- Good? - What up, dawg?
So, they're having games here now?
Yeah, fuckin' raggedy ass parks and rec.
You know how that goes. What's up, momma?
- Hi. - How you doing?
- I'm good. - Oh, yeah. This is my girl.
- This is Kiera. - I know! Come on!
- You didn't meet her. When? - I know everything.
You know I know everything.
- But you've never met her before. - I've met her before.
- She live on Michael Street. - Yeah.
- He knows my brothers.
Thank you. You late.
Why you know everybody, bro?
Man, I should come up here and coach. That'd be fun.
Oh!
- Oh, he broke the glasses. - He broke his whole face.
- Oh, kid. - He wear glasses.
- He didn't see it coming. - Oh, that's a... It's always...
The funniest story you got being here.
You gotta remind me.
You busted your tooth on the floor.
Fuck you, nigga!
You went all the way across the rim and...
And your tooth was layin' on the floor.
What'd you do to your tooth? Tell 'em what you did to your tooth.
I stick it back in.
You kicked that motherfucker all the way over there.
When you kicked the tooth and picked it up, you...
"Shit. My mom's gonna be mad."
I already knew it was gonna be, like, thousand, two thousand, like, fuck.
Dude, I know... I know your mom's birthday was last week?
- Yeah. - Man.
Forty-nine, bro. She gettin' old.
I'm thinking about throwin' a party next year.
- That'd be dope. - 'Cause her 50th was supposed to be...
Her 50th was gonna be crazy. We had talked about it.
I might just do it anyway.
Good hustle, bro.
- Yeah. - Step back.
With your mother passing,
it gives you a different outlook on where you wanna be.
- Sure. - You gonna have to push harder,
because you don't have that crutch no more of your mom.
- Right. - You know, if you needed it.
Dude, I still have her phone number in my phone.
I've been working with Deshaun since he was seven years old.
You can't make a kid and his mother as tight as they were.
You know, they were really tight. That was... that was her heart.
She was his.
Um...
And that's just where it was. She... she loved him with everything.
Loved him enough to where he couldn't spend a night at people's house sometimes.
So, everybody can go to his house.
But, yeah, that's... that's where their love was.
Tight. Real tight.
Sometimes I catch myself, like, thinking, just reminiscing, like,
kind of wantin' my old life back.
And kind of, like, realizing that it'll never... it'll never be that way.
And that... that can get kind of tough.
♪ Music and lights ♪
♪ Da-da-da, da-da-da ♪
♪ Music and lights ♪
♪ Da-da-da, da-da-da ♪
♪ Music and lights ♪
♪ I'll sing and dance for you all night ♪
♪ Sequins and pearls ♪
♪ And all the pretty girls ♪
♪ Secret fantasies in a showbiz world... ♪
- Let's hope Joe shows up today. - ♪ Music and lights ♪
♪ I'll sing and dance for you all night... ♪
Fifty-fifty today.Fifty-fifty.
♪ Da-da-da, da-da-da ♪
♪ Music and lights ♪
- If we do any structure... - Yeah.
- ...it's blue high to spread. - High...
If we stopped here and threw it to Joe, it's a wrap.
We got no Joe anyway.
Did you hear from him?
- Yeah, he... - I... It's communication. Communication.
- That's all I'm asking. - What'd he say this time?
- Communication. That's what we ask for. - "I forgot. I had to do this, Coach."
Communication, that's all I'm asking for.
I was thinking, "Man, maybe I should start Joe."
Well, there you go. So much for that.
I was like, "He here three days in a row. Maybe I should start him."
- Yeah. Good three days, too. - Because, give Malik...
- Put some fire under his butt. - That's right.
But there you go.
- We're going with Malik again. - Yeah.
Motion! Stay in motion! Stay in motion!
- Get out! In the gap, Malik. - Get out!
- Guard that, Lik! - Pressure, Malik! Pressure!
Guard that, Mark. We got your help!
That's weak, Lik. That's weak.
He just don't know how close Joe is to getting his spot.
That's fine, that's fine.
- Help side. We got you, Ron. - Ron, move.
- Help him, Ron. - Hell, yeah, Jordan.
Bucket, nigga!
Good shot, Shaun.
That was luck.
- Anyways, get it back. - Five up. Let's go.
- That was what? - Luck.
Get it back, Shaun.
Tell me which one Deshaun is again...
Light-skinned kid. Scorer. Tough as they come, bro.
So, what my concern is,
you take a kid with nobody to get in his face at home,
he goes to Utah, there's women everywhere in Utah,
but the women in Utah don't really have sex.
They're waiting until marriage.
This is the great thing about Deshaun.
He's faithful to his girl.
Is he really faithful?
That's all he got.
All he got.
So, he's really, really... well above his age.
You know, as far as the maturity and all that.
I like Deshaun. I like him.
We not bein' sharp. We bein'... we too sloppy. It's too sloppy.
It's too sloppy.
- I don't want this. - Burst, come on.
Come on, too soft, Taj!
- Suicides. - There it is.
- There it is! - Hold it. Hold it.
- We got guys playing around. - Son of a bitch!
Some of us aren't ready that are gonna get opportunities
here in the future.
Some of us that are looking for that opportunity are not prepared.
Not prepared. Sloppy detail in they self.
Kind of think they know everything, and they gonna let us down.
I'll be straight up with you, you gonna let us down 'cause you not prepared.
You beggin' for time.
You beggin' for more opportunity, and you not even prepared to do it.
You in your feelings. I'm talkin'.
You ain't gotta say nothin'. All you gotta do is play, man.
- Don't tell me nothing. - I'm...
Shut up! Let him talk, bro! Let him talk!
We not accomplishin' nothin'. Guys are sloppy. Nobody's closin' out.
Guys lettin' guys drive by. So, it's sloppy.
- You was on the court, you a part of that. - Yes, sir.
Here we go, guards down and back.
As it looks right now,
we look like we're the strongest team in our conference.
But again, any night, man.
You come with the wrong disposition, and you lose.
It's not only havin' that talent. You gotta have team chemistry.
A lot of that falls on myself, to be able to manage
and understand different personalities and how to get the best out of each guy
that's as talented as they are.
And then also to make 'em cohesive.
It just takes one game where one guy is pouting
and you're playing against a great team,
and he brings that spirit, you know, and it infiltrates the team.
We need Joe right here practicing with this group.
And then there's a balance, okay?
Now Joe misses, now there's consequences.
When it gets to a point where it's affecting the program
and I lose the respect of the team, then that's when it's a problem.
I do feel like Joe's a little bit of a ticking time bomb.
Haven't seen him Sunday, didn't see him Monday.
I believe we didn't even... We couldn't even sub him.
I think he just walked off the floor. They called travel on him, and he walked off.
He goes, "I'm done. I'm not playing. They're not gonna let me play."
You know, when you walk out of a game like that, that is so selfish.
But he is the most unselfish player on the team.
If he watches on the bench,
he cheers more than anybody else on the bench.
But when things get the best of him, and he kind of implodes,
it looks like he's being selfish.
So up till now it hasn't really been cancerous, where it could be.
Some days, I'm like, "Is this the day where somebody's gonna say,
'Forget this. F this. I'm not doing it. If Joe ain't doing it, I ain't doing it.'"
Like...
That day could come, and it still could come.
What up, jefe? Where you at?
I'm just leavin' right now, like.
I just turned onto, uh... Schoolside to go down to the freeway.
- Hit me up. - I'll hit you when I'm closer, though.
- All right, love you. - Love you, man. Bye.
That's my dawg, man...
That's my best friend.
♪ Like, fuck it, that's life ♪
♪ Fuck it tonight ♪
♪ We fuckin' right... ♪
It's weird because we got the best start to a season in school history,
we're breaking records, but we have these problems.
So, not everybody's as mentally stable as the next guy.
I really went through it personally last year.
Um... I went through it, and...
Uh, we got some guys goin' through some of the same things.
If anybody on the team doesn't belong here, it's Joe Hampton for sure.
This dude is a five-star.
Not was a five-star, he is a five-star.
Like, he should be... He... He should go pro next year somewhere.
Do you think Joe will come back?
I hope so.
But...
I don't know.
- What you looking for? - The butter, I can't find it.
- Uh... - Where is it?
- You need that? - Yeah.
I left it out, so I had to throw it away.
Oh!
- Why? - So, we don't have any butter?
No. First the Coke, now the butter.
- Bro, I don't know what happened. - The rocky road... Don't pour it all out.
- I'm confused, though. I don't know... - I think you just gotta puncture it.
Just jam it. No, no, no, no, no.
No.
That looked like you were about to do somethin' dangerous.
Just do this.
I know Deshaun through Instagram.
He would always message me, just, like, about random stuff.
I know he was just trying to make conversation.
But, like, he never came at me in, like, a disrespectful way.
He'd always just be like, "Oh, that's a nice book."
Like, "What's the name of that spot that you're at?" Or "the park that you're at?"
Everything happened with my mom. And she had DM'ed me.
You know, just let me know if I need anything that...
uh, she was there, and if I needed to talk, she was there.
At first, he wasn't really aware of, like, just adult things.
Like, it kind of happened so fast, where he had to be a young man
and to, like, a grown man and, like, it transitioned into adulthood so quick.
Wow, can you wait, babe? You can wait two more seconds.
Mm-mm.
Somethin' about this frozen bread.
Oh, my gosh.
Grocery shopping, bills,
did not know how to do it.
So, you know, we figured it out together.
I showed him, like, "This is what you do."
"You can't forget to pay a bill,
because they'll turn it off if you forget."
So, he's just being on top of just, you know, planning and timing, and...
He's come a long way. He's really good at it now.
You know how hard it is to find glasses without glasses on?
- I mean, it must be damn near impossible. - It is.
It's hard to see.
- Thanks for dinner, baby. This is fire. - You're welcome.
- I thought he was gonna bang out. - If he missed that, I was about to say,
"We are officially burnt."
Now that I got y'all here, check this out here.
Each one of you can see your own, right?
I just need you to read your own going across right here.
Tell me what you don't like.
What... what do you think I'm feelin' when I see 65% and 40%?
They can't shoot?
That's kind of where my mind is.
Like this... this... I don't know if this kid...
- I don't know if this kid... That's where... - Consistently.
Yeah. That's what I'm feeling.
Now, if I've watched you play...
- do I think you can shoot? - Mm-hm.
All right, then. So, now what am I thinking? What's the...
- That's consistency. - What's the problem?
What's the problem? It's the consistency thing, right? What we see for LJ?
What... what do you think you see here, LJ?
52, 41 and then you 60-something percent. What's that tell us?
Shit.
That you can shoot the ball, but you weak mentally when you go to the line.
Like, you can't lock in, you can't focus in.
Every team we play has good guards.
Every team don't have KJ, Malik, Joe. They ain't got it.
And I'm not saying this as a negative. This is the weak part of our team.
Mm-hm.
- You understand that? - Yes.
- This is our weakness. - Yes.
If you guys get better, think about how much better we gonna get.
I don't know if our post players are gonna get better.
What more can KJ do?
- What more? - He can't do nothing more.
- He does everything. - As much as we want Malik to improve,
with the opportunity he gets, he's not gonna improve that much.
Joe don't play the minutes. Joe gonna be what it is, he's always gonna play
12 to 18 minutes a game before he fouls out or implodes.
One of the two.
This is on you guys to get better at what we're talking about.
As you improve, now we can improve. I know it's hard to improve on 19 and one.
But there's a lot that we can do to make it
so that when we have that off game in the playoffs,
we still win it.
When you're 6'2", like, you're always gonna be like,
"Man, if I was 6'9", I would be this and that."
I wish I could just reach over everybody and just drop the ball in... in the net.
At Division I, every team needs 6'9" athletic dudes who can defend,
because the other team has 6'9" athletic dudes that can score.
So it's... you gotta have that.
There's thousands of 6'2" basketball players
that wanna play Division I basketball.
There's a whole lot less 6'9", 6'8", 6'7" dudes.
They have to be so good to get respect.
You gotta do those extra special things, like not turn the ball over,
run what the coach asks, play good defense,
be that team guy when you're a guard.
Whereas, if you're a post player, you know, you don't do none of that.
You block a couple of shots, get a dunk, be 6'9",
and they're all, like, "Here."
Like, just... "Here's money. Come to our school."
Being a small guard, being a smaller guard,
you definitely have to do a lot.
You have to bring something different to the table and try to separate yourself.
Malik and Joe, you know,
they'll let some things slide, skill wise, character wise,
they'll let some things slide.
But for guards, you gotta be on point.
Oh!
What's the over-under on Joe showing up?
Oh. I... I don't think it's gonna happen, man. Unless he talked to you?
He gonna show up?
Like, what's the over-under?
It's just such a...
I don't think it's gonna happen...
You bettin'?
Get it. Mad passes, here we go.
Good.
It's not realistic. Come on, Lik. It's just gonna be a pivot.
Fundamentally sound pivot.
So, it's not gonna be here, standing up and going like that.
Okay, fine, if he's cutting there and you see he's gonna be open,
here you power hop here, here, then just, boom, then drop it there.
It's okay to look corny.
Ain't nothin' wrong with looking corny. Just look corny to get the play done.
Here we go.
Malik ain't there yet.
Still ain't been able to figure out how to be a hard worker.
When you press him hard, sometimes he doesn't know how to handle it.
- Are you gonna guard today? - Substitution, number 12...
He's just goin' right.
Just turnin' his head and goin' right every time.
- When you gonna have some pride? - He ain't going nowhere.
- Have some pride. - He ain't...
He's not gettin' to where our expectations... we see him.
- Come on, man. - Hey-up.
Hold the ball and freaking shin it.
What? They don't have... they don't have permission to slap the ball?
- They slapped it and it went off your leg. - Slapped me.
They slapped the ball, and it went off your leg.
- Touched me. - The ref didn't see none of that.
- It was a wide ball... - Soft. Soft as hell.
I think he has a habit of havin' his back to the wall before he performs.
He just needs to be around other guys who are... who are trying to take his spot.
Essentially, Joe should be a starter over Malik.
But never will crack the starting lineup, because Joe might not be here.
We need to make sure we got, you know, these other guys.
Good.
Here we go.
Good. That pass...
Let me see that.
Bro, what the fuck?
What the fuck, bro?
This shit is killing me.
- How'd you do that? - I don't know.
Just one practice, like, my finger was hurtin'.
Let me see.
You gotta get some Neosporin.
You gotta put some butterflies on it like this.
You got a Band-Aid or somethin'?
- You want me to put some tissue over that? - Yeah.
'Cause I don't think they got a Band-Aid. Well, let me see. Hold on.
God damn, boy.
Just tape this one backwards.
Just put it backwards. Hold it.
Here, you got it.
- Thank you. - Yeah.
Can you look at these for me?
What's that?
So, this is a retainer.
- They asking for some money. - Some dough.
To retain him as a lawyer. This is for that...
- Uh... - Yeah. Damn, man.
Yeah, looks like win or lose, man, you gonna have to pay.
- What's the charge, yo? - Misdemeanor battery.
- They do... - Fightin'.
Yeah... What... what did the other dudes get?
Nothin'.
Three dudes beat him up, and him and his girlfriend
get slammed on the ground by security.
Security, bro, not even the police. So, we finna get all that.
- Security slammed your face to the ground... - I was in custody.
They had me like this.
And the dude comes, pow! and gave me that one.
Then I'm, like, "Hold on, man, what... Like, what's the deal with that?"
- The dudes hit you once they put... - Yeah.
- That's when they got a clean shot? - That's when they got the clean shot.
- I've been there before. - I was, like, "All right."
- They can't do that. - Looks bad.
- Three grown men. - Put my face in the ground. Left me that.
- Three grown men. - I saw. He was bleedin' for days.
- Yeah, bro. - Three grown men.
When it was all going down, I was, like, "Man,
my mom woulda whupped my ass."
- Jenny would get you. - She would.
- She would whup my ass. - Your fault or not.
- Wouldn't matter. - Your fault or not.
- Wouldn't matter. - It wouldn't.
I was sittin' there, still dreadin' the phone call, even though I didn't have to.
It was, like, still like, "Damn, if I had to call my mom about this..."
- Yeah. - It's, like... pfft.
Pfffft.
The toughness that he has, his mom taught him.
So, everything that he knows and he's taught, it came from his mom.
That was all Deshaun had, was his mom.
And I think, at a young age, he was separated from a lot of his family.
It was just him and his mom for a long time.
You know, I mean, his mom was white and his dad was Black.
Uh, you know, there's some identity issues there,
and he started to have those questions.
At the moment he started to have those questions,
and get an understanding to the questions,
and his mom helping him establish himself and his identity,
she passes.
My mom loved me more than anything.
Anything.
You could ask anybody.
She defended me.
She taught me right from wrong. She taught me everything that I needed.
You miss things, of course, when you don't have a dad in the house,
but I think she did a pretty good job
raising as good of a man as she could.
She was everything to me growing up.
When did you find out your mom was sick?
We had a tournament in Kansas.
AAU tournament in Kansas.
And...
she was supposed to go.
And she told me that...
uh... she wasn't gonna be able to make it because she had a ear infection.
And...
And, um...
...to play hard.
And that she'll see me when I get home.
She picks me up from my coach's house and...
uh, she was kind of quiet, she was just quiet on the way home.
And I didn't know what was going on.
And we got home and we...
She took me to my room and told me to sit down.
And she said that... um...
...she didn't have an ear infection.
That the reason that she couldn't come
is 'cause she found out that she had cancer.
How long was it from when you found out to when she died?
Three years.
What happened in those three years?
Everything changed.
I saw my mom cry more than I ever... more than I'd ever seen.
And I saw her lose her hair.
I saw her lose her friends.
It was the hardest thing I ever been through.
I hope it's the hardest thing I ever have to go through.
It was so lonely.
I had to be strong.
Because I was all she had.
I was the only person that she saw every day.
And I had to make sure that every time she saw me that she saw hope.
That she saw a reason to keep fighting.
The day before,
she didn't wanna talk...
about what was gonna happen next.
The only thing she said about what was gonna happen next was,
"How are you doing with this?"
Because she knew that... I mean, it seems like a dumb question, "How are you doing?"
It's like, "You're my mom, like, I'm losing my mind."
But she knew that I was strong
and that I was at least keeping it somewhat together.
So, she asked me, you know, "How are you doing? Are you...
"Are you gonna be okay?"
And I told her, like...
"This is... it's gonna be hard for me."
And she said, "I know."
She said, "I don't..." She said, "I want... I don't want this to...
affect your basketball or your school."
And...
I was, like, "All right."
And we just changed the subject after that.
I used to play video games.
I used to hang out with my friends.
I would go to parties every now and then.
Kind of living in, like, a dream world.
I'm a completely different person.
He came back a week or two after she passed, and he played for me.
So, coming back this next year,
I think he still hasn't grieved properly.
He hasn't gone through it.
And we need to consider that.
I didn't really know how bad he was at mentally until, like,
three weeks to a month after we started dating.
He cried to me for the first time
and I really understood, like, "He's hurting bad."
You just gotta put your mind to it and save the emotion for later.
Or put it towards what you're doing.
And, for me, that's part of why I'm so emotional and so...
uh...
...outspoken on the basketball court.
That's where I...
let go.
Wow.
Get your work done!
I'm goin' to the library.
Get it done!
I've never been in here.
This is...
Hi, baby.
What's up?
So, in, like, the first chapter, he, like, became part of this...
I don't know if you know what it means. But read that so far.
- That good so far? - Yeah.
We need 130 more words.
I need a hug.
Come on.
- I know, you can still get the hug. - Damn! I need a hug.
Just been... I've been stressing all day.
I met her a month ago.
A mutual friend hooked us up.
Just decided to go for it.
Does Mosley think that girlfriends are a distraction from basketball?
Yes, most definitely.
He thinks, like, girlfriends are a distraction,
but it doesn't distract me.
I still focus on the main goal.
KJ.
KJ, man. Let me tell you somethin', man.
K, you don't even...
- you don't even know the half, bro. - Mm-mm.
I know. I'm scared...
You don't even know, when you... when you don't have a choice,
- like, right now, you have a choice. - Yeah.
If you really want to, you can decide,
"Meh, I don't wanna date no more."
But you mess around and get somebody...
- It's over. You don't have a choice. - Yeah.
Y'all are forever. Three people is forever connected.
And it's major drama. It's best you wait till you get married.
You better chill.
- I'm chillin'! - Hoop.
I'm chillin'!
I'm trying to get to the bag, first.
Dude, you can't let nobody... You can't...
People trying to breed you, bro. You about... Can't let nobody breed you.
- Some million-dollar genes right here. - Exactly, bro!
You need to just chill and wait and get the right one, until... get you married...
You know, chill and wait, bro.
You can't let nobody breed you. You better get up outta here.
- I know I heard this in a movie before. - Yeah, it was in a movie.
- ♪ You're ♪ - ♪ Still the one ♪
♪ You're still the one I run to ♪
♪ The one that I belong to ♪
♪ You're still the one... ♪
I love that song.
Yeah.
♪...at night ♪
Tomorrow, I need to go to Bath & Body Works to buy candles.
Mmm.
Watch, when we get our own place it's gonna be so cute to visit.
- Man... - You said what?
I said, my ping is good.
You not talking to me?
Huh?
- I said, you're not talking to me? - You said what?
- I'm about to do it. You not listenin'. - I'm listenin'.
I said I'm gonna have to make your Valentine's Day cute.
You said what?
I ran out of my super tasty toothpaste.
Mm-hm.
♪ I gotta give thanks ♪
- ♪ My father once said ♪ - ♪ You know ♪
♪ I never really met nobody Who was truly successful ♪
♪ That wasn't thankful ♪
♪...on 99 Jamz, screamin', "We the best" ♪
♪ Woulda had all the execs Eatin' right outta his hand... ♪
- What? - Right there.
♪ From doors bein' slammed... ♪
What's that... Oh, babe!
♪...2010, convinced Ye Sean should drop my last shit... ♪
Dad, Deshaun just dunked on me. Oh, my God.
Here we go. Hold up, Shaun.
Get some space. Yeah, go.
Go. Come on.
- Be fundamental. Be perfect. - Turn those hips.
It's the last thing, man, shuttin' down those turnovers.
Stay wide.
Free throws. Free throws. Here we go.
Free throws.
What's up with Big Joe? What's the deal with him?
On the court, he a pro...
He a pro on the court. So, any time we start off slow,
we hurry up and put him in the game.
Everything, our offense flows.
Only thing that worries me is, like, he'll go in the locker room
- and punch a locker and blow up. - Yeah?
He that type of dude.
I tell him all the time, man,
"Bro, you could make as much money as you want to."
"But you got... you gotta quit being mentally unstable
when refs don't give you calls."
He honestly should be starting for us, to be truthful.
I had a high-level guy call me last night about Joe too.
It's legit. Joe can go high major.
He won't figure it out till five years from now.
How do you navigate through that to where it doesn't affect him...
Right.
Where they start resenting their teammate...
Right. Right.
Here's the thing.
If you can guard hard, that gets you a scholarship.
That's a defender over there, that's a defender, and we get him here.
Boom, here. No.
- Oh, yes! Yes, yes! - Aaaah!
- No! Whoo! - Oh!
Hold it. No, no, no, no.
- Aaah! I thought he'd make it! - Hold up, man.
It's, like... it's like, serious. These dudes are good.
They're good.
Everybody's future is ridin' on this show right here.
Everybody's future is ridin' on the point guard gettin' back through
and pressurin'.
It is!
'Cause we smoke tomorrow off, then it... it looks ugly.
Hey, fellas, please don't get caught up in the officiatin'
and the referees givin' us...
them dudes talkin'.
Y'all got more to lose than these dudes.
You see what you got goin' on.
You see what you... You number three, 19 and 1, you got a chance for a top seed,
we don't need guys getting ejected, we don't need none of that, man.
I'm like, "You kiddin', man?"
Joe, I got to holler at you...
- That's how you bummin'? - You heard him?
He holla at you, nigga.
Don't be goin' nowhere, I got to holler at you.
- Mo Beasley. - Can't talk to him about that.
Why do you always want to talk to me, bro? Fuck.
Leave me the fuck alone, bruh.
Jordan, where you and Joe go? Where you take Joe, man?
I'm sitting in my car. I'm waiting up for Quis. I don't know where Joe is.
All right.
- All right. - All right.
Man, every day, I gotta just... you gotta grab 'em.
You gotta grab they minds, Coach.
Grab they... Man.
I thought you jetted out, bro.
You gettin' sick?
I had, like, flu-like symptoms, uh, Saturday.
Where I was, like, aching. Couldn't move.
All right, Friday.
- Friday? - Friday.
I was out of it. My... my head was gone.
Like, it was just too much goin' on at once. I just couldn't deal with it.
Like, I just wanted to lash out.
So, like, I went to the locker room, showed my frustration and came back.
It's been a long time since I've been in this... this environment.
It's been a whole calendar year.
So, it's a lot of frustrations and shit that flow through my head,
like, with me not starting in general, like...
I don't care about nothin' else but the response, 'cause...
you know I'm talkin' with Mullins, bro,
and he's tellin' me about opportunities.
Big 10 and Big 12 for you.
Huh. Damn, that's huge. That means I'll be back to where I was at.
Dude, you talkin' about Big 12, Big 10, you know, everybody be like,
"Oh, if I get there, I'mma be straight."
"All I gotta do is hoop and work out all day."
- No, who you are is who you are. - Right.
And if you can change that right now...
dude, the sky's the limit, I'm... I'm telling you, bro.
It ain't, "Are you good enough? Do you got game? Are you tough?"
"Do you got a jumper? Are you all that?"
Are you being mistreated? Yeah, probably sometimes.
But that ain't the lesson.
- The lesson is the response, dude. - Yeah.
'Cause this is it, bro. This is it.
And it could go way better than you ever thought.
- That's the crazy part. - 'Cause...
- I'd never have thought it. - You can go...
It could go way better than you ever thought.
- Yes, sir. - I'm prayin' for you.
- I know. - I had to pray for you over the weekend.
- I know. - I was like... I'mma just...
Because you... Lord, we just thank you for Joe, Lord.
We pray for him, God, we pray that, Lord, that you can just...
Just... just protect him, oh, Lord.
Lord, we just ask you to help him so that he can get through.
Thank you so much for what he brings to us.
Help him to change his response. Help him to be a better person, a better man.
Lord, we pray that you get the glory in all of this.
And in the end, you glorify in your son Jesus' name, amen.
- Amen. - All right, bro.
- Come on. - Yes, sir.
- Got you. - Keep me posted, man.
- Don't be... - I got you.
- All right. - Thanks, Coach. Appreciate you.
Hi, Coach Rob. Hi, Shaun.
Sometimes I may let some things go.
One day I may address it, one day I don't,
'cause it's important we just all work that day.
I'll see a young man, and I just can't stand his behavior,
his activity.
And I'll always have to remind myself
that's the one that probably needs the love at this moment.
Doesn't mean I necessarily show 'em the love at the moment, but...
that's where my heart is.
Somethin' that... that has to be guarded,
somethin' happens where he, just, emotionally, is an emotional wreck,
it can just destroy your team.
And it can just take one game.
Are you worried about keeping these guys together as a team?
Oh!
I'm so worried.
You know, really, that's...
that's really, right now, what I'm coaching.
Really thankful and grateful you could join us. I'm Dan Gudino.
It's the 21st game of the season for the Dog Pack
against the Los Angeles Trade Tech College Beavers.
Tech is a top-20 scoring offense.
But not so fast,
these Huskies with a 19 and 1 record are on fire.
Out of Riverside...
East LA currently ranked number three in the state.
Chasing the best overall record in school history.
Possibly picking up win number 20 of the season.
So, high expectations.
Bring it in, bring it in!
Same old thing. Same old thing. Everybody come do their job.
Everything's must win from now on.
- All right? - Yup.
Let's run through this league. No losses. Let's win this shit.
- "Win" on three. One, two, three. - Win.
Make 'em look bad.
Don't let 'em get started off easy, all right?
We need to make sure we do a good job of not lettin' 'em get started.
Tech is a top-20 scoring offense.
They have the sixth-best scorer in the state in Mr. Mark Chin,
they'll try to do the unthinkable and take down the East LA Dog Pack.
Come on, Lik. Come on, Lik.
Trade Tech will win the tip, and the Beavers' attack just underway.
Warren on the right side.
Opens up the scoreboard for the Beavers two to zero.
Go, KJ, go. Run to the rim.
Highler launches a three, right wing, short.
Three-point attempt way off. He can't get it through the net.
Get up! Get up!
Yonas Gedlu dribbling against Malik Muhammad.
- Get up, Malik. - He just fell down.
- Passes it to the corner. - Let's go! Get a stop!
He puts it up, good for Trade Tech.
Highler from the wing, to the lane, goes inside to Malik Muhammad.
- Ball goes out of bounds. - Come on, Malik.
- That was to you, Malik! - I'm thinkin' you're going up with that.
- Just don't even go for the ball, nigga. - Hey, Shaun.
Go up, I got the board.
That's a dime!
That's a dunk!
Come on, Malik!
Damn, bro, I don't know what I got to do to, bruh.
What I got to do to get my respect, bro.
This nigga want me to have a good attitude about not playing.
Copeland will check in for the disappointed Malik Muhammad now,
- as Highler sits down. - That's some fucking bullshit, nigga.
- Keep it well! - No!
Go up, man!
Mark Chin attacks, straight to the cup, gets fouled.
Beautiful play by Chin. He is the sixth-best scorer in the state.
- How many fouls KJ got? - KJ got one.
Get K.
Joe Hampton will check in.
Joe, take it out. Press O.
Create space and give Joe the ball.
Get him outta there, Joe.
Chin fails to convert on the free throw attempt. Regans.
Three!
Pushes it to Ziegler. To Hampton.
Inside to a cutting Jay Davis reverse layup from right to left.
- ♪ Yeah, yeah... ♪ - Go on, Joe!
Mark Chin step back three to his left-hand side,
off the weak side into the hands of Smith.
Attacking quickly. It's Hampton to the corner.
Back inside to a cutting Hampton, and Hampton finishes. Good!
♪ Every time I sleep... ♪
- Yes, sir! - ♪ Dead faces, they occupy my brain ♪
♪ My brain ♪
- ♪ Erica said I never changed ♪ - ♪ Never changed ♪
♪ Lifestyles of the insane... ♪
Hampton with a corner three on the near side.
Let's go, boy!
Regans on the right side. From right to left.
Crossover move to Hampton. For three.
♪...bricks of yola, had a Mexican That came 'cross the border ♪
- ♪ To Arizona, gettin' shit for 17 ♪ - And the big man off the back iron and in.
Gives East LA a lead.
A minute 25 to go and the Beavers trying to chop wood.
♪ Jealous niggas Want they 28 up front now ♪
♪ I bought all the damn clientele We could have ran the town... ♪
Knighten diving for the loose ball as Chin loses his dribble. Gotta like the hustle.
No foul! No foul!
Chin attacks, loose ball. Copeland in the fast break for the Huskies.
Attacking on the right wing. Layup good!
Five seconds to go.
Warren attacks. Warren blocked with 2.4 to go.
Turnover against the Beavers.
- Go! - Hey, touchdown, touchdown, Stu!
Half-court shot!
Where's Joe's half-court shot right here? We worked on it.
Hey!
- You should've drew that foul! - I know.
- Oh, that was three points.
Oh, that was three points.
- He jumped right at you. - I know.
You could've gone... Good fuckin' half, boy.
- Fuck! - Good fuckin' half.
All it takes is one play, let one...
let one guy get goin', and now the game changes.
You know you not gettin' no calls,
so don't be lookin' for calls, let's just play through contact.
So, good job. Let's go out, let's continue to have fun.
Everybody gotta play hard. It's about playin' deep.
All right, here we go. Ready.
- "Finish" on three. One, two, three. - Finish.
East LA so much better than they have been in the first half,
and so a little bit of a change for Coach Mosley.
We'll... we'll see what type of energy East LA comes out with.
East LA just turned over the ball off the inbound.
- Warren drives, he is fouled on one side. - No! No! No, man!
And Coach Mosley upset at the call.
Quis, sub.
Man, he get those sick fouls right there. That's not even a foul.
Note that the coach has been warned.
What am I supposed to do, man?
I can't contest a shot, bruh. That's every time.
Highler looking, looking.
Highler from the left wing, pulls up at the free throw line. In and out.
That's not the shot, man.
Gotta attack the basket, get the foul.
- Go, Scoot! - Zeigler into the front court.
Gets the pass stolen by Chin.
Mosley upset, takes a seat.
No-look pass by Chin.
Gedlu for three.
- Timeout! Timeout! - Rolls around and in.
Timeout! Timeout! Timeout!
Coach John Mosley upset at the way the Huskies open up the second half,
he'll call timeout.
We just said it, man. It's four turnovers.
We keep turning the ball over, we missing shot opportunities.
We wanna run, we wanna go fast,
let's stop turnin' the ball over.
Here we go. "Finish" on three.
- One, two, three - Finish.
Out of the timeout. It's Joseph Hampton into the game.
One of the better first halves for East LA. But here off to a sluggish start.
Three-point attempt by Warren.
- Off the right side of the rim. - Come on, Mark!
The put back attempt by Drammeh, he is fouled by Hampton.
Looked like he got all ball there. Not the case.
Jesus, 'cause he fall, y'all call a foul?
Mosley be telling y'all, they ref y'all different and it's true.
He said he has to embrace the contact, he has to stand there and take it.
Warren, right wing, to the lane.
- Is fouled. - What?
Malik, sub.
What?
Malik will check in as Joe Hampton will check out.
- I'm not tired. - I know. Come on.
Fuck, bro. There's seven minutes left.
What y'all do, man?
Bro, it's hard not to, bro. Fuck.
Joe, you okay?
Chin on the left wing against Highler.
Goes left-hand side, is rejected by Malik, no.
- Actually, a foul against Malik. - Every fucking time!
Bro, what the... Oh, my God!
Fuck, bro.
Put a nigga in with four fouls...
He has four fouls!
I fucking hate this team, bro.
Fucking God, bro.
This nigga can't fuckin' coach for shit.
- How can I help... - Fuck, man.
They never let me play through shit. I'm tired of that shit!
Don't turn the ball over, rebound it, let's guard.
Don't let guys turn the corner.
This dude gettin' fouls 'cause dudes are turnin' the corner.
Forwards are gettin' fouls 'cause we lettin' 'em get to the basket.
That's wrong.
Come on, man.
You keep those guys in front.
- "Finish" on three. One, two, three. - Finish.
Lot of game left, man. That's the bottom line.
- Execute for us, man. - "Finish" on three, one, two, three.
- Finish. - Execute. Come on, Shaun.
- It's all turnovers. - We done fell apart this half.
Yeah, it's horrible.
The Huskies will like to grab a stranglehold of the momentum.
And it'll most likely be a fight to the finish for Trade Tech and East LA.
Warren now. On top to Chin.
Chin fakes his pass, puts it on the floor, left hand, drives to the cup.
Too strong, gets his follow.
Mark Chin just doing it all for Trade Tech.
- Let's see what East LA has after this. - Pass in front!
Here we go, draw!
Chest pass to Highler. Back to Zeigler. Zeigler drives.
He's stopped, and the ball goes out of bounds.
There will be a second on the shot clock.
One second. One second.
Let's see what Coach Mosley draws up here.
Three! Three!
- Three, y'all! - Left three!
- Flat three! - Three!
- So, he's looking.
KJ! KJ!
Surveys, to a cutting... Highler is fouled.
Strong enough to take the impact.
Across the logo. Highler comes up with a steal.
From the wing, to the lane. Reverse layup and good.
Crosscourt pass far side to Highler.
Highler bounce pass to a cutting Zeigler.
- Zeigler's fouled and one, count it. - ♪ Super stupid bought a nickel bag ♪
♪ Thought it was coke, but it was skag ♪
♪ Super stupid did a one and one ♪
♪ Then his eyes begin to water And his nose begin to run... ♪
Go there! Clear out, come on, Quis! Come on, Quis! Go that way!
♪ Super stupid, you're here today You've lost the fight ♪
- ♪ And the winner is fear... ♪ - Low post, KJ.
KJ goes to work. Outside to Highler. Highler.
Three-point shot sunk in.
- ♪ Come on ♪ - ♪ Yeah ♪
Come on, come on.
Chin, no-look pass, kick out to Warren. Warren three-point shot. No.
Long rebound into the hands of Bates. Bates loses it.
Loose ball, being fought for. Bodies on the floor.
Zeigler comes up with it.
KJ left wing, attacks left side.
That will do it for us here.
The Huskies win over Los Angeles Trade Tech.
98 to 77.
...Robert Robinson, Robbie Galbenus,
and all the other great clubs who put these games on for us.
Trade Tech with great effort tonight, as always.
And congratulations to the Huskies.
Great basketball here.
Thank you all for being here...
Oh, you was untouchable today. You was untouch...
Every time he... Whoo! Foul.
Good dub, nigga.
Hey, good dub.
Just to let y'all know that's 20 dubs.
Hey, we the quickest team in ELAC history to 20 dubs.
Not that it matters if we, you know, don't win State. But it's still cool.
First team to be 21?
We are the quickest team in ELAC history to 20 dubs. Yes.
This is the best start. Ever.
Joe. Come on, man.
- Oh, my God. - Let's go...
Go in here with me.
- Come on, yo. - Four point three...
Everybody got 17!
...points in the last three...
Tell me the truth, tell me everything right now.
Tell me. Tell me what you... just, what's up?
- What? I'm cool. - Hm?
I'm good.
Where's your frustration at? What's the frustration?
What's more of the frustration today?
I don't want to talk about it.
What... what am... You know? What am I supposed to do?
I don't know what to do, homie.
Yeah, you got game.
But I'm not playing you because you got game.
I'm playing you because I'm not givin' up.
Like, I got your back, man, come on.
You just gotta respond the right way.
Joe, come on, man.
I... I can't let you fail, bro. You're not going to fail.
It's not happening.
You here for a reason, a purpose. God brought you here.
Can I control everything? No.
Can you control everything? No.
So, what we gonna do?
Can I get 45 minutes?
Give me 45 minutes.
Hey, is Rob out there?
We gonna get Joe. We gotta work out.
I was six years old when I first picked up a basketball.
But I would dribble that same basketball
on the porch every morning before I went to school.
I was always told as a kid that I was special.
Like, I could do anything that I wanted if I put my mind to it.
Just being young and dumb.
I don't think I could picture myself doing anything else
but playing basketball.
I'm not the same fuck-up that I used to be.
I love the game, but I think when we say we love basketball,
we kinda lose perspective.
We put our energy into...
the game and not our energy into people.
There you go. Go, let it go.
Let it go.
Yep, let it out. That's what he's lookin' for?
They need love the most when they deserve it the least.
It's not "Oh, that kid sucks, he's a bad kid."
Kids are dealing with a ton of demons.
You just don't understand Joe.
You don't understand Deshaun.
I struggle sometimes, 'cause I know myself as a basketball player first,
I don't really know myself through any other scope,
than through the game.
But my mind is on different things.
- Coach, put me in! - You been sittin' on the edge of the seat?
- Like, come on! - Like, "Coach, sub me in!"
A month and a half into our relationship, I was just havin'...
one of my days.
I cried to her for the first time.
And she just cried with me.
- ...the least... - Knock down one or two...
Any time I've needed that, she's been there.
- Michael Jordan up there. - Shut up!
I think he's doing very well.
I think he's doing a lot better than how he was when we first started.
Like, he's hurting bad. But he's like,
"I finally feel like I'm getting back to myself. And, like, I feel good today."
So, it had me crying.
I know no matter what, I'm always here for him.
I got some strawberries back there for the go.
It's kind of divine to me. Like, the timing of it all.
I lost the most important woman in my life,
and shortly after, gained who is now the most important woman in my life.
I hope that we make it through anything that this life has for us.
♪ It rains love when I'm with you ♪
♪ You're my sun When the clouds roll through ♪
♪ It rains love when I'm with you ♪
♪ I may not be the richest man ♪
♪ But I'm gonna give you Everything I can ♪
♪ I always try to do my best ♪
♪ When I fall short ♪
♪ I let love do the rest ♪
♪ It rains love when I'm with you ♪
♪ You're my sun When the clouds roll through ♪