 (34:33):
Now?
Speaker 9 (34:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (34:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (34:34):
And the play by play guy from the Hawks, Steve Hollman,
He's got an entire summer to walk his dog.
Speaker 9 (34:42):
Seventy four percent of the audience said, yes, get Reggie
Miller the heck out of here, all right?
Speaker 6 (34:46):
Good?
Speaker 9 (34:48):
Has Dan Orlovsky been walking around with a peppinist step
ever since? Ty Simpson went thirteen?
Speaker 1 (34:55):
This is Taylor's take. It's a big one for Taylor.
Here I said it, but Taylor fed it.
Speaker 9 (34:59):
To me, This is a big one for me. Ninety
six percent of the audience said yes, they've noticed the
pep and his step.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
It's hard not to notice.
Speaker 6 (35:09):
Yep, it's a big number.
Speaker 9 (35:12):
This one comes from our softball game.
Speaker 6 (35:13):
Is he wha?
Speaker 2 (35:15):
What's the next game?
Speaker 6 (35:15):
By the way, Monday?
Speaker 9 (35:17):
I would assume Monday, but there's always the rain outs.
There's always a chance it's our bye week.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Well, for Izzy, as long as there's enough players, he
won't be there.
Speaker 9 (35:26):
Does somebody named big Rob have to play first base
in a softball game?
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Yeah, I don't know if it has to be Rob,
but it needs to be big something.
Speaker 7 (35:35):
Big robs the perfect the perfect combination syllables. It's very easy,
and you just there's something about a rob. If it's
got a big in front of you just kind of
know exactly what he looks like.
Speaker 6 (35:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
If Big Robin Big Mike both playing on the same team,
who's at first?
Speaker 7 (35:47):
I think big Rob big Mic has different options. Big
Mic can be a big burley guy.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Yeah, yeah, I think I'm with them. I think big
Rob is I don't know, it makes make sense, just
might be tall, I catch Yeah.
Speaker 9 (36:00):
Ninety percent of the audience said yes, he has to
play first base. Is it easy to kill an hour?
And the Barnes and Noble What year?
Speaker 5 (36:09):
I shouldn't even be a quest.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
So me and Taylor both like a good stroll arounding
Barnes and Nobles, preferably one with a Starbucks with those
Rice Prisby treats.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
I could spend an hour in there easily, easily reading
Lindy's sports fantasy magazines.
Speaker 9 (36:22):
Yes, eighty two percent of the audience said, yes, it
is easy to kill an hour there.
Speaker 6 (36:26):
See still got will be in there for five minutes
and be like, has it been an hour? I'm tired?
Speaker 9 (36:30):
This one is a massive one for me. Do you
wish Shirley Temples were more socially acceptable?
Speaker 1 (36:39):
I'm just laughing because Izzie is so long to me,
I'm such a fraud.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
I mean, Barnes and Nobles for an hour? Get the
hell out of here. What was the question again? I'm sorry, Dale?
Speaker 9 (36:48):
Do you wish Shirley Temples were more socially acceptable?
Speaker 6 (36:52):
We already know if Rod Brindemore voted that at least
one note yes Simms as well.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Yeah, yeah, of course that was obvious. That's why I
asked those two. Taylor went to an open bar to wedding.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
Alcohol is free. He ordered a Shirley Temple and he
was judged.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
And now he's being hailed as some sort of king
in the Shirley Temple community because everyone agrees with them.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
I agree with him.
Speaker 6 (37:15):
Those things are delicious thing of the temple. Oh they're good.
Speaker 8 (37:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (37:18):
Sixty three percent of the audience said, yes, they wish
they were more socially acceptable.
Speaker 6 (37:24):
Never more disappointed in our audience.
Speaker 9 (37:26):
I told you the people are behind me on this one.
Speaker 6 (37:28):
Yeah, you are mocking it.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
You're their king. Yes.
Speaker 9 (37:31):
Two more pole questions, should popa roach and Beyonce ever
be on the same playlist.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
That's the only reason we talked about Dianaiver City was
to get to the playlist for Taylor.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
That was an observation from Israel Gudieires.
Speaker 9 (37:45):
This one is a bit disappointing because only sixty one
percent of the audience said no.
Speaker 6 (37:51):
Really, wow, U no musical taste whatsoever?
Speaker 5 (37:55):
Put my life into peace.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
I mean I voted yes, I'm sorry.
Speaker 9 (37:58):
This is a This is a mass one for everybody
from her think about it Thursday. To make it colder?
Do you turn the ac up or do you turn
the AC down?
Speaker 7 (38:08):
You know what, I've been thinking about this that happened. Really,
have you changed your stance? No, because Taylor and I
were turned the AC down. Because you're turning the temperature down,
You're not actually cranking up any.
Speaker 6 (38:18):
Sort of air any harder. It's the same level of
air being pushed out of the events.
Speaker 7 (38:23):
It's just for a longer period of time until the
total temperature can drop.
Speaker 9 (38:28):
Fifty percent of the audience voted turn it down. Turn
it down for what big?
Speaker 2 (38:35):
Yeah, but just fifty nine percent.
Speaker 6 (38:36):
That's big, It's enough majority.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
I mean, you're asking me if I've changed my opinion
on this, and I would answer that if I knew
what my original opinion wants
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