It's the final game of the regular season.
East Los Angeles 49, Rio Hondo 37.
Bryant Howing of Rio Hondo,
last time, he lit up the floor for 32 points.
I'm sure Coach Mosley and the Huskies said, "That's enough."
Run, LJ, run!
Run, K!
Run, Jordan!
Run, Shaun, run!
What a historic season this has been for East Los Angeles.
KJ, so effective all season long.
This is the last game, I guess. They bringing everything they got.
Let's go, Huskies!
East Los Angeles trying to come up with victory number 27,
which would give 'em the school record for most wins in a season.
Go, KJ! Go!
To a cutting KJ.
You about to break that fuckin' basket!
- ♪ Or rather, life had me... ♪ - Highler will launch a three.
- Yes! - ♪ I was one among many ♪
♪ Or at least, I seemed to be ♪
♪ But I read an old quotation ♪
- ♪ In a book just yesterday... ♪ - Yeah, go get it, baby! There you go.
This 2020 team is already in the history books.
- ♪ You have to pay ♪ - ♪ Can you get to that? ♪
- A steal by Patterson. A three-on-one. - Run, LJ!
Good!
Sub. Timeout. Timeout.
You turn the ball over and you didn't run back?
We gonna win this game, but we talkin' about habits.
♪ I recollect with mixed emotions... ♪
Bucket and one!
And one, nigga! And one!
- ♪ You were makin' preparations... ♪ - Highler pumped up.
♪ For the comin' separation ♪
- ♪ And you blew everythin' we had... ♪ - Highler comes up with the steal.
- ♪ When you base your love on credit... ♪ - Just so aggressive this evening,
- with a near perfect display. - Oh!
- Hell, yeah, hell, yeah, Shaun. - ♪ Checks you signed with love... ♪
- He believed in it, yo! He believed in it! - ♪ Come back signed insufficient funds... ♪
There you go. Two hands, baby!
- There you go! - Come on, man!
- Good pass, good finish! - ♪ I wanna know if you can get to that ♪
♪ Can you get, can you get... ♪
- East LA in control. Dominating. - ♪ I wanna know if you can get to that ♪
♪ Can you... ♪
Twenty-one point lead.
I'm fuckin' nasty!
Oh! Oh!
- ♪ When you base your life on credit... ♪ - Damn, come on!
Dez Washington cuts to the basket assisted by Knighten.
The tomahawk jam is the nail.
East LA wins it and captures its 27th victory of the season.
East LA will make its eighth appearance into the playoffs
- for the eighth straight time. - ♪ Can you get ♪
♪ Oh, can you get to that? ♪
♪ I wanna know if you can get to that ♪
♪ Can you... ♪
Let's goooo!
Hey, all right, hey, we got...
Our... our goal is so far... you know, far ahead, we were like...
I forgot to congratulate you on the conference champion.
But, uh, congratulations.
Nah, man, I need my chips with the dip. I need my chips with the dip.
I need one of these. I need one of these.
- It's showtime. - Hey, I'mma tell you somethin'. Listen.
This is a brand-new season. Now... now, here's the thing.
We're only guaranteed one game, so you can't... don't play around no more.
I need three good days, just three good days.
And I guarantee you we'll win the state championship.
If you give me three good days,
I guarantee we'll win the state championship.
- Close that door, Coach. - You got it.
Lord, I just thank you for this wonderful opportunity.
Father God, I just pray in the name of Jesus
that no spirit can come in this group,
no spirit of selfishness, Father God,
no spirit of... of... of disappointment, oh, God.
We just pray that this group can stick together, oh, God.
Father, we pray that the roles that we have received,
Father, that we, in the name of Jesus...
Father, I plead the blood on this group right now, oh, God.
Father, I pray that your anointing
can come down and protect the minds of this group, oh, God.
Protect they hearts.
Father, we ask that you just remove
the demonic spirit that's trying to be selfish here, oh, God.
Lord, I just pray in the name of Jesus
that you come down and be with 'em, oh, God.
I pray that you remove it, oh, God.
Oh, Lord, I pray for what you tryin' to do here in the name of Jesus, oh, God.
In the name of Jesus, oh, God, I just pray that you just do it, oh, God.
Father, that as we make this run, we don't allow...
you don't allow that spirit in here.
Father, the spirit of not caring, oh, God.
Father, the spirit of... of not celebrating each other, oh, God.
So that we can go far as we can go, Father.
If it's your will, oh, Lord, I just pray that you give us that state championship.
But we pray in the midst of this run, Father,
that we do not have that spirit here, Father God.
Win or loss, oh, God.
We don't lose because of that spirit
that's trying to creep in right now, oh, God.
We just pray in the name of Jesus, I pray.
- Amen, here we go. - Amen.
Hey, I love y'all. "Family" on three.
- One, two, three. - Family.
Let's go, man.
My man gotten his Martin Luther King bag. I like that.
I'm gonna go to church Sunday!
- He got the King bag! - The demonic spirit better remove!
That demonic spirit better get outta here right now.
I plead that in the name of Jesus, we winning on the name of Jesus,
it be removed outta here, that spirit of selfishness.
Get the hell out of here!
- Get outta here, you spirit. Here we go. - Yes, sir!
- Get outta here! - Yes, sir!
Get outta here, man!
- I hate that! - We're in church right now!
I swear to God...
Now, the goal is to run everything at least twice,
and there's a cheer I need to show you guys,
so I'm gonna raise my hand and we're gonna go "Heeeey!"
Then I'm gonna... You're watching me, you're gonna go,
"Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey."
"Aaaaaah..."
"E-L-A-C, goooo Huskies!"
And then you cheer, and get excited and all that.
- Heeeeey! - Heeeey!
Okay.
You need to be louder than me.
Project, animate, let's practice.
Heeeeey!
Stop. That's what I'm talkin' about. You sound like a collegiate band.
"Hey, Baby!"
You guys know all the words?
One, two, one, two, one more time.
Yeah!
One, two, sing and...
♪ Heeeey ♪
♪ Hey, baby ♪
♪ I wanna know ♪
♪ Will you be my girl? ♪
Project.
♪ Heeeey ♪
♪ Hey, baby ♪
♪ I wanna know ♪
♪ Will you be my girl? ♪
Yeah. Spirit! Spirit, that's what we do.
We lead the spirit, the basketball team gets fired up.
Okay? One more time. Make it perfect.
One, two, one, two, party.
So did they just release the seeding?
- Yes. - Just did.
Just released it, the matchups.
When you look at it, man, dang, everybody's good, dawg.
Yeah. At this point you playin' a good team every round.
Twenty teams go into the SoCal Regional.
You got four games, which are play-in games.
East Los Angeles will have a bye.
They get a bye in the first round, and then they'll play in the second.
The top four teams who win out in the SoCal Regional
will then move on to what's called the State Championships.
It's the top four teams from the south,
meeting with the top four teams of the north.
You're facin' talent, you're facin' coachin',
and anything can happen in a one-game, um, knockout.
You know, one-game knockout, anybody can get hot.
- This is the most balanced... - Right.
- Okay. - ...I've ever seen it in 21 years.
Even as a player, I've never seen it this balanced.
This is the first time I've ever seen it, like, you really can't complain.
Our bracket is, uh...
The winner of Saddleback...
Saddleback, Antelope Valley. The winner of that game we'll play.
I know it's a slap in the face to AVC, but I'm gonna just prepare for Saddleback.
So, we got the coach's coaches in our bracket.
We the top seed and we've gotten a bye,
and we're just kind of waitin' around to play.
But I'm making the assumption that Saddleback is gonna win.
We'll probably see them this Saturday.
His thing, he just wanna beat Saddleback because that was always...
the cream of the crop.
They run a great program, they always talented
and they always seem to have had his number.
Saddleback, man, they're a big team, man, they're huge, well-coached.
In 2015, we played them in the state championship game.
This is it for all the marbles, for all of the glory,
for the state championship.
The game was... was close, I felt really good about it.
Oh, he is hammered.
I felt like we had momentum, I felt we were the aggressor.
We break, we say okay, and here we go, second half.
They walk on the court to take the ball out.
One of their players says somethin' to our point guard, Marcus,
and Marcus immediately responded
uh... like he was on the streets.
And the referees came immediately and beep, gave him a tech.
And that gave him his third foul, which put us in a tough spot.
And I looked down and I see Coach Ground and he kinda turns,
he looks, and right when I looked at him, he turned away as if...
"Whatever it takes."
I never thought I'd see somethin' like that from a Hall of Fame coach,
but I never forget, and I know it was intentionally done.
He just came with a level of gamesmanship that I just wasn't prepared for.
So, uh, that was a lesson learned.
Pandemonium now breaking out for the Saddleback College Gauchos,
they are the state champions.
It's a reward to be in the finals.
It hurts right now, but they'll look back and realize,
that, "Hey, we... we accomplished something."
We've lost in the playoffs, the last two years, off one possession.
This will do it, out of the timeout.
Oh, it's picked off... No.
Highler. To Zeigler.
For the tie. No!
Tipped out!
Number 13 SMC shocks the Huskies!
An upset.
East Los Angeles goes down...
Last year, we were expected to win state,
and to lose the very first playoff game...
was heartbreaking, embarrassing, all that.
We struggled to realize that we had to take everyone seriously.
We've been to the state championship game
and we were down to the wire, with one minute left and lost by three.
We've been to the Elite Eight, uh, two other times, other than that.
90 to 76 your final score...
ELAC goes down, the Huskies, a fantastic season,
but they fall short against one of the top teams in the state.
East LA has to show up.
And that's the most important thing. Are they gonna be mentally prepared?
And... I don't know.
It's not many people that get here
and, uh, you don't get many chances at a state title.
Sometimes people throw the word "pressure" around, and...
expectations and things like that, and...
that's how upsets occur.
But he has been upset by teams that weren't as good as them.
If Coach Mosley could pick up a championship,
he'd be forever etched in the books of East LA.
Without that state title,
he could fall into the cracks of just another coach.
You gotta have a lot of luck, you know, and things have gotta go right.
It'd be great to be playing well when it matters.
Be great to be playing well when it matters.
I'm feeling pretty good,
but I'mma leave it in the air, though.
- "I'mma leave it..." - Mm-hm.
"I'mma leave it in the air."
Mm-mm.
- What that mean? - I'm not gonna say we gonna win,
I'm not gonna say we gonna lose.
Y'all got put out in the first round.
You right, yeah.
- Down by three? - I did my thing, though. I...
- I had nine and nine coming off the bench. - You did your thing or the team thing?
I did... I did my thing.
I mean, I'm not finna...
- Nah, I don't know about that. - What do you mean?
First round ain't the best way to go out.
- Wasn't you there at the game? - Yep.
- So, what you saw? - I seen the disappointment.
- That's what I seen. - Yeah, for... Yeah, you right.
- We was disappointed. - Mm-hm.
'Cause we lost.
You want it to happen again?
No.
I'm startin', so no.
We not losin' first round, I guarantee that.
- Oooh! - Ooooh!
Ain't no... Nah! Ain't no...
Ain't no knock on wood!
- Lik... - Ain't no knock on wood, it's facts.
- You better be careful, Lik! - All right, man.
I... I'm sayin', bro, I'm not lettin' us go out like that.
So, how are you feeling?
Emotional-wise.
- Good. - Yeah?
This playoff thing needs to...
- I'mma just feel better when we win state. - Mm-hm.
I'll feel a lot better after we win state.
I know.
Last couple of days, I just see you, like, kinda zoned out. Like, are you good?
- Thinkin' about the game. - Tryin' to win state.
- Okay. - In the words of Mosley,
- "You gotta win it forever." - Mm-hm.
- You gotta win it forever, dude. - That's right.
- Are you ready? - I been ready, man. Since Santa Monica.
You know what really be getting me?
- What? - When coach be sayin',
"You had a chance to win."
'Cause, remember, L missed the last shot,
- but I missed the shot before that. - Before that.
Okay, I remember that. Mm-hm.
Since this time last year, that shit be eatin' me alive.
I know.
So, we gotta rally and get everybody...
like, you know, 'cause dudes is... dudes is tappin' out.
You in the best... we in the best position of our life,
dudes is tappin' out, they "can't make it in," you know what I'm sayin'?
Tappin' out at the wrong time. The finish is right there.
That's why there's only one state champion.
- But you can't get... - I gotta...
I gotta pick up all that up when it's game time.
- Yeah. - Like, yeah, so...
Yeah. You gotta do that as a alpha, as a...
Yeah.
You gotta stay... I mean, that's hard. Being... being the leader is hard.
- Everybody say the leaders are jerks. - I know, I know.
- I know. - The leaders are jerks, bro.
I know. Don't nobody like me.
Like, dude, I'm really...
I'm like a... I'm, like, a fun g...
I'm a cool dude.
- But, dude, I gotta be... - You trying to convince me?
Yeah, I'm trying to convince you. I'm really a good dude.
- Like, I'm fun. You really... - "I'm a fun guy"?
- Like, you would wanna kick it with me. - I doubt it.
No, I'm dead serious, bro.
- Right. - If I wasn't your head coach,
- you would wanna kick it with me, dawg. - All right.
But I gotta be, like... I gotta be the one to try to set the standard
and poke and get people to respond, so...
Oh, well, I just take that...
When I was an assistant coach, I was the coolest mug in the world.
- But now I'm a head coach, I gotta be... - You gotta be mean.
You gotta be mean, you gotta set a standard, you gotta switch it up.
- You gotta keep everybody sharp. - Yeah, I feel you.
- You don't understand how hard it is! - So...
I gotta be the one that's... I gotta be the bad guy, I mean, you know?
We'll have moments where we get tested,
especially about refs and shit.
Like he's saying, we're gonna get Orange County refs.
We're not about to go home over some refs, nigga.
- I thought you'd say that. - Period. Period.
So, we gotta play through all that. All right? So just... Yeah.
Whatever they on is whatever they on. We gotta play through that shit.
I ain't tryin' to be sittin' on the couch, talkin' about,
- "We would've won if the refs wasn't..." - Yeah.
- You know what I mean? Fuck that. - You know what time it is, right?
It's playoffs!
Yeah, I like it better when you say it, bro.
Playoffs!
Yeah, hey, turn it up, coach!
That's how we slam.
- Whoo! - Come on, come on!
- Yeah! - Let's go, let's do it!
- Let's go! - Do it!
- Ten jump shots. - Let's have a good day, man.
Come on. Pull up like you mean it.
Gotta be explosive, K.
- Explode up. Good. - Oh! Aah!
- Come on, Quis, come on. Keep goin'. - Oh!
- Keep goin'! - Oh! I missed that one.
Yeah.
Fellas. We gotta get over makin' a mistake and then goin' like this.
- Right. - Aah...
I don't know what y'all think is goin' on, but it's one game and done.
You make a mistake and go like that in a close game, then we goin' home.
Here we go.
- Good, Mark. - Free throw line rebound!
Rebound!
Hold it! I need more rebounders!
I need you to rebound.
Need you to rebound. Need you to rebound.
He's in there by himself. I need you to rebound.
Not freakin' float out on the perimeter.
Nobody wanna play, man.
Freakin' leave if you don't wanna play,
if you don't wanna play or practice, just freakin' leave.
Off the line, get off and up the line. Don't let him catch you.
- Help side! - Get around. Get around.
- Get around, don't let him catch you. - Come on!
Don't let him catch you.
What the fuck? I'm right here, man.
Niggas can't throw the ball in the post, bro?
Check!
- Right, right... - Don't let it... Get around!
Get around, Malik! That's it. Pass it up.
- It's gonna be a foul! Gonna be a foul. - He held the seal.
- He sealed you, that's what he did. - He did.
He's just better at sealin'.
- You couldn't get around him? - I couldn't. He did a good seal.
- He's better than you. Okay. - He ain't better...
White ball. White ball. White ball! He's better than you.
He can hold you, you can't get around, he's better.
- He did a good move. - Great.
- He had a good position. - Good job, man.
- Good job, Joe. - You got the ball, got the foul.
- Free throws. - Ain't no foul.
- That is a foul. - They're not calling that.
- That's a foul. - It's not a foul.
That's a foul! You hit him from behind, that's a foul.
- It's not. - Just hoop, Lik!
I'm good, I'm good. Don't worry about me. I'm good.
Let's lock in, let's lock in. Come on.
Throw the ball. Your ball.
Set! Set! Set! Set!
- That's it! - Yeah, man.
Fuckin' turn the ball over every fuckin' play. What the fuck is that, bro?
Hey.
Let's go. Hey. Let's go. We got guys not...
Let's just go home. If that's what y'all wanna do.
No, let's play.
No, hell, no. Hell, no.
Y'all ain't trying to... You're not...
We got state championship, uh, Saturday.
- We ain't gonna practice? - Guys wanna quit?
Ain't no sense in wastin' time.
Regroup.
We wanna quit? No, no, no. No, no.
Since we wanna quit, we wanna quit. Ain't no sense in wastin' time.
Let's just all quit.
I'm not gonna waste time. Let's quit early.
Let's quit on the play early. Nobody wanna be here.
Balls up, man, balls up! Balls up! Put the balls up. All the balls up!
If y'all want it to be over, it can be over. Let's go.
You want it to be over? That's how it's gonna feel!
It's just gonna be over!
- It's just gonna be over just like that! - You're not the boss.
It's gonna be over just like that!
Just like that!
Somebody pout and it's over!
Somebody pout and it's over just like that!
Over! It's over!
One pout and it's frickin' over!
One pout and it's over!
One pout and it's over. It's over just like that!
Put the balls here, man.
Get the hell out of here, man. Man, put the balls down.
You ain't finna shoot nothing. Give me the balls.
Ain't nobody shootin' nothing. Put these balls up.
- We outta here. You go, we go. - No...
We ain't doin' nothin'.
- It's over. - It's over. It's all over.
It's over.
I'm not wasting this time.
It's over, go home! Go home, dawg.
Do what y'all gotta do. Whatever you need to do, go do it.
Go do what you gotta do. Freakin' wasting time, niggas quittin'.
We got one game to play.
Get up outta here, man.
Trippin', cuz, straight up.
Don't have time for this. A good position.
Trippin'. Let's go.
Let's go.
Nothin'. Shut it down.
Let's go!
Everybody walkin' around, nobody wanna play.
Everybody wanna pout.
- No! You ain't in there. - I was opening the door for you!
You ain't in there.
Yeah, that's funny. We'll see how funny it is when you get what you need to get.
What the fuck?
Who quit? I didn't see no one quit. He saying niggas quit.
Everybody throwing the ball all over the place, nigga.
Ain't nobody guardin' each other, nigga, like, it's just bullshit out there, nigga.
- Yeah... - Just a bunch of bullshit.
Just a little practice turnover.
We couldn't get up and down the court twice without a turnover.
And we supposed to win state?
Come on, bro.
Let's go the fuck home.
Who the fuck... who the fuck are we kiddin'?
He kicked us out of the gym, like, come on, now.
'Cause we ain't in this motherfucker doin' shit. That's why.
We're gettin' worse.
Playin' pick-up ball, gettin' ready for state playoffs, bro.
Nigga, take what he's sayin' seriously for once.
Damn, man.
I think he's nervous.
'Cause he's never won state before.
And I think that, uh...
I think... I think that he thinks that this is his best chance to do it.
To him, if we lose, it will be the end of the world.
He want the best opportunities for those kids,
and he know in order for those kids to have those opportunities,
they gotta make it to a certain level.
I get the message that he's trying to deliver.
And the message is
that one player quittin' can cost you the game.
He's thinkin' about, because you didn't perform a detail,
or because this player may come to the game with a attitude,
and F the spirit of the team up, we lose.
I don't think the players understand
the intensity of basketball at this time.
Yes, we... we are good, but we have a target on our back,
and every team who...
has made it into the playoffs is just as good.
And I don't know if they're too young or if they've never been in this situation,
but I don't think they understand that come Saturday,
they've gotta go out with an intensity and with a drive to win.
It's kind of a awkward week, 'cause you have a week of practice and preparation.
We played Saturday and we don't play again until next Saturday.
And in March, nobody wants to practice in March.
Like, the players don't wanna practice, the coaches don't wanna practice.
Nobody, we just wanna play.
This whole lull this week, man, it makes it tough, so...
it's gonna be pullin' teeth.
So, it's a psychological game this week, man, trying to figure out
how to keep 'em engaged as we go through the week here.
So, I think we had two good days of practice.
I think Sunday and Monday was good. Although I kicked 'em out yesterday.
I was, like, man, I just... I just kicked 'em out before anything else...
negative went bad.
I thought we had a good enough practice.
It'll play an advantage, I think. They...
They probably think that, you know...
I really wanted to be done with practice anyway, so it was a good way to be done.
Maybe they'll come with a little more focus today.
No, today gotta be a good, clean day, nigga.
- Man. - A straight compete day.
Nah, I'm sayin' a good clean day as far as competin'...
- Oh, yeah. - You know what I'm sayin'?
- Yeah. - This is the last day we can go hard.
We just gotta treat it like it's playoffs this time.
You feel me?
Come on, Joe.
Guard that, Quis. We got it.
Get up! Get up!
Uh-oh.
- No fouling! No fouling! - Be high, be high!
Uh-oh.
Good pass, good pass.
Rebound!
Rebound, rebound.
You have to be right there.
So you can be a pest and be low, and get 'em on the dribble.
- On that first dribble? - Yeah.
'Cause once he pick it up and got his forearm,
you ain't fucking with nobody's forearms.
- You feel me? - Yeah.
If you get him there, he's in a...
- Terrible. - It's a whole different world.
It's a whole different world for him.
You want the shot. You want the shot, nigga.
Feel what I'm saying?
You give it back to the guard, so you can get that shot.
You don't wanna run it so he get the shot.
They got 6'9", 6'9", 6'10", 7 foot, 6'6".
You got that?
6'9", 6'9", 6'10", 7 foot.
And I don't care who you guardin', KJ, I don't care how much better you are,
you a high major to me,
that dude get the ball here and go like this,
and go like this...
The officials... Brrr! Foul.
All right, so what's the best defense, Coach?
Deny the ball.
They going... They can beat us.
But if we just do our thing, it's not even...
We... we good.
All right? We good.
Good responses, Joe.
I guarantee you.
I 100% guarant... 199% guarantee...
- Ooh, that's a lot. - ...he is coming.
That is a part of the scouting report.
- We're gonna get him out of the game. - Yeah.
That is in the scouting report. That's how he rocks.
- That's how he rocks. - You'll get all the dirty treatment.
Treatment. Them fools is comin' at you like this.
- Pow! - Oh!
- Free throw line stuff. - Oh! Damn.
- He's gonna go for the... - Come on...
No, I'm just sayin'.
- You gonna get undercutted all game. - Undercut.
- They not gonna say nothing. - They gonna...
They gonna bring somebody in, right?
So there.
If the window of opportunity is open, you gotta get it done.
You can still win it.
You're going to win it, if you just do those things.
If you don't like nothin' that... that I did,
if you don't like nothin' about me,
or if you don't like nothin' about this program,
the bottom line is y'all still are gonna win a championship
if you just do all of the things that we've done, together.
It's a guarantee. "Family" on three.
- One, two, three. - Family.
Here we go.
Game over, bro, 'cause when we start playing good teams...
That's the thing, when we play good teams,
and we play, like, actually like a better team...
- We play down to they level. - Oh, yes.
We gotta start punchin' niggas in the mouth.
I was talking to Coach Rob about it. He made a good point.
He said the first two games of the playoffs is gonna be our scariest games.
Hey. Let's be dressed and in there early.
They're settin' up right now, do not be late.
Hey, don't bring... Don't bring your phones in there, don't disrespect the dude.
Make sure we get dressed and put some... Them shorts suck, wear somethin' else.
He talking about your shorts suck!
These are Juice All-Stars, what are you talkin' about?
So, listen, we only... it's three weeks.
It's tomorrow, next Saturday, the next weekend.
State championship. That's all we gotta do to be focused.
All right? If... if somethin' goes the opposite direction,
let it not be because you ain't focused.
Let it be my fault. All right?
I'm not offendin' nobody in here. Tryin' to offend nobody.
But don't program yourself to think that you gotta take
the step-back James Harden fadeaway,
have a 45-point game for your dream to happen.
As much attention as he wanted and to be the guy,
I forgot what series it was when Kobe was stinkin', just broke,
and he just was just thinking rebounding and...
- Game seven? - He... Huh?
Game seven?
What game was that?
Celtics.
- Celtics! - Yeah.
And that fool, yeah, he was a narcissist, he needed attention.
He needed to be the guy to win the game.
But he actually knew that this is not my night.
The only way you win these games is self-sacrificial, bro.
It's sacrificin' me.
All the stats, all that, it's over, man.
The only thing we got left to do is to freakin' win the whole thing. That's it.
Okay? And I'm prayin', boy, I got family praying.
They was on the prayer line, just prayin' on Monday, like, yeah...
In the name of Jesus, I got family praying for y'all.
Everybody rooting for y'all, but guess what.
In case y'all need it, there's some people hatin' big time.
Well, there's people hatin' on this campus.
You are frickin' African-Americans,
plus Mark.
You know what I'm saying?
Which, I'm rockin' with Mark 'cause Mark is rockin' with us.
Let me tell you somethin'. Mark is rock. Mark rocked for three years.
The sacrifice he makin', this dude is catchin' the train
- and he rockin' with us. - That's Jon B.
- He's Jon B. - Jon B. Rock.
I'm gonna tell you somethin', this is by far my best year. Ever.
My favorite group to coach, by far.
I... I honestly do not want this to end.
I don't want it to end at all.
We can't let any spirit come in here, of selfishness or anything to end it.
♪ Yo ♪
♪ Nothin' in the world makes me sadder Than to see a lonely person ♪
Yeah.
♪ 'Cause with all the poverty Heartbreaks and heartaches ♪
♪ Ups and downs and phony smiles And interviewers frownin'... ♪
It's gonna be a snake draft.
With the first pick in the draft,
I'm taking Taj.
Oh, that, yes. I'm takin' Mark. And Joe.
- You got Mark? - I have Mark.
- Who you got? - I got K.
- I got KJ. - You got KJ?
- Yeah. - Okay, you ain't trying to win.
♪ Get into the party life ♪
♪ If you're feelin' low ♪
- ♪ We got the place... ♪ - Thief. You had Malik.
We bowlin' as a... That's... that's good!
♪ Oh ♪
♪ I like the party life ♪
♪ The big city... ♪
- Fuck! - Falcon!
That's on me. That's on me.
♪ Lovers gettin' it on... ♪
- There it is! - Yes, sir!
- We really do this shit over here. - Gary.
Did you just see that shit?
♪ Send your lovin' whenever you please... ♪
Ah! Fuck!
Oh, yeah, Mark!
MVP, rookie of the year! That's all I gotta say!
This shit matters. Oh, shit.
- Oh, shit, Scoot! - Strike!
♪ Do your thing for enjoying your thing... ♪
This nigga got a strike, dawg.
Excellent!
- X-factor! - Oh!
Done that ass again!
♪ Get into the party life ♪
♪ Oh, I like the party life... ♪
I'm feeling pretty good about 'em, man. I like the group.
Every team's different, so this is a different group than I've had before.
It's kinda hard to...
be a drill sergeant right now.
It's just a different group, it's a different generation.
Knock his ass out!
I'm hoping all the habits that we built will show up.
It's happened in the past, where we get a little sloppy.
But if you've got a group of guys that are competitive and winners,
then all the habits, they'll kick in.
Oh!
Oooh.
♪ Get into the party life... ♪
My bad. I missed that thing.
♪ Come on and get into the party life... ♪
Right now, it's just keeping these kids
where they're feeling good about goin' into this last stretch, and...
keepin' 'em believin' that they... they gonna win.
Everything wrong could happen.
I mean, you can be late on the bus, awful officiating, shots not goin' in.
Just still get nervous about all the other variables, man, that...
that can distract 'em, that can...
just knock 'em out of that good mood or whatever, you know?
So, we'll see.
♪ Doo, doo, doo ♪
♪ Whoo-hoo-hoo ♪
- ♪ Come on, y'all... ♪ - Oh, they're legit. Mine are good.
♪ Why don't y'all just come on Just sing? ♪
♪ Clap your hands ♪
♪ Just let me know how you feel ♪
♪ Get into the party life ♪
You guys gotta listen for my call. All right? It's a chess match tonight.
So, whatever I'm callin', you guys gotta be on point, ready.
You gotta be sharp and you gotta be ready to go.
This is it!
Five more games. One, two, three, four, five.
Five more times that you leave it all out there and then that's it.
All right? Let's make sure we go out here,
let's shut these dudes down, here we go.
Let's go, let's go.
- Come on! - Let's go, man, let's do it!
Let's hear it! Let's go!
Hey, whatever happens, man,
I love y'all, it's been a hell of a season, let's have some fun.
- "Family" on three, one, two, three. - Family.
♪ Dirty soda in a styrofoam ♪
♪ Spend a day to get my mind blown ♪
♪ Dress it up and go to Nassau ♪
♪ 200 miles on the dash ♪
♪ Gotta roll a pound up and gas it ♪
- ♪ Switchin' lanes in a Grand Rapid ♪ - ♪ Rapid ♪
♪ We the ones that kept it cool With all these niggas ♪
♪ Till these niggas start actin' ♪
♪ Shoot a nigga like a film in a movie Nigga, gone let 'em have it ♪
♪ We ballin' like the March Madness I was caught shootin'... ♪
Hello, and welcome, Husky fans, to Monterey Park, California,
inside the E-Rena.
It's playoff time across California at the junior college level.
East LA trying to do what it has not been able to do over the last two seasons...
♪ Take you out for some Jordans... ♪
That's move on to the next round.
ELAC comes into the playoffs with a 27 and one record.
This season has truly been magical.
♪ Can't touch me, apply the pressure... ♪
This is officially the greatest team in ELAC history.
But the whole season is at risk.
It could be one and done for East LA.
Lose tonight, and you're out.
Saddleback Gauchos here in the house, inside the E-Rena.
Whoever advances out of this game
will advance into the Sweet 16 to take on the Bulldogs of Allan Hancock.
- Oh! - Wait for the clock.
- You got me excited. - I'm excited too, come on!
And Muhammad wins the tip-off, and it's round two,
fight of the SoCal Regional.
Zeigler will hand off to Highler.
- Back outside to Zeigler. - Shoot it!
Zeigler with two seconds will launch a three.
Splashes it!
And East LA will open up the scoreboard, three to zero.
Defense! Defense!
Come on, come on!
Defense! Defense!
East Los Angeles comes into this one one and four all-time against Saddleback.
Cut! Cutters, cut. Cut!
Skip pass, they swing it to Polynice for three.
No.
East LA comin' out a little lethargic.
- Lacking that intensity. - Come on, Shaun.
Lipovic from the baseline.
The Gauchos currently lead four to three.
Stop playing behind him!
- And a foul instantly on Allen. - Come on, KJ.
That foul's gonna hurt us about three minutes from now.
Defense! Defense!
Malik Muhammad with the block, no.
- Hey, Jay. - And a foul on the floor.
That's two on KJ.
The sportsnetusa.net Sixth Man of the Year,
Joseph Hampton checks in.
- Hey, big fella. - Let's go.
Yo, one shot!
So, a back-and-forth affair this evening
between Saddleback and number two, East LA.
- Some help! - Back to Hampton.
The give and go, no. The putback, no.
East LA can't fight inside.
The first time this year where the opposing team is just bigger than East LA.
Captain Whitlock, left angle drive to a cutting Waikle.
Easy layup right in front of the rim.
Hey!
Hampton, just too strong.
You might be the one too little, big fella.
A near steal... it is a steal.
Hampton into the front court to Regans, to a cutting Marquis.
Gets it done on the right side, and look at Hampton,
the emotional spark.
That's what we do! Yeah, that's what we do!
Three seconds on the ticker, he'll have to launch it now.
Saddleback has no idea about the clock.
East LA in the lead.
As Saddleback will try to regroup.
We cannot let them get offensive rebounds.
They scorin' off offensive rebounds.
Keep pressin' the tempo. Keep pressurin' without foulin'.
Zeigler, for three!
Nothin' but net.
Three ball in! Three ball in, boy!
Polynice rattles one home.
Good shot.
- Substitution comin' in. - You big fella.
- Hey, Lik! Lik! You get 21. - Make your way.
Yeah, hey, let's fucking go, man. Let's fucking go.
Motion! Motion!
Go! Motion!
Smith.
Gets ripped, but Marquis there to recover.
Inside it's Muhammad with a two-hand flush,
back door open there for East Los Angeles.
65 seconds to go in this first half.
Regans for three. Nothin' but net.
Momentum.
And a foul on Saddleback.
- No, actually, on Allen. - Offensive foul!
- Offensive foul is called. - Oh, no! What? No way! No way!
No! No, come on, man! Man... Wait, come on, dawg!
- Yeah. - Trippin', man. Trying to change the game?
- Allen will sit down and so will Hampton. - What you doin' tryin' to change the game?
Defense! Defense!
Muhammad with the block!
Throws it up, nearly falls in the corner.
But East Los Angeles will go to the locker room
- with a 38 to 24 lead. - You call...
Did you call the offensive foul?
- You call the offensive foul? - I told you...
- That's one, man. - Hey...
You trying to change the ga... Come on, man.
John. I'll talk. John. John, what do you need?
He just ducked in. That wasn't an offensive foul.
- We'll talk... - But it's the game.
- We'll talk it out after the half, John. - Hey!
That's a SCC player and you callin' that crap.
- John, we'll talk after the half. - He was recruited by the SCC.
That's wrong, man.
Hey, hey... Hey. First and foremost, hey, that's a damn good half.
- Yeah. - Right? That's... that's a damn good half.
Damn good half.
That's a damn good half.
We gotta keep playin' with the same amount of energy.
That's bull, man. You go in and destroy 'em next time.
- That's bull on that foul. - Yeah.
Don't even worry about it, everybody got each other back.
Your job tonight is to guard and to hoop.
Just make sure we continue to do it. Let's take it out there, here we go.
Everybody gotta get on the glass. "Family" on three, stay together.
- "Family" on three, one, two, three. - Family!
The start of the second half,
East Los Angeles holding on to a 38 to 24 lead.
Zeigler for three, rims out.
Joe Hampton there, able to finish?
No.
Joe.
Muhammad able to contest there.
Hey!
Whistle on the floor, and it'll be Highler who is charged.
Oh, they called it... What the heck?
He didn't have his dribble!
We can wall up if he ain't got his dribble.
You gotta know the rules.
You could still see Coach Mosley,
still giving an earful to the officiating crew.
I talked to Coach Ken Hunter at halftime, and he said the only reason
the Gauchos are still in it is because of the officiating.
Defense wide. Don't stop guarding.
- Watch the line! - Don't stop guardin'!
Low post to Cummins. Rejected by Hampton.
- Hampton, look at him. - Get back! Get back!
Come on, Joe! Lik, the trail, look.
Move in! Move in! Move in!
- Come on! - Zeigler, left angle drive.
Kicks out to Hampton.
Yes!
Hampton has been the emotional spark all game long.
Dial, tries to get it to the corner, and a foul.
- What? - On Hampton.
Bro!
He just called a foul on me.
So, you're not gonna check that man? You're gonna let this man keep lyin'?
Fuckin' weak, dawg. It's fuckin' weak.
Fuck.
- Muhammad will... - Shit, bro.
Let's go, Malik!
- Why these refs so weak? - Joe, we good.
- So weak. - Stay in your bag. Stay in your bag.
Fuck!
- 11:55 to go. - Set, set, set.
- KJ. - What? Hey!
Last touched by Muhammad.
- Can we get the foul? - Hey!
He hit him on the arm!
Number one field goal percentage guy in the state
and you mean to tell me he's not gettin' hit?
It's okay, KJ, you've just gotta go dunk that.
Defense! Defense!
Defense!
Back to Williams for three.
Rims out. KJ can't control it.
Damn, KJ.
And KJ has been off rhythm all game long.
Shooter, Simaine. That's the one shooter.
That's the shooter. Shooter!
- Baseline drive. - Yeah, Simaine.
- Travel! - Travel!
Back door left wide open.
- Travel! - That's a travel! Come on!
Low post, KJ. KJ.
Off the body of George, can't make it.
- Get back. Get back, KJ! - You can see the body language on Allen,
it's not as enthusiastic as he tends to be.
Waikle now in a corner. Overhead pass to Williams.
Williams. Scoop shot.
- Drained in. - Two down! Two down!
KJ. Right elbow. Against Waikle. Spins.
Pumps and Shirley there to defend him.
They hacked the shit outta him.
They hacked the shit out of him before that.
KJ has been held to four points only.
And it's been back and forth in this second half.
The screen by Shirley, the switch off, Muhammad, the kick out.
Waikle. Three, yes.
Hey, timeout! Timeout, timeout.
Timeout! Timeout, Shaun! Call a timeout.
East LA 51, Gauchos 40.
Listen. The death of us is givin' 'em offensive rebounds.
It'll be the death of us if five guys don't go to the defensive glass
and we keep givin' up offensive rebounds.
East LA holding on to a thin 11-point lead
as the Gauchos have been chopping wood here.
Backing down Highler.
Fadeaway shot, short.
Rebound the fuckin' ball.
Another opportunity for Saddleback.
So, this is exactly how you get back into it.
Waikle drives.
Yeah!
Allen there to defend, gets two blocks there.
- Hell, no! - Yeah, K!
- Don't turn away. - Yeah, K!
Cool, LJ!
Hampton, low post. KJ slams it home.
Alley-oop slam! KJ Allen brings it down!
And brings everybody to their feet. 2:18 to go.
That's what I'm talkin' about! That's what I'm talkin' about!
Waikle gets the ball stolen by KJ.
KJ finally makin' an appearance, late in the second half.
Go! Go!
To KJ.
KJ brings it down on the baseline, once again, the two-hand hammer.
♪ Hey, hey, let's talk about The distractions goin' on elsewhere ♪
♪ I keep hearin' footsteps, baby ♪
♪ In the dark ♪
♪ Oh, in the dark ♪
♪ Why... ♪
That will do it.
The win streak continues for East LA, up to 24 games in a row.
♪ Oh, in the dark... ♪
Ohhhh!
Hey, put y'all fours up, we got four more, put y'all fours up, nigga!
East LA moves to 28 and one,
and will move on to the Sweet 16.
♪ My mind drifts now and then ♪
♪ Lookin' down dark corridors ♪
♪ And wonders what might have been ♪
♪ Something's up ahead ♪
♪ Hey, should I keep this same direction ♪
♪ Or go back instead? ♪
♪ I, I keep hearin' footsteps, baby ♪
- ♪ Yeah ♪ - ♪ In the dark ♪
- ♪ Dark ♪ - ♪ Oh, in the dark ♪
♪ Why? ♪
♪ I keep hearin' footsteps, baby ♪
- ♪ In the dark ♪ - ♪ In the dark ♪
♪ Oh, in the dark ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ Honey, now let's stop walkin' around ♪
♪ When there's love lost to be found ♪
♪ Oh, and you know I still care I still care ♪