Al, a basketball coach at a New Orleans high school, finally has a winning team when Hurricane Katrina happens. He tries to build a winning team anew after the hurricane.Al, a basketball coach at a New Orleans high school, finally has a winning team when Hurricane Katrina happens. He tries to build a winning team anew after the hurricane.Al, a basketball coach at a New Orleans high school, finally has a winning team when Hurricane Katrina happens. He tries to build a winning team anew after the hurricane.
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- TriviaWas filmed April-June 2008 in New Orleans, Louisiana, and was set to be theatrically released in early 2009, but due to the financial troubles of the Weinstein Company, it saw a straight-to-DVD release on February 9, 2010.
- GoofsDuring the first few plays of the State Championship, one of the Patriots passes is stolen and taken down the court. The player with the ball then lobs the ball to a player wearing a #22 jersey, who then dunks it. When the camera zooms in on the player the jersey number has changed to #21.
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Al Collins: Most of y'all have played for me before, so you know I don't claim to be some basketball guru. My playbook is downright simple; only five set offensive plays. Five. Now believe it or not, we can go all the way with just those five plays. We're gonna practice those plays 1000 times. We're gonna practice 'em, till they are part of your... your DNA. All you boys need are three things: One, execution. Two, cohesiveness, which is just another fancy word for teamwork. You must learn to act as one unit on both ends of the court. One finger can't pick up a pebble. But one hand... can move the Earth. Three, effort. You must bring it to every practice. You must bring it to every moment, to every second of every game. You leave that out there on that hard wood, and win or lose, you will never have to look in the mirror and wonder "Did I do enough?" We could have ourselves a great year fellas. A great year. But it all starts right here and right now.
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Written by Juette Raphael Bush, Gerard Bauer and Thomas David Iglesias Jr.
Performed by Sir Juette
Courtesy of Black Sand Music
At one point Coach Al tried to shame his best player out of transferring to a better school where he'd have a better opportunity to get recruited. He tried to persuade the boy's father by using lines like, "Is that what you want to teach your son, to run when things get tough?" as if pursuing a scholarship to college was some how less noble than playing basketball for him.
After failing at that weak Jedi mind trick he went to another player and shamed him by saying "Don't take the easy way out," and other lame lines as though leaving was a shameful thing. I wonder about all of those people who relocated and what message this movie is sending to them? You guys are soft. You're traitors. You're weak.
This whole movie was a sham. It was yet another movie showing that the only way out of a bad situation for young Black men is sports. But it wasn't just that. This movie barely showed the deplorable state of things in New Orleans. It was as if as long as there was Patriots basketball then everything was right with New Orleans.
This was no "Coach Carter," or "Glory Road" for that matter, even though it featured angry players and a yelling coach. This movie resembled your traditional against-all-odds sports movie, but it was only a superficial resemblance. Where it counted this movie was vacant. I don't want to make it seem like I'm denigrating the team, or the city of New Orleans by extension (maybe Coach Al a bit), but this movie was just a carbon copy of sports movies past.
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- $15,000,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 42 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1
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