Luka Garza | WUW 427

Washed Up Walkons

Tyler Kluver

Sports, College Football, Ncaa Team, Nfl Draft, Big Ten, Athletes, Hawkeyes, Iowa

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Luka is from the DC area, and chose the Hawks over several other big time D1 schools. He developed into one of the best players in country during his 4 years in Iowa City, locking that status down by officially winning NPOTY in his senior season. He talks all about his time in the Black and Gold, the challenges at the next level and what it takes to succeed and find his role amongst the best in world, his relationship with his dad and how Frank has helped him develop, how the Iowa staff and Fran were crucial in making him better, the surgery he had before his soph season, and a dozen other topics.If you love the show and want to show support, tell your friends! And, check out our exclusive content at Patreon.com/washedupwalkons where you can find extra podcast episodes, exclusive merchandise, Merch discounts with every tier, private Walkon discord channel access, and more!Find us on social media @washedupwalkonsVisit TheWashedUpWalkons.com for all of our episodes, merchandise, and more!

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0:00.0	The peacock flies on today's episode.
0:03.4	Number 427 with Luca Garza.
0:07.0	Been a long time coming trying to get this guy on the podcast.
0:09.6	We finally nailed him down just coming off of his second professional season of basketball.
0:13.7	You're going to get to hear a lot from this man both from his time at Iowa and his
0:19.1	time now. This is an easy one. Sit back, relax. Let's have a day. Let's go. Oh, I'm not. All right and welcome back to the washed up walk-ons a guest that we have wanted to bring on this show for a very long time hard to get in touch with a man that is busy a man man that does a lot, he's been doing a lot.
1:04.2	This man has been, I mean, decimating the G-league this past year.
1:08.2	Wanted to have him in the, you know, back when he was a Hawk, but we got him now.
1:12.0	Luca Garza joins the show Luca welcome in man
1:15.2	Thank you man. Thank you for having we're pretty stoked for this one glad to have you on
1:20.1	Pump up some of what you're doing right now both for prep athletes kids that are trying to get into
1:26.1	college got some camps coming up but also just talk about what you've got going on yourself
1:30.6	I mentioned it in the intro, you, I mean, what do we got here? I got the stats pulled up.
1:36.7	31.2 a game this past season. Dude, save some for the rest of the guys, man. I mean, talk about this past season.
1:47.6	Yeah, no, I think this year I definitely had a different approach and mentality to the G League. I kind of wanted to show that I didn't belong there.
1:55.6	And so every time I went down, I kind of went down with that and in mind and played the game the right way and
2:01.1	it kind of just worked out for me just you know so you know it was
2:05.2	great and obviously he started the year in the G League then went up and had a lot of opportunity
2:09.4	with the Timberwolves with the cast injury and and Rudy was banged up midway through the year so I was able to
2:16.1	plan a lot of a lot of high pressure situations give us some good minutes out there
2:21.0	on the NBA floor as well which was which worked out well for me and then you
2:26.4	know I kind of finished finished what I started in the G League and made sure you know I kind of left no stone
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