OT - basketball movies

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Originally Posted by Rufus

Lots of reasons (though it's been a while since I saw it). Quick cuts and cinematography (i.e., lousy editing and shaky-cam), one-liners, rotten angles on plays they show in the game but, most of all, a really superficial treatment of what could have been an interesting story on recruiting violations and/or temptation by a once-successful coach to commit those kind of violations. In other words, they took a great idea for a story and turned it into a music video (complete with Shaq!).



I did like the part where Nolte was visiting recruits and a posse of John Thompson Sr., Jim Boeheim, etc. kept rolling in late. Funny, if unrealistic.

Agree on all your observations.

I guess the reason I liked the movie was the final scene. It appealed to the coach (former coach?) in me.

"Y'know, I'll tell you something else. Y'know, someplace, someplace in America right now, there's some 10 year old kid. He's out there on that playground, and he's playin', he's dribbling between his legs, he's goin' left, he's goin' right, he's already above the rim, he's stuffin' it home. You know what's gonna happen to this kid? Five minutes from now, he's gonna be surrounded by agents, corporate sponsors and coaches. Y'know, people like me. Just drooling over this kid because he holds our future employment in his hands. I mean, that's what we've made this game. That's what we've done.

Y'know, the best coaching job I ever did, that wasn't tonight. It was last season. Y'know, when we were 14 and 15 and we had a losing season. But ****amnit, those kids, they gave me their HEARTS! They gave me everything they had! They played up to the MAXIMUM of their ability! They gave it EVERYTHING! And y'know, it wasn't good enough! It wasn't good enough for me, it wasn't good enough for you, it wasn't good enough for anybody! That's pathetic. I mean, that's really pathetic."