Speaker 1: Let's go around the league. There's a lot popping. Uh.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Luca wrapped theirs forward Juancho Herna Gomez aka
Speaker 1: Bo Cruz got his first start in a long time
Speaker 1: the other night, and afterwards he talked about his days
Speaker 1: back in Spain playing ball with Luca. Actually, Wancho and
Speaker 1: his brother Willie became friends when Luca went to Spain
Speaker 1: to play as a fourteen year old. Apparently they bonded
Speaker 1: over video games like most young boys do, and hoops
Speaker 1: like most young boys do. Luca even got addicted, apparently
Speaker 1: to their mother's home cooking. They asked him, hey, Bo Cruz,
Speaker 1: did you ever see Luca being as good? And he said,
Speaker 1: as soon as we knew him, he did things different
Speaker 1: than other kids. I didn't know he was going to
Speaker 1: be top one, top three in the world. With guys
Speaker 1: like Katie Lebron young, we didn't know he was gonna
Speaker 1: be that good. We thought he could be an All Star,
Speaker 1: but he did get way better and I'm happy for him.
Speaker 1: He worked hard, he deserves it. He's a good kid.
Speaker 1: So it was clear Luca was special from the beginning.
Speaker 1: But even though, like I even said this the other day,
Speaker 1: I think I was wrong with Luca. I think somebody
Speaker 1: put on Twitter what NBA player were you most wrong about?
Speaker 1: I think it was probably Luca. I didn't think he
Speaker 1: was gonna be this. Also, we'll talk about this on
Speaker 1: another day, but why isn't Luca getting the same criticism
Speaker 1: that James Harden got, A lot of the same attributes,
Speaker 1: a lot of the same players around, a bunch of bumps, hardened,
Speaker 1: selfish asshole. Luca needs more help. That'll get disgusted another day.
Speaker 1: But not even people who were around before Luca was
Speaker 1: Luca thought he would be Luca. Uh. There's an issue
Speaker 1: though that I've been wanting to complain about from some
Speaker 1: some time. It is it's it's like baseball scheduling. I
Speaker 1: don't like it NBA back to back baseball schedules, you know,
Speaker 1: like teams play twice or even three times in a
Speaker 1: four day period. Something about that just grinds my gears.
Speaker 1: It makes me feel like I live in the groundhog day,
Speaker 1: makes me feel like I don't know whether today already
Speaker 1: happened or not. Perhaps though to Popovich, because Greg Popovich
Speaker 1: said in his postgame presser last week, what I find
Speaker 1: annoying about this, According to Spurs beat reporter Tom Orsbourne
Speaker 1: Pop said he dislikes immensely consecutive games versus the same
Speaker 1: team because it quote thrusts you into a playoff atmosphere
Speaker 1: when you are really not geared up for that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like a playoff game, even though it isn't. It's
Speaker 1: like a playoff atmosphere, even though guys aren't really scheming
Speaker 1: the same way as they would in the playoffs. And
Speaker 1: except for we get load management with star players sitting
Speaker 1: out because it's a back to back, it's just very dumb.
Speaker 1: It's annoying. I know that it cuts down the travel,
Speaker 1: but when you have to sit guys because it's a
Speaker 1: back to back, then it really just accomplishes the same thing.
Speaker 1: But like they can't guarantee also Embiid or Steph are
Speaker 1: gonna play on the back end. So nobody really wants
Speaker 1: to see the Mavericks and the Hornets play twice in
Speaker 1: two days. We don't. We don't want to see that.
Speaker 1: We don't want to see that once in one day.
Speaker 1: So let's go back to the regular old schedule, even
Speaker 1: if it means like the Celtics have a home game
Speaker 1: on a Monday and play on Sacramento on a Wednesday.
Speaker 1: We need to get back to that. This MLB scheduling
Speaker 1: is at awful. What the fuck, by the way, is
Speaker 1: going on with Gordon Hayward in Charlotte? Does anyone know?
Speaker 1: Because shit has hit the fan in part? Did you
Speaker 1: see this? Did anybody see this? Gordon Hayward's wife decided
Speaker 1: she was going to go on social media and blow
Speaker 1: up the team. Yeah. Yeah, she decided to spill the
Speaker 1: tea on social media, which is why I love so.
Speaker 1: Turns out Hayward has a left shoulder fracture. Gordon Hayward
Speaker 1: getting hurt. It's like death taxes, Gordon Hayward being injured
Speaker 1: and according to Scham's is out indefinitely. There is no
Speaker 1: timetable for his return. Obviously, nobody shocked about Gordon Hayward.
Speaker 1: He's been missing time, huge amounts of time pretty much
Speaker 1: for the last four years. Pre pandemic. Gordon Hayward wasn't
Speaker 1: even healthy. Post pandemic. Gordon Hayward just has more kids,
Speaker 1: not healthy. Turns out that the Hornets reported that Hayward
Speaker 1: had a left shoulder contusion, which is not obviously the
Speaker 1: same as a left shoulder fracture a contusion for folks
Speaker 1: who aren't doctors. Is a bruise, Yeah, it's a bruise. No, no, Gordon,
Speaker 1: you should go back out there. It's just a bruise.
Speaker 1: It's fucking broken. So Robin took to ig and blew
Speaker 1: up the team. She said, Hey, he actually has a
Speaker 1: fractured scapula and they had him play last game. That's
Speaker 1: why he couldn't move his arm in the last game.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna stop here and not get into prior things. Narrator.
Speaker 1: She did not stop. She followed this up with a
Speaker 1: cup of delightful tea just to clarify. Since the team
Speaker 1: doesn't say it's a fracture in the shoulder, which is
Speaker 1: a broken bone, I'm over them not protecting players. Just
Speaker 1: was talking with the young player's mom and she was
Speaker 1: saying the same thing. Oh, brother, you know, there's teams
Speaker 1: that we all think are not world class organizations, and
Speaker 1: then you get out into the inside. You know, maybe
Speaker 1: you meet someone on another team and you're like, hey,
Speaker 1: this team feels like it's really bad, and then they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's even worse than you think. That's the Charlotte Hornets
Speaker 1: Charlotte isn't just the worst franchise in the NBA, I
Speaker 1: think it might be the worst in all of sports.
Speaker 1: And that is saying lot because we had a slumlord
Speaker 1: running an NBA team. We had oh man, we've had
Speaker 1: some bad ones and that's ran by Michael Jordan himself.
Speaker 1: And even though Gordon Hayward is one of the most
Speaker 1: injury prone players in the league, like that does not
Speaker 1: excuse the Charlotte Hornets for lying and saying that his
Speaker 1: fracture was a bruise to try to inflate his trade prospects,
Speaker 1: even if he is seriously hurt, like they just wanted
Speaker 1: him to go out there so they could move him.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have to do a deep dive on Charlotte.
Speaker 1: This is fucking ridiculous. News flash. They're not gonna like
Speaker 1: what I have to say.