Last Chance U: Basketball (2021) s02e03 Episode Script

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- [man] Yeah, here's the truck.
- [John] Oh my gosh! This is crazy.
- [man] Yeah, so
- [John] It's crazy.
- I can't believe this.
- [man] Bad shape.
[woman speaks indistinctly on PA]
[John] This is, uh
Look. Even the bed too. It's all crumpled.
The bed was crushed.
Everything was crushed. I'm telling you.
Remember where the pass was?
[John] It should be hanging
Let me see if it's
[John] It's not
Oh, the rearview mirror is gone.
- It might be
- [Robb] It's right here.
[John] I think this is
the door that opened, here.
- [Robb] Yeah, I found it. It's there.
- You see it?
It's here in the middle.
- You got everything out of there?
- I got everything else from before, yeah.
Let me make sure.
Yeah, I'm good, man.
- [John sighs]
- I can't believe you guys walked away.
[John] I know, man. I know.
I know. [scoffs]
[somber music plays]
[Robb] It's crazy.
[John] I'm rolled over five times
in a truck with my kids,
and we walked away.
Flipped over five times,
drove up a hill and rolled down.
[John] You know what's crazy, man,
is when they hit me,
all the wrong things
probably going through my mind.
I'm like, "Oh, man,
I gotta get to practice tomorrow!"
And then, "Oh, man. Where's this guy at?"
Uh, whoever hit me.
But he was going so fast.
They said he ran out of control.
They were racing, so the people
who were behind me said they were racing,
it was a Mercedes
going 100 miles an hour.
Me and my kids were in the car worshiping.
We were singing a song,
and it's almost like
I saw a dark cloud. Whoosh.
And it told me to shut up,
told me and my kids to shut up.
"Father, consume me.
You can use me here in this place."
And I said, "Father, you can use me."
And me and my kids are singing it.
Father, consume me ♪
You can use me ♪
Here on this altar ♪
Father, consume ♪
[claps] Boom, shut up.
- [girl] Dang, what's up with the Wi-Fi?
- [John] Dude, all y'all on y'all stuff.
- [boy laughs] I turned it off.
- [John] Everybody on something.
- [girls mumbling]
- [John] What you watching?
[music plays on phone]
- I'm not watching nothing.
- [woman] Ridiculous.
- Moriah.
- [Moriah] Huh?
What are you doing?
Jackson is still on his phone too!
- [Jackson] I turned my Wi-Fi off!
- [Moriah] Go, there!
- [Leah] Do I need to turn my Wi-Fi off?
- [John] There we go.
- Look, we're good now.
- [woman] Mine came back on, but I mean
[chuckling]
- How much money you
- [Leah] Wasn't that good?!
How much money you pay per month for Wi-Fi
and stuff like that
for it to be circling on my phone?
- [chuckles]
- I don't know what's wrong. Where
Circling.
[Lashaunda] Moriah!
[Moriah] I ain't I'm using the data!
- Oh, man.
- [Lashaunda] Just turn everything off.
- [Leah chuckles]
- Why is this happening?
[Leah and John chuckle]
[John] Let's go.
[somber music plays]
Go five.
[John] I think most important right now
is to make sure my family's okay.
They've poured into me.
They've invested
in these last couple years.
Keep that head down.
That head, little bit too much movement.
That's why it's going under.
Too much head movement.
Keep those eyes there.
Better.
When I'm with our team,
I'm completely consumed on that,
and that breeds a level of guilt, man.
I get a level of guilt.
Starting to think like, "Wait a minute."
"I'm pouring into
other people and basketball,
and I gotta pour that into my kids
and help them get to, you know,
the goals they want to accomplish."
- Go like this with your finger.
- No, 'cause
Just try to bend it. Just try to bend it.
[John] But I have to completely drop
everything beside my family,
and fully throw my life
and my passion into it.
Otherwise,
I I don't think I can have the impact
that I've been having.
And when I was ran off the road
and came out without any harm,
it just tells me
that God has work for me to do.
I don't expect to be rich.
I don't expect any of that.
I don't expect to not have to suffer.
When I don't suffer,
I'm surprised, actually.
When I'm not tested, I'm surprised.
There's going to be tests.
There's gonna be trials.
There's gonna be suffering.
I mean, there's more for me to do.
God has work for me to do.
[somber music fades out]
["Demise" plays]
Uh-huh ♪
[announcer 1] Wilson
low post to Washington.
Washington backing down his defender.
And East Los Angeles
will open up the scoreboard.
We on the rise ♪
These two gangstas arrive
A man is not a man without ♪
Ball level, Dez! Everybody's back!
[announcer 1] Over to Washington.
Washington, three!
I tell 'em why ♪
Me and Gibbs back to back
Fuck the middleman ♪
Yeah, big chopper say hello to my ♪
[announcer 1] Gladney,
operating point-guard duties,
to the corner to a wide-open Washington!
[whistle blows]
[announcer 1] Off the three-o'clock side
of the rim and in!
[announcer 2] Dez Washington,
one of the few returners.
His leadership and his ability,
they'll be key for the team.
John Gotti swag
Hopping in the limo Benz ♪
The gritty tales of a nigga
From a dark block ♪
[John] continue to run those lanes.
Dez, you stopped you shrunk the court
'cause you jogging on the wing.
Finish that wing all the way deep down,
and then you come back up. All right?
[players chanting] Defense! Defense!
That shit don't matter. That's not why
this nigga's not putting me in, bro.
[Shemar] I don't give a fuck
who this nigga is.
I'm not gonna finna be sitting on the
At fucking ELAC? Like, what the fuck, bro?
Come on, bro.
[player 1] Run, run, run!
[announcer 1] Gladney to the corner
to Washington.
Lifts for three!
Sinks a three. Rattles it home.
[John] Free-throw-line rebound!
Free-throw-line rebound!
[John] Corey, sub. Get Dez.
[player 2] Get through.
[Rob] Step back left! Come on, Bryan!
- [whistle blows]
- [tense music plays]
[John] Dez. That's exactly
why I wanted him out.
Your head ain't right
'cause you made a three.
- [Dezmond] Hell no! I was in.
- Get out! Come here!
- Sub.
- [buzzer sounds]
[John] You made a three. Your head
ain't right to guard. Sit down, man.
Freaking head ain't right, man.
[tense music plays]
[John] No free-throw-line rebound
'cause you made the three?
So it's like that?
What if you don't make it? Now what?
And you gave up free throws!
That's what I'm thinking about!
I ain't thinking about no freaking three.
Like the rebound you gave up last game.
That's what I'm thinking about.
You need to get your head right.
[announcer 1]
Gilmore will run out the clock,
and East LA comes up with
victory number nine on the season.
East Los Angeles was led
by Dez Washington, the veteran,
coming up with 16 points, 3 rebounds.
Did not turn over the ball at all.
[music fades out]
[John] I'mma say this,
make sure we nip it. You know better.
And don't even come in here
and be all in the back and act whatever.
You know better. 'Cause you so concerned
'cause you made three threes.
That's great. I'm happy for you.
[shouts] And then you wanna walk on
in the end with attitude!
I can feel the spirit!
That attitude spirit.
Don't bring it up in here!
'Cause you got
your leading scorer tag on it,
or you trying to catch somebody.
Don't even go there!
You know how it is!
Don't even go there!
You supposed to be helping lift us up!
You trying to stake your claim on this?
This ain't yours! This is ours!
This ain't yours!
Trippin' off of?
This is not yours! This is ours!
None of that better start in here,
I swear!
Family, man. "Family" on three.
- One, two, three!
- [players] Family!
Hey, we Y'all, hey!
Hey! Let's celebrate! Woo!
We gotta go lift though. Let's go.
- [weights clank]
- [players chatter]
[John] You gotta squat.
Slam it all the way. Get down.
[Rob] Next six, up. Next six, up!
[player 1] Nah, don't do it.
- [exercise machine beeps]
- [players chatter]
- [John] All right, here we go. Listen.
- [player 2 chattering]
Shut up, dude.
[John] When you gonna get
your tooth fixed?
- [laughter]
- [John] I have something to say.
I just can't remember it.
Maybe it was just some individuals.
I got some individual
some stuff I gotta say.
[Demetrius] "Family" on three.
One, two, three!
[players] Family!
[John] DC leading the way.
[John] Dez!
[John] Dawg, what you scared of, dawg?
Like, you think you can just start,
and get shots up and not hear me?
Bro, it's way different.
It ain't fun. It ain't cute. It ain't
It's just way different
when you're the leader, bro.
You came with the right focus,
the right mentality,
and, because of that,
you was having a good game.
Then you was about to lose, and you was
feeling yourself with all this
You feeling yourself
He made three little threes,
and the last one, he
- [coaches chuckle]
- You know? He that guy. Yeah.
With that, "Hey, bro!
Free-throw-line rebound!"
You were like [groans]
Then he come down, and the dude went
And then I took you out.
Then you would walk
You know how you walk like this, dawg.
Then you wanna walk out and act like,
go mad to the bench.
Come on, dawg!
You the only dude we got that know.
You saw what we did. You know what we do.
And so now that's your role.
Whether you like it or not.
That's what I'm saying.
Ain't nobody trying to call you out.
You trying to smack your little lips.
- All right, dawg.
- [clicks teeth] All right, dawg.
[coaches chuckle]
[John] I ain't get no dap, dawg?
Why you got your wave cap on?
You just played!
- Gotta leave it on.
- [John] You going to see somebody else?
My kid.
[John] Them ashy Jordans on.
Get some lotion on them Jordans!
[players chattering]
[player 3 grumbling]
[player 3] Stop playing me, bro.
A perfect
[players chattering]
[player 4] All right.
[player 5] All right, man.
[Shemar] Man.
Man.
Never been in this position before, so.
I really don't know
why I'm not getting minutes.
How I feel about that? It's just like,
I'm just trying to work through it.
Like, I've never actually been
in this position, like, ever in my life.
So, like, this is all new to me, for real.
So I'm just trying to figure it out.
I guess he wants me to change
something that I'm doing so, like,
I'm just trying
to fix that as of right now. Shit.
[melancholy music plays]
[crowd cheering]
[Shemar] Ooh!
Today I'm standing next to
the king himself, Shemar Morrow.
- How you feeling today, man?
- I'm feeling great.
A lot of people, they've been
knowing about you for five, six years.
You was in the sixth grade, dunking.
You know what I'm saying?
How did you live up to the pressure?
You know, uh
[Shemar] I just kept working, you know.
Every year, you gotta keep
the same intensity.
You gotta do the same thing every year.
You gotta keep it consistent.
So, like, you never fall down.
Gotta stay where you are.
That's what I try to do.
[interviewer] How old were you
when you first started playing basketball?
I was about 12, 13?
The next year after I started hooping,
I was on the rankings, for sure.
[interviewer] What did you read
about yourself?
Shit, they were saying a lot of stuff.
When I was in fifth grade,
they were saying I was the next LeBron.
I was to the league.
Just all the stuff you hear
when you nice and coming up, for real.
Like, I was dunking and everything,
like, I was just you feel me?
So they just thought I was, like
I don't even know the word.
Like, they was just excited
to see how much I had in store, for real.
Just to see
where the game took me, for real.
It definitely made me
think about the future a lot.
I for sure thought I was finna be
the number-one pick in the draft
by the time, like, 2021 came.
I was gonna do one year in college,
like, and I'm to the league.
I went to Team USA my freshman year.
You with all the other best players,
nigga, in the world, for real.
They had Trae Young, Kevin Knox,
Jalen Green.
All of them guys are in the NBA.
People knew me.
I was good at hoop, for real.
They just thought they was
gonna get something out of me, for real.
I was letting people in my circle
that didn't need to be in my circle.
I had a friend,
and, like that was my man, for real.
His dad actually adopted me.
My mama signed off the papers just because
she knew the situation I was in.
Like, I was in East Cleveland.
Like, it was niggas really outside dying.
She just wanted me out that environment,
so I ended up moving with them.
My first AAU team asked to move me
and they family to California
so I could go hoop.
I was staying with them in Sacramento.
And my mama was in Ohio, for real.
And then I just went.
I just went to this high school,
because that's what niggas told me to do.
Didn't really have no opinion.
I mean, I guess I did, but, like,
I ain't really had no opinion.
So they was just trying to force me
to go to these schools.
I just was on the move, for real.
I played at Shadow Mountain
for three years.
Won two state championships.
[interviewer] What happened
to your recruitment?
Honestly, bro, the grades. It was grades.
My grades just wasn't good.
I definitely had people just waiting
for me to get to the league, for real.
And then when they thought
it wasn't gonna happen,
they just really
didn't give a fuck about me.
Like, that shit really happened
to me a lot of times.
Like, niggas could kick you out
the next day, you feel me?
Like, anything can happen.
He's been at a different home
since, like, the sixth grade.
I mean, he's staying with a family
out in Orange County.
It's an hour-and-a-half train ride.
He squats on different couches,
and some guys that are local
when we got a game or something.
And so there's so much instability, man,
it's hard to even get to basketball.
I can't even get to coaching him.
It's very hard to separate life
and a basketball player.
[cracks knuckle]
And Shemar did incredibly well
at the beginning of our season,
because there was no structure.
[Rob] There we go! There we go, Mar!
There we go, Mar!
The moment there was structure,
Shemar fell apart.
[Rob] You can't do that, dawg.
I told you to get to the rack!
And that's in his life as well.
Everybody who's told him
to do something basketball-wise
were telling him to do something
for that moment in basketball.
It was never to prepare Shemar
for college or beyond.
If he can go house-to-house,
couch-to-couch, city-to-city,
play, he's fine.
Structure? It's not gonna work for him.
But structure's the only thing
that's gonna help this fool
for the next 60 years of his life.
That's been his life.
It's just been in a constant pattern
of trying to survive and eat.
[John] So he's losing
his basketball identity.
His identity is, like, homelessness.
He's not a basketball player.
He's [chuckles] he's homeless.
We can't even focus on basketball.
[Rob] Shemar might
Shemar might just cut and run.
And, if he did, I wouldn't be surprised.
I would chase him down
and try not to get him to go.
But, I mean, I would understand if he did,
'cause that's what he does.
I promise you, bro.
Like, nigga, I'm finna sleep outside
before I listen to another nigga
try to tell me something, bro.
I'm sleeping outside, bro.
I'm not going for that no more.
Trusting peoples ain't never
did me no good, bro.
I don't see the reason to start now.
[music fades out]
[John] When you got What you got
When is the test?
So I got the results
from the cardiologist.
They said everything structurally-wise
is good with my heart.
They don't want me
no full-contact or nothing.
I haven't played since the first day.
And that's really
what's been pissing me off.
Like, I sat out that first week,
but, ever since then,
I've been jogging a little bit, 'cause I
I just I
Like we I'm 22.
[sighs]
What you see?
- [Damani] Me? Oh my God.
- When you're looking out there.
- [John] What's our weakness?
- [Damani] We have no dogs.
Seem like some people
didn't wanna be there, frustrated.
Try to tell them,
"Get up! Show some fire!"
That's why my voice is lost. I don't know
how I'm screaming more than them.
Sitting on the sideline,
I'm hearing you coaching.
That's what I said.
I'll coach if I can't play. [laughs]
Hey, bro, go do real estate or something.
You don't want none of this business.
Unless you really love it, bro, I don't
advise anybody to go into coaching.
[Rob] I'm just missing one guard.
The hell is Shemar?
This fool cannot miss today, man.
Damn. This whole week gonna be messed up.
I needed him here this week, dawg!
I need him locked in.
If this fool don't show up
If I gotta play him in practice,
we in trouble.
[Demetrius] Let's go!
[Rob] It's gonna be a long day.
I need Shemar here.
[Rob] He told you yesterday
he wasn't coming?
Yeah, I think so. He said he wasn't
gonna make it or something.
Why he tell him, dawg?
And don't talk to us? He talk to him?
- He told you he might not make it today?
- [Erick] Yeah.
[Rob] He said
he had to finish his test. Shemar.
- He told Erick yesterday.
- [John] He told Erick?
[Rob] I know!
If he'd been here, I could've helped.
[John] He ain't told the team, told Erick.
That's the wrong person to tell.
[John blows whistle] Here we go!
- [John] Stance!
- [player 1] Yeah, Green!
- [Rob] Turn that, pull! Elevate!
- [John] Good!
- [Rob] Get one!
- [John] Good with that soft closeout!
[Ken] Two out!
[John] Dez, I need you to be a leader!
Dez. I need you to be a leader here!
- Here we go. Ready!
- [player 2] Great move.
[Rob] Come on. Come on.
[John] I hope you score,
'cause Dez is not here.
- I hope you score. Please score!
- [Rob] That's your bucket.
[John] Please score!
- He's not here. Exactly.
- [John] Hard! Yeah!
- [Ken] Six, five, thirty!
- [John] Let's go. Look
- [Rob] Are we through? We through?
- [John] Throw me a pass.
[John] Flip it over your shoulder.
- Some of y'all got some issues right now.
- [Rob] I see it.
Some of you got You got a issue!
And you got a issue right now.
Let me know.
- [Rob] I tried to tell 'em.
- We could go there.
Let me know you got an issue.
Let me get three, right here.
[player 3] Match up, White!
[players shout]
[John] Three! Third option!
- [Rob] Take it! Oh, oh, oh
- [Ken] Oh yeah, D.
- [Rob] How'd he pick that ball up?
- [whistle blows]
[John] Seriously?
You ran right into him?
- I'm close, bro. I'm close.
- [Bryan] Come on, Dezzy.
Is it me, dawg? Is it me? Is it me?
I'm not playing. Is it me?
Why you not performing? Is it me?
Tell me why.
- Tell me if it's me, and I'll fix me.
- [player 4] God damn.
[John] If you're gonna be a volume player,
you gotta have volume performance!
Volume player, volume performance!
This not 2020,
where you can come just run around.
Volume player, volume performance!
If you're gonna be
on the court 30 minutes,
you gotta do 30 minutes' worth of work!
You can't just get buckets
and do all that.
You gotta do everything!
Ball!
Free-throw-line rebound!
I expect everything.
Rebound, everything!
If you're gonna take the most shots,
you gonna do the most everything!
Most shots, most everything!
[blows whistle]
- [players chatter]
- [sighs]
[John] Push!
- [child] I want ice cream, Dad!
- I'm about to get it for you.
[basketball game playing on TV]
- [woman 1] You like orange?
- Thank you, Dad.
[Dezmond] You're welcome.
[game continues on TV]
Let me get some.
[woman 2] I'm gonna have to change him.
I've been changing him, like, all day.
Let me see, my friend.
All done? All done?
- Still eating?
- [Princeton] I love ice cream!
- You love ice cream?
- I put my ice cream in the
- I need my ice cream in
- Eat it fast, 'cause it's gonna melt.
[Princeton] I need my ice cream
in a paper towel.
[Jocelyn] You need a paper towel?
[Princeton] I want gummy bear!
You need to relax, okay?
This is why I don't let you have sugar.
[Jocelyn] Julius!
- [Jocelyn] They're in the fridge. Come on.
- [man] They want more.
[Jocelyn] No, don't close that
on your brother! Come on.
Can I have another orange, Dad?
[Jocelyn] You want an orange?
- [Dezmond] Joce.
- Yes?
[Dezmond] It's finna be downstairs.
[Jocelyn] Mande?
- [Dezmond] The Chipotle is downstairs.
- [Jocelyn] So go get it.
- [Dezmond] Uh-uh. I gotta be on this.
- [Jocelyn] Dez!
[Jocelyn] Get off of the game, please.
You gonna have to get off to eat anyways.
Come on.
- [Jocelyn] Go.
- Hm? No, get the key.
- [Jocelyn] Go, Dez. Go.
- No, no, no.
- I'm on the game.
- [Jocelyn] You're gonna get off of it now.
- No, I'm not.
- [Jocelyn] Yes.
[Dezmond] That's OD, bro.
[melancholy music plays]
[Dezmond] Yo.
[Dezmond] I feel like
everything is for a reason.
I had a son early for a reason.
[Julius cries softly]
I met Jocelyn through a friend,
and, um, I moved in with her.
I was on the bus, and she texts,
and she was like, "Hey, I got news."
She sent me a picture
of the pregnancy test.
Instant, I was like, "Fuck."
Like, "What I'm gonna do?"
Like, "I can't do this."
"I'm 17. I can't, like,
raise a kid right now."
So I kind of just thought,
like, I'mma struggle to raise him.
[Julius vocalizing in distance]
[Dezmond] My mom had me at 16.
I didn't have a dad, so
I was scared for him
not to have a dad too.
I mean, I could have ran back
to Tennessee if I wanted to
and just left him here, you know?
Just went back to my mom
and said, "Fuck everything back here."
But I was like, "If I do that,
I'm a coward, like how my dad left me."
Gonna have to change your shirt.
It didn't hit me until he called me "Dad."
When he called me "Dad,"
I was like, "Shit." Like, "This is real."
I'm thinking,
"I messed up my basketball. I gotta quit."
That's when I was talking
to Coach Mosley about going there.
And then I stayed out here.
I have to put him first before everything.
I have to.
But I'm six days a week
at practice all the time.
I'm so tired.
It's not even funny.
[Jocelyn] I could say he tries his best.
You know, It's not as much as we'd expect,
but I always try to tell people, like,
he didn't really have
the proper parenting.
And his dad wasn't in his life either, so
[sighs] I do have to be on him a lot
and, like, try to tell him, like,
"This is what you have to do."
Princeton looks for that stuff from him.
[Dezmond] We argue a lot.
She tells me to be more involved,
but I don't be having time,
'cause I'll be at practice,
or I'll be working out
or just trying to better myself.
So I'm still learning, but it's hard
'cause I never had
nobody kind of show me what a father is.
[Dezmond] I'm not finna wait, bro.
I'm already tired.
[John] With Dez,
it's not even about basketball.
It's about growing up.
This is preparation for his manhood.
He's never gonna be able
to handle all those responsibilities
unless he's challenged right now.
So I'm forcing Dez to be a leader.
And that's the challenge for Dez.
Having a tough time right now.
Because it's not even
about basketball with Dez.
He gotta be a leader for his family.
It's time to get it together,
because you have responsibilities.
[Dezmond] I can't just forget
that he's here
and go focus on just me
'cause then I'm leaving him behind.
I don't want him ever feel
I left him behind.
[melancholy music continues]
[John] Hey, man. So this is Dorothy.
- She be grinding.
- [Dorothy] Hey, guys.
Y'all don't even know.
This is the OG, right here.
This is the one that puts it all together.
- I've talked to you on the phone.
- [John] It was sad that
Yeah, that COVID Y'all ain't seen her.
Okay, so who's already on campus
so I can look? Okay. What do you got?
She just said that I need
to make sure my transcripts
from U-Dub and LSU have been submitted.
- Yup.
- She said they weren't before.
Is he giving that responsibility to me?
No, I'm just asking 'cause
[chuckles] we've been talking about it.
That fool like, "She just said I need"
Well, then that's your responsibility.
- I'm asking how I get on that.
- Oh, we'll
Yeah. That's a project we gotta do.
[Dorothy] Are we gonna
get you out this year?
[Dezmond] Hell yeah.
I ain't dealing with this no more!
- [Dorothy] Well
- [player 1 chuckles]
You guys have it good here.
You'll realize how good you have it.
[Dezmond] All right.
You're gonna cry
when you go to the next level.
[Dezmond] Cry?!
- [player 1] You gonna miss us, Dez!
- "I have no one to talk to."
"Nobody returns a telephone call
a minute after I call."
- [player 1] You gonna miss us.
- [Dezmond] I'mma miss you.
- [Dorothy] Thank you.
- [player 1] You ain't gonna miss us?
[John] Where Shemar at?
- That's another one.
- [Rob] Shemar was here. Him and Driss.
- Come here.
- [Bryan] There's Zoom classes.
[Bryan] There's Zoom classes.
On Mondays. It looks like. Yeah.
[John] I'm saying
when you didn't show up for three days,
I was like,
"That's straight disrespectful."
You just, "All right. Forget it. Move on."
Stop moving on, bro!
You keep moving on and moving on, moving
You looking at me.
You low-key want me to be the enemy.
"Then I'll move on!"
- [Shemar chuckles]
- Yes, you do. You looking at me side-eye.
- Can I really trust him? Can I really
- [Shemar laughing] 'Cause you trying
[John] Soon as some
Soon as it don't feel good to you,
then you move on.
- That's what I'm
- [John] Ain't nothing gonna move
Ain't nothing gonna feel good, bro.
It's a constant grind in life, dude.
You trying to make it feel good.
It's not gonna feel good.
Playing for me ain't gonna feel good.
Nothin' gonna feel good.
You think it feel good
Look, LeBron is a stinking billionaire.
Do you think it feel good
right now, to him?
Like, what he going through
They not winning.
He's supposed to be the guy.
You think it feel good?
How you handle it,
how you come out of this is who you are.
You smart enough to go to college.
You got good enough game.
You got all of the tools and all of that.
The problem is you ain't navigating
through all the hate and drama
and pain and suffering.
You not navigating that stuff.
You not navigating it.
And you letting it affect everything.
You let it affect everything.
That's been the pattern.
That's all I'm saying.
It's you gotta change, bro.
Forget anybody else. You gotta change,
and navigate through that, bro.
You gotta figure it out.
You can't be living like this.
I already know.
[player 1] I'm just feeling sick.
[Rob] That's all of 'em, right?
DJ, got you?
[Brandon] Yup! What's good, Damani?
[Rob] Hey, Damani.
What happened? Talk to me.
- [Damani] Good.
- [Rob] Hey, explain, "Good."
- My doctor basically gave me the go-ahead.
- [Rob] Okay.
[Damani] He said as long as I slow down
at times if I need the break, basically.
- [player 2] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!
- [player 3] No, I didn't get one.
The initial test said,
"This dude ain't hooping no more."
[Rob] Talk to me, Damani. How we feeling?
- Any better?
- [Damani moans]
[Rob] Now it seems like it's a go,
but Coach will still
really slowly bring him back.
[players chattering]
- [player 1] Two ball.
- [player 2] Come on, Rich.
[Bryan] Go ahead, JG.
[John] The little guy, ugly guy.
That's off.
[John] Toothless.
Get your Get in shape.
[John] Ugly, that's all. That's fake.
[John] Clank.
- Not a real shooter.
- [Dezmond] Pow!
[Demetrius] If I get into the paint,
I'm just dunking it. I'm not
- [Dezmond] Motherfucker.
- [Demetrius] I'm not shooting the ball.
Why would I shoot at mid-range
when I can dunk on people?
- [John] Let's go!
- [player 3] Get set!
[John] Hell yeah!
Outlet! Go to Go, go! Go, DC!
- [player 4] Yep.
- [John] Get out, DC!
- [players grunt]
- [whistle blows]
[John] What did I just tell you?
Get to the corner, man.
He's already there, spacing. Come on.
- [player 5] Set, set!
- Ready, let's go.
[John] Backdoor! Look, Bryan!
Space. Space!
Separate!
- [Bryan] Up and down!
- [John] Move, Dez!
That should be your pass!
That's gonna be a foul on you, bro!
That pass coming,
you over on the ball screen!
You scared, dawg!
Ain't no way Bryan Penn should be
dominating out here!
This defense is bad!
- [John] Here we go. Ready!
- [player 6] Go!
[John] Space!
[player 7] Trail!
[John] Two-man, two-man!
Don't turn down, bro!
- [Bryan] Y'all can't fucking guard me!
- [John] That's not what's up!
[players shout]
[John] Set it! Set! Husky!
It's not what's up.
He keep turning down the handoff.
[player 8] Hey!
- [Dezmond] Fuck outta here!
- [John] Handed it and laying it up soft.
- He almost blocked that again.
- [Dezmond] He ain't blocking shit!
- [Dezmond] He ain't block the first one.
- Ball!
[John] Greens behind, Whites inside.
Bryan! Bryan, stop turning it down, bro!
I don't want you shooting jump hooks
from the three-point line!
Shooting jump hooks
from the three-point line. Ready!
Here we go. Ready! [blows whistle]
- [John] Husky! Husky!
- [players shouting]
[John] Space!
[John] Outlet. Outlet! Stop the ball!
[John] We don't stop the ball right there!
- [John] This is bad.
- [Rob] Rebound, Dez!
- [whistle blows]
- [player 9] God damn!
[John] I'm This is bad, bro. This is bad.
- We done fell off, man.
- [Ken] Yeah.
Defense fell off. This is real bad.
[John] This is real bad.
That's losing stuff right there.
Whites right here. Whites right here.
Greens. Somebody who can play D.
- [Ken] It's bad right now.
- [John] Who's on court ain't defending.
[John] That's who is that?
- [John] Is that Citrus?
- [Rob] RCC.
[John] Oh, RCC. Oh, yeah.
- [John] Riverside Riverside is good!
- [Rob] Yeah.
[John] Is Deuce that good? Or
That dude be hitting deep threes, man.
Hey, they shoot that mug.
That number four?
They the same way.
Everybody in the world shoots, bro!
[Rob] Number four is the real deal.
He's good.
[John] Dude! Like, he'll look at you,
like, it's the worst.
He's the worst "look at you
in your face and shoot it" guy.
[Rob] He's a really good player, man.
They got four dudes at all times.
All times, take you off the dribble.
Take you I put it down.
Four guys, take you off the bounce.
[John] Thirteen.
- The Gonzaga offense?
- Yeah.
- You know, backdoor, dribble handoff.
- Yeah.
Backdoor, dribble handoff,
with the post pop.
That's it, right here.
[Rob] It's a game we could lose.
They're a good team.
[tense music plays]
[players chatter]
[announcer 1] Huskies come in 8 and 2.
RCC, 6 and 4.
Highly anticipated ball game.
Both teams meet at center circle.
[spectators cheer]
[announcer 2] They throw a lob
to the big fella, who goes up for it.
[announcer 3] He looks like
he's 30 feet tall!
[announcer 1] East LA on the move.
[announcer 2] Drop it low
to the big fella.
The big fella throws it down easy,
Bryan Penn-Johnson.
- [Ken] Cut him off!
- [Rob] Hand up!
Hand up!
[announcer 2] Ayala from three up top.
In the bucket for the Tigers.
Two of the better teams
here in the state of California.
Let's go! Let's go! Come on! Come on!
[announcer 3] Riverside comes in
ranked 12th.
- [announcer 2] And East LA at number six.
- [John] Get back! Run!
[announcer 2] LoVett for three.
And just like that,
the Tigers take a 6-4 advantage here.
LoVett for three again. Yes!
Zekiah LoVett.
They're relying a lot
on three-pointers in this first half.
Why not? He's hit three in a row.
Zekiah LoVett!
- You gotta love it!
- [spectators cheer]
- Time-out! Time-out! Time-out!
- [whistle blows]
Come here. Come here. Come here.
Everybody's gotta help stop the ball.
[shouts] Everybody's gotta help stop it!
- Everybody gotta help stop the ball!
- [buzzer sounds]
[players chant] Defense!
[announcer 3] Coach John Mosley
talking to his troops.
Telling them, "Let's get after it."
"Gotta get back in
that transition defense."
[players chanting] Defense!
Defense! Defense!
Corey, sub.
[Shemar] What's up with this nigga, bro?
What's up with this nigga?
This nigga won't look at me.
He'll look the other way,
like I'm the sorriest nigga over here.
- I will get us some points, nigga
- [John] Travel!
[announcer 2] Tigers push the ball.
Seven-point advantage.
[Rob] Go, Josh!
[announcer 2] Over to Walker
No good.
[announcer 3] Rebound, Ayala there.
The putback, and he misses an easy
Probably the easiest bucket of the night.
- [player 1] Go!
- [player 2] Josh, run!
[announcer 2] Shot no good by Hunt,
but Hunt gets his own rebound.
They drop it down to the big fella.
Phillips' shot, no good.
[John] Bring it home! Bring it home!
["Love Gun" plays]
[John] Yeah! Good job!
Let's go, boy! Let's go, boy!
Let's go! Let's go! Let's go! Let's go!
[John] Let's go! Good job!
Let's go! Have a seat!
[John] Let's go! Hell yeah!
[John] Hell yeah!
Way to battle! Way to fight!
Sit down! Good job!
Way to battle! Way to fight!
Good job! Here we go! Let's go!
Let's go! Let's go! Let's go! Let's go!
- [player 3] Let's go!
- Let's go! Listen! We got a battle!
Good job! They got they run!
They make they little threes,
rebound the ball, we go down.
Let's run motion, on balanced drive.
Ah, bang bang
Ah, bang bang ♪
Girl, if you like what you see
And you want to be with me ♪
Baby, shoot me ♪
- [player 4] Yeah, Dez!
- [player 5] There you go, Dez!
Any day, any place
That you want me in your face ♪
Baby, shoot me, with your love gun
Yeah, baby ♪
[player 6] Good job, Dez!
Put your finger on the trigger ♪
[player 7] Let's go, Jon!
That now you're ready
For the fire, fire ♪
[announcer 2] extended zone
by the Tigers.
Dribble baseline by number 22,
Dezmond Washington. Basket is good.
And a 9-6 advantage for the Tigers.
Huskies will have it on the baseline.
And we'll have big fun
Give me a shot ♪
[announcer 3] Oh! What a beautiful play
[player 8] Yeah, Dez!
[announcer 3] from Dezmond Washington
as the Tigers were not ready.
Threw it off the back
and an easy layup and assist
goes to number 22,
Dezmond Washington, off his own pass!
[John] Let's go! Let's go!
Let's go! Let's go!
[John] Let's go! Let's go! Let's go!
- Let's go! Hell yeah!
- [player 9] Come on!
[song fades out]
[John] The biggest thing is
transition defense and getting back.
I mean understanding
that it's gotta be a full-on sprint,
and it's gotta be a wall.
I bet they percentages of scoring
on us in the half-court
is like 10, 15% versus transition,
they scoring.
All right? That's why
they getting the threes.
'Cause they come down,
swing, and rotate, rotate.
And I told you they was gonna say,
"Run him to death."
"Run him to death. They say he can't run."
You gotta get back with 'em.
All right? Everybody's gotta run.
I need guys who can run.
And that are fast, and can get back,
and get in the stance and guard, okay?
They're gonna wear down before we do.
Continue to move the ball. In motion.
I guarantee y'all.
Y'all move like a bat out of hell, man,
I guarantee you gonna cut 'em to pieces.
Let's go! Here we go!
[players clap and cheer]
[John] Let's go!
- "Finish" on three! 1, 2, 3!
- [players] Finish!
Keep pounding the glass! Pound the glass!
[Demetrius] I don't Y'all can sit
wherever y'all want, bro. I'm good.
[Demetrius] I don't really care, bro.
I'm not even
in the mood to play right now, bro.
Bro, h's not gonna keep telling me
he's gonna give me a chance
and then not give me a chance. I'm not
I did good, and I'm still not playing.
[Josh] It don't matter how good you do.
It don't. And that's my problem.
'Cause if I'm performing,
I expect to play.
- [players chant] Defense! Defense!
- [John] Bryan!
- [Brandon] I got Two! I got Two!
- [player 10] Shot!
- [Bryan] Short!
- [player 11] Here we go! Fuck.
[tense music plays]
- [Rob] C'mon, Bryan.
- [player 12] C'mon, Dez!
- [player 13] Get a rebound!
- Oh, come on!
[player 14] Fuck, bro!
[John] Wake up, Bryan.
[announcer 3] Gladney pulls up,
shot is short!
[Rob] Damn, Bryan!
- [Rob] Bryan just watching!
- [John] Bryan.
[John] Back! Run, Bryan!
[announcer 2] Three on two.
Kicking it over to Walker in the corner.
What the hell?!
[John] JT, sub! Get Bryan! Get Bryan! Yup!
Damani. Damani, sub.
[Richard] Let's go!
- [buzzer sounds]
- [John] Damani, you got Two!
Dez, you got Four!
Stay with Four.
[Bryan] What the fuck?
[Bryan] Knew this shit was gonna happen.
[announcer 1] Damani Whitlock checks in
for the first time.
Good to see him back
after missing games this season.
- [announcer 2] Great defense by Whitlock.
- [player 15] Jump ball.
[cheering]
[announcer 2] And it will be
East LA basketball.
Post, go! Iverson! Hurry up! Iverson!
Go! Iverson!
[announcer 3] Tyrelle Hunt now.
Shot is good.
From the left elbow.
Things are starting to heat up here.
[announcer 2] Tigers hold on
to a one-point lead.
Over to Davis, back to Walker.
Walker with a beautiful pass down low.
Double team by the Huskies.
And a turnover as Gladney gets the steal.
Gladney, coast-to-coast
with the right hand, is good!
[John] Single! Go, JT! Get out of here!
[announcer 2] Ten seconds on shot clock.
Sanders goes one-on-one.
Lays up a left hand. It's good!
And draws a foul.
Through the next plug, keep 'em coming.
Yeah, just keep 'em coming, Coach.
It's all bodies.
[announcer 2] Collins drops it down.
Tries to go up with the left-handed dunk,
no good by Davis.
As Cofield skip pass
over to Richard Wilson!
[cheering]
[John] Hey! Watch your mouth!
Watch your mouth!
[John] Just watch the water!
Watch the water.
[John] Sit down!
[John] Everybody sit down. Guard.
Don't get caught
under the basket, standing.
- [buzzer sounds]
- They coming off, shooting threes.
[John] Let's be quick on our block.
"Finish" on three.
- One, two, three.
- [players] Finish!
[Rob] Glass! Everybody on the glass!
[John] Justin, Bryan, come on.
[John] Get JT. JT.
- Dez! Dez!
- [players chanting] Defense! Defense!
[announcer 2] Fifteen on the shot clock.
Davis goes to his left.
Skip over to Walker
for three!
Walker! 67-66!
- [John] Motion! Motion!
- [announcer 2] Tigers!
- JT, sub.
- [Brandon] Hey! Hey!
- Hey, let's go, everybody.
- [players chanting] Defense! Defense!
[Shemar] Why is niggas
even in this situation, bro?
It's the same shit.
I live in freakin' the dirtiest house
with four dudes,
and I gotta put up with this, bro. So
- [buzzer sounds]
- [players cheer]
[Shemar] Oh my fucking God, bro!
What the fuck?!
[John] Husky! Husky! Husky!
- [player 16 yells]
- [John] Time-out!
[announcer 3] Washington has 16 now
to lead the Huskies.
And the score's 70 to 69, Huskies.
[Bryan] Hey, I had that fucking middle
locked up. Pressure the fucking ball!
13 is a driver.
JT, you can guard 13 as well, all right?
He's all going left,
and then we got kick outs on opposite.
They looping the ball opposite.
Those guys opposite.
Don't lose vision of your man.
- [buzzer sounds]
- [Bryan] Fuck, man! Fuck!
[Ken] Bring Bryan back, Coach.
[John] No, no, no, Coach.
[John] He can't guard, Coach.
He can't guard these dudes.
[Bryan] The fuck, man!
Oh my fucking God!
Put me in, bro! Put me back in!
[announcer 2] Set on the baseline.
- Walker will inbound.
- [player 17] Yeah, JT!
[Bryan] Drive, JT! Drive, JT!
[player 18] Back up! Back up!
- [John] Switch! Switch! Switch! Switch!
- [players chanting] Defense! Defense!
[announcer 2] Eighteen seconds to go.
- 70-69 in favor of the Huskies.
- [John] Switch!
[announcer 2] Edwyn Collins
goes to his left, step back.
[announcer 3] Step through! Off the glass!
It's good!
Giving the Tigers a one-point lead, 71-70!
I'm not in the game.
I should be in the game.
[John] Gimme my clipboard! Clipboard!
- End of the game!
- [Rob] End of game!
[John] All right, end of the game! Listen!
We got two seconds left.
- All right, here we go! Listen!
- [player 19] We're gonna plug in.
If he let our bench play, nigga,
we would win
No, our bench players are
better than our starters.
We We know this,
and we show it every day in practice.
There's nothing else to say.
I'm cool with it, bro.
And the only nigga that hits crazy shots
like these is on the bench right now.
I hit these dumbass shots. I like 'em!
Listen! When we catch it,
we got three seconds to attack the glass.
Okay? Get to the basket.
[no audible dialogue]
[John] Justin! Justin!
- Over there! Justin! Justin!
- [announcer 2] Tyrelle Hunt will inbound.
[John] Go, Dez, go!
[announcer 3] He nearly touched Gladney.
- From 70 feet out!
- [buzzer sounds]
[announcer 3] No good.
And the Tigers will win.
- 71-70 over the Huskies of East LA.
- [player 20] Look at this!
[players cheering]
[Shemar] Fucking crazy, bro.
- [player 21] Fuck!
- [player 22] Bro.
How the fuck was this nigga
not throwing him the fucking ball?!
Why, bro?
[Cory] This nigga big as fuck!
Throw that shit right over!
You played hard, 22.
[Cory] This nigga 7'1".
Throw it right over the defense.
Fuck is this shit, bro?
Gotta be fucking kidding me, bro.
[players chatter in distance]
[John] Let's get your stuff here.
Let's get out.
We going back, and we practicing.
We freaking practicing. Let's go.
Get your stuff and let's go.
Anybody that don't
and don't want to go freakin' back,
you can freakin' leave right now.
- Straight up. Let's go.
- [assistant] Let's go.
- Hurry up. Let's go!
- [assistant] Get your stuff in.
[players chattering]
You got me messed up.
Nigga act like a bitch. Go home then.
[JT] Ooh, bitch!
[Demetrius] You the one gettin' scored on.
[player 1] Go!
[DJ] DC, chill out!
- [John] Wait, who up in here trippin'?!
- [DJ] DC.
[Demetrius] He's talking to me
so I'mma talk back!
If you gonna talk to me crazy,
I'mma talk back to you crazy!
Shut the fuck up!
Leave! Get outside! Go to the bus!
[Damani] God damn!
[coaches chattering]
[tense music plays]
You couldn't play 40 minutes.
I couldn't find nobody to play 40 minutes,
trying to rotate them in.
We cannot have that at the end!
We pride ourselves
on being in the best shape! We suck!
Nobody I couldn't find nobody
to play 40 minutes!
They was freaking running us!
Hell y'all think this is?!
Just let you get away with something?!
What the hell you think?!
Hell yeah, Bryan!
You laughing like, "Ha, he just want
to run us!" Hell yeah, I wanna run you!
- For every little thing! You laughing?
- [Bryan] I didn't say anything!
I'm on the line with my team. Ready to go.
I didn't say anything to you
about anything.
[John] You got 9 seconds to make it down
and don't Go watch the line down there!
Since everybody big and bold, go watch.
If they don't touch, we do it again.
[blows whistle]
Seven. Six.
Five. Four. Three. Two.
Huh? He said y'all didn't touch.
On the line.
[whistle blows]
Move! Go! Go! Cut! Move!
- [player 2] Come on!
- Bryan, you gotta get out the three.
Bryan didn't get out the three.
Check it down.
- [player 3] Come on!
- Hold it! [blows whistle]
Poor response over there!
We had a better response,
we might not have lost.
Shaking your head.
Freaking dude torched you!
Freaking 18 and 11!
Told you!
What did he have, Coach? 18 and what?
What did I do?
[DJ] He said poor response. I don't know
[John] Check it on the field. What?!
You don't know?! You don't know?!
[DJ] Poor response.
I don't know what you did.
- Coach, I'm just asking what I did.
- [player 3] Poor response, bro.
[John] We'll see in two years.
You'll see it in two years.
[Bryan] Okay.
[John] Just like that right there!
Didn't I just say, "Poor response"?!
Then what did you do just now?
Tell me what you did.
- You're saying something about two years!
- [John] Tell me what you did.
- I shook my head.
- You shook your head.
I said, "Poor response,"
and you said, "What did I do?"
- And you did it again!
- I did. You still haven't
You did it
I told you, that is a poor response
to me teaching you how to play the game.
Yes, sir. I won't shake my head. My bad.
- [John] Is that a good response?
- I was saying I won't do it again.
Shaking your head to saying,
you traveled or you didn't do it right?
Shaking your head.
Is that a good response?
- I told you
- [John] Tell me, is that a good response?
- I said no.
- [John] Tell me right now!
I said no.
- Then that's what I was saying!
- I said no.
- I said it was a poor response.
- Okay.
Didn't I just clarify,
that is a poor response?
Okay.
- [Tyrelle] Come on, B.
- Okay.
[Idrissa] Come on, man.
Freaking con, bro!
[Bryan] Bro, fuck this.
I'm outta here. I'm a con man?
[John] Hey! Tell him
do not come back here. It's over.
Tell him, "Do not come back. It's over."
You're not getting out of this loss!
Here we go. Let me get five up again.
- You walk out now, he don't want you back.
- I'm not coming back! Fuck that! Cool.
I don't fucking need this!
[Antoine] All I'm asking you to do
- [Bryan] I didn't do anything!
- That's the point.
[DJ] Bro, we need you!
It's not just for you, bro! It's for us.
I don't give a fuck about none of that!
Why would I
- Fuck your response, bro!
- I'm not doing it. Move.
- [DJ] Go back out there.
- Stop touching me, bro.
- It's for us. You're not gonna quit on us.
- Don't touch me, DJ.
- [Ken] DJ. I got him.
- [Antoine] Can we talk to you?
- Stop, bro.
- [Ken] I got him.
B, at the end of the day
at the end of the day
at the end of the day, wherever you go,
you always gonna be
in this shit with somebody else.
You don't got no do-overs.
This is it. This it.
You fuck this up, you fuck your life up.
- [Antoine] Let's go to work.
- Don't fuck your life up.
Freaking make shots!
Freaking make the freaking shot!
Make the freaking shot!
Freaking make the shot!
Make it!
[John] Can't find the pulse.
If you real, you make shots!
Make the shot!
[John] I'm trying to find
the pulse of this team.
Freaking make the shot!
[John] How do I get 'em to respond?
Make the freaking shot!
[John] Right now, I don't feel comfortable
with where we're at.
I haven't got a good feel yet.
And it's costing us games.
You choking right now!
Freaking stop choking!
I don't know if discipline is the issue.
It's probably just,
I need to be a better coach.
I need to coach 'em better.
I need to hold them more accountable,
or, you know, I need to just do better.
[player 4] Ah, fuck!
[player 5] Man, this shit dark as fuck!
[John] Everybody up on line.
Get yourself warm
or whatever you gotta do.
Ten, nine, eight, seven, six,
five, four,
three, two, one.
- [player 6 groans]
- We didn't make that.
[players panting and groaning]
[Richard] Man, the legs,
the Achilles hurting. Everything, bro.
Shouldn't even be doing
this shit as it is, bro.
[Damani groans]
[panting]
[Antoine] Do you need your inhaler?
You sure?
- [Damani] It don't matter anyway.
- [Antoine] It do matter.
[Damani] It don't matter.
I'mma still have to run.
[Antoine] Yeah, but you need
to be able to breathe to run.
[Damani] He don't give a fuck.
- [Damani panting]
- [player 7] Come on, Mani. You straight?
[Antoine] You okay?
[John] I'mma get you later.
No, no, Damani.
I'm getting you later.
I'mma get you later.
Let's go. Come on.
- [Bryan] We gotta make this one.
- [player 8] Fuck!
- We have to.
- [player 9] C'mon!
I'm not doing this shit no more
- [Josh] We just made the last one.
- [John] If everybody make it, we good.
- [Josh] Everybody made the last one.
- [player 10] Everybody make this, please!
[whistle blows]
[John] What I need from them,
they're not giving it to me.
That's something I gotta fix.
Can't put it all on them.
I want 'em to go through
all the hell with me.
You're gonna go through all hell with me,
so that when you get to the next level,
no one's gonna gonna crack you again.
[Rob] You You Right here.
[John] Thirty!
[Rob] Mani, you recover?
[John] Ten, nine, eight, seven.
All right, let's go get, uh
Let's go get them free throws in.
- [Christian] Bro, come on. No, come on.
- [John] Just walk through it.
["You'll Never Find
Another Love Like Mine" plays]
[Bryan] Chris.
[groans]
[Bryan] If you lift your head,
all that blood's gonna run Don't.
You'll never find ♪
[no audible dialogue]
As long as you live ♪
Someone who loves you ♪
Tender like I do ♪
You'll never find ♪
No matter where you search ♪
Someone who cares about you ♪
The way I do ♪
Whoa, I'm not braggin' on myself, baby ♪
But I'm the one who loves you
And there's no one else! ♪
No one else ♪
You'll never find ♪
It'll take the end of all time ♪
Someone to understand you ♪
Like I do ♪
You'll never find ♪
The rhythm, the rhyme ♪
All the magic we shared ♪
Just us two ♪
Whoa, I'm not tryin'
To make you stay, baby ♪
But I know somehow, someday, some way ♪
- You are ♪
- You're gonna miss my lovin' ♪
You're gonna miss my lovin' ♪
You're gonna miss my lovin' ♪
You're gonna miss my love ♪
You're gonna miss my lovin' ♪
You're gonna miss
You're gonna miss my love ♪