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