Luca Evans

And here's something interesting.

Luca Evans of the San Francisco Chronicle recently reported that Vogel actually joked about Brandon Pajemski being just as much as a rim protector as Chris Stapp's Porzingis.

Because taking a charge is another way of protecting the rim.

I kind of agree with that.

Plus, why Jaxson Lindborg's start to this season is not a farce.

We got Luca Evans from the SF Chronicle and Mike Loganov on today's show.

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What are they gonna say now?

I like that hat.

Thanks, buddy.

Where'd we get that from? That's an Instagram random purchase.

You're like me.

Yeah.

Okay, so believe it or not, and I know this is not fertile ground for the yuck yucks, but I saw something in this story that was in the Denver Post today.

It was penned by Newt Broncos beat reporter Sam Jane, who replaced our buddy Luca Evans.

I'm sure much to Sean Payton's chagrin.

Come on out next Friday.

Luca Evans is the new beat writer for the Warriors at the Chronicle.

Local kid, doing a great job.

They snuck a pods extension in on us.

Grab a mug and tea proudly.

All right.

Hey, we're gonna talk to Luca Evans, uh, welcome him to the fray.

He's got the Warrior beat writer job at San Francisco Chronicle.

It really does.

It's going to be hard for anyone to match Luca Evans' run of viral clips of organization members yelling at him.

Yeah, exactly.

That's a high watermark.

No Marcus or Maxime today, but I am fired up to announce that rejoining me after just way too long, a former expert on all things USC sports for the Southern California News Group, a prior Denver Broncos specialist for the Denver Post, the Golden State B-rider for the San Francisco Chronicle who covers every single press conference, practice, shoot around, and game, and a man whose Twitter account has made me feel like I'm in paradise with the Warriors this week.

Mr. Luca Evans.

What's going on, Luca?

Man, thanks for having me, Bram.

I appreciate it.

I mean this, I will show you at some point, I'm not just a blow sunshine up your ass guy, but so far you've been putting fucking enough work in where you deserve this sunshine, man.

So yeah, keep it up for people who need far more Luca Evans in their life.

Where can they find your work?

And so who, who is, like who's your point of attack defender in that situation? So I don't, I don't think that's a, a lineup that the Warriors necessarily are gonna start with.

And then it seems from what I'm seeing on Twitter here from some of the media guys, uh, that are in Hawaii watching that scrimmage, Pods, apparently Nick Friedell's tweeted out, um, I'm not sure if Slater did, Luca Evans did, I think like a multiple guys here covering the Warriors who said that Pods looked excellent in that scrimmage and was making excellent decisions, hitting threes, getting to the free throw line.

And so again, it seems by this scrimmage that Brandon Podziemski is ahead of D'Anthony Melton and- That doesn't-- Like, does it surpri- I, I genuinely think this is a 50-50, and so I'm not gonna be surprised either way with how they end up.

I do think the Warriors like the fit of Melton with Steph, and I think if he can get healthy, he probably provides a little bit more of that point-of-attack defense than what Pods does.

So there's probably a sign first, but it is something where, I mean, We're going to know more tomorrow because the injury report will have to come out.

The new reporter at the Denver Post, whose name I should get right, but that replaced Luca Evans, tweeted about it and said his source said that Jalen Waddell was, quote, fine.

No more detail than that.

Honestly, with all the hoopla around and seeing the video of him walking, I think he will be listed.