Last Chance U: Basketball (2021–…): Season 1, Episode 4 - In My Father's House - full transcript
And hopefully, the world can see
the Christ in us.
And I know that Deacon Mosley
is bearing God's cross,
coaching over at East LA.
So that those young men,
let them see the Christ in Deacon Mosley.
Our church is a small church,
small congregation.
You know, 20, 30.
I was about five, six years old
when, uh, my parents visited the church.
Through high school,
I was considered a part-time Christian.
Kind of like, come to church,
but I just really wasn't committed.
...see if God's work...
God, he strategically designed
this plan for my life
that really, it had nothing
to do with me, the choice.
I think God, he...
he made the choice for me.
♪ Thank you, Lord ♪
♪ I just want ♪
♪ To thank you, Lord ♪
I don't know about you,
but God has truly protected me.
He's given me a great family
and I thank God for that
and that's what I came to do today,
is to tell the truth about
who he is today.
- Amen? Amen.
- Yes, Lord. Amen.
I don't know if you know the truth.
But I'mma tell you the truth
about him today.
- Amen?
- All right!
Hopefully, amen,
we can tell the truth through our spirit,
- the way he lives through us, amen?
- Yes!
I've been to big churches, mega churches,
and we don't have any funding here.
I mean, there's no salaries for any of
those who are working here at the church.
There's just those
who are here to minister.
So, in Luke, Chapter 17,
so it was impossible that no offenses
should come.
What does that mean?
People are gonna offend you.
Maybe somebody stepped on
your new Jordans, Dante.
You get brand-new white on whites,
Mauricey.
Then you got some girl,
you know she don't like you.
"Excuse me?"
What's gonna happen?
I'm just gonna be like, "You know
you stepped on my shoe, right?"
- I'll probably try to step on their shoe.
- You...
- Hey...
- Wait, wait.
Hold up, you'd probably try
to step on hers now, right?
But what is it saying?
What does Jesus say? He says "Take..."
- "Take..."
- That I shouldn't do that.
"Take heed."
Before Christ,
I was pretty arrogant.
I thought I was God's gift to the world.
I mean, I just was a little arrogant kid.
I got through high school,
I went to East LA College.
All-State honorable mention. Got recruited
by San Diego State, San Jose State.
The Master's College recruited me
and I'm thinking, "I'm not going there,
I'm going Division I.
I'm this, you know, great athlete."
I had a summer class to finish,
and I didn't get it done.
Okay, you can't go Division I,
I'll go to this Master's College,
it's this Christian college.
Ultimately, that's where God wanted me.
There's nothin' I can do about it.
I was in college, and there was
this missions trip to go to Brazil.
There's no television programs in English.
I can't speak the language.
All I brought was... really, to read
was my Bible and my devotion book.
Then I became more convicted because
I started to know who he truly was.
We were playing exhibition games and,
at halftime, we would share our faith.
And I was speaking to people
that looked like me.
People that came
from the same background.
Kids had no shoes and
all I can think about is,
"Those kids look like the kids back home."
I'm sittin' here, like,
"What am I doin', thousands of miles away,
and literally down the street
from where I live
in South Central, it's the same kid?"
I went back, and I started a group
called Saved Through Hoops.
I had no intentions of being a coach.
I just said, "Hey, I wanna
bring kids in and minister."
And I kind of realized that I can do both.
We were ministerin'
while we were coachin',
and I kind of fell in love with that.
It's his ministry,
to those young men.
That sometimes people kick you to the curb
in the world, they don't care about you.
Think about
the African-American young men,
the minority,
sometimes they don't care about 'em.
Act like they do, but they kick 'em to the
curb and show 'em in a negative light.
But then here he is over here,
allowing these kids to be successful,
get their education,
go on to a four-year university,
you know, do something...
contribute to society in a positive way.
He prays for me.
Legit, like, there's only two people
that I know that pray for me.
That's my mom and my grandmother.
If I needed to come
to speak with him right now,
he would be there.
Like, he's up right now, like, waiting
for a phone call if I... if need be.
Everybody's not gonna know God.
I know it's a state-run program.
I don't speak out of line.
But there is also
that time when I feel led
to share with somebody who's suffering.
- You need Jesus.
- You gonna say a prayer for me?
I got you, dawg.
Lord, in the name of Jesus, help this man.
Get him right, Lord.
And take away this headache.
I don't mind,
'cause he's a preacher.
He's gonna preach, so...
you gotta just let him preach,
But, uh... I mean, it... it doesn't
really have any influence on me.
They don't have to believe
what I believe,
but I wanna make sure that if they do
what they're supposed to do,
the Lord will bless each and every one
of these young men
who made a reasonable commitment.
And that doesn't mean we win games.
But success is,
are these kids getting the conviction
in their heart to do better?
A nigga get into some paper
and his bitch back.
Why you gotta cuss, bro?
Oh, it was a song.
How dare you, Malik?
You need to repent, right now.
I ain't gonna say nothing, but when
you wanna talk 'bout "my B" and "my ho,"
then I got somethin' for you.
John is very cognizant
of his language.
I don't know how he does it, but...
he doesn't cuss
when he's yellin' and acting crazy.
But the way he says it,
you'd have swore he just is anyway.
That's how we should freakin' score!
Nine, ten, 11, 12 times in a row.
He's goin' off, and it sounds like
he's just cussing somebody out, you know?
But it's not.
And that joker is gettin' jacked.
He comes at you so hard and so real,
but, um... he uses his adjectives wisely.
Only thing you didn't do is dunk it.
You tapped that mug like a mug.
As fiery as he is,
he just says it in a different way.
That little mug gettin' to the basket.
He a strong little... firecracker.
- He want to say "little nigga."
- He's random as hell.
- If you no...
- "Strong little firecracker."
Strong little firecracker.
"He's a cold sucker. He's a cold sucker."
This program, I believe,
is covered by God's grace.
And if I'm obedient, as a coach,
if I'm obedient,
then the program is gonna be
covered by his grace.
That's why the program
continues to have success.
It's not me. It's not my coaching.
It's the obedience.
♪ Yes, God is real ♪
- ♪ I know him ♪
- ♪ Real in my soul ♪
- ♪ What? ♪
- ♪Yes, God is real ♪
- ♪ Oh, yes he is ♪
- ♪ Real in my soul ♪
♪ Whoa ♪
What's goin' on?
Give it to Mark. Give it to Mark!
Rip! Rip! Rip!
Hurry up! Good. Good. Cut!
- Good.
- Got that. Sprint there. Help him.
Help him.
- Pick up, Joe.
- Close out on that.
Keep him in front.
Why you shoot a three, bro?
- No, no, no. Come on!
- Take that... Get there, Shaun.
- Give me the ball, I'll go to him.
- That's what I'm saying.
That's what I wanted.
When I said "that way," I meant that way.
If Joe and Shaun
have the right attitude,
I can't see a scenario
where somebody could beat us.
The fear is that one of those guys
has three bad games in a row right now.
We fear that. That's a step backwards.
Stop, stop. All right?
If your top two guys
emotionally can be there,
then I have no doubt
we'll win the State Championship.
But if Deshaun or Joe kinda disappears,
then it could be tough.
Fuck.
Right now, we're really
focusing in on, where's your mind?
Where's your focus? Where's your poise?
Where's your attitude?
- Fuck, bro.
- Don't stop, don't stop.
Damn, we're gonna keep
losing the ball to that shit.
Deshaun is definitely the barometer.
If you go back and look at all of
Deshaun's good games,
I bet we played really well.
You see Deshaun play well,
low turnovers, 20 points,
high shooting percentage, great defense.
Encouraging his team, like, all that.
When he does that,
it brings it all together.
It's tough, man.
He's going through...
Emotionally, we have these successes,
and his mom is not there, and that...
that's tough.
God damn.
Go on.
Ugh!
- Right away?
- No. No, 0-1.
Hell, yeah!
It feels like
he hasn't made a shot in a month.
And...
I was a shooting guard.
Unlike the other positions,
like, we... we base our total existence
on our ability to make jump shots.
Damn, man.
And if you're not hitting shots,
you will question your very existence
as a person, every day.
Like, "I'm not good enough. Like,
what am I doing? This is what I do."
Whereas, a post player'll be like...
if he misses his shots, he'll be like,
"Well, I'm just gettin' rebounds,
I'm doing that."
A point guard is like,
"I handle the point."
Like, a point guard can be off
many a night shooting,
but if he does all the other things,
no problem.
A shooting guard has to make shots.
And Deshaun hit a serious slump.
God damn, bro.
That's three seconds
or three minutes' time.
All right. All right. All right.
A'ight, a'ight, a'ight. Come on.
Everybody thinks they can shoot,
but when it's your job to shoot...
on the team, and you don't come through
for your team, that'll break you down.
Forwards. Focus, please.
God damn, dawg.
Get that ball and you...
Hey, the... the ball don't have
to go in some days. It... it may not go in.
But the grimy stuff can always happen.
We can always pursue balls
and hunt balls down.
I didn't see that in the first half
of yesterday's game.
Yesterday,
we let those dudes drive and score.
We can't self-sabotage ourself
and not fix it.
Who's gonna be the leader?
Who's gonna be nutty enough to fix it?
Who gonna be the nutty one?
Who's the nutty one that's gon' fix it?
Going through
what I'm going through,
for basketball to not be going
the way I want it to,
is really frustrating, because, I mean,
I love to make shots, who doesn't?
I just need to keep shootin'.
Shooters shoot.
Hello.
- What's up?
- Hello.
Who won the first game?
Moriah's team won the first one.
Leah and them team
win their second one now.
How many points she have?
She got about eight this game.
First game, she had a lot.
- What's a lot?
- Like, 20.
All right. Y'all wanna do Jersey Mike's?
'Cause I'm tired of In-N-Out.
You better let me know now.
I got a exit comin' up.
Jersey Mike's!
Uh...
Everybody said Jersey Mike's or what?
- Yeah.
- All right.Peace.
That's my girl. Marriage is great.
I don't know what people talk...
Man, bein' single is... is overrated.
It's crazy.
Just gotta find the right one.
I believe in God. She believes in God.
We both have a strong faith.
Our authority is God. It's not me.
It's not, uh... her. It's not what
the magazine says how a family should be.
It's not the Huxtables.
No, we're not any of that.
We're what God said we're supposed to be.
That's what keeps our marriage strong
and, uh... that's my roll-dog, man. She...
Pfffft.
That's my roll-dog.
No onions, no onions, pickles.
Guess what? Every time we went up
for a layup, they're gonna call foul...
- No, no! No they didn't!
- Yes, Leah, I blocked...
- No!
- Jackson, it's true, right?
- No!
- I blocked her.
If it was travel ball,
it wouldn't have been a foul.
- This is not travel ball.
- You're so annoying.
- They kept calling foul?
- Yeah...
Messed up... They messed up her stats.
I'm a family guy, man.
I wanted to be home with my family.
One of the saddest moments of my life,
walking through the door with my backpack,
and my daughter, Moriah, I think
she was six at the time, and she said...
This was when
I was a Division I coach. She says,
"Daddy, you're staying
at our house tonight."
And my... my heart just... just dropped.
Okay, Penny! One...
Awww!
I was in some state or some city
every other night,
and I didn't see my family.
I don't wanna not be
in my children's life.
Got a lot of rebounds.
Good job, bro. Good job.
That was a good board, boy.
You know, my family
is just too important to... to be that guy.
Stop, you.
- You kickin'...
- No!
You kickin' me!
I met my wife at a young age.
You know, God gave me an amazin' woman.
Shaunda double majored
in East Asian languages or something.
She lived in China,
speaks fluent Mandarin.
And then she lived in Spain,
so she speaks Spanish.
I was thinkin', like, "Man, she sound
kinda like a nerd," you know?
We met freshman year of college. He was
a handsome guy, nice,
seemed nice, you know.
I said, okay, then...
we just talked on the phone a little bit.
I'd been celibate,
and I learned about marriage.
And I had a desire and I asked God,
"Hey, Lord, I wanna be married."
And, you know, I saw her worship,
and I thought
she was sincere about her faith.
And she was pretty too.
She was a pretty little dark thing, man.
So, uh... she was
a pretty little chocolate thing.
From there, it took off. Within
a year and a half of meeting each other,
we were married.
My college coach at the Master's College,
he said, "Won't you come and help coach?"
I ended up being there for eight years.
Cal State, Bakersfield,
I was there for five or six years.
When I was a Division I coach,
I wasn't goin' home every night.
I mean, literally, I could be gone
almost a week between games
and the recruiting and the travel.
- You got homework, Leah?
- I want her to read her book Child Times.
Though the book report is due
in a month, you need to get started.
I saw the junior college route
as a way
where I can still be a part
of competitive college basketball
and then also I can go home every night.
Uh, 15... 15 minutes.
But initially we lost a full salary.
You know, we'd developed a lifestyle,
two middle-class salaries,
and we had all this goin',
then all of a sudden,
I said, "I'm just gonna take this job."
"This is my passion.
This is what I wanna do."
My wife, she was just, like, "Yeah, go for
it," you know, she's had my back.
You know, that's my... my number one
supporter right there,
my wife Lashaunda, she, uh...
She held it down for four years.
The lady that introduced us,
her husband was a basketball coach.
She said, "Do things together,
spend time in the car,
go with him to games when you can."
Before we had kids, I used to go
with him, recruiting and stuff like that.
He'd go to different high schools around,
and I'd go with him.
Thank goodness
I love basketball too, so...
...you kinda...have a...
I know this is a busy time,
you know, for the season.
Imma have to do a lot, 'cause he has
the team, and help mentor those young men.
"...more about my mother's mother..."
People at work say,
"Oh, if I were you, I couldn't do that."
I say, "Well, you know,
I've been doin' it for a long time."
"All except Maddie."
Are you payin' attention?
- Mm-hm.
- Look this way, then.
"She was too little..."
So, Jay, you didn't read.
- Shaun, you was drifting.
- I was here.
- Nobody in green went to the board.
- I was there.
Get in... Gaaah!
Come back, Shaun. Come back!
Come back, Shaun!
If that happens, we in trouble.
Shaun, he got the ball,
you supposed to sprint up.
- You can't... you leaving him? You got...
- He ran all the way over here.
Shaun, just do your job. You let...
He's got the ball back to Jay.
And you goin' like this.
That's where you meet, here, Jay.
And now Jordan goes
and we goin' like that.
You gotta do it, man.
'Cause now that's two guys
not doin' the right thing.
- Just throw the fucking ball.
- Them dudes are fast, hard, physical.
Ball, come on.
What are you guys runnin'?
We need another one, another one. Recover!
Cutter, cutter, cutter!
Drop. Drop, Shaun. Drop!
Rebound, Shaun. Come on, man.
You know what, Shaun? You know what?
I know... I know you're gonna play.
But everybody's watching you.
Everybody's watching you!
And it ain't cool.
It don't have nothin' to do with me.
You standin' here, scratching your head
and he gets a offensive rebound.
You standing here, goin' like this,
Scoot goes and rebounds.
It don't have nothin' to do
with me or how I'm coaching.
You standin' here,
and everybody's watchin'.
Everybody's watchin'.
And you didn't go rebound the ball.
And everybody's watching.
That's leadership.
When everybody else see you doin' it.
'Cause they gotta get better.
'Cause... Just 'cause you can turn it on
in the game, everybody else maybe can't.
So you gotta show 'em
how to create habits.
Not my fucking problem bro.
They need to fix
they fuckin' switches then, nigga.
It's bull, get him out. Get Shaun.
Can't wait
till we win this shit,
and I can be like, "Bro, shut the fuck up.
We won fuckin' State."
"Oh, Shaun, you should be..."
"Shut the fuck up, we won State."
"Hey, you shoulda..."
"No, we won State."
Can't wait, bro. Can't wait.
I could be a super villain, bro. I could
do that easily, bro. I used to do that.
Damn, bro.
What's the point of any of that?
Go at your strongest leader
about leadership? Bro.
Like, that's trash.
Like, that's really ass
for you to say that
in front of the whole team, bro.
Is that supposed to be like,
"That'll make me play better"?
That ain't gonna make
nobody play better, nigga.
Execute, we...
Mosley really pushes us,
and it wears on dudes.
- You know?
- Whoever's most consistent...
No one's ever gonna win
a battle with Mosley.
On this team, you have to be what
Coach Mosley sees you as.
And not everybody is...
not everybody's happy with that.
Y'all niggas don't trust me yet, bro?
I don't fucking get it.
What the fuck else I gotta do?
- What are you talking about?
- I'm talking about y'all niggas.
"Shaun, Shaun, Shaun,"
like I don't got y'all, bro.
- I ain't sayin' shit to you.
- Yes, you did. What?
I corrected you on the no close out.
When he caught it without taking
a dribble at full speed?
Like, yeah, my bad, dawg.
- You uncorrectable now?
- That's not what I'm saying.
- What are you sayin'?
- You're correcting shit you know I'll do.
No, you... Sometimes you don't.
I don't, in the regular season
- when we went unde-fuckin'- feated?
- Yes.
- I can show you film.
- When we went undefeated?
- I can show you some film.
- Yeah.
- You don't always do what you supposed to.
- All right.
- We let it ride 'cause we fuck with you.
- I know.
- I didn't say I was perfect, nigga.
- But this...
- I said I win.
- Well... and that's all I'm sayin'.
You said it like I called you
a hundred times. I called you one time.
- No, that's not...
- I called you one time, bro.
- I said you didn't close out one time...
- You get what I'm saying,
- I get what you're saying.
- Right.
Damn.
You can get a little bored,
you can be a little sloppy.
But if you got a group of guys
that are competitive and are winners...
We'll play. Let's go.
...then all the habits'll kick in
when their back's against the wall.
So...
kind of countin' on that right now.
Work it! Good.
I want you to read across this line,
and I want you to pick out
somethin' you don't like.
I don't care which number.
Malik, give me one you don't like.
- I don't like?
- Yeah, a number you don't like.
- Field goal percentage.
- 56%?
- Yeah.
- Okay, I mean, you shoot from close.
So, it should be higher. It's a soft
and it's a weak mentality. No doubt.
Marquis.
Son, why are we missin' layups, man?
Really? Because I didn't
go up and dunk the ball.
- I'm being honest.
- You think that's...
- Mentality is why we missin' layups?
- Yeah.
So, you soft with your mentality?
Uh, I'm not gonna say soft,
I'm gonna say not as aggressive.
- Feel me?
- No, I don't feel you.
- Anybody else feelin' that?
- I'm not... I'm not feelin' that.
- Just dunk the... just dunk the ball.
- I'm not feeling that at all.
Hey, dawg,
you were 11 for 26 with layups.
When you get the ball,
we don't think you gon' make it.
You'll catch it and be like,
"What do I do next?"
You don't have that type of game.
You're not comfortable on the floor.
That's what Joe does.
Joe catches it, and be like,
"What I feel like doin'?"
"What am I gonna do right here?"
That's what he been doin' his whole life.
You ain't been doin' that.
You're not gonna play
15, 20, 30 minutes in a game.
If you play 12 minutes in a game,
five fouls blockin' shots,
gettin' offensive rebounds.
'Cause that's gonna happen
to y'all at the next level.
Somebody'll be playing in front of you,
you'll be like,
"If I played more, I'd do more."
Well, that's not an argument.
You don't ask for more minutes,
you go tell somebody what you did
with the opportunity that you had.
We got a lot of guys.
We're still tryin' to figure out
where we want our rotation to be.
You know, in basketball,
you wanna be down to a eight-man rotation.
Right now, we're playin' ten guys,
and it's hard to...
uh, for guys to function well
when you're at ten or 11 guys playin'.
Uh, we got a lot of talent still waiting
for the cream to rise to the top.
Guys are gonna be fightin' for minutes,
and that's how we want it to be.
I played four minutes.
That's it?
Yep.
Why you only get four minutes,
I'm trying to figure out.
I'm not the coach.
I don't got the answers. I wish I had 'em.
The hardest part about
not knowin' if you're gonna get in or not
is the fact that you have to try
to stay ready the whole time.
I might get in for two minutes,
and I might play extremely well
and I might not get back in.
Copeland in the fast break
for the Huskies. Layup good.
One game, I got in,
think I had, like, six points...
To a cutting Copeland, baseline dunk!
...then I got subbed,
and I never played again.
Great game! Yeah!
You just work so hard
for these moments.
You can't get those moments back,
you can't get those games back.
At the end of the day,
you need minutes to play
to get a scholarship
and to move to the next level.
It's about the head coach.
It's about Mosley's vision
and what he sees for the team.
Sometimes, I don't know if I fit that.
Since middle school,
I always started.
So this kinda new for me
to come off the bench.
I'm used to, like,
bein' the scorer on the team
and just to be a role player
is kinda tough for me.
Everyone shows up
thinking they're the man,
now guys aren't playing,
and it's hard for them to deal
with the emotion involved.
It's tough, but, I mean, it's...
it's college ball.
Uh, at... at every level,
your talent starts to run out.
When that happens, then you play less,
and it happens to all of us.
You have to learn how to deal
with that, of not bein' the guy.
Marquis, I mean, I understand
you're discouraged 'cause you didn't play.
But if you gonna be that way,
then walk out, then.
Are you gonna quit or you gonna play?
I've started on every team
I've played for.
I've never had to come off the bench.
I've never had to, you know...
be ready at all times.
- Been tough at the end of the bench?
- Oh, man. So tough.
I be happy... I be happy for everybody,
just, it be tough.
- Did you think it was gonna be like this?
- Hell, no.
That shit be tough.
And I feel for 'em.
The coach isn't anti the kid who's not
playin', he's just pro the kid who is.
And a lot of times,
you're good enough to play,
it's just the other guy
is just so much better.
I feel for those guys, man.
It's... it's tough.
But you gotta get to that point first.
Make us better.
You can't just pout and complain
and say, "I should have this role."
I feel like Mosley
owes certain people loyalties.
If we bein' honest, like...
I feel like a couple of people
who start shouldn't start.
But I'm not the coach.
So I can't make that decision.
Mark, pick your motor up, man.
Pick your motor up.
All of a sudden, you draggin' now.
Dudes think it's just gonna happen.
Instead of keepin' the motor,
keepin' it goin'.
Coach gettin' pissed.
It ain't no game, man.
It's not a game. Everything is detail.
Oh, here we go.
Everything... Even when
you be a competitor, that's still sloppy.
That's still a foul on you.
That's still a foul.
It's about to get bad.
'Cause I see
the way his body language droppin'.
- On the baseline.
- Yeah, it's gonna get ugly.
Since you wanna make a point,
get on the baseline.
What?
What are you talkin' about?
To get these kids motivated,
that's a challenge
for every coach in the country.
Sometimes you have to figure out
what's best for the team.
And if what's best is being hard-nosed,
grind it out,
my way or the highway,
if that's the right way,
then that's what you gotta do.
This nigga wanna be mad at every
single thing. Shit is stupid, bruh.
Nigga, I looked down at the ground
so he thinkin' I'm trying to make a point.
It's always about this nigga, bro.
We is doin' this
one way or the other, bro.
He just wanna use that as an excuse.
It's whatever, bro. It's inevitable.
We about to stand here the whole practice.
Nah, we about to run our asses off.
What's up with it? Let's do something.
His... his tactics are a little
strange at first,
until you understand him.
He's trying to get our attention.
And it's as simple as that.
The easiest way to get our attention
is to do some weird shit.
So that's what he'll do. He'll just, like,
walk around and stare into peoples' eyes.
That's not... that's not...
What's he doing? What's he doing that for?
Let me get five up.
You can lose your minutes
if you are not doin' what it takes to win.
Some guys don't take it serious until
they say, "Oh, I'm not in the rotation"
and then they try to catch up.
The challenge of the coach
is how do we keep everybody involved,
even though their role
is a little bit different?
I mean, that's tough.
I mean, they're 18-, 19-, 20-year-olds.
It was tough for me,
and I'll never forget, I was in college
and I wasn't playin' much.
You know, I had this sense
of arrogance and pride.
And, "No, man, something's wrong
with the coach, it's wrong with him."
He kind of paused and told me,
"John, you're just not good enough."
And I never... Nobody ever told me that.
I think most people,
they don't wanna offend you.
So, you kinda go along thinking
that you're better than what you are,
and you'll make it to the NBA.
But he said,
"You're just not good enough."
I was really just humbled. I never
forget it, and it's changed my life.
The toughest thing now
is trying to get these kids
to play together and play for us.
Break down those barriers
and break down those walls
and convince those young men
that if I can just play for others,
then it'll bode well for me.
I'm kind of countin' on that right now.
So, you kinda worry,
if something's gonna go down,
what can happen between now and tomorrow?
We begin the program
with the shocking news
that basketball legend
Kobe Bryant has died.
Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter were
among those killed in a helicopter crash
this morning in Calabasas, California.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff
told reporters
that nine people were on the flight.
None survived.
Bryant played his entire NBA career
with the Los Angeles Lakers,
a career that spanned 20 seasons,
18 of those...
If you're a baller at all,
then Kobe Bryant was part of your life.
You felt like you lost somethin'.
The majority of these kids are from LA,
and bein' Laker fans, they associate
basketball, like, with Kobe.
I was pretty devastated
and shook, actually.
I didn't know what to say.
I cried a lot. He was my Michael Jordan.
Gonna start crying.
- He's been here our whole life.
- Totally.
- Whenever, like, he was on the TV...
- 40!
...my dad, like, called me in,
when it was the last seconds,
and be like, "Watch this buzzer beater
about to happen."
And he hits the shot every time.
It was crazy.
Like he have never failed.
That's the last thing
you would expect, is Kobe dead.
Like, it don't even feel real, bro.
Still don't.
Canceled practice, man.
It just didn't feel right.
My daughter's 13 years old,
the same age as Gigi,
and Moriah was like,
"Man, I... I played against her, man."
And, uh... that's kind of the first thing
that hit home with me.
"...you're doing things right,
you shouldn't worry. It makes me..."
I said, "That's the Mamba mentality.
That's it."
- I got out of bed at five o'clock, bro.
- Yeah, bro.
Sunday, I didn't feel like doin' nothing.
- Yeah, man.
- I was like, "Kobe's dead."
"What are you talkin' about?"
Coach was like, "Four p.m."
- I was like, "Damn."
- That...
Yeah. "Practice four p.m., fellas,
RIP KB."
- Fuck!
- I was like, "Bro."
"We ain't comin'." Like...
- He's gonna be the only one here.
- Yeah, I was like,
I was like, "Bro, we ain't comin'."
You don't think, "What would I do
if Kobe passed away?"
"How would I feel? What would I say?"
Then it happens,
then you realize, like, "Damn,
I been watching this dude
since I was two years old."
Like, "Damn, he was my first jer..."
"Damn, that's the first game we went to.
Damn..." Like...
He was basketball for, like, a lot of us.
What you got for that, coach?
I know you got somethin' for that.
Yeah, that's a tough one, man.
The goal is actually heaven.
It's not to stay here.
So he's actually doin' better than us.
So, for us to feel sorry for him...
If we don't believe, I don't know. Uh...
- As believers, that's where he's at.
- Yeah.
He doin' better than us.
Oh, yeah, he was a believer.
You know what? There ain't a better place.
There's a level of peace.
Paradise.
No suffering, no pain.
So, that's what I got, man. I mean...
Man, fuck that, man. He still wasn't
supposed to die in a helicopter crash.
- Yeah.
- That's a little too much.
- Yeah.
- A little too much.
I guarantee you that he is stressed
'cause they didn't practice yesterday.
Stressed, like, end of the world stress.
Every day you're off,
he says it takes two to get back.
Positive is that I'll be gettin' my steps
in today with all these back and forth.
Brother get his miles in today.
I don't think
I shut down ever like that.
- Yesterday, I was...
- You shut down?
I just couldn't move.
Just shut it down.
Literally in bed all day.
I was trying to wear everything Kobe.
All I got is the beaters, man.
- Are they slippery? Got any grip on 'em?
- Barely.
Hey, that's respect, bro.
You risking your "five-in-a-minute"
for Kobe. That's respect.
That shit... that shit was on my mind
the whole day, bro.
Deshaun probably ain't gonna make it.
A court case.
Oh, today's the day?
'Cause I'm realizing that's two days off,
man, that... Two days off.
First day back is always awful.
Here we go. Go, nose to his chest.
Quicker! Quicker, Joe. Quicker.
Quicker! Point the ball, sit down.
Ready. Go.
K, you weak today, man. Soft today.
K, get down... you gotta get down
a bit lower. Here we go, ready?
Oh, my God.
No, sloppy technique.
Come on.
We got seven games. Come on, man.
We tryin' to get scholarships.
Everybody listen up.
You're over there talkin',
and I'm tryin' to explain somethin', man.
Both of y'all gonna want
a scholarship in two months.
Both of y'all.
'Kay? But I'm the... I'm the villain
for telling you to stop talkin'.
Why are you coverin' up? Joggin', man.
Why you joggin'?
You heard what I want.
And you over here joggin',
instead of bein', like,
"Hey, hey, ball. Motion. Let's go."
Why you joggin'?
Let's go, let's go.
Intensity. Come on.
Rebound! Reactions!
Dez, take the earrings off.
This nigga on his period today, man.
What? You said somethin'?
The thing that bothers me
about these days off and all that
is you start gettin' fragile, man.
Ankles twisting.
Like, what am I supposed to do,
feel sorry for 'em?
How the hell am I gonna get you
a scholarship, feelin' sorry for you?
Whites on the line! What did I say?
What did I say?
What did I say?
Get on the line, then.
If you didn't hear me.
If you ain't gonna do what
the coach says, that shit better work.
Right.
- It better work.
- It better work.
I'm supposed to give you a pass.
But we tryin' to win
the State Championship.
Tryin' to get dudes scholarships.
Expect miracles, man.
They limpin' now, they want
a scholarship two months from now.
That's it.
- Aaaaah!
- Hey!
Hey, get Dez outta there, man.
Dez?
- Let's go, let's go.
- Aaaaah!
- Get the hell out of the gym.
- Shut up, Dez.
Get out the gym!
Who the hell you talking to?
Get out of the gym. Get out.
The hell you talking about?
- Somebody better talk to this fool.
- Fuck.
Don't even say nothin'
under your breath.
Get the hell outta here, man!
Crazy? Go get it.
Aaaaah! Aaaaaah!
It's one month, man.
Can you do it for you?
Forget me. It's for you.
- I ain't gonna run that shit.
- I done won enough.
You gotta play the right way
to get what you want.
Unless you tryin' to self-sabotage.
Golly, man. Don't you want it?
Don't you want it?
You should be a competitor.
Ball's there, he ain't goin' nowhere.
Do you want it?
What do you want? What do you want?
What else do you want? What do you want?
What do you want?
What do you want? What do you want?
What do you want?
Even though he's older,
people don't understand
he's still only eight years
into head coachin'.
And so, when he's stressin',
he's still learnin' how to
not let the kids see that,
but they do.
You ain't got
no scholarship right now.
The kids like a Marquis,
the kids like a Taj,
all the end of the bench kids,
they really need this opportunity
and so, he's thinking about that.
Check! Off the line!
There's really no understanding it
unless you're in these shoes,
unless you're in John's shoes.
I've been to the Division I level.
Clear the ball, donkey!
He split through!
There's no doubt in my mind
that junior college level's harder,
from a coaching standpoint.
Sprint back!
John's a Division I coach.
He could be a Division I
head coach right now.
But the hard part is he has
a home here, he has a family here.
The value for that for him
might be higher than being
the head coach at UCLA or USC some day.
Whites on the line!
JC dudes have a window to move on.
And John's window's
probably about right now.
What do you want? Get after him.
I've never been one for...
you know, trying to go
to the dance or the big show.
I wanna be where God calls me to be.
I wanna be where I'm probably most needed.
Score, please.
Score, please. Score, please!
I had an opportunity
to coach Division I and it just...
it... it was hard to be authentic.
I do have the opportunity
to be authentic here,
and have a lasting impact on kids' life
that... that nobody wants
to give a second chance to.
We all got...
We all have our time here.
We just wanna make sure we take advantage.
You was crying, Coach?
- No, I wasn't crying.
- I cried.
- I wasn't crying, but it was tough.
- Cried like a motherfucker.
Just gotta realize
we all got an appointed time.
It feels, sometimes,
when it happens tragically,
we feel like we got questions.
But ultimately,
we all are... gonna go to glory
at some point.
I mean, livin' here on this Earth,
uh... what we got?
Some of us 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70.
Our lives is like a blink of an eye.
It's like that, to... to God.
Take advantage.
Like I told... I told a lot of y'all,
this could be it.
You never know when the next chance
you're gonna have to do somethin' special.
I mean, out of all the basketball
that's bein' played,
all the teams in LA,
all the teams in California,
we still one of the ones
got a opportunity to win the championship.
There's us, the Lakers and the Clippers.
We got a chance to win a title.
That's special.
It's something you can talk about
for the rest of your life.
Y'all have that bond forever.
It's important to take advantage
of every opportunity, bro.
'Cause you never know when
you gonna be called. You never know, dude.
You never know.
So, I mean, just let's do this, man.
We got a chance to do it.
Let's do it, man.
Got a month left.
That's a month.
A month that can change
the rest of your life.
Just think about that.
What you do for this next month or so
gonna change the rest of your life.
The rest of your life.
We practicing good habits
for the run.
Regardless of the outcome of this game,
we're practicing habits for the run
that we're going to make
in a couple of weeks.
Work on your habits.
Lord, we just thank you for this
opportunity. Oh God, we thank you again.
The position you put us in, oh, God,
we pray that we be good stewards
of this position, oh, God.
We got a good group of guys.
We thank you for the commitment, Lord.
- In your son Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
- Amen.
Hey, don't give 'em no air, man.
This is us right here.
Ain't nobody workin' harder
than we workin', doin' what we doin'.
Everybody takin' they time, comin'
on the weekends, workin' hard, all that.
Okay, you can't let
nobody take that from you.
- "No air" on three. One, two, three.
- No air!
Let's go!
Hello and welcome.
During a somber time in the world
of basketball, the game must move on.
That's the only way
Kobe Bryant would want it.
It's the 22nd game
of the season for East LA
as they take on
the Pasadena City College Lancers.
Hey, every possession.
We'll beat the shit out of everybody
if we take every possession seriously.
We all know what the fuck tonight means.
It's our first game back since Kobe.
It's Mamba mentality for everybody.
"Mamba" on three. One, two, three.
- Mamba!
- Let's get it.
At this time, we, the ELAC community,
invite you to join us in honoring
the lives of all who were lost
with 24 seconds of silence.
The school record win streak
of the Huskies is still intact.
Now up to 16 games in a row.
Don't be surprised
how good they are.
Don't let this be the night
they get it goin'.
We need to make sure we come out.
Here we go. One, two, three. Give me that.
And we are underway from the E-Rena.
- Hey, hey, hey!
- PCC, they look for the upset,
as Worrell gets a steal.
Throw it up, L.
The Lancers, despite their record
of ten and 11, they always fight hard.
- Oh!
- Come on, Lik.
The proof is in the amount of steals,
as they come up with an easy layup.
What?
God damn, can't nobody catch the ball?
High post, Muhammad. Loose ball.
Be strong, Lik!
Highler comes up with it
on the right wing.
And a walk.
Back-to-back turnovers, East LA.
- Come on, man, let's go.
- Hey, wake up!
Pick it up, bro.
- Joe, Joe.
- We got subs. Push the ball.
Coach Mosley has seen enough.
Wants his Huskies to reset.
Joe Hampton will check in
for Malik Muhammad.
Rousseau, fade-away shot,
blocked by Hampton,
who makes his first appearance.
Skip pass, Highler. Swings to Smith.
Smith with the three-point shot.
The bench doing their thing.
They'll need bench play for sure.
- Hampton with another rebound.
- Go! They tired!
Go! Go! Go!
- Come on, man.
- Highler lifts for three.
Gets it to fall.
- Let's go. Hey!
- Hell, yeah!
- Let's go!
- Hell, yeah.
Come on, Shaun. Heat the fuck up!
Hey, hey, listen.
We should have 25 points.
All right, I'm glad we woke up.
No more turnovers from here on out.
We got five turnovers already.
Taj, they're gonna switch defenses.
Cause some drama right here.
Taj Regans checks into
the game for East LA.
Back outside to Regans.
And another three-pointer for East LA.
- K, let's go! Go!
- Give me one, K!
Allen comes up with it. Wide open lane.
For Zeigler, alley-oop...
The jam. Climbin' the ladder there.
- Yeah, K!
- As Mark Boland checks in for East LA.
- Mark! Gimme Mark!
- To the corner and Boland, wide open.
- Three!
- Splashes in.
Boland will launch it.
- Three!
- Gets it to fall.
Three-point fucking money!
Yeah!
Hampton for three now. Feeling it.
Huskies on fire from behind the arc,
- as they extend their lead.
- It's time, Joe!
Bench play has really given a surge
- to East LA.
- No catch, Lik.
No catch. Malik, back here. No.
- Come on, Malik!
- Didn't even jump, dude.
Quis, sub. Get Lik. Get him.
Muhammad will sit down.
Marquis Copeland will check in.
Quis, blocking. Let's go.
Expect all 15 Huskies
on the roster to play this evening.
Green! Green!
Green, stay down, Joe. Stay down!
- Look!
- Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe!
My fault, Joe.
- I see you, Joe. My fault.
- Hey. You'll see it. He'll see it.
I see you, I see you, I see you.
Fuck, man.
Hampton was wide open underneath the rim.
Give the ball to Joe.
Hampton, crossover move.
Drives, runner. No.
They fouled the shit
outta him, dawg.
Sprint back! Sprint!
Panoosi drives baseline,
easy drive to the cup.
- No way that should've happened.
- Stay with him! Stay with him!
Erby from the corner. Left wide open.
How is that? How is that?
Oh, man.
The coach is frustrated.
Just no effort by Hampton.
They had Joe and Marquis in there.
They killin' us defensively.
Outside to Highler.
For three, no. Off the mark.
Highler tries to respond
- with a jumper on the baseline.
- Damn! Fuck!
- No.
- My fault. My fault.
- Let's go, L!
- Bounce pass inside.
Malik Muhammad pumps,
he's rejected by Worrell.
- What you doing?
- Fuck that shit!
- Come on, baby!
- Soft ass. Man!
- Come on! Dunk that, Lik!
- This dude ain't ready to play.
It's halftime.
East LA dominant, but getting sloppy.
Coach Mosley trying to put
a stranglehold on the momentum.
We gotta figure out a way
to have a better sense of urgency.
When this game is 50/50
in the State Championship,
the freakin' turnover
is what's gonna matter.
I have to do somethin' about it
if we keep turnin' the ball over.
If that means we gotta do somethin'
about it tonight, we will.
If you keep turnin' the ball over.
Malik, you the biggest dude in the gym.
You the biggest
freakin' player in the gym.
You the freakin'
biggest player in the gym!
You go violent
and you take they heads off.
What game are you playin'?
What game are you playin'?
This is not park and rec.
You freakin' go and you tear the rim off.
- Here we go. Let's go.
- Let's go, man. Let's get it.
- "Family" on three. One, two, three.
- Family.
- Let's go.
- Let's win this half too, man.
Let's win this half too.
Trying to figure out how
to keep 'em goin' and keep 'em motivated.
We're a good enough team to win it all,
and they have a tough time
to find purpose every game.
Everybody, just takin' it for granted.
Like it's gonna last forever.
It ain't gonna last forever.
Go, K, go, K! Front of the rim. Go.
Highler quickly from
the right side. Alley-oop attempt, ah!
Trying to get too fancy.
Trying to get too cute.
Shaun threw it underhand.
Ajemian will attack left side.
- Ow!
- He draws the foul.
- Highler falls on his bottom.
- Oh, my God.
Damn, I gotta be one second earlier.
Scooter. Shaun.
And Coach Mosley has seen enough
of that fancy cute play.
Take out Shaun, he gonna be pissed.
Gonna fuck him up for the whole half.
For what?
For what? What'd I do?
Nothing?
Good shots, man.
I'm good, thank you.
So fuckin' tired of this shit, bro.
Oh, my God,
I'm fuckin' tired of this shit.
I'm done, bro. Next time they sub me in,
go ahead, Scoot. Stu.
For Pasadena, it's number 32,
Deandro Worrell in...
Mark, sub, get Jordan, man.
Standin' up, back. Sub. Get him.
Not detailed, man. Sit down.
Left angle drive.
Oooh. He's slapped in the face.
How does that happen, dude?
- Tough foul.
- Simaine, sub.
- Let's go, Maine!
- Let's go, Maine.
Zeigler will sit out.
You wanna go to Fresno State, right?
They came to see you today.
And you let that mug go by you? Seriously?
This is your moment.
Hampton on the right elbow.
No-look pass to Muhammad.
Oh, my gosh!
So, turnover East LA.
- Come on, bro.
- He can't catch nothin'.
He not gonna change until you bench him.
Make him come off the bench a game.
Make him get hungry. He not hungry.
He just... He know he gonna start,
he know he gonna play.
He's not hungry.
- Hey, sail a little bit harder.
- All right.
So that pass can get there.
- You were wide open. Feel me?
- Yeah.
Throw it, throw it... You threw it so high.
Another turnover by East LA.
He'd have 30 points every game,
he just run to the front
of the fuckin' rim.
God damn, it's frustratin' to watch a dude
just throw opportunities away, man.
He just,
"Cool, I just got a D1 offer, I'm cool."
Sub. Get him.
You shot one jump shot all game.
Don't talk, bro.
Just made one.
Come on.
You don't want me to get turned up.
I swear to God, you don't want me
to get turned up, don't talk shit.
Hampton to a cutting Allen, reverse layup.
Good, and one.
You don't want me to get started.
Hampton cuts to the basket.
Easy finger roll.
Go, go, go!
Hampton, no-look pass,
wide open is KJ, easy layup.
- Point God!
- Sleeping giant!
Hampton, no-look pass.
Zeigler layup. Good.
Get it, man!
Hampton steps up for a three. Good.
- I'll take it.
- Your knee! Ah!
I'll take it, Joe!
Did he pull something?
Yeah, his old ass pulled somethin'. He got
no business trying to dunk anything.
Marquis Copeland
checks into the ball game.
Copeland wide open lane right side,
tomahawk slam.
Gets the crowd on their feet.
Get back, sprint. Sprint!
Come on, Quis. Come on, man.
Ajemian will drive,
and hard foul by Copeland.
- Why jog back?
- He dunked it.
- How he the first one back?
- How has that happened? Timeout.
How does that happen? How...
It's a made basket. How does that happen?
I had two.
Huh? I didn't...
I'm not talkin' about two.
Sub, Taj, get in. Get in.
- It's everybody's responsibility.
- Gotta get back.
- It's everybody's responsibility.
- You gotta get back.
"I had two."
Forget your man, we gotta stop the ball!
Everybody sprints back.
We joggin', we got a dunk, celebratin'...
We good, we good.
And we got guys joggin' back.
How does that happen?
You know when he on one.
You seen what he do to niggas, bro.
How does that happen?
He on one, bro.
We celebratin'. We tryin' to ride.
Here we go. "Finish" on three.
- One, two, three.
- Finish.
I didn't even ask who you had.
I'm talkin' to everybody.
I said, "How do we not get back?"
And you said, "I got two." About you.
You should have said, "We gotta get back."
Not, "I got two, so it's not my fault."
I wasn't saying it
like it wasn't my fault.
I was saying who was our assignments.
Chill, chill, chill. You good. You fine.
You gonna bury yourself like that.
I'm already buried, nigga.
We up 30, I don't even play.
- Bro, we good. All right?
- We gotta get back.
I'm talking to you. We gotta get back.
Yes.
Don't go back and forth with him.
You think you buried now, bro, you're not.
You're in your first year.
That's where you're at.
- That's where you at.
- Time...
All right? Stay true to yourself, bro.
Would you do that to Coach K?
Would you talk like that to Coach K?
- No.
- No.
Simaine.
All starters
are done tonight.
It's always fun to see lower parts of
the depth chart getting some playing time.
- Hey, good call, ref.
- I got it.
I told him good call.
Congratulate the stripes.
- Good shit, baby.
- No, no, no, you don't do that, Shaun.
- Don't do that. They gonna remember.
- That I cheered 'em on?
- No, you said, "Good S."
- I just can't do a damn thing right today.
What can I do right today, Coach?
- Pick up some towels?
- Huh?
Is that gonna satisfy you?
Did I do something right today?
- I'm not satisfied.
- Goddamn, shit!
I can't do a damn thing right!
All right, well, let's wrap it up, fellas.
We good.
East LA wins it.
Seventeen games in a row.
The big question, can East LA
finally get over the hump
and win a state title?
If you ask Coach Mosley,
he'll shrug and tell you there's
just too much to work on and improve on,
despite history being made
here in this 2019...
Hey, here we go. Bring it in.
Let's get those weights in real quick.
- One, two, three.
- Family. Let's hit the weights.
- Hit the weights. Let's hit it.
- I got a reservation at TAO.
- What's TAO, yo?
- It's this Japanese spot.
They got this lobster fried rice.
- Why Joe get to go home?
- Simply because you ain't Joe...
- It's just...
- That's fucked up, Coach.
Niggas don't get
special treatment in this bitch!
Get to work. Let's go, let's go.
Hey, Lik! Lik!
Come on, K.
Come on, let's just get it done, man.
Let's get it done.
He gonna get attitude,
but he gotta work out after.
He missed three days of practice.
- Mm-hm.
- He's out there tired.
He's mad I wanna take him out, he's tired.
We can wait. We have no problem.
We'll take a win,
but almost feel like we lost.
The kids, they have those habits.
They wait the last minute to study.
They're waiting the last minute to,
"Oh, the team is good?
Okay, now let's perform."
Everybody partner up.
It's the challenges of a coach, man.
You have to tolerate a lot.
- Just partner up real quick.
- Just get the work in and let's go.
We done this before.
- Come on, hurry up.
- Man, come on, so we can go.
- Come on, dawg.
- Fuck this shit.
- Come on, bro!
- And go.
You have to tolerate people.
You live with 'em every day.
Sometimes, I just...
I wanna just really just rip.
You look even angrier
in HD, Coach.
- Huh?
- All the beads of sweat.
The veins popping.
- The veins poppin'! The veins be poppin'.
- Hell, yeah.
- They got the neck vein already.
- You know what?
Want me to tell you my concern?
Want me to tell you my concern?
We'll be here for an hour.
Please do.
My concern is making sure we get you
where you supposed to be.
That's my concern.
Tonight could have been the moment.
I don't know.
He said, "I'm comin' to watch LJ."
And until I told you,
you didn't turn it up.
I'm... I'm concerned
that we gotta get 11 guys scholarships.
I'm concerned.
You want me to chill and be happy
and not hold people accountable?
Is that what you... what you want?
If you not prepared for that moment,
where that high major coach is there,
that scholarship that you wanted,
he's there.
I've had it happen, right, Coach?
"Hey, man, so-and-so here to see,"
and he ain't ready.
And my heart is burdened with that.
That's all.
"Coach gonna make us do extra.
We gotta come in today,
we gotta practice on Saturday, we gotta..."
Because all I'm tryin' to do, all I want
is for you to get what you came to get.
Ain't nobody tryin'
to be Coach Mosley crazy.
Hell, I miss my son game tonight.
How you think that make me feel?
How does that feel?
I don't wanna miss my son game.
Miss my daughter softball game,
and missin' and missin'.
'Cause I'm here committed to you.
You mad at me for askin' for extra.
You mad at me.
"Damn, we gotta do what?"
You mad at me,
and my son, I freakin' missed his game.
You mad at me for committin' to you
and not my son.
Not my daughter.
You mad at me for havin' you do extra
and not my wife?
"When you comin' home?"
"I'm doin' weights right now."
"I'm tryin' to get him a scholarship."
I can tell you some guys who's,
"Forget these fools,
this fool wanna roll his eyes at me?"
"Hey, 'team' on three, practice over."
I'm get... Right?
"Practice over.
Oh, y'all don't wanna... Pfft. I'm out."
And then you left dry, nobody carin'.
You don't go to school or nothin'.
Don't nobody care?
Anybody see the administrator?
Don't nobody care.
But us.
Don't nobody care
if you go to school or not.
They don't care.
We care.
I'm in. I'm in. I'm in.
You gotta invest back.
If you do it, you do it, you do it,
you do it, you do it,
who the hell can beat us?
And then everybody, everybody eats.
You think you know?
You ain't been there, you don't know.
'Cause if you knew, you would be
on a scholarship right now.
Any y'all got three kids and a wife,
and bills to pay?
You gotta teach class at eight
in the mornin'? And I'm here every day.
With energy, ready to go.
But I'm the crazy one.
I'm the crazy one.
And you need the scholarship.
Come on, man.
Here we go. "Family," let's go.
- See y'all tomorrow.
- "Family" on three.
- One, two, three.
- Family.
Shaun, you not workin' out?
I'll be in here.
- Let's go. You got him, Coach?
- I got him.
Four weeks left!
Where he go?
Yeah, where'd he go?
Where'd he go? He took off?
He ran right up outta here.
I caught the back of him.
Out the door, but... fuck.
♪ Yo, yo, yo ♪
♪ Yo, uh, yo, yo ♪
♪ Y-yo, yo, y-yo ♪
- ♪ It could all be so simple ♪
- Two more. Let's go.
- Two good ones. Two good ones.
- Let's go.
- No, five good ones.
- ♪ But you'd rather make it hard ♪
♪ Uh, uh ♪
- ♪ Loving you is like a battle ♪
- ♪ It's like a battle ♪
- ♪ And we both end up with scars ♪
- ♪ That's what I'm sayin' ♪
- ♪ Yo ♪
- ♪ Tell me who I have to be ♪
♪ Who I have to be ♪
♪ To get some reciprocity ♪
- ♪ See, no one loves you more than me ♪
- ♪ No one loves you more ♪
- ♪ And no one ever will ♪
- ♪ No one ever will ♪
♪ Yo, y-yo ♪
- ♪ Is this just a silly game ♪
- ♪ Silly game ♪
- ♪ That forces you to act this way? ♪
- ♪ To act this way ♪
- ♪ Forces you to scream my name? ♪
- ♪ Yeah, yo, yo ♪
- ♪ Then pretend that you can't stay ♪
- ♪ Uh-huh, yeah ♪
♪ Tell me who I have to be ♪
♪ I know what we gotta do, uh-huh ♪
- ♪ To get some reciprocity ♪
- ♪ Yeah, I know, I know ♪
♪ Uh-huh ♪
♪ See, no one loves you more than me ♪
the Christ in us.
And I know that Deacon Mosley
is bearing God's cross,
coaching over at East LA.
So that those young men,
let them see the Christ in Deacon Mosley.
Our church is a small church,
small congregation.
You know, 20, 30.
I was about five, six years old
when, uh, my parents visited the church.
Through high school,
I was considered a part-time Christian.
Kind of like, come to church,
but I just really wasn't committed.
...see if God's work...
God, he strategically designed
this plan for my life
that really, it had nothing
to do with me, the choice.
I think God, he...
he made the choice for me.
♪ Thank you, Lord ♪
♪ I just want ♪
♪ To thank you, Lord ♪
I don't know about you,
but God has truly protected me.
He's given me a great family
and I thank God for that
and that's what I came to do today,
is to tell the truth about
who he is today.
- Amen? Amen.
- Yes, Lord. Amen.
I don't know if you know the truth.
But I'mma tell you the truth
about him today.
- Amen?
- All right!
Hopefully, amen,
we can tell the truth through our spirit,
- the way he lives through us, amen?
- Yes!
I've been to big churches, mega churches,
and we don't have any funding here.
I mean, there's no salaries for any of
those who are working here at the church.
There's just those
who are here to minister.
So, in Luke, Chapter 17,
so it was impossible that no offenses
should come.
What does that mean?
People are gonna offend you.
Maybe somebody stepped on
your new Jordans, Dante.
You get brand-new white on whites,
Mauricey.
Then you got some girl,
you know she don't like you.
"Excuse me?"
What's gonna happen?
I'm just gonna be like, "You know
you stepped on my shoe, right?"
- I'll probably try to step on their shoe.
- You...
- Hey...
- Wait, wait.
Hold up, you'd probably try
to step on hers now, right?
But what is it saying?
What does Jesus say? He says "Take..."
- "Take..."
- That I shouldn't do that.
"Take heed."
Before Christ,
I was pretty arrogant.
I thought I was God's gift to the world.
I mean, I just was a little arrogant kid.
I got through high school,
I went to East LA College.
All-State honorable mention. Got recruited
by San Diego State, San Jose State.
The Master's College recruited me
and I'm thinking, "I'm not going there,
I'm going Division I.
I'm this, you know, great athlete."
I had a summer class to finish,
and I didn't get it done.
Okay, you can't go Division I,
I'll go to this Master's College,
it's this Christian college.
Ultimately, that's where God wanted me.
There's nothin' I can do about it.
I was in college, and there was
this missions trip to go to Brazil.
There's no television programs in English.
I can't speak the language.
All I brought was... really, to read
was my Bible and my devotion book.
Then I became more convicted because
I started to know who he truly was.
We were playing exhibition games and,
at halftime, we would share our faith.
And I was speaking to people
that looked like me.
People that came
from the same background.
Kids had no shoes and
all I can think about is,
"Those kids look like the kids back home."
I'm sittin' here, like,
"What am I doin', thousands of miles away,
and literally down the street
from where I live
in South Central, it's the same kid?"
I went back, and I started a group
called Saved Through Hoops.
I had no intentions of being a coach.
I just said, "Hey, I wanna
bring kids in and minister."
And I kind of realized that I can do both.
We were ministerin'
while we were coachin',
and I kind of fell in love with that.
It's his ministry,
to those young men.
That sometimes people kick you to the curb
in the world, they don't care about you.
Think about
the African-American young men,
the minority,
sometimes they don't care about 'em.
Act like they do, but they kick 'em to the
curb and show 'em in a negative light.
But then here he is over here,
allowing these kids to be successful,
get their education,
go on to a four-year university,
you know, do something...
contribute to society in a positive way.
He prays for me.
Legit, like, there's only two people
that I know that pray for me.
That's my mom and my grandmother.
If I needed to come
to speak with him right now,
he would be there.
Like, he's up right now, like, waiting
for a phone call if I... if need be.
Everybody's not gonna know God.
I know it's a state-run program.
I don't speak out of line.
But there is also
that time when I feel led
to share with somebody who's suffering.
- You need Jesus.
- You gonna say a prayer for me?
I got you, dawg.
Lord, in the name of Jesus, help this man.
Get him right, Lord.
And take away this headache.
I don't mind,
'cause he's a preacher.
He's gonna preach, so...
you gotta just let him preach,
But, uh... I mean, it... it doesn't
really have any influence on me.
They don't have to believe
what I believe,
but I wanna make sure that if they do
what they're supposed to do,
the Lord will bless each and every one
of these young men
who made a reasonable commitment.
And that doesn't mean we win games.
But success is,
are these kids getting the conviction
in their heart to do better?
A nigga get into some paper
and his bitch back.
Why you gotta cuss, bro?
Oh, it was a song.
How dare you, Malik?
You need to repent, right now.
I ain't gonna say nothing, but when
you wanna talk 'bout "my B" and "my ho,"
then I got somethin' for you.
John is very cognizant
of his language.
I don't know how he does it, but...
he doesn't cuss
when he's yellin' and acting crazy.
But the way he says it,
you'd have swore he just is anyway.
That's how we should freakin' score!
Nine, ten, 11, 12 times in a row.
He's goin' off, and it sounds like
he's just cussing somebody out, you know?
But it's not.
And that joker is gettin' jacked.
He comes at you so hard and so real,
but, um... he uses his adjectives wisely.
Only thing you didn't do is dunk it.
You tapped that mug like a mug.
As fiery as he is,
he just says it in a different way.
That little mug gettin' to the basket.
He a strong little... firecracker.
- He want to say "little nigga."
- He's random as hell.
- If you no...
- "Strong little firecracker."
Strong little firecracker.
"He's a cold sucker. He's a cold sucker."
This program, I believe,
is covered by God's grace.
And if I'm obedient, as a coach,
if I'm obedient,
then the program is gonna be
covered by his grace.
That's why the program
continues to have success.
It's not me. It's not my coaching.
It's the obedience.
♪ Yes, God is real ♪
- ♪ I know him ♪
- ♪ Real in my soul ♪
- ♪ What? ♪
- ♪Yes, God is real ♪
- ♪ Oh, yes he is ♪
- ♪ Real in my soul ♪
♪ Whoa ♪
What's goin' on?
Give it to Mark. Give it to Mark!
Rip! Rip! Rip!
Hurry up! Good. Good. Cut!
- Good.
- Got that. Sprint there. Help him.
Help him.
- Pick up, Joe.
- Close out on that.
Keep him in front.
Why you shoot a three, bro?
- No, no, no. Come on!
- Take that... Get there, Shaun.
- Give me the ball, I'll go to him.
- That's what I'm saying.
That's what I wanted.
When I said "that way," I meant that way.
If Joe and Shaun
have the right attitude,
I can't see a scenario
where somebody could beat us.
The fear is that one of those guys
has three bad games in a row right now.
We fear that. That's a step backwards.
Stop, stop. All right?
If your top two guys
emotionally can be there,
then I have no doubt
we'll win the State Championship.
But if Deshaun or Joe kinda disappears,
then it could be tough.
Fuck.
Right now, we're really
focusing in on, where's your mind?
Where's your focus? Where's your poise?
Where's your attitude?
- Fuck, bro.
- Don't stop, don't stop.
Damn, we're gonna keep
losing the ball to that shit.
Deshaun is definitely the barometer.
If you go back and look at all of
Deshaun's good games,
I bet we played really well.
You see Deshaun play well,
low turnovers, 20 points,
high shooting percentage, great defense.
Encouraging his team, like, all that.
When he does that,
it brings it all together.
It's tough, man.
He's going through...
Emotionally, we have these successes,
and his mom is not there, and that...
that's tough.
God damn.
Go on.
Ugh!
- Right away?
- No. No, 0-1.
Hell, yeah!
It feels like
he hasn't made a shot in a month.
And...
I was a shooting guard.
Unlike the other positions,
like, we... we base our total existence
on our ability to make jump shots.
Damn, man.
And if you're not hitting shots,
you will question your very existence
as a person, every day.
Like, "I'm not good enough. Like,
what am I doing? This is what I do."
Whereas, a post player'll be like...
if he misses his shots, he'll be like,
"Well, I'm just gettin' rebounds,
I'm doing that."
A point guard is like,
"I handle the point."
Like, a point guard can be off
many a night shooting,
but if he does all the other things,
no problem.
A shooting guard has to make shots.
And Deshaun hit a serious slump.
God damn, bro.
That's three seconds
or three minutes' time.
All right. All right. All right.
A'ight, a'ight, a'ight. Come on.
Everybody thinks they can shoot,
but when it's your job to shoot...
on the team, and you don't come through
for your team, that'll break you down.
Forwards. Focus, please.
God damn, dawg.
Get that ball and you...
Hey, the... the ball don't have
to go in some days. It... it may not go in.
But the grimy stuff can always happen.
We can always pursue balls
and hunt balls down.
I didn't see that in the first half
of yesterday's game.
Yesterday,
we let those dudes drive and score.
We can't self-sabotage ourself
and not fix it.
Who's gonna be the leader?
Who's gonna be nutty enough to fix it?
Who gonna be the nutty one?
Who's the nutty one that's gon' fix it?
Going through
what I'm going through,
for basketball to not be going
the way I want it to,
is really frustrating, because, I mean,
I love to make shots, who doesn't?
I just need to keep shootin'.
Shooters shoot.
Hello.
- What's up?
- Hello.
Who won the first game?
Moriah's team won the first one.
Leah and them team
win their second one now.
How many points she have?
She got about eight this game.
First game, she had a lot.
- What's a lot?
- Like, 20.
All right. Y'all wanna do Jersey Mike's?
'Cause I'm tired of In-N-Out.
You better let me know now.
I got a exit comin' up.
Jersey Mike's!
Uh...
Everybody said Jersey Mike's or what?
- Yeah.
- All right.Peace.
That's my girl. Marriage is great.
I don't know what people talk...
Man, bein' single is... is overrated.
It's crazy.
Just gotta find the right one.
I believe in God. She believes in God.
We both have a strong faith.
Our authority is God. It's not me.
It's not, uh... her. It's not what
the magazine says how a family should be.
It's not the Huxtables.
No, we're not any of that.
We're what God said we're supposed to be.
That's what keeps our marriage strong
and, uh... that's my roll-dog, man. She...
Pfffft.
That's my roll-dog.
No onions, no onions, pickles.
Guess what? Every time we went up
for a layup, they're gonna call foul...
- No, no! No they didn't!
- Yes, Leah, I blocked...
- No!
- Jackson, it's true, right?
- No!
- I blocked her.
If it was travel ball,
it wouldn't have been a foul.
- This is not travel ball.
- You're so annoying.
- They kept calling foul?
- Yeah...
Messed up... They messed up her stats.
I'm a family guy, man.
I wanted to be home with my family.
One of the saddest moments of my life,
walking through the door with my backpack,
and my daughter, Moriah, I think
she was six at the time, and she said...
This was when
I was a Division I coach. She says,
"Daddy, you're staying
at our house tonight."
And my... my heart just... just dropped.
Okay, Penny! One...
Awww!
I was in some state or some city
every other night,
and I didn't see my family.
I don't wanna not be
in my children's life.
Got a lot of rebounds.
Good job, bro. Good job.
That was a good board, boy.
You know, my family
is just too important to... to be that guy.
Stop, you.
- You kickin'...
- No!
You kickin' me!
I met my wife at a young age.
You know, God gave me an amazin' woman.
Shaunda double majored
in East Asian languages or something.
She lived in China,
speaks fluent Mandarin.
And then she lived in Spain,
so she speaks Spanish.
I was thinkin', like, "Man, she sound
kinda like a nerd," you know?
We met freshman year of college. He was
a handsome guy, nice,
seemed nice, you know.
I said, okay, then...
we just talked on the phone a little bit.
I'd been celibate,
and I learned about marriage.
And I had a desire and I asked God,
"Hey, Lord, I wanna be married."
And, you know, I saw her worship,
and I thought
she was sincere about her faith.
And she was pretty too.
She was a pretty little dark thing, man.
So, uh... she was
a pretty little chocolate thing.
From there, it took off. Within
a year and a half of meeting each other,
we were married.
My college coach at the Master's College,
he said, "Won't you come and help coach?"
I ended up being there for eight years.
Cal State, Bakersfield,
I was there for five or six years.
When I was a Division I coach,
I wasn't goin' home every night.
I mean, literally, I could be gone
almost a week between games
and the recruiting and the travel.
- You got homework, Leah?
- I want her to read her book Child Times.
Though the book report is due
in a month, you need to get started.
I saw the junior college route
as a way
where I can still be a part
of competitive college basketball
and then also I can go home every night.
Uh, 15... 15 minutes.
But initially we lost a full salary.
You know, we'd developed a lifestyle,
two middle-class salaries,
and we had all this goin',
then all of a sudden,
I said, "I'm just gonna take this job."
"This is my passion.
This is what I wanna do."
My wife, she was just, like, "Yeah, go for
it," you know, she's had my back.
You know, that's my... my number one
supporter right there,
my wife Lashaunda, she, uh...
She held it down for four years.
The lady that introduced us,
her husband was a basketball coach.
She said, "Do things together,
spend time in the car,
go with him to games when you can."
Before we had kids, I used to go
with him, recruiting and stuff like that.
He'd go to different high schools around,
and I'd go with him.
Thank goodness
I love basketball too, so...
...you kinda...have a...
I know this is a busy time,
you know, for the season.
Imma have to do a lot, 'cause he has
the team, and help mentor those young men.
"...more about my mother's mother..."
People at work say,
"Oh, if I were you, I couldn't do that."
I say, "Well, you know,
I've been doin' it for a long time."
"All except Maddie."
Are you payin' attention?
- Mm-hm.
- Look this way, then.
"She was too little..."
So, Jay, you didn't read.
- Shaun, you was drifting.
- I was here.
- Nobody in green went to the board.
- I was there.
Get in... Gaaah!
Come back, Shaun. Come back!
Come back, Shaun!
If that happens, we in trouble.
Shaun, he got the ball,
you supposed to sprint up.
- You can't... you leaving him? You got...
- He ran all the way over here.
Shaun, just do your job. You let...
He's got the ball back to Jay.
And you goin' like this.
That's where you meet, here, Jay.
And now Jordan goes
and we goin' like that.
You gotta do it, man.
'Cause now that's two guys
not doin' the right thing.
- Just throw the fucking ball.
- Them dudes are fast, hard, physical.
Ball, come on.
What are you guys runnin'?
We need another one, another one. Recover!
Cutter, cutter, cutter!
Drop. Drop, Shaun. Drop!
Rebound, Shaun. Come on, man.
You know what, Shaun? You know what?
I know... I know you're gonna play.
But everybody's watching you.
Everybody's watching you!
And it ain't cool.
It don't have nothin' to do with me.
You standin' here, scratching your head
and he gets a offensive rebound.
You standing here, goin' like this,
Scoot goes and rebounds.
It don't have nothin' to do
with me or how I'm coaching.
You standin' here,
and everybody's watchin'.
Everybody's watchin'.
And you didn't go rebound the ball.
And everybody's watching.
That's leadership.
When everybody else see you doin' it.
'Cause they gotta get better.
'Cause... Just 'cause you can turn it on
in the game, everybody else maybe can't.
So you gotta show 'em
how to create habits.
Not my fucking problem bro.
They need to fix
they fuckin' switches then, nigga.
It's bull, get him out. Get Shaun.
Can't wait
till we win this shit,
and I can be like, "Bro, shut the fuck up.
We won fuckin' State."
"Oh, Shaun, you should be..."
"Shut the fuck up, we won State."
"Hey, you shoulda..."
"No, we won State."
Can't wait, bro. Can't wait.
I could be a super villain, bro. I could
do that easily, bro. I used to do that.
Damn, bro.
What's the point of any of that?
Go at your strongest leader
about leadership? Bro.
Like, that's trash.
Like, that's really ass
for you to say that
in front of the whole team, bro.
Is that supposed to be like,
"That'll make me play better"?
That ain't gonna make
nobody play better, nigga.
Execute, we...
Mosley really pushes us,
and it wears on dudes.
- You know?
- Whoever's most consistent...
No one's ever gonna win
a battle with Mosley.
On this team, you have to be what
Coach Mosley sees you as.
And not everybody is...
not everybody's happy with that.
Y'all niggas don't trust me yet, bro?
I don't fucking get it.
What the fuck else I gotta do?
- What are you talking about?
- I'm talking about y'all niggas.
"Shaun, Shaun, Shaun,"
like I don't got y'all, bro.
- I ain't sayin' shit to you.
- Yes, you did. What?
I corrected you on the no close out.
When he caught it without taking
a dribble at full speed?
Like, yeah, my bad, dawg.
- You uncorrectable now?
- That's not what I'm saying.
- What are you sayin'?
- You're correcting shit you know I'll do.
No, you... Sometimes you don't.
I don't, in the regular season
- when we went unde-fuckin'- feated?
- Yes.
- I can show you film.
- When we went undefeated?
- I can show you some film.
- Yeah.
- You don't always do what you supposed to.
- All right.
- We let it ride 'cause we fuck with you.
- I know.
- I didn't say I was perfect, nigga.
- But this...
- I said I win.
- Well... and that's all I'm sayin'.
You said it like I called you
a hundred times. I called you one time.
- No, that's not...
- I called you one time, bro.
- I said you didn't close out one time...
- You get what I'm saying,
- I get what you're saying.
- Right.
Damn.
You can get a little bored,
you can be a little sloppy.
But if you got a group of guys
that are competitive and are winners...
We'll play. Let's go.
...then all the habits'll kick in
when their back's against the wall.
So...
kind of countin' on that right now.
Work it! Good.
I want you to read across this line,
and I want you to pick out
somethin' you don't like.
I don't care which number.
Malik, give me one you don't like.
- I don't like?
- Yeah, a number you don't like.
- Field goal percentage.
- 56%?
- Yeah.
- Okay, I mean, you shoot from close.
So, it should be higher. It's a soft
and it's a weak mentality. No doubt.
Marquis.
Son, why are we missin' layups, man?
Really? Because I didn't
go up and dunk the ball.
- I'm being honest.
- You think that's...
- Mentality is why we missin' layups?
- Yeah.
So, you soft with your mentality?
Uh, I'm not gonna say soft,
I'm gonna say not as aggressive.
- Feel me?
- No, I don't feel you.
- Anybody else feelin' that?
- I'm not... I'm not feelin' that.
- Just dunk the... just dunk the ball.
- I'm not feeling that at all.
Hey, dawg,
you were 11 for 26 with layups.
When you get the ball,
we don't think you gon' make it.
You'll catch it and be like,
"What do I do next?"
You don't have that type of game.
You're not comfortable on the floor.
That's what Joe does.
Joe catches it, and be like,
"What I feel like doin'?"
"What am I gonna do right here?"
That's what he been doin' his whole life.
You ain't been doin' that.
You're not gonna play
15, 20, 30 minutes in a game.
If you play 12 minutes in a game,
five fouls blockin' shots,
gettin' offensive rebounds.
'Cause that's gonna happen
to y'all at the next level.
Somebody'll be playing in front of you,
you'll be like,
"If I played more, I'd do more."
Well, that's not an argument.
You don't ask for more minutes,
you go tell somebody what you did
with the opportunity that you had.
We got a lot of guys.
We're still tryin' to figure out
where we want our rotation to be.
You know, in basketball,
you wanna be down to a eight-man rotation.
Right now, we're playin' ten guys,
and it's hard to...
uh, for guys to function well
when you're at ten or 11 guys playin'.
Uh, we got a lot of talent still waiting
for the cream to rise to the top.
Guys are gonna be fightin' for minutes,
and that's how we want it to be.
I played four minutes.
That's it?
Yep.
Why you only get four minutes,
I'm trying to figure out.
I'm not the coach.
I don't got the answers. I wish I had 'em.
The hardest part about
not knowin' if you're gonna get in or not
is the fact that you have to try
to stay ready the whole time.
I might get in for two minutes,
and I might play extremely well
and I might not get back in.
Copeland in the fast break
for the Huskies. Layup good.
One game, I got in,
think I had, like, six points...
To a cutting Copeland, baseline dunk!
...then I got subbed,
and I never played again.
Great game! Yeah!
You just work so hard
for these moments.
You can't get those moments back,
you can't get those games back.
At the end of the day,
you need minutes to play
to get a scholarship
and to move to the next level.
It's about the head coach.
It's about Mosley's vision
and what he sees for the team.
Sometimes, I don't know if I fit that.
Since middle school,
I always started.
So this kinda new for me
to come off the bench.
I'm used to, like,
bein' the scorer on the team
and just to be a role player
is kinda tough for me.
Everyone shows up
thinking they're the man,
now guys aren't playing,
and it's hard for them to deal
with the emotion involved.
It's tough, but, I mean, it's...
it's college ball.
Uh, at... at every level,
your talent starts to run out.
When that happens, then you play less,
and it happens to all of us.
You have to learn how to deal
with that, of not bein' the guy.
Marquis, I mean, I understand
you're discouraged 'cause you didn't play.
But if you gonna be that way,
then walk out, then.
Are you gonna quit or you gonna play?
I've started on every team
I've played for.
I've never had to come off the bench.
I've never had to, you know...
be ready at all times.
- Been tough at the end of the bench?
- Oh, man. So tough.
I be happy... I be happy for everybody,
just, it be tough.
- Did you think it was gonna be like this?
- Hell, no.
That shit be tough.
And I feel for 'em.
The coach isn't anti the kid who's not
playin', he's just pro the kid who is.
And a lot of times,
you're good enough to play,
it's just the other guy
is just so much better.
I feel for those guys, man.
It's... it's tough.
But you gotta get to that point first.
Make us better.
You can't just pout and complain
and say, "I should have this role."
I feel like Mosley
owes certain people loyalties.
If we bein' honest, like...
I feel like a couple of people
who start shouldn't start.
But I'm not the coach.
So I can't make that decision.
Mark, pick your motor up, man.
Pick your motor up.
All of a sudden, you draggin' now.
Dudes think it's just gonna happen.
Instead of keepin' the motor,
keepin' it goin'.
Coach gettin' pissed.
It ain't no game, man.
It's not a game. Everything is detail.
Oh, here we go.
Everything... Even when
you be a competitor, that's still sloppy.
That's still a foul on you.
That's still a foul.
It's about to get bad.
'Cause I see
the way his body language droppin'.
- On the baseline.
- Yeah, it's gonna get ugly.
Since you wanna make a point,
get on the baseline.
What?
What are you talkin' about?
To get these kids motivated,
that's a challenge
for every coach in the country.
Sometimes you have to figure out
what's best for the team.
And if what's best is being hard-nosed,
grind it out,
my way or the highway,
if that's the right way,
then that's what you gotta do.
This nigga wanna be mad at every
single thing. Shit is stupid, bruh.
Nigga, I looked down at the ground
so he thinkin' I'm trying to make a point.
It's always about this nigga, bro.
We is doin' this
one way or the other, bro.
He just wanna use that as an excuse.
It's whatever, bro. It's inevitable.
We about to stand here the whole practice.
Nah, we about to run our asses off.
What's up with it? Let's do something.
His... his tactics are a little
strange at first,
until you understand him.
He's trying to get our attention.
And it's as simple as that.
The easiest way to get our attention
is to do some weird shit.
So that's what he'll do. He'll just, like,
walk around and stare into peoples' eyes.
That's not... that's not...
What's he doing? What's he doing that for?
Let me get five up.
You can lose your minutes
if you are not doin' what it takes to win.
Some guys don't take it serious until
they say, "Oh, I'm not in the rotation"
and then they try to catch up.
The challenge of the coach
is how do we keep everybody involved,
even though their role
is a little bit different?
I mean, that's tough.
I mean, they're 18-, 19-, 20-year-olds.
It was tough for me,
and I'll never forget, I was in college
and I wasn't playin' much.
You know, I had this sense
of arrogance and pride.
And, "No, man, something's wrong
with the coach, it's wrong with him."
He kind of paused and told me,
"John, you're just not good enough."
And I never... Nobody ever told me that.
I think most people,
they don't wanna offend you.
So, you kinda go along thinking
that you're better than what you are,
and you'll make it to the NBA.
But he said,
"You're just not good enough."
I was really just humbled. I never
forget it, and it's changed my life.
The toughest thing now
is trying to get these kids
to play together and play for us.
Break down those barriers
and break down those walls
and convince those young men
that if I can just play for others,
then it'll bode well for me.
I'm kind of countin' on that right now.
So, you kinda worry,
if something's gonna go down,
what can happen between now and tomorrow?
We begin the program
with the shocking news
that basketball legend
Kobe Bryant has died.
Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter were
among those killed in a helicopter crash
this morning in Calabasas, California.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff
told reporters
that nine people were on the flight.
None survived.
Bryant played his entire NBA career
with the Los Angeles Lakers,
a career that spanned 20 seasons,
18 of those...
If you're a baller at all,
then Kobe Bryant was part of your life.
You felt like you lost somethin'.
The majority of these kids are from LA,
and bein' Laker fans, they associate
basketball, like, with Kobe.
I was pretty devastated
and shook, actually.
I didn't know what to say.
I cried a lot. He was my Michael Jordan.
Gonna start crying.
- He's been here our whole life.
- Totally.
- Whenever, like, he was on the TV...
- 40!
...my dad, like, called me in,
when it was the last seconds,
and be like, "Watch this buzzer beater
about to happen."
And he hits the shot every time.
It was crazy.
Like he have never failed.
That's the last thing
you would expect, is Kobe dead.
Like, it don't even feel real, bro.
Still don't.
Canceled practice, man.
It just didn't feel right.
My daughter's 13 years old,
the same age as Gigi,
and Moriah was like,
"Man, I... I played against her, man."
And, uh... that's kind of the first thing
that hit home with me.
"...you're doing things right,
you shouldn't worry. It makes me..."
I said, "That's the Mamba mentality.
That's it."
- I got out of bed at five o'clock, bro.
- Yeah, bro.
Sunday, I didn't feel like doin' nothing.
- Yeah, man.
- I was like, "Kobe's dead."
"What are you talkin' about?"
Coach was like, "Four p.m."
- I was like, "Damn."
- That...
Yeah. "Practice four p.m., fellas,
RIP KB."
- Fuck!
- I was like, "Bro."
"We ain't comin'." Like...
- He's gonna be the only one here.
- Yeah, I was like,
I was like, "Bro, we ain't comin'."
You don't think, "What would I do
if Kobe passed away?"
"How would I feel? What would I say?"
Then it happens,
then you realize, like, "Damn,
I been watching this dude
since I was two years old."
Like, "Damn, he was my first jer..."
"Damn, that's the first game we went to.
Damn..." Like...
He was basketball for, like, a lot of us.
What you got for that, coach?
I know you got somethin' for that.
Yeah, that's a tough one, man.
The goal is actually heaven.
It's not to stay here.
So he's actually doin' better than us.
So, for us to feel sorry for him...
If we don't believe, I don't know. Uh...
- As believers, that's where he's at.
- Yeah.
He doin' better than us.
Oh, yeah, he was a believer.
You know what? There ain't a better place.
There's a level of peace.
Paradise.
No suffering, no pain.
So, that's what I got, man. I mean...
Man, fuck that, man. He still wasn't
supposed to die in a helicopter crash.
- Yeah.
- That's a little too much.
- Yeah.
- A little too much.
I guarantee you that he is stressed
'cause they didn't practice yesterday.
Stressed, like, end of the world stress.
Every day you're off,
he says it takes two to get back.
Positive is that I'll be gettin' my steps
in today with all these back and forth.
Brother get his miles in today.
I don't think
I shut down ever like that.
- Yesterday, I was...
- You shut down?
I just couldn't move.
Just shut it down.
Literally in bed all day.
I was trying to wear everything Kobe.
All I got is the beaters, man.
- Are they slippery? Got any grip on 'em?
- Barely.
Hey, that's respect, bro.
You risking your "five-in-a-minute"
for Kobe. That's respect.
That shit... that shit was on my mind
the whole day, bro.
Deshaun probably ain't gonna make it.
A court case.
Oh, today's the day?
'Cause I'm realizing that's two days off,
man, that... Two days off.
First day back is always awful.
Here we go. Go, nose to his chest.
Quicker! Quicker, Joe. Quicker.
Quicker! Point the ball, sit down.
Ready. Go.
K, you weak today, man. Soft today.
K, get down... you gotta get down
a bit lower. Here we go, ready?
Oh, my God.
No, sloppy technique.
Come on.
We got seven games. Come on, man.
We tryin' to get scholarships.
Everybody listen up.
You're over there talkin',
and I'm tryin' to explain somethin', man.
Both of y'all gonna want
a scholarship in two months.
Both of y'all.
'Kay? But I'm the... I'm the villain
for telling you to stop talkin'.
Why are you coverin' up? Joggin', man.
Why you joggin'?
You heard what I want.
And you over here joggin',
instead of bein', like,
"Hey, hey, ball. Motion. Let's go."
Why you joggin'?
Let's go, let's go.
Intensity. Come on.
Rebound! Reactions!
Dez, take the earrings off.
This nigga on his period today, man.
What? You said somethin'?
The thing that bothers me
about these days off and all that
is you start gettin' fragile, man.
Ankles twisting.
Like, what am I supposed to do,
feel sorry for 'em?
How the hell am I gonna get you
a scholarship, feelin' sorry for you?
Whites on the line! What did I say?
What did I say?
What did I say?
Get on the line, then.
If you didn't hear me.
If you ain't gonna do what
the coach says, that shit better work.
Right.
- It better work.
- It better work.
I'm supposed to give you a pass.
But we tryin' to win
the State Championship.
Tryin' to get dudes scholarships.
Expect miracles, man.
They limpin' now, they want
a scholarship two months from now.
That's it.
- Aaaaah!
- Hey!
Hey, get Dez outta there, man.
Dez?
- Let's go, let's go.
- Aaaaah!
- Get the hell out of the gym.
- Shut up, Dez.
Get out the gym!
Who the hell you talking to?
Get out of the gym. Get out.
The hell you talking about?
- Somebody better talk to this fool.
- Fuck.
Don't even say nothin'
under your breath.
Get the hell outta here, man!
Crazy? Go get it.
Aaaaah! Aaaaaah!
It's one month, man.
Can you do it for you?
Forget me. It's for you.
- I ain't gonna run that shit.
- I done won enough.
You gotta play the right way
to get what you want.
Unless you tryin' to self-sabotage.
Golly, man. Don't you want it?
Don't you want it?
You should be a competitor.
Ball's there, he ain't goin' nowhere.
Do you want it?
What do you want? What do you want?
What else do you want? What do you want?
What do you want?
What do you want? What do you want?
What do you want?
Even though he's older,
people don't understand
he's still only eight years
into head coachin'.
And so, when he's stressin',
he's still learnin' how to
not let the kids see that,
but they do.
You ain't got
no scholarship right now.
The kids like a Marquis,
the kids like a Taj,
all the end of the bench kids,
they really need this opportunity
and so, he's thinking about that.
Check! Off the line!
There's really no understanding it
unless you're in these shoes,
unless you're in John's shoes.
I've been to the Division I level.
Clear the ball, donkey!
He split through!
There's no doubt in my mind
that junior college level's harder,
from a coaching standpoint.
Sprint back!
John's a Division I coach.
He could be a Division I
head coach right now.
But the hard part is he has
a home here, he has a family here.
The value for that for him
might be higher than being
the head coach at UCLA or USC some day.
Whites on the line!
JC dudes have a window to move on.
And John's window's
probably about right now.
What do you want? Get after him.
I've never been one for...
you know, trying to go
to the dance or the big show.
I wanna be where God calls me to be.
I wanna be where I'm probably most needed.
Score, please.
Score, please. Score, please!
I had an opportunity
to coach Division I and it just...
it... it was hard to be authentic.
I do have the opportunity
to be authentic here,
and have a lasting impact on kids' life
that... that nobody wants
to give a second chance to.
We all got...
We all have our time here.
We just wanna make sure we take advantage.
You was crying, Coach?
- No, I wasn't crying.
- I cried.
- I wasn't crying, but it was tough.
- Cried like a motherfucker.
Just gotta realize
we all got an appointed time.
It feels, sometimes,
when it happens tragically,
we feel like we got questions.
But ultimately,
we all are... gonna go to glory
at some point.
I mean, livin' here on this Earth,
uh... what we got?
Some of us 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70.
Our lives is like a blink of an eye.
It's like that, to... to God.
Take advantage.
Like I told... I told a lot of y'all,
this could be it.
You never know when the next chance
you're gonna have to do somethin' special.
I mean, out of all the basketball
that's bein' played,
all the teams in LA,
all the teams in California,
we still one of the ones
got a opportunity to win the championship.
There's us, the Lakers and the Clippers.
We got a chance to win a title.
That's special.
It's something you can talk about
for the rest of your life.
Y'all have that bond forever.
It's important to take advantage
of every opportunity, bro.
'Cause you never know when
you gonna be called. You never know, dude.
You never know.
So, I mean, just let's do this, man.
We got a chance to do it.
Let's do it, man.
Got a month left.
That's a month.
A month that can change
the rest of your life.
Just think about that.
What you do for this next month or so
gonna change the rest of your life.
The rest of your life.
We practicing good habits
for the run.
Regardless of the outcome of this game,
we're practicing habits for the run
that we're going to make
in a couple of weeks.
Work on your habits.
Lord, we just thank you for this
opportunity. Oh God, we thank you again.
The position you put us in, oh, God,
we pray that we be good stewards
of this position, oh, God.
We got a good group of guys.
We thank you for the commitment, Lord.
- In your son Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
- Amen.
Hey, don't give 'em no air, man.
This is us right here.
Ain't nobody workin' harder
than we workin', doin' what we doin'.
Everybody takin' they time, comin'
on the weekends, workin' hard, all that.
Okay, you can't let
nobody take that from you.
- "No air" on three. One, two, three.
- No air!
Let's go!
Hello and welcome.
During a somber time in the world
of basketball, the game must move on.
That's the only way
Kobe Bryant would want it.
It's the 22nd game
of the season for East LA
as they take on
the Pasadena City College Lancers.
Hey, every possession.
We'll beat the shit out of everybody
if we take every possession seriously.
We all know what the fuck tonight means.
It's our first game back since Kobe.
It's Mamba mentality for everybody.
"Mamba" on three. One, two, three.
- Mamba!
- Let's get it.
At this time, we, the ELAC community,
invite you to join us in honoring
the lives of all who were lost
with 24 seconds of silence.
The school record win streak
of the Huskies is still intact.
Now up to 16 games in a row.
Don't be surprised
how good they are.
Don't let this be the night
they get it goin'.
We need to make sure we come out.
Here we go. One, two, three. Give me that.
And we are underway from the E-Rena.
- Hey, hey, hey!
- PCC, they look for the upset,
as Worrell gets a steal.
Throw it up, L.
The Lancers, despite their record
of ten and 11, they always fight hard.
- Oh!
- Come on, Lik.
The proof is in the amount of steals,
as they come up with an easy layup.
What?
God damn, can't nobody catch the ball?
High post, Muhammad. Loose ball.
Be strong, Lik!
Highler comes up with it
on the right wing.
And a walk.
Back-to-back turnovers, East LA.
- Come on, man, let's go.
- Hey, wake up!
Pick it up, bro.
- Joe, Joe.
- We got subs. Push the ball.
Coach Mosley has seen enough.
Wants his Huskies to reset.
Joe Hampton will check in
for Malik Muhammad.
Rousseau, fade-away shot,
blocked by Hampton,
who makes his first appearance.
Skip pass, Highler. Swings to Smith.
Smith with the three-point shot.
The bench doing their thing.
They'll need bench play for sure.
- Hampton with another rebound.
- Go! They tired!
Go! Go! Go!
- Come on, man.
- Highler lifts for three.
Gets it to fall.
- Let's go. Hey!
- Hell, yeah!
- Let's go!
- Hell, yeah.
Come on, Shaun. Heat the fuck up!
Hey, hey, listen.
We should have 25 points.
All right, I'm glad we woke up.
No more turnovers from here on out.
We got five turnovers already.
Taj, they're gonna switch defenses.
Cause some drama right here.
Taj Regans checks into
the game for East LA.
Back outside to Regans.
And another three-pointer for East LA.
- K, let's go! Go!
- Give me one, K!
Allen comes up with it. Wide open lane.
For Zeigler, alley-oop...
The jam. Climbin' the ladder there.
- Yeah, K!
- As Mark Boland checks in for East LA.
- Mark! Gimme Mark!
- To the corner and Boland, wide open.
- Three!
- Splashes in.
Boland will launch it.
- Three!
- Gets it to fall.
Three-point fucking money!
Yeah!
Hampton for three now. Feeling it.
Huskies on fire from behind the arc,
- as they extend their lead.
- It's time, Joe!
Bench play has really given a surge
- to East LA.
- No catch, Lik.
No catch. Malik, back here. No.
- Come on, Malik!
- Didn't even jump, dude.
Quis, sub. Get Lik. Get him.
Muhammad will sit down.
Marquis Copeland will check in.
Quis, blocking. Let's go.
Expect all 15 Huskies
on the roster to play this evening.
Green! Green!
Green, stay down, Joe. Stay down!
- Look!
- Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe!
My fault, Joe.
- I see you, Joe. My fault.
- Hey. You'll see it. He'll see it.
I see you, I see you, I see you.
Fuck, man.
Hampton was wide open underneath the rim.
Give the ball to Joe.
Hampton, crossover move.
Drives, runner. No.
They fouled the shit
outta him, dawg.
Sprint back! Sprint!
Panoosi drives baseline,
easy drive to the cup.
- No way that should've happened.
- Stay with him! Stay with him!
Erby from the corner. Left wide open.
How is that? How is that?
Oh, man.
The coach is frustrated.
Just no effort by Hampton.
They had Joe and Marquis in there.
They killin' us defensively.
Outside to Highler.
For three, no. Off the mark.
Highler tries to respond
- with a jumper on the baseline.
- Damn! Fuck!
- No.
- My fault. My fault.
- Let's go, L!
- Bounce pass inside.
Malik Muhammad pumps,
he's rejected by Worrell.
- What you doing?
- Fuck that shit!
- Come on, baby!
- Soft ass. Man!
- Come on! Dunk that, Lik!
- This dude ain't ready to play.
It's halftime.
East LA dominant, but getting sloppy.
Coach Mosley trying to put
a stranglehold on the momentum.
We gotta figure out a way
to have a better sense of urgency.
When this game is 50/50
in the State Championship,
the freakin' turnover
is what's gonna matter.
I have to do somethin' about it
if we keep turnin' the ball over.
If that means we gotta do somethin'
about it tonight, we will.
If you keep turnin' the ball over.
Malik, you the biggest dude in the gym.
You the biggest
freakin' player in the gym.
You the freakin'
biggest player in the gym!
You go violent
and you take they heads off.
What game are you playin'?
What game are you playin'?
This is not park and rec.
You freakin' go and you tear the rim off.
- Here we go. Let's go.
- Let's go, man. Let's get it.
- "Family" on three. One, two, three.
- Family.
- Let's go.
- Let's win this half too, man.
Let's win this half too.
Trying to figure out how
to keep 'em goin' and keep 'em motivated.
We're a good enough team to win it all,
and they have a tough time
to find purpose every game.
Everybody, just takin' it for granted.
Like it's gonna last forever.
It ain't gonna last forever.
Go, K, go, K! Front of the rim. Go.
Highler quickly from
the right side. Alley-oop attempt, ah!
Trying to get too fancy.
Trying to get too cute.
Shaun threw it underhand.
Ajemian will attack left side.
- Ow!
- He draws the foul.
- Highler falls on his bottom.
- Oh, my God.
Damn, I gotta be one second earlier.
Scooter. Shaun.
And Coach Mosley has seen enough
of that fancy cute play.
Take out Shaun, he gonna be pissed.
Gonna fuck him up for the whole half.
For what?
For what? What'd I do?
Nothing?
Good shots, man.
I'm good, thank you.
So fuckin' tired of this shit, bro.
Oh, my God,
I'm fuckin' tired of this shit.
I'm done, bro. Next time they sub me in,
go ahead, Scoot. Stu.
For Pasadena, it's number 32,
Deandro Worrell in...
Mark, sub, get Jordan, man.
Standin' up, back. Sub. Get him.
Not detailed, man. Sit down.
Left angle drive.
Oooh. He's slapped in the face.
How does that happen, dude?
- Tough foul.
- Simaine, sub.
- Let's go, Maine!
- Let's go, Maine.
Zeigler will sit out.
You wanna go to Fresno State, right?
They came to see you today.
And you let that mug go by you? Seriously?
This is your moment.
Hampton on the right elbow.
No-look pass to Muhammad.
Oh, my gosh!
So, turnover East LA.
- Come on, bro.
- He can't catch nothin'.
He not gonna change until you bench him.
Make him come off the bench a game.
Make him get hungry. He not hungry.
He just... He know he gonna start,
he know he gonna play.
He's not hungry.
- Hey, sail a little bit harder.
- All right.
So that pass can get there.
- You were wide open. Feel me?
- Yeah.
Throw it, throw it... You threw it so high.
Another turnover by East LA.
He'd have 30 points every game,
he just run to the front
of the fuckin' rim.
God damn, it's frustratin' to watch a dude
just throw opportunities away, man.
He just,
"Cool, I just got a D1 offer, I'm cool."
Sub. Get him.
You shot one jump shot all game.
Don't talk, bro.
Just made one.
Come on.
You don't want me to get turned up.
I swear to God, you don't want me
to get turned up, don't talk shit.
Hampton to a cutting Allen, reverse layup.
Good, and one.
You don't want me to get started.
Hampton cuts to the basket.
Easy finger roll.
Go, go, go!
Hampton, no-look pass,
wide open is KJ, easy layup.
- Point God!
- Sleeping giant!
Hampton, no-look pass.
Zeigler layup. Good.
Get it, man!
Hampton steps up for a three. Good.
- I'll take it.
- Your knee! Ah!
I'll take it, Joe!
Did he pull something?
Yeah, his old ass pulled somethin'. He got
no business trying to dunk anything.
Marquis Copeland
checks into the ball game.
Copeland wide open lane right side,
tomahawk slam.
Gets the crowd on their feet.
Get back, sprint. Sprint!
Come on, Quis. Come on, man.
Ajemian will drive,
and hard foul by Copeland.
- Why jog back?
- He dunked it.
- How he the first one back?
- How has that happened? Timeout.
How does that happen? How...
It's a made basket. How does that happen?
I had two.
Huh? I didn't...
I'm not talkin' about two.
Sub, Taj, get in. Get in.
- It's everybody's responsibility.
- Gotta get back.
- It's everybody's responsibility.
- You gotta get back.
"I had two."
Forget your man, we gotta stop the ball!
Everybody sprints back.
We joggin', we got a dunk, celebratin'...
We good, we good.
And we got guys joggin' back.
How does that happen?
You know when he on one.
You seen what he do to niggas, bro.
How does that happen?
He on one, bro.
We celebratin'. We tryin' to ride.
Here we go. "Finish" on three.
- One, two, three.
- Finish.
I didn't even ask who you had.
I'm talkin' to everybody.
I said, "How do we not get back?"
And you said, "I got two." About you.
You should have said, "We gotta get back."
Not, "I got two, so it's not my fault."
I wasn't saying it
like it wasn't my fault.
I was saying who was our assignments.
Chill, chill, chill. You good. You fine.
You gonna bury yourself like that.
I'm already buried, nigga.
We up 30, I don't even play.
- Bro, we good. All right?
- We gotta get back.
I'm talking to you. We gotta get back.
Yes.
Don't go back and forth with him.
You think you buried now, bro, you're not.
You're in your first year.
That's where you're at.
- That's where you at.
- Time...
All right? Stay true to yourself, bro.
Would you do that to Coach K?
Would you talk like that to Coach K?
- No.
- No.
Simaine.
All starters
are done tonight.
It's always fun to see lower parts of
the depth chart getting some playing time.
- Hey, good call, ref.
- I got it.
I told him good call.
Congratulate the stripes.
- Good shit, baby.
- No, no, no, you don't do that, Shaun.
- Don't do that. They gonna remember.
- That I cheered 'em on?
- No, you said, "Good S."
- I just can't do a damn thing right today.
What can I do right today, Coach?
- Pick up some towels?
- Huh?
Is that gonna satisfy you?
Did I do something right today?
- I'm not satisfied.
- Goddamn, shit!
I can't do a damn thing right!
All right, well, let's wrap it up, fellas.
We good.
East LA wins it.
Seventeen games in a row.
The big question, can East LA
finally get over the hump
and win a state title?
If you ask Coach Mosley,
he'll shrug and tell you there's
just too much to work on and improve on,
despite history being made
here in this 2019...
Hey, here we go. Bring it in.
Let's get those weights in real quick.
- One, two, three.
- Family. Let's hit the weights.
- Hit the weights. Let's hit it.
- I got a reservation at TAO.
- What's TAO, yo?
- It's this Japanese spot.
They got this lobster fried rice.
- Why Joe get to go home?
- Simply because you ain't Joe...
- It's just...
- That's fucked up, Coach.
Niggas don't get
special treatment in this bitch!
Get to work. Let's go, let's go.
Hey, Lik! Lik!
Come on, K.
Come on, let's just get it done, man.
Let's get it done.
He gonna get attitude,
but he gotta work out after.
He missed three days of practice.
- Mm-hm.
- He's out there tired.
He's mad I wanna take him out, he's tired.
We can wait. We have no problem.
We'll take a win,
but almost feel like we lost.
The kids, they have those habits.
They wait the last minute to study.
They're waiting the last minute to,
"Oh, the team is good?
Okay, now let's perform."
Everybody partner up.
It's the challenges of a coach, man.
You have to tolerate a lot.
- Just partner up real quick.
- Just get the work in and let's go.
We done this before.
- Come on, hurry up.
- Man, come on, so we can go.
- Come on, dawg.
- Fuck this shit.
- Come on, bro!
- And go.
You have to tolerate people.
You live with 'em every day.
Sometimes, I just...
I wanna just really just rip.
You look even angrier
in HD, Coach.
- Huh?
- All the beads of sweat.
The veins popping.
- The veins poppin'! The veins be poppin'.
- Hell, yeah.
- They got the neck vein already.
- You know what?
Want me to tell you my concern?
Want me to tell you my concern?
We'll be here for an hour.
Please do.
My concern is making sure we get you
where you supposed to be.
That's my concern.
Tonight could have been the moment.
I don't know.
He said, "I'm comin' to watch LJ."
And until I told you,
you didn't turn it up.
I'm... I'm concerned
that we gotta get 11 guys scholarships.
I'm concerned.
You want me to chill and be happy
and not hold people accountable?
Is that what you... what you want?
If you not prepared for that moment,
where that high major coach is there,
that scholarship that you wanted,
he's there.
I've had it happen, right, Coach?
"Hey, man, so-and-so here to see,"
and he ain't ready.
And my heart is burdened with that.
That's all.
"Coach gonna make us do extra.
We gotta come in today,
we gotta practice on Saturday, we gotta..."
Because all I'm tryin' to do, all I want
is for you to get what you came to get.
Ain't nobody tryin'
to be Coach Mosley crazy.
Hell, I miss my son game tonight.
How you think that make me feel?
How does that feel?
I don't wanna miss my son game.
Miss my daughter softball game,
and missin' and missin'.
'Cause I'm here committed to you.
You mad at me for askin' for extra.
You mad at me.
"Damn, we gotta do what?"
You mad at me,
and my son, I freakin' missed his game.
You mad at me for committin' to you
and not my son.
Not my daughter.
You mad at me for havin' you do extra
and not my wife?
"When you comin' home?"
"I'm doin' weights right now."
"I'm tryin' to get him a scholarship."
I can tell you some guys who's,
"Forget these fools,
this fool wanna roll his eyes at me?"
"Hey, 'team' on three, practice over."
I'm get... Right?
"Practice over.
Oh, y'all don't wanna... Pfft. I'm out."
And then you left dry, nobody carin'.
You don't go to school or nothin'.
Don't nobody care?
Anybody see the administrator?
Don't nobody care.
But us.
Don't nobody care
if you go to school or not.
They don't care.
We care.
I'm in. I'm in. I'm in.
You gotta invest back.
If you do it, you do it, you do it,
you do it, you do it,
who the hell can beat us?
And then everybody, everybody eats.
You think you know?
You ain't been there, you don't know.
'Cause if you knew, you would be
on a scholarship right now.
Any y'all got three kids and a wife,
and bills to pay?
You gotta teach class at eight
in the mornin'? And I'm here every day.
With energy, ready to go.
But I'm the crazy one.
I'm the crazy one.
And you need the scholarship.
Come on, man.
Here we go. "Family," let's go.
- See y'all tomorrow.
- "Family" on three.
- One, two, three.
- Family.
Shaun, you not workin' out?
I'll be in here.
- Let's go. You got him, Coach?
- I got him.
Four weeks left!
Where he go?
Yeah, where'd he go?
Where'd he go? He took off?
He ran right up outta here.
I caught the back of him.
Out the door, but... fuck.
♪ Yo, yo, yo ♪
♪ Yo, uh, yo, yo ♪
♪ Y-yo, yo, y-yo ♪
- ♪ It could all be so simple ♪
- Two more. Let's go.
- Two good ones. Two good ones.
- Let's go.
- No, five good ones.
- ♪ But you'd rather make it hard ♪
♪ Uh, uh ♪
- ♪ Loving you is like a battle ♪
- ♪ It's like a battle ♪
- ♪ And we both end up with scars ♪
- ♪ That's what I'm sayin' ♪
- ♪ Yo ♪
- ♪ Tell me who I have to be ♪
♪ Who I have to be ♪
♪ To get some reciprocity ♪
- ♪ See, no one loves you more than me ♪
- ♪ No one loves you more ♪
- ♪ And no one ever will ♪
- ♪ No one ever will ♪
♪ Yo, y-yo ♪
- ♪ Is this just a silly game ♪
- ♪ Silly game ♪
- ♪ That forces you to act this way? ♪
- ♪ To act this way ♪
- ♪ Forces you to scream my name? ♪
- ♪ Yeah, yo, yo ♪
- ♪ Then pretend that you can't stay ♪
- ♪ Uh-huh, yeah ♪
♪ Tell me who I have to be ♪
♪ I know what we gotta do, uh-huh ♪
- ♪ To get some reciprocity ♪
- ♪ Yeah, I know, I know ♪
♪ Uh-huh ♪
♪ See, no one loves you more than me ♪