I'm working on some posts about yesterday's St. Joe's-La Salle game for later, but until then, I thought I'd post this exchange between Phil Martelli and reporters during the postgame press conference.
Near the beginning of his remarks, Martelli said that after the Villanova loss, "all the coaches that can email me, they’ve been emailing me."
"I had 47 ideas on how to run offense, and it’s hard to run offense if you can’t throw a pass from one to another," he said. "I’m sure that those people are very successful in whatever they do."
That quote inspired the following a few minutes later:
A reporter: Do you get more complaints after a Villanova game than other games, typically?Martelli: No. The worst game would be if we play Penn here and it’s our home game. That’s the one I get more. But I haven’t gotten many of them. This was like a little flurry because it was Villanova, but the Penn game here, if we lose our home game – it’s our designated home game – that’s when they really lose their minds.”
A second reporter: Do you respond to any of them?
Martelli: No, I don’t respond to any of them. I got a suggestion that we should watch Herb Magee’s shooting tape because the guy suggested that in foul shooting the ball was rolling off their hand, and I just said, thank you for your suggestion.
A third reporter: Was that from Herb?
Martelli: It probably was from Herb. It probably was.
Much laughter ensued.
