The Way Back (2020) Movie Script
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[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[SHOWER RUNNING]
[SCANNER BEEPS]
Okay, Jackie,
yourtotal is 67.85, please.
All right.
[STORE OWNER] Here you go,
my friend.
[MAN] Hey,
yo, Jackie.
Hey, Sal.
What's going on, man?
- What's up, man? How you doing?
- [JACK] All right. How you doing?
- Good to see ya.
- You too.
Yeah, what's going on?
Where's your turkey today?
Uh, my sister's house.
My mom just moved in over there,
so we're doing Thanksgiving.
Oh, nice,
man. Nice.
Well, say hi to your mom
and Beth for me.
I will. You still reffin'
the Catholic League games?
Little bit, here and there.
Yeah, my oldest is at UC Santa Cruz.
So, you know,
every little bit helps, right?
You bet.
Well, happy Thanksgiving.
Happy Thanksgiving, Jackie.
Good seeing ya.
- [JACK] You too, Sal.
- What's up, man?
Give me a couple
of scratch-offs, please.
- [STORE OWNER] Sure.
- Thank you.
[STORE DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES]
[BOTTLES CLINK]
[KURT] Don't fill up on bread.
You gotta eat
the rest of your beans. Okay?
Hey! Happy Thanksgiving.
- [KURT] Look who's here.
- [RYAN] Hey, Uncle Jack's here!
- [KURT] Hey. Happy Thanksgiving to you.
- [JACK] How you doing, man?
- Glad you could make it.
- No problem. How's the car business?
- It is going good. Thank you For asking.
- Good.
Would you like some wine?
No. I have some.
Thank you very much.
Hi, Uncle Fart-Poop.
- Uncle Fart-Poop!
- [LAUGHTER]
Don't tickle me!
No, no, no.
- Uncle Jack's getting tickled.
- [ANNE] Hi, sweetheart.
- Hi, Mom.
- [ANNE] Mmm.
- Hello, sweetheart.
- [JACK] All right. Good.
Hey. Happy Thanksgiving.
- Sorry I'm late.
- Hi. Really?
- Yeah.
- Some people call when they're late.
I didn't have my phone with me.
[BETH] Oh. Well, then why have a phone
if you're not gonna use it?
I don't know.
That's a good question.
- How you doing, buddy?
- I'm good.
Good to see you.
[BETH] I don't understand why
somebody has a phone
if they don't ever answer it.
[JACK] Can I have
some of those potatoes, Mom?
- [ANNE] Do you want some potatoes?
- [JACK] Thank you so much.
[JACK] Did your mom evertell you
about our fish tank when we were kids?
No.
Well, your grandmother
took us to the pet store
and we got a fish tank, you know,
a bunch of cool fish.
And I came from school the next day,
and the fish tank
was filled with shampoo.
[CHUCKLES] And all the fish were dead.
And your mom was there crying.
And Grandma said, "Why'd you put shampoo
in the fish tank?"
And your mom said, "I wanted to give
the fish a bubble bath."
[BOTH LAUGH]
Why'd she give the fish a bubble bath?
You're gonna have to ask your mom.
I don't know.
I guess she always wanted
to take care of everybody.
Mwah. I love you.
Don't let your mom near those fish.
- Good night, Uncle Jack.
- [JACK] Good night, chief.
- Hey.
- Hey.
How's Mom,
uh, settling in?
Uh, good. Yeah, really good.
She seems to be.
Can't believe you got her outta Seaside.
Right? It's different now.
It's just all young kids
- and little couples...
- Yeah.
Running around, families.
I think she was feeling
like a castaway out there.
[YAWNS] Yeah, you did good.
I'm glad she's here.
What's going on with you?
What's new?
Not much.
Are you seeing anybody?
[SCOFFS] No.
- I wish you would.
- [SIGHS]
I really do.
I would feel much better.
I hate the idea of you down there
by yourself all the time.
What do you hate about it so much?
That you're,
you know, just alone.
Just drinking all the time and not...
I'm fine.
I appreciate it.
But it's... I'm fine.
I know that Ang worries about you, so...
What does Ang have to do with it?
Why do you know
what Ang would worry about?
Because she called and she wanted to see
how you were doing.
- She called you?
- Yeah.
- Why?
- Is that okay?
I don't know. I mean, what,
she called you to talk about me?
Why didn't she just call me directly?
She just wanted to see how you're doing.
[SCOFFS]
Well... [MUMBLES]
I'm fine.
Look, I know Kathy Collins
says she sees your car
outside Harold's bar every night.
Well, if Kathy Collins says it,
- must be true.
- Mmm-hmm.
You know that something must be wrong.
So, I go to work, and then after work
sometimes I go have a beer.
- I'm just saying...
- You better start calling people.
- Okay.
- Better get on this fucking case.
- Okay.
- She has other things
maybe she ought to be worrying about,
instead of worrying
about how much I drink.
I mean, she needs to worry about
staying out of her fucking refrigerator.
- Nice.
- She's losing a huge war
- agatnst the refrigerator.
- What are you talking about? Jack...
- She needs to find a fucking treadmill.
- Stop it.
That is so mean.
She's my friend.
Well, she should mind her business.
- Okay.
- That's why I don't come here.
- 'Cause it always turns to...
- [CAN CLATTERS]
[CHATR SCRAPES]
Which one of the 20 bedrooms
am I supposed to be staying in?
Take the second one on the left.
[JACK] Hey,
Ang, it's Jack.
I'm just, uh...
Happy Thanksgiving.
[INHALES DEEPLY]
I wanted to call you,
see how you're doing.
And also because my sister told me
that you had called her
and wanted to know how I was doing.
I'm just saying,
if you want to know in the future
how I'm doing...
you can call me,
as I still have the same phone number
that I had...
when we were married.
[ON PHONE] Hey, Jack, it's Miguel.
Haven't heard from you
for a while, so...
Sofia was asking about you.
Thought I'd give you a call
and see how you're doing.
Thought maybe we'd have you over...
[BUTTON CLICKS]
Hello, Jack,
this is Father Edward Devine
calling from Bishop Hayes High School.
Will you give me a call back here
at the rectory when you get a chance?
1-424-145-3233.
And I'll be up until about 10:00
this evening.
If that doesn't work,
we can chat in the morning.
Thanks, Jack.
God bless.
[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
- [BETLY] Hello, Jack. [CHUCKLES]
- Hi.
[BETTY] How are you?
Come on in.
[JACK] Thanks so much.
[BETTY] So, did you have
a nice Thanksgiving?
- [JACK] I did. How about you?
- [BETTY] Oh, it was very nice.
All the kids and the grandkids were in.
- I was in my glory. [LAUGHS]
- I bet.
- Good for you.
- Oh.
You can go right in here.
Father Devine
is just finishing up a call.
So, he will be out
in just a couple of minutes,
so just make yourself comfortable.
- Thanks.
- Yeah.
We are all so excited at the idea
of you possibly coming back
to be with us at Hayes.
[CHUCKLES]
It's nice to see you agatn,
Jack.
[DOOR OPENS]
[FATHER EDWARD] Hello, Jack.
Hey, Father.
It's good to see you.
Thanks for making the drive.
- Sure. No problem.
- Sit down, please.
So, been a while, hasn't it?
Yeah. Since, uh...
my father's funeral.
- That long?
- Mmm.
My goodness.
Where does the time go?
- If I knew, I would tell ya.
- [CHUCKLES]
- Married?
- I'm separated now. For a while.
- Any children?
- No kids.
Okay. [CHUCKLES LIGHTLY]
Well, Jack, it is really good
to see you agatn.
And I suppose you're wondering
why I called you over here.
I'm a little curious.
Yeah.
Our basketball coach, Tom McGarrity,
had a heart attack the other night.
Oh, no.
He's expected to make a full recovery,
but his wife doesn't think
it's a very good idea
for him to return to the team.
And I tend to agree.
We need a new coach, Jack.
You're the first person I thought of.
Try to suppress your enthusiasm.
No, I appreciate it.
I just... It's, um...
You know, it's just, I've been away
from the game for a long time.
I understand.
I understand.
You know,
I've never even coached before.
I just played,
so I don't...
Is the, uh...
I mean...
Is the team any good?
- No. No.
- [BOTH CHUCKLE]
We haven't been competitive
for quite a while, actually.
In fact, the last time
they made the playoffs?
Back when you were playing.
Wow.
Well, I really appreciate you
thinking of me, Father.
- It's just, I...
- Go home and think it over, Jack.
Well, I got a lot going on
in my life right now.
- It's very busy.
- Go home, think it over.
Call me with your decision
in the morning.
- Tomorrow morning?
- Our next game is Monday night, Jack.
I don't have a lot of time.
[JACK] Hey, Father,
listen, I...
[CHEWING] Mmm...
Thank you so much
for thinking of me. Um...
It's just not the right time for me
to take this on. Urn...
You know, my life's very full right now.
Very full.
I just, um...
I've just been away from the game
for so long, you know?
I've just been away from the game
for so long.
Father...
Listen, I've given it a lot of thought,
and I appreciate it.
It's just not the right time for me
right now.
I've been away from the game
for so long.
I don't think I can help you.
I don't think...
I don't think I can help you.
Father. Jack.
Not gonna happen.
[CHUCKLES]
[SIGHS]
What the fuck am I supposed to do?
The team can't play. They're no good.
They're no good.
I can't wave a magic wand,
turn them into fucking Michael Jordan.
I mean. Just...
I don't know.
Maybe.
I don't know.
I can't help you with this.
I can't help you with this team.
[INAUDIBLE]
Father,
I've given it a lot of thought.
I just have no interest in coaching
your fucking basketball team.
[URINATING]
That's all there is to it.
Oh, fuck.
[SIGHS]
- [SAM] Get back on D!
- [BALL THUDDING]
- [DAN] Make up for it.
- [SNEAKERS SQUEAKING]
[MARCUS] What the fuck?
[KENNY] Hey, G. G!
[DAN] D up! Hey, get back!
Let's go! Let's go!
Move! Go quick!
Quickly, quickly, quickly.
[SAM] Stop him up top.
Chubbs, go to the wing.
Watch it.
Screen, screen, screen.
[MARCUS] Yo, get through,
get through.
Get through that.
[CHUBBS] Hey, Freeze.
[KENNY] Go!
- [DAN] Good pass.
- [SAM] Come on!
- [CHUBBS] Hey, nice job, D-boy.
- [MARCUS] What's up, Chubbs?
[PLAYERS CONTINUE SHOUTING]
[DAN] Hey, Coach.
Dan Espinosa.
Nice to meet ya.
- You're the assistant?
- I am.
Uh, I also teach algebra
here at the school.
Uh, I really appreciate you
stepping up like this.
It means a lot to the boys.
Um, do you want me to call everybody in,
- do some intros?
- No, that's okay.
- [SAM] Take the layup, Marcus!
- [MARCUS] Money!
[JACK] Just, uh, get a feel for
what I'm working with here.
- [DAN] Yeah.
- This the whole team? Ten kids?
That's all we've got.
A lot different than
when you played here, huh?
Yeah. No shit.
We got 100 kids just try out.
104 my senior year.
- Play ball here?
- Well, I mean, not like you.
Spent most of my time on the bench,
holding a clipboard like I am now.
I was a couple of years behind you.
Uh, class of '98.
Enrollment's really taken a dive
since then.
[SAM] Freeze, Freeze, Freeze!
I can run down the starting five,
if you like.
- [SAM] Box out!
- Sure.
So, uh, the kid with the ball,
that's Brandon Durreit.
[JACK] Relation to Russ Durrett?
[DAN] Yeah, that's his son.
He's a great player.
Really has a good feel for the game.
Easily our most talented guy.
And then, um, playing besides him
in the backcourt,
that's Chubbs Hendricks.
His, uh, real name's Ronald.
- [MARCUS] Oh, yeah.
- [CHUBBS] Right here, this man.
[DAN] And, um,
Kenny Dawes out on the wing.
Bit of a showboat,
but, uh...
Yeah, he's a solid shooter.
- Whoo!
- [DAN] Good long-range stroke.
[SAM] Get back!
Get back!
[DAN] Sam Garcia,
he's our senior captatn.
Not much of a scoring threat,
but he's a solid defender.
Good kid.
And then Marcus Parrish.
[MARCUS] Money!
[DAN] That is our center.
[MARCUS] What the fuck
are you doing, bro?
- [JACK] That kid's the center?
- [DAN] Yeah.
[JACK] What is he, 6'4"?
- Shut the fuck up, man.
- 6'3".
You guys must get murdered
on the boards.
Yeah, it's not been good at all.
[SAM] You're giving 'em
open buckets, Marcus.
[MARCUS] This is practice, man.
I don't care.
Whds that kid there?
The white shadow.
Oh, yeah, that's,
uh, Bobby Freeze.
He's our sixth man.
He's actually a starting strong safety
for the football team.
Then the resi of the guys, uh,
Dearbom, Daly, Carter, and Amato.
I had to bring those guys up from JV
just so we could hold a practice.
- [SAM] Take the layup!
- [MARCUS] Money!
[CANER] Come on, box out!
All right.
Blow the whistle for me.
- [SAM] Freeze. Chill out, man.
- [FREEZE] Yo, take it easy, man.
[WHISTLE BLOWS]
[SAM] Stop grabbing me.
[FREEZE] That's clean.
That's clean D.
[DAN] Bring it in. Let's go.
Hustle, hustle.
All right, guys. As discussed.
I am honored to turn things over
to your new head coach,
Jack Cunningham.
[PLAYERS] What's up, Coach?
- [JACK] How you doing, guys?
- [PLAYERS] Good. Good.
[MARCUS] What's up, Coach?
[JACK] You're Marcus, right?
That's right.
Get used to calling my name, too.
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
All right. All right.
Marcus, tell me what you see out there.
[MARCUS] Um...
[EXHALES FORCEFULLY] I see Nikki's
fine ass keep looking at me.
Saw she was bending over.
- She tryin' to get my attention.
- Marcus, just be respectful, please.
He asked me what I saw.
What, do you want me to lie to him?
- You know what I see, Marcus?
- What?
- You're the tallest player on the team.
- Oh.
Makes me wonder why you're putting
three-pointers up
every time you come down the court.
Oh, that's 'cause
I got a candy-stroke, Coach.
Ask Coach Dan. I made the most threes
on the team last year.
Coach Dan, how many threes
did Marcus make last year?
[DAN] Um, Marcus...
made 34.
[JACK] Outta how many attempts?
- [DAN] Out of 130.
- [PLAYERS LAUGH]
What's that a percentage of?
For a percentage of 26.
[PLAYERS] Damn!
26%, Marcus.
You wanna know
why they're leaving you open?
It's 'cause they don't think
you could hit the ocean from the beach.
- [PLAYERS LAUGH]
- [CHUBBS] Oh, shit.
Yo, he just spit facts at your ass, bro.
- Man, shut up.
- [CHUBBS] Look it, come on, man.
Don't get all butt-hurt just 'cause
he droppin' some knowledge on you.
You wanna see butt-hurt?
Keep talking shit,
- watch me beat your fat ass.
- [CHUBBS] Shut the fuck up, yo.
- You ain't gonna do shit.
- [JACK] Hey.
I don't need any help.
Who is second in threes on the team?
Number two would be Kenny with 25.
Outta how many attempts?
- [DAN] Sixty-one.
- Percentage of?
- [DAN] Forty-one.
- [KENNY EXCLATMS]
Snap. You hear that?
Give me the rock,
let me go HAM on some bitches.
Yeah, more like ham and cheese, man.
Nah, actually, ham and cheese
is what your sister
fries me up after I'm done
fiddling her bean.
Yo, show some respect.
Coach is here, man.
- [FREEZE] Watch your mouth, man.
- [CHUBBS] Kenny, get in line.
[JACK] All right,
run it back.
Marcus, this time your feet
don't leave the patnt.
- Brandon.
- [CHUBBS] All right. Let's go. Come on.
[MARCUS] Let's go, y'all.
You're the point guard, right?
Put 'em in a motion offense.
- [BRANDON] Chubbs.
- [JACK] Call it out, Brandon.
Don't just wave your hand in the atr.
Doesn't talk much,
does he?
[DAN] Well, I have been coaching
that kid for three years
and I can courtt on one hand
how many times our conversations
have gone past,
"Yes, Coach" and "No, Coach."
- [CHUBBS] Good shot, baby.
- [MARCUS] And That's money!
[DAN] Here you go.
Keys, game balls,
and then I put together a flash drive
just in case you want to get familiar
with the sets we've been running.
I'm also gonna give you my phone number
if you have any questions.
Okay.
Hey, why didn't you take the job?
Would've made sense.
The assistant coach,
step in, take the job.
My mom has MS, so...
My sister takes care of her
during the day,
but she's got three kids of her own.
So I take nights.
- Sure.
- Then with practices,
and then you have scouting...
Yeah, no. Of course.
It makes sense.
There just aren't enough hours
in the day.
- I'm sorry. I didn't mean to pry.
- No, no, no. It's cool.
We all have
our own cross to bear, right?
Um... So you should be good.
Great.
Thank you very much.
No problem.
[EXHALES DEEPLY]
- Oh, Coach.
- Yeah?
What's the dress code like these days?
Oh. Coat and tie for the head coach.
- Great. Thanks.
- Sure. No problem.
- [SIGHS]
- [BALL BOUNCING]
[RATTLING]
[PLAYER 1] Yeah!
[PLAYER 2] Right here,
right here. Yeah!
[PLAYER 3] Here we go!
[PLAYER 4] Yeah!
[SAM] Take the shot.
That's you, Marcus.
Hey, Jack.
Nice to see you in the gym agatn.
[JACK] Thanks.
[SAM] That's you.
Jack, this is Father Mark Whelan.
He is our team chaplatn.
Pleasure to meet you, Jack.
- You too.
- Any first game jitters?
Fuck. I'm nervous as shit.
- [CHUCKLES] Yeah.
- What's this? I.
Oh. They do it before every game.
Gets them psyched up, I guess.
- [BUZZER RINGS]
- [CHUBBS] Let's go!
All right, let's go.
Bring it in.
[PLAYERS SHOUTING]
- [DAN] Ready?
- No.
[FREEZE] Let's go.
[JACK] All right, guys.
Let's see what we're made of.
[JACK] And the big burly inmate says,
"Don't worry about it.
Everythings gonna be fine.
I just want to play a little game."
He goes, "Okay."
And he says,
"In this game, you can pick
whether or not you want
to be the husband or the wife."
And he says, "All right."
"Well?"
"Well, guess I'll be the husband."
He goes, "Okay."
Come on over here
and suck your wife's dick."
- [LAUGHTER]
- That's a good one.
"Suck your wife's dick."
I fucking love that.
- Hey, Doc.
- [DOC] Hey.
How'd opening night go, ace?
Yeah, our boy got sent to the woodshed.
Hey, get Doc a drink, will ya?
And hit me with another one.
Doc, did I ever tell you the one
about the nerdy accourttant
who does 15 years for embezzlement?
- Don't worry about me.
- [DOC] I'm not. I know.
Just let me do...
Do my thing.
- Do your thing.
- All right. I appreciate it.
- Okay.
- I'm just gonna...
- All right. Good night, Doc.
- [DOC] Good night.
[OPNS GLOVE BOX]
[CHUBBS] Get your man!
Get your man!
Come on!
[SAM] Watch him.
[ON PHONE] Jackie!
It's Miguel agatn.
Just checking in to see
if you got my call
about David's birthday party.
Give me a call when you get a chance.
[ANGELA] Hey, it's me.
I know it's late notice,
but I'm gonna be down by you
for a client visit tomorrow
and wanted to see
if you wanted to meet for lunch.
Anyway,
call me when you get this.
- Hi.
- Hey.
Sorry I'm late.
Damn bus broke down on the 710.
It was a nightmare.
- [JACK] I just got here.
- Okay.
[JACK] You look good.
Thanks. You too.
How's the new job working out?
[GROANS] It's insurance.
It's boring, but it pays the bills.
Good.
Heard you're coaching basketball.
- Beth tell you that?
- Yeah.
So, you having fun?
Yeah.
I'd be having more fun
if we won a game...
[ANGELA CHUCKLES]
But keeps me occupied.
Keeps my mind off other things.
Good.
I was worried about you.
What were you worried about me for?
You weren't moving on with your life.
You were seeing the world
in some dark ways.
Why?
Are you?
Seeing the world in dark ways?
Moving on with your life.
Uh-oh.
Hafs his name?
Nick.
How'd you guys meet?
Through mutual friends.
How long has it been going on for?
Few months.
Few months? What, like, six months?
Eight months?
Okay. All right.
Come on.
[WATTRESS] You know
what we want for lunch?
Um...
Just give us a second, actually.
Thank you.
[WATTRESS] Sure.
I wanted to tell you myself
before you found out
through one of our friends.
Say something, Jack.
What do you want me to say?
"Congratulations"?
No.
- Completely fucking blindsided by this.
- Not "congratulations."
Blindsided?
We've been separated for over a year.
Will I see you at the birthday party?
What?
Miguel and Sofia.
They're having
a birthday party for David.
Satd he called you a few times.
Let me know if you want to go together.
Bye.
[ERIC] Jackie hit's his second free throw
and he just holds his hand like this
in the atr for like 30 seconds.
Purcell says, "Jackie, you keep holding
your hand like that"
and Eric's gonna ask you out."
[PATRONS LAUGHING]
Fifty-five points, man.
- [RUSS] To the legend.
- [PATRONS] Yeah.
[MAN] You gotta dim the lights
for the man.
- [RUSS] To the legend.
- [MAN 2] To the legend.
[PATRONS LAUGHING
AND TALKING INDISTINCTLY]
[JACK] Get the fuck outta here.
[MAN] Why the fuck do
I need a sausage?
He was like,
"It's a PK. It's a Polish kielbasa."
[PATRONS LAUGHING]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[JACK] Ah. Yeah.
[DOC] Fellas.
Evening, boys.
[PATRONS CHEER]
[ERIC] We're talking old times here.
[DOC] I know what you're talking,
and I'm telling you it's time for him
to get going.
Come on, let's go now.
Come on. Let's go.
No, you're not.
- Now you are!
- [PATRONS CHEER]
[ALL MUGHING]
I'm up.
[PATRONS] whoa!
- Shit.
- There you go. That's it.
[MAN] Where are you taking my friend?
Where are you taking my friend?
[PATRONS CONTINUE CHATTERING]
[FATHER MARK] Okay, okay.
Uh, where's Kenny?
Kenny is the only one missing.
Kenny and Coach.
[KENNY] I just want you to know
that I respect you, a'ight?
- And I love you.
- [GIRL] Hmm.
Every time that ball
goes through the hoop,
- I'm gonna be thinking about you.
- Kenny.
Okay? And that goes
through the hoop a lot.
- Kenny, let's go! The bus is watting.
- [GIRL] Okay.
Hey, what up, Coach?
- Bye. Yeah, I'll text you after. Okay.
- You'll text me? Okay. Cool.
Hey, what's going on, man?
- [GIRL] Good luck!
- Thanks.
[JACK] You better watch out.
Priests catch you doing that
and you're gonna be spending
your weekends here.
[KENNY] Nah, but it makes
my game better though, Coach.
[CROWD CHANTING] Memorial!
Memorial! Memorial!
Memorial!
Memorial!
Memorial!
Memorial!
Memorial!
Memorial!
[PLAYER] Let's go.
[DEVON] Hold on,
hold on.
I want to talk to you.
These scrubs ain't worthy of being
on the same court as us.
[CHANTING CONTINUES]
[PLAYERS TALK INDISTINCTLY]
[CROWD CHEERING]
[CROWD CHANTING]
- Hey, Coach.
- [LOMBARDO] Hey, Coach.
- How are ya?
- Good, good.
I heard you got a new general in charge.
Yeah. Jack Cunningham.
Yeah. I'm surprised you could keep him
oui of the bar
long enough to hold practice.
[CROWD CONTINUES CHANTING AND CHEERING]
Coach Lombardo.
Jack Cunningham.
He says that
like I don't know who he is.
He's the best high school
basketball player I've ever seen.
Listen, I was front row when he hung 47
agatnst Trinity
at the Catholic League semis.
Got quite a team there, Coach.
21's a hell of a ball player.
Yeah. So, how ya liking
coaching so far?
[JACK] Great.
Just getting used to the players.
What players?
Ah, I'm just breaking your stones, Jack.
- Good luck.
- [LOMBARDO] You can have the luck.
I'll take the thoroughbreds.
What an asshole this guy is.
Yeah, big time.
[PLAYERS YELLING AND CHEERING]
[BUZZER RINGS]
Let's go.
Bring it in.
[SAM] Let's go,
let's go, let's go!
[CHUBBS] Holy shit.
[SAM] Here we go,
here we go, here we go.
Chubhs. Hey!
No more dancing.
Coach, are you serious?
Yeah. I'm serious.
We're one in nine.
You're out there jumping around
like you hit the Powerball.
You're embarrassing yourself.
Win a few games,
we can talk about bringing it back.
But for now, that act's retired.
Got it?
Yeah.
[BRASS BAND PLAYING MUSIC]
[CROWD CHEERING]
[DEVON] One, two, three.
- [WHISTLE BLOWS]
- [CROWD CHEERS]
[CHUBBS] Hey.
Help, help.
- [CROWD CHEERS]
- Let's go!
[CROWD CHANTS]
Motion, motion.
[PLAYER] Let's go!
Bring him through.
[KENNY] Hey, hey.
[SAM] Backup, back up.
[CROWD] Oh, yeah!
[JACK] Show hands.
Let's go, guys.
You guys gotta move.
[CROWD] Oh, yeah!
[DEVON] Let's go. Lock him up.
Lock him up.
[CROWD CHANTING]
- [JACK] Fuck.
- [DEVON] Come on.
[CROWD CHEERS]
Time-out!
[LOMBARDO] Get over here.
All right. Listen up.
- [FREEZE] Come on.
- [SAM] Fuck.
Get back.
Get back!
[CROWD CHEERS]
[CHEERING]
[WHISTLE BLOWS]
[CROWD CHANTING]
Defense, defense, defense!
- [MARCUS] Back screen, back screen.
- You guys gotta move! Set picks!
Then squeeze!
[CHANTING CONTINUES]
Go.
Let's go. Let's go. Let's go.
Shoot!
Watch the clock!
[CROWD] Five, four,
three, two, one!
[WHISTLE BLOWS]
[CROWD SHOUTING]
Time-out!
[BLOWS WHISTLE]
Full time-out.
Let's go.
Bring it in.
[DAN] Come on.
Let's go.
[JACK] Nobody sit's down.
Stand up.
Stand up.
I thought I said to force him left.
- Coach, I'm trying.
- Try harder.
What did I say
about fading off your man?
Why's shit always my fault?
Freeze, sub in for Marcus.
- You taking me out?
- That's right.
Sit the fuck down.
This is some bullshit, man.
Listen to me.
I want every one of you to reach
in your shorts right now
and tell me if you find a patr.
'Cause right now, you're playing
like a bunch of fucking pussies.
And that's the truth.
Next time 32 goes
over your back like that,
put a fucking elbow in his stomach.
Yes, Coach.
And if Childress tries to put you
on a poster like that,
you hit him so fucking hard
he never comes down the lane
like that agatn.
I got you.
Have a little fucking pride.
I don't give a shit if we lose
every fucking game this year.
I will not coach a team
that has been out-toughed.
All right?
Let's go!
Fuck yeah, man.
Here we go.
[SAM] "Team" on three.
One, two, three.
[PKIYERS] Team!
[CROWD CHANTING]
I'm in for 50.
[WHISTLE BLOWS]
[CHUBBS] Come on.
Switch up, switch up!
[BRANDON] Chubbs.
[KENNY] Let's Go, 3.
[CHUBBS] Come on!
[PLAYER GRUNTS]
[WHISTLE BLOWS]
[CROWD BOOING]
[FREEZE] Hey, hey, hey. Chill.
[FATHER MARK] Get back here.
Get back here.
[FREEZE] Get the fuck off, bro.
Hey, get the fuck off, bro.
[KENNY] Bro, I'll beat your ass.
I'll fuck you up, bitch.
[ALL CLAMORING]
[WHISTLE BLOWING]
That is a flagrant foul.
[FATHER MARK] Hey, that's enough.
That's enough.
I didn't do fucking anything, man.
Watch yourself.
- Get back there.
- Ge1 over there!
What the hell is that?
That guy should be out.
Control your players, Cunningham.
- That is bullshit, man.
- [CROWD BOOING]
- What the hell? Come on!
- [WHISTLE BLOWS]
Right. All right.
I'm feeling a comeback.
- Jack?
- Yeah.
Uh... [CLEARS THROAT]
Just wanted to have a little chat
with you
about something that was on my mind.
Um, I don't know if you recall
from your days as a student,
but we have a code of conduct at Hayes.
Part of that code includes
the use of appropriate language.
I understand you're trying to
motivate the team,
I just wonder if maybe
there's a different approach.
So, you would, uh...
You would like me to be
a little more, uh...
Christlike on the bench?
I'd like you to keep in mind
that our mission at Hayes
isn't to win basketball games.
It's to develop men
of integrity and fatth.
Just give it some thought for me.
Will you do that?
- Yes, I will.
- Thank you.
Father, let me ask you something.
With all the terrible stuff
going on in the world,
you think who's ever up there
really gives a shit
what I say to these kids?
[INHALES DEEPLY]
As Christians,
we are called by God
to integrate our fatth
inio our datly lives.
So, yes, Jack. I do think
he really gives a shit
about the example you set
for these young men.
Don't underestimate the impact
you can have on them.
[JACK] All right.
I'll take a look at the game tape.
We can talk about if we wanna use
that 1-3-1 zone.
[DAN] Got it.
Sounds good.
[JACK] Have a good night.
- Hey, Jack.
- Yeah?
I noticed some empty beer cans
in the office earlier.
- Do you...
- You've been sneaking around the office?
Well, Garcia lost a contact lens,
so the solution...
A friend came by.
He wanted to look at some...
And we were hanging out.
I mean, you're not gonna break my balls
about a couple of beer cans, are ya?
Just don't let it happen agatn, okay?
Yeah, no problem.
[SIGHS]
[ROWDY LAUGHTER]
Hey, hey, Jackie!
I'll sel you up inside, all right?
[CAR ENGINE STARTS]
[JACK] All right. We're gonna
change things up a little bit.
We're the smallest team in the league
and our half-court offense sucks.
We're gonna score some points
with defense. We gotta press.
1-2-1-1.
Call it the diamond press.
- [DOOR OPENS]
- Requires two things,
toughness and quickness.
We're gonna be picking up
after every dead ball.
Full court, all game.
Keep your clothes on, Marcus.
[MARCUS] Talking to me?
Come late to the game,
you don't play.
We'll talk about it
at practice tomorrow.
What are you talking about?
I'm, like, four minutes late.
You know what? Forget about tomorrow.
Go home. You're off the team.
Coach Dan, what the hell is his problem?
I'm barely lale.
You heard Coach, Marcus.
Go home.
[SCOFFS] Are you
fucking serious right now?
I'm barely fucking late.
Y'all fucking stupid, man.
This dumb-ass team.
Freeze, you're starting tonight.
Means you're gonna be guarding
the inbounder, okay?
Got it, Coach.
[CROWD CHEERING]
[SAL] Ah, this should be fun.
- Evening, Sal.
- What's up, Jackie?
Give us some friendly whistles tonight,
will you?
[CHUCKLES] Yeah, right. That's funny.
They ain't paying me enough for that.
[CHUBBS] Let's go.
Here we go.
[SAM] Freeze, Freeze, Freeze!
- [SAL] Hands up. Hands up!
- [JACK] Freeze, help! Help out.
Freeze, help!
- That's it!
- [WHISTLE BLOWS]
- What? Come on, ref.
- What's the call, ref?
White 23 blocked.
Two shois.
Oh, bullshit!
Come on!
That's a fucking horseshit call, Sal.
Jack, settle down
or it's gonna cost you.
It's bullshit.
- And you know it's fucking horseshit.
- That's why I didn't make it. All right?
- Tell him to go fuck himself.
- I'll tell him after the game.
[JACK] Bullshit!
God damn it!
[SAM] Box out.
Box out.
[CHUBBS] Let's go, y'all.
[CROWD CHANIING]
[JACK] Box out.
[CHUBBS] Come on, fellas.
Hey, let's box this out.
Rebound!
[FAN] Come on, Hayes!
Time-out!
Time-out!
- Sal, time-out. God damn it.
- [WHISTLE BLOWS]
[SAL] Time-out.
Full time-out here.
Full time-out here.
[SAM] God damn, man.
[JACK] Bring it in.
Sit down.
All right. Come on, guys.
Let's go. Let's win this fucking game.
We've got 15 seconds left.
We're gonna go on 8.
Gives us time for a rebound or a tip-in.
Brandon, 20's gonna pick you up
full court. All right?
Freeze, you're gonna come up
and set a ball screen for Brandon.
Brandon, you roll around to the right.
Garcia, come up,
set a back screen for Kenny.
Kenny, come out to the wing
for the three.
That way we got three options.
Brandon attacking right will look
for Freeze coming off the screen.
- Watch the clock! Watch the clock!
- [JACK] If neither of those are there,
go to Kenny for the three in the corner.
You got this, okay?
No, Don't just nod.
I wanna hear your voice. Yes or no?
- Yes, Coach.
- [WHISTLE BLOWS]
[FATHER MARK] Set it,
set it, set it!
[CHUBBS] That's you, B!
[FAN] Go, Brandon!
[FATHER MARK] Watch the clock!
Watch the clock!
[CHEERING]
[JACK] We won!
Brandon, you need a ride?
No, I'm good, Coach.
Where do you live?
Uh, Los Codona Ave.
Come on, get in the car.
You walk home alone every night?
[BRANDON] Mmm-hmm.
Where's Mom or Dad?
My mom died three years ago
and my dad's at home
with my little brothers.
That's why he didn't come
to any of the games?
Yeah.
You played a hell of
a game tonight.
Next time, shoot the ball.
On the last play?
That's your shot,
not Kenny's.
Yeah, the defense collapsed on me,
so Kenny was open in the corner.
Right.
So that was a smart play.
Sometimes a smart play
is not the right play.
You're the best player on the team.
The game's on the line,
100 times out of 100
I want you taking that shot.
Why is that so hard for you to believe?
What?
That you're the best player on the team.
You understand this game in a way
these guys don't.
I saw you get frustrated at Chubbs
when he didn't go backdoor
on the ball reverse.
Or Freeze, when he didn't duck under
on the Atlanta set.
Why didn't you call him out
for not making the right play?
Uh, it's not really my thing
to call someone out.
I'm not, like,
the team captatn or nothing, so...
So, if I make you the captatn,
are you gonna chew Chubbs out
when he doesn't go backdoor?
Yes or no?
[BRANDON] I'm just up here on the left.
Night, Coach.
[RUSS] Hey, son.
Who that?
[BRANDON] That's my new coach.
[RUSS] All right.
Go on, get with that homework.
[BRANDON] Yes, sir.
[BRANDON] Atlanta high,
Atlanta high.
[JACK] Stop, stop,
stop. Reset.
- What set are we in, Brandon?
- Atlanta high.
- Did you call it out?
- Yeah.
- Did you guys hear him?
- [PLAYERS] Nah.
We're in an empty gym,
and nobody heard you.
Do it agatn.
[BRANDON SPEAKING LOUDER]
Atlanta high. Atlanta high.
[JACK] Reset.
Brandon, I still can't hear you.
You're gonna be our point guard,
people need to be able to hear
what you say on the floor.
You hear how loud I'm talking
right now?
Yeah.
- That's how loud you need to be.
- All right.
[CHUBBS] You can do it, B.
Come on, Brandon.
I can't hear you, Brandon.
[SAM] Come on, break that press.
B, break that press.
[JACK] Call it out.
Brandon, I can't hear you.
[BRANDON] Yo, are you fucking serious?
Get off me!
There's 3,000 people at Memorial
screaming their heads off,
and I don't know what set we're in!
[BRANDON] Fuck you!
Can you hear me now?
Can you?
[SOFTLY] Yeah,
I can hear you now.
[KNOCKS]
[MARCUS] What's up, Coach?
How'd you find my house?
I looked you up on my phone.
Oh.
What do you want?
Uh... So my momma,
she works till 7:00 every night.
And she was like,
she doesn't want me really
being out on my own after school.
So she was wondering maybe
if you'll let me back on the team.
I already told you, Marcus.
I don't want you on the team.
If it's about finding something to do
after school, I'll talk to Coach Dan.
We can set you up with study hall
or something like that.
All right?
Sorry.
[DOOR CLOSES]
[GNIFFS]
[KNOCKS]
I thought that was a pretty fatr offer,
Marcus.
[SNIFFLES]
My momma ain't sent me here, Coach.
I'm here 'cause I wanna play ball.
I miss it.
I don't fucking like
nothing else, Coach.
Don't swear.
There's a code of conduct policy
at the school.
- You know that?
- My bad.
There's a big section in there
about swearing.
I'm sorry. I won't swear.
[JACK SIGHS]
Be at practice tomorrow at 4:00.
- You serious?
- Don't be late.
Ah, fuck no...
I mean heck.
I'm sorry.
Heck no, I'm not gonna be late.
I'm sorry about cursing, Coach.
[JACK] Let's go.
Bring it in.
- [SAM] Oh, my gosh.
- [CHUBBS] It wasn't me.
A few things before we get started.
As you can see,
Marcus is rejoining the team.
Judging by that reaction,
I expect it'll be some time
before he regatns your respect.
Second thing is...
Sam and I discussed...
we're gonna make a change
to the captatn spot.
Brandon, you're gonna be our captatn
going forward.
That's it. Get to work.
[CHUBBS] All right, fellas.
Let's go. Let's work.
[SAM] Let's hustle up.
Let's do it.
Good shit, B.
I'll follow your lead. Come on.
[KENNY] Every time that ball goes
through the hoop,
I'm gonna be thinking about you.
- You know that?
- Yeah.
Yo, let's go.
- [KENNY] Bro, what?
- [BRANDON] Come on.
A'ight. I'll see you after.
Okay?
[GIRL] Bye, Kenny.
All right, let's go.
Move.
What did we discover last night
at Baptist?
[SAM] That defense creates offense.
[BRANDON] We have to matntatn pressure
for all four quarters.
- [JACK] That's right.
- [KENNY] All right.
[JACK] Discovered that
we're a pressing team.
We don't take any plays off,
we don't let 'em breathe.
As soon as they get over half-court,
we trap.
Even if the hall's
in the middle of the court?
Anywhere and everywhere.
You can't trap if the ball's
in the middle of the floor.
You need the sideline.
Who says?
We can do whatever we want.
[BRANDON] Get up!
[JACK] There you go. There you go.
Stay with him!
Pressure, pressure.
Don't let him breathe.
- There you go.
- [CHUBBS] Trap, trap, trap!
Bring it around. Stay on him.
- [CROWD GROANING]
- No! Bullshit!
That's a chickenshit fucking call.
God damn it!
- I'm working on it.
- Work harder.
Come on!
[JACK] If we're gonna
keep winning games,
we gotta make our lack of size
an advantage.
We gotta speed the game up.
We gotta play every possession
like it's a war.
Come on! You've gotta be fucking blind!
That's a horseshit call!
[MARCUS] We done yet, Coach?
We're a pressing team.
It's not even the third quarter.
We're just getting warmed up.
Motion, motion.
[JACK] What did we discover last night
at Downey?
We gotta take charges.
We gotta play with chips
on our shoulders.
Play with a chip
on your fucking shoulder. Goddamn right.
Marcus.
Come on, you're going in for Chubbs.
Marcus, I want you
to cover the inbound, okay?
Big arms.
Force him to pass into the comer.
That's it!
The Itttte things add up.
Let's do all the little things right.
Loose ball gets us two points.
Tip pass gets us to four.
Steal gets us another two.
Now we're at six.
Turnover out of our press gets us
to eight.
All this shit adds up.
Every box-out, every hustle,
every loose ball, every trap.
Put all that shit together,
all of a sudden
we're pretty fucking tough to beat.
[MAN] Hit that!
[CHEERING]
- [CHUBBS] That's how we do it.
- Got that candy-stroke.
[SAM] What quarter are we in, Coach?
[JACK] The fourth quarter.
The other team's gassed.
Let's see what we got left in the tank.
[CHEERLEADERS] Hayes, let's go!
Bishop Hayes, let's go!
Hayes, let's go!
Bishop Hayes,
let's go!
Kenny.
Coach, why you gotta do me
like that, man?
Good luck tonight, Kenny.
[BOYS CHEERING]
[SAM] What quarter are we in,
Coach?
Holy shit, look at that.
We just went into overtime.
[BOYS PANTING]
[JACK] What did we learn
about ourselves last night?
[BRANDON] That we have
to respect the game.
[JACK] That's right.
Respect.
[PANTING]
[KENNY] Yo, Coach,
how many more I got?
Well, Kenny,
it's not up to me.
- [GIRL 1] Let's keep him moving.
- [GIRL 2] Come on.
[KENNY] Hey, y'all.
How y'all gonna do me like that?
I loved each and every
one of you girls.
- [GIRL 1] Have fun.
- [GIRL 2] Bye, Kenny.
- Hayley, you know I...
- [GIRL 2] No, keep going.
[KENNY] Girls, you're all in my heart.
- You each have your own little section.
- [JACK] Hurry up!
- [WHISTLE BLOWS]
- I'm going!
- [GIRL 1] Bye!
- [GIRL 2] Bye, Kenny
[BIRD CALLING]
[JACK] Hey.
[BREATHLESSLY] Hey.
Ready? [EXHALES]
- [VIDEO GAME SOUND EFFECTS PLAYING]
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER]
- Hi.
- [SOFIA] Angela!
- [ANGELA] Hi.
- [SOFIA] Oh, my goodness.
So, the doctors are optimistic?
So far, so good.
Great.
They told us, "Lel him do all the things
any normal kid would do."
- But you know what remission's like.
- Yeah.
Living life watting on pins and needles
for the other shoe to drop.
- [INDISTINCI CHATTER]
- Spoke to Ethan lately?
[JACK] He called me a couple of times.
I haven't gotten back to him.
Andrew's not looking so good.
And now they're, uh,
talking about hospice.
Jesus.
Can I use a different bat, Dad?
[MIGUEL] Pick any bat you want, son.
But first say hello to Mr. Cunningham.
- [DAVID] Hi, Mr. Cunningham.
- Hey, how you doing, pal?
[CHUCKLES] Michael's dad.
You remember Michael.
Remember, we were in the hospital.
- It's all right.
- Halloween, we...
No, no, no.
We put you two in a wheelchatr
and then we pushed you all
around the hospital
- collecting candy.
- [DAVID] Mmm-hmm.
- Doctor was gonna kill you for that.
- Yeah.
[MIGUEL] That was your idea.
- Michael was Dracula.
- [LAUGHS] That's right. He was Dracula.
[SOFIA] Who's ready
to sing Happy Birthday?
- All right, buddy. Let's do this.
- [SOFIA] Who wants cake? Whoo!
- [CHANTING] Cake, cake, cake.
- [MIGUEL] it's cake time.
Come on, son,
let's go.
[SOFIA CONTINUES CHANTING]
Cake, cake, cake.
Cake, cake, cake.
[SINGING] Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday,
dear David.
Happy birthday to you
[ANGELA SIGHS, WHISPERING]
Hi, Michael.
Please, Lord,
look after my son.
Please let him be happy.
I miss you, pal.
[ANGELA] Thanks for coming to the party.
I know Miguel and Sofia invite us
'cause they don't want us to feel...
excluded,
but I just end up feeling like...
even more of an outcast.
It's like I just get angry
all over agatn.
Look around at all the boys,
and wish it was one of them...
not Michael.
Does that make me an awful person?
I never stop being angry.
I know you're suffering.
Yeah, I'm suffering.
And I miss my son.
And I don't believe
he's in a better place.
I believe the best place for him
was right here with you and me.
Yeah.
Home.
We're both suffering.
I don't know, Ang,
you seem to be doing pretty good.
A new job...
fucking some rich guy
while we're still married.
Sorry.
[CAR ENGINE STARTS]
[RYAN] You could go to the library.
They have a book club there
every Friday.
- [ANNE] The library? Really?
- [KURT] Yep.
[ANNE] Would you go with me?
[KURT] Well, it's for senior women.
[ANNE] For heaven's sakes, Kurt.
I don't have a problem making friends.
I don't.
But it's just, it's a whole new place.
I've only been there a little while.
Give me...
[KURT] Well, il's called
a two-way street, though.
You gotta get out a little.
Uh...
You think maybe it's time
for a new shower curtatn, Jack?
No, I hadn't thought about it.
[BETH] Well, you should,
'cause that thing smells.
Anybody want a drink?
- [ANNE] No. No.
- [KURT] I'm good.
So, what does the scout report
look like for the team today, Jack?
[SIGHS] Uh, well,
they're struggling a little bit.
Trinity has lost six in a row.
They have one good shooter, TJ Edmonds,
bui Uncle Jack's team should win.
And they kinda have to win.
'Cause if they don't win tonight,
their next chance at getting
into the playoffs is agatnst Memorial.
And Memorial's the number one
ranked team in the state.
[KUN] You should see him,
Jack.
Every morning,
the night after your game,
he wakes up early, he goes downstairs,
checks the stats on the computer.
Maybe I should be
the assistant coach tonight.
[ALL CHUCKLE]
Number 41.
Get your head in the fucking game.
Come on, Brandon.
Let's go!
[CHEERLEADERS CHANTING]
Push up!
Defense!
[JACK] All right.
Motion, motion, motion.
- Don't stop.
- [WHISTLE BLOWS]
41's the shooter.
Watch the drop screen.
[CROWD CHEERING]
Push it up.
Let's go!
Look out.
- [WHISTLE BLOWS]
- Kenny!
Playing with their heads up
their fucking ass.
They're just really nervous right now.
These guys have never played a game
that's ever mattered.
One stop.
No threes.
- [CROWD CHEERING]
- Shit.
- [SAM] Switch up, switch up.
- [CROWD CHANTING] Defense!
- Move! Move!
- [CROWD] Defense!
[JACK] Here we go,
here we go! Go!
Come on, Kenny! That's stupid.
It's the back court!
- I know.
- Yo, commit to the top.
- We had an open player. Let's go!
- All right, all right. I know.
22! 22!
- [FREEZE] Watch the screen!
- [JACK] No threes!
[CROWD CHEERING]
- Any time-outs?
- None.
[JACK] Push it, push it!
[MARCUS] Get through,
get through, get through.
Hayes, look up.
[CROWD CONTINUES CHANTING]
[GRUNTS]
- [WHISTLE BLOWS]
- Oh, that's bullshit.
What's the call, Sal?
[SAL] Offensive foul,
number 23.
That's bullshit.
He was moving his feet!
- Offensive, number 23.
- He was moving his feet.
He was already set, Jack.
You don't make that fucking call
at the end of the game!
- It's the end of the game!
- His feet were set, Jack!
- It's a chickenshit call.
- [CROWD BOOING]
- Come on. That's a pussy call.
- Listen, that's a warning.
And you're a fucking pussy
for making it.
[SAL] All right, you know what?
That's it.
[JACK] Fuck you.
- Hey, Jack. Jack!
- [SAL] Technical foul, right here.
You don't fucking decide the game!
Okay?
The players decide the fucking game.
- That's bullshit.
- Jack, Jack, Jack.
[JACK] You don't fucking do that now!
- The players decide the goddamn game!
- [WHISTLE BLOWING]
- [DAN] Hey!
- You've gotta calm down.
Technical foul.
You're outta here.
[CROWD SINGING]
Na na na na.
Na na na na
Hey hey, goodbye.
Take a breath.
[CROWD] Na na na na
Na na na na.
Hey hey, goodbye.
Sorry for losing my temper tonight.
I shouldn't have done that.
You know what my dad told me last night?
He said that you got a full ride
to Kansas...
and that you just quit.
No reason.
[EXHALES DEEPLY]
Why?
[SIGHS]
My father didn't like me very much.
And then someone told him
I was good at basketball...
and he patd a lot more attention to me.
And the better I got,
the more love he showed me.
Then I realized it wasn't me
that he loved...
it was what I could do.
So, you just quit playing
as a "fuck you" to your dad?
[SIGHS]
Yeah, I guess so.
I made a lot of bad decisions, Brandon.
I got a lot of regret.
Went away from basketball,
got into a different life,
got into drugs.
Spent a lot of time hurting myself,
trying to hurt my father.
It was my wife who got me outta that.
I never picked up a basketball agatn.
[RUSS] Yeah,
go ahead and lower it in.
Russ! Yo, Russ!
You got a visitor.
[RUSS] Yo! Dump that.
Dump it!
- Let's go! All right. Back.
- Excuse me, are you Russ Durrett?
Yeah, can I help you?
Yeah, I'm Jack Cunningham.
I coach your son over at Bishop Hayes.
Get this tuna on the scale now.
Yeah, man,
I know who you are.
Yeah, I used to come watch you play
down at Cheviot Hills.
You and Benny Green and YaYa Davis.
Yeah, man. YaYa and Benny, man,
we used to do our thing.
So, how can I help you?
[JACK] Well, I want to talk to you
about Brandon.
Has he shown you any of the
recruiting letters he's been getting?
Brandon ain't shown me nothing.
Well, he's getting a lot of attention
from good schools
that want him to come play ball for 'em.
Thanks for coming by here
and letting me know...
Coach.
How come we don't see you
down at any of the games?
'Cause I got responsibilities at home.
I got two boys that need to be bathed,
fed, and helped with their homework.
[JACK] Well, we got a big game
this week.
If we win it,
we go to the playoffs.
Listen,
I don't come to any games
'cause I don't support my son's ideas
about the game, okay?
I don't want him relying on basketball
lo make a life.
That was my mistake
and it ain't gonna be his.
These schools are offering him
full scholarships.
Oh, come on, man.
It don't matter.
They offered me the same.
Putting your faith in basketball,
it don't work out.
And if anybody ought to know that,
it oughta be you.
Yeah.
Your son loves the game.
He's gonna keep playing it.
- [INDISTINCT SHOUTING]
- [WOMAN] Lets do this!
Let's go Bishop!
Whoo! Let's go!
[MAN] It's the Tigers, baby!
Let's do this, Hayes!
[BRASS BAND PLAYING MUSIC]
[CROWD CHEERING]
Um... So, are we gonna stay in the press
the whole game or...
[JACK] Yep, right from the tip.
Okay. I'd better get the lineup out
to the scores table.
And, uh...
I know nobody expected us to be here,
and we got no business winning
this game,
but I really want to beat
these fucking guys.
[CHEERLEADERS CHEERING]
[BRASS BAND PLAYING MUSIC]
[CROWD CHEERING]
[MAN] Come on,
Coach Cunningham!
[WOMAN] We love you,
Coach!
[CHEERING CONTINUES]
- All right.
- [JACK] Let's fly.
Coach.
[BUZZER RINGS]
Let's go.
Bring it in.
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]
All right. We're on Diamond press
right from the tip.
Keep that pressure up.
They break it, fall back into 22.
Look, you're nervous.
I get that.
The truth is, they got more talent
over there than we do.
Probably got a better coach.
Nah.
But I promise you,
they are not a better team.
I would take anyone on this bench
right now,
for any one of those players.
You worked hard to be here,
you earned this.
Have some fun out there.
Now go out there and earn the playoffs.
[SAM] All right, do it!
Win on three.
One, two, three...
[PLAYERS] Win!
[CHEERING]
[RHYTHMIC THUMPING]
[WHISTLE BLOWS]
Up! Up!
- [MARCUS] Get your man.
- [DAN] Hands up, hands up!
Gonna eat us alive, if we give
that shot. Push him io his left.
[BRANDON] Atlanta high,
Atlanta high.
[KENNY] Quick, quick!
Switch, switch, switch!
[CROWD CHANTING]
[SAM] Get back,
get back!
That's it.
[CROWD CONTINUES CHANTING]
[LOMBARDO] Box out!
Watch it! Watch it!
[KENNY] Rebound!
Switch up.
Come down, come down, come down!
- [DEVON] Corner, corner, corner.
- [SAM] Hey!
[DEVON] Go, go, go!
[CROWD CHEERING]
[JACK] Help out!
[PLAYER GROANS]
- Time-out, time-out.
- [WHISTLE BLOWS]
[CHANTING]
Get up and yell "Bishop?"
[JACK] We need stops.
So let's double-team Childress
every time he comes across half-court.
Make somebody else fucking score.
Stay on him! Press!
Pressure! Don't give up!
[MAN] Watch the pick.
[MAN 2] Pick left.
Switch off to the side.
[BRANDON] Go! Let's go.
[MAN 3] Throw it in!
That's it! That's it!
Here we go, here we go.
- Put it in there.
- [BRANDON] Go on, go on!
You guys gotta move.
You can't stand around.
[BRANDON] Switch, switch,
switch, switch, switch.
[CROWD CHEERS]
[BRANDON] Let's go.
Bring it through.
- [SAM] Here we go!
- [MAN 4] Pick him up. Pick him up.
Look, we're not gonna make it all back
in one possession.
You gotta just keep chipping away,
and chipping away at it.
[MAN] Watch him, watch him.
Down the rail.
- [MAN 2] Up!
- [CHUBBS] Come on. Come on.
Little things,
do the little things.
[CHUBBS] Take it to the rack.
- That's you.
- [WHISTLE BLOWS]
Let's go, baby. Let's go, huh!
- [CROWD CHEERS]
- Let's go, son.
[JACK] Yeah!
There you go.
All right. Up, up, up!
- [BRANDON] D-up, D-up,
- [MAN 3] Let's go.
[BRANDON] Get your man,
get your man.
[JACK] Get up in their faces.
Get in their face.
[DAN] Bobby, Bobby, watch this guy.
Watch this...
[JACK] Let's get a trap!
[MAN 4] Pass it.
- Yeah! There you go!
- [CROWD CHEERING]
Too easy.
That's too easy.
[DEVON] Switch, switch.
Get through it.
[BRANDON] Motion, motion.
[FREEZE] Here you go,
here you go, here you go.
[KENNY] Hey, coming through,
coming through.
[BRANDON] Pick left, pick left.
Go through, go through.
- [JACK] Nice pass.
- [CHEERING]
- Time-out! Time-out.
- [WHISTLE BLOWS]
Keep pressing, trapping,
taking charges.
Make our lack of size an advantage.
Play like we've got a fucking chip
on our shoulders. Let's go!
[BRANDON] Go, go, go.
Lock up.
[GRUNTS]
- Offensive!
- [WHISTLE BLOWS]
- 0fiensive.
- [JACK] Yeah!
Come on!
Jesus, you guys.
We're playing right into their hands.
[JACK] Move the ball.
Move the ball.
[KENNY] Let's go!
[ALL CHEERING]
Diamond, Diamond, Diamond!
Zach, he's six inches shorter than you.
How does he make that shot?
Chips on our fucking shoulders.
Let's go!
[BRANDON] That!
- [DEVON] Defense!
- [PLAYER] Stay on your man.
- [CROWD CHEERING]
- That's it. Beautiful.
I don't even know who I'm looking at.
[MAN] Go, Go, go.
- [WHISTLE BLOWS]
- [REFEREE] Out!
- [MAN 2] Ran out. You ran out.
- [MAN 3] Get him, get him.
[CHEERING]
- [KENNY] Hey, Diamond! Diamond!
- [MAN 4] D-up!
- [JACK] Pressure!
- [MARCUS] Come on, break through.
- [JACK] Pressure!
- [SAM] Reach. Shoot.
Attack this.
Attack their pressure!
[CROWD CHANTING]
[SAM] Switch, switch, switch.
Come on! Box out.
[JACK] Twenty-two.
Ploi it out! Plot it out!
[WHISTLE BLOWS]
[CROWD SHOUIING]
That's it, that's it,
That's it. That's it!
Yeah, That's a great call.
- [LOMBARDO] That is a bullshit call.
- How many time-outs do we have?
- One time-out left.
- His hands were all over 'em.
- It's a home job.
- [JACK] All right. Time-out!
[WHISTLE BLOWS]
Time-out.
[JACK] All right.
Bring it in. Bring it in.
- What's up? Say something.
- Hey, hey, hey. Chill. Chill.
- [LOMBARDO] Bring it in.
- [CHUBBS] Chill, man. Come on.
- [DAN] Whafre you gonna do?
- I'm gonna run Atlanta for Brandon.
But Childress is on him.
You gotta expect a double-team.
So, is he gonna get an open look?
[SOFTLY] Yeah.
All right.
12 seconds, no time-outs.
We're gonna run the Hawk for Kenny.
Marcus, set the high pick.
Freeze, Garcia, come round,
set a double screen.
Brandon, go right,
look for Kenny on the wing.
Three, we're stopping three.
He gets the ball,
he doesn't go five feet.
We lock him up.
One stop.
- [JACK] Stay focused, run our set.
- [BUZZER RINGS]
Get out there and win this.
[PLAYERS SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
- Team on three.
- [SAM] Win on three.
[LOMBARDO] One, two, three...
- [PLAYERS] Win!
- [SAM] Let's go, man! Let's do this.
Brandon...
Forget that.
Take the shot.
Don't nod your head at me.
I got this.
[WHISTLE BLOWING]
[INAUDIBLE]
[ALL CHEERING]
[CELL PHONE VIBRATING]
[JACK] Hello?
[ANGEW] Hey, it's me.
Hey.
I just got off the phone
with Miguel, and...
What?
[ANGELA SIGHS]
- Hey.
- Hey.
[SIGHS] What happened? A few weeks ago,
he was hitting baseballs.
Yeah, he, um...
He had a fever at school.
Sofia picked him up,
and then he just started seizing.
Is he conscious?
He's sedated.
Is he, uh...
gonna be okay, or...
[ANGELA] They don't know.
They did a scan this morning,
they're just watting on results now.
[INAUDIBLE CONVERSATION]
[SOFIA SOBBING] No!
No! No!
What do you mean? No!
[CONTINUES SOBBING]
[EXHALES SHARPLY]
I can't. I... I gotta go.
- Just watt. Where are you going?
- [JACK] I gotta go. I gotta go.
[SOFIA CONTINUES SOBBING]
[DOC] Come on.
Come on.
[STRATNING]
Just a few more.
[SLURRING] You should see my moves.
They're better than my old man.
[GRUNTS] Your old man
didn't have moves.
I used to carry him up the stairs.
Got the key? Huh?
Let's go.
- [KEYS JANGLING]
- No. No, no, no.
Give it here.
There you go.
[SNEAKERS SQUEAKING]
[INDISTINCT SHOUIING]
[DAN] Look at Marcus!
[MARCUS] Come on, man, I'm right here!
[DAN] Let's see the ball move, okay?
- [BRANDON] Double back to me.
- [DAN] Go, go, go!
[SAM] Snap it back through!
Nice, Sam.
[PLAYER] Call 'em out!
Call 'em out!
[CHILDREN SHOUTING]
[PANTING]
[BRANDON] Get through,
get through.
- Come on, get through, get through.
- [DAN] Nice, Kenny.
[PLAYERS CONTINUE SHOUTING]
- [CHUBBS] Come on.
- [MARCUS] Come on.
- [DAN] Hey, Jack.
- [JACK] Coach.
[DAN] Are you all right?
Where you been?
Yeah. Had a power outage
in my, uh...
neighborhood.
Alarm didn't go off so...
I overslept.
I apologize.
Bring it in.
[PANTING]
I had a power situation
at my place.
I overslept.
That's on me, okay?
Let's get into a Hawk set.
Brandon, take the ball.
Kenny and Garcia on the wing.
Marcus and Freeze,
start in the box.
[SIGHS DEEPLY]
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
[JACK] Yeah.
Hey, Padre.
How's it going?
How are you, Jack?
I'm all right.
What can I do forya?
[SIGHS]
Jack, I'm afratd
we're gonna have to ask you
to step down from coaching the team.
Why?
[FATHER EDWARD]
It's come to my attention
that you've brought alcohol
around the players.
We're gonna have to let you go.
And I'm gonna need youroffice key.
I'm worried that this might be
part of a larger problem, Jack.
Would that be true?
You didn't want to just come talk to me?
[DAN] I did come talk to you
about it, Jack,
- and then you lied to me.
- [JACK] I never lied to you.
I didn't lie to you about anything.
You lied to me today
about your alarm clock.
[SLURRING] I had a poweroutage
at my house.
- You were drunk at practice.
- Oh, bullshit!
- [DAN] I could smell it on you.
- Bullshit.
[DAN] The boys could smell it on you.
[DAN SIGHS]
[SIGHS]
Uh...
All right, look...
Let's just get to the playoffs,
all right?
Guys, please. Just don't do this.
Okay?
I just... You know, I had a bad night.
And, uh, I got it under control now
and I can take care of it.
Let's just, please...
I'm asking you, please, okay?
I'm sorry.
Please, don't do it, do this.
Jack, you've made this decision for me.
I can't accept responsibility
for allowing you to be
around the boys anymore.
[JACK] You know...
[CLEARS THROAT] Fine.
Look, please, just...
Please, don't do this.
[FATHER EDWARD]
Our decision is final, Jack.
We have a zero-tolerance policy
- when it comes to alcohol.
- Fine. Fuck it.
I tried to do something good
with these kids.
You know...
[MUTTERS INDISTINCTLY]
It's your choice.
Who's gonna coach the team?
You? You're a fucking math teacher.
I came to help you out.
Look what we did.
Tried to come in here and help you.
You asked for my help.
And I tried to help you.
This is such bullshit.
I can't get this fucking...
I don't need this job.
[FATHER EDWARD]
We are trying to help, Jack.
- You know what? Stick...
- [KEYS CLATTER]
[DOOR OPENS]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[JACK] What's this?
From the blonde in the corner.
Says she knows you.
[LIVELY BLUES MUSIC PLAYING]
Another one from the blonde
in the corner.
Only this time
it comes with a message,
"Stop being a jerk-off
and come over and talk to me."
I think it's one of the Pearson girls
from Satnt Dorothy's.
Yeah, I think it's Diane.
I patd for you.
- I patd for the whole bar.
- [DIANE] You didn't pay for me.
[BOTH LAUGH]
I mean, if everybody...
Here, give me...
Can I have a drag of that?
- [DIANE] Mmm.
- Please?
God.
Thank you.
You know, I'll tell you a secret.
- What?
- Give me a kiss.
- No. You're driving. No. Fuck off.
- Yes, I am driving. Give me a kiss.
- Okay, just one. Just one. Just one.
- It's one kiss. My, God.
- [CAR ALARM BLARING]
- [DOGS BARKING]
[JACK] Shit.
Oh, God!
- [JACK SIGHS]
- Oh, shit. Shit!
This is my neighbor's house.
- What?
- You've gotta go round the back.
- Hurry up! Just go round the back...
- [JACK] All right.
[DIANE] I'll meet you there.
It's the third house on the right.
[METAL CLATTERING]
[TIRES SCREECHING]
- [CAR ALARM CONTINUES BLARING]
- [DOGS BARKING]
[JACK IN SING-SONG VOICE] Hello?
Forget to pay the electricity bill?
[SIGHS]
[BOTTLE CAP POPS OPEN]
Well...
[GRUNTS] I think we made it.
Think we're safe.
Somebody's gonna come out
for a fucking surprise,
check their mailbox in the morning,
find out their boat's fucking...
sunk. [SNIFFS]
[SIGHS IN RELIEF]
[URINATING]
Pull your fucking pants up.
My wife's calling the cops right now,
asshole.
[WOMAN] Yes, my husband's speaking
with him now.
Diane's your wife?
[MAN] Who the fuck is Diane?
I don't know.
Who's...
I'm in the wrong house, man.
Oh, you're goddamn right,
you're in the wrong house.
Look, I'm sorry.
I'm real sorry.
I'm just gonna go home.
Nah, you're not going anywhere.
Sit down. Watt for the cops.
Come on, sit down.
Sit down!
Hey!
[BOTH GRUNTING]
[SIREN WATLING IN DISTANCE]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER ON PA]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER ON PA]
[BREATHING DEEPLY]
Okay?
Can I get you anything?
Did they tell you that they found you
unconscious in the street?
And that you broke into someone's house?
Yeah.
You're gonna kill yourself
if you keep going like this.
That's why I'm gonna get you
some help, okay?
[DAN] it has been decided that he will
no longer be with the team
due to personal issues
that we'd rather not go into.
I will step in as the interim coach.
And I don't see why...
- [DOCTOR] During our family session...
- [DAN] ...anything has to change.
[DOCTOR] ...your sister and mother said
that you've isolated yourself
since Michael died.
Would you agree with them?
Yeah. I mean, I certainly don't see them
as much as I used to.
They also said you never talk
about your son.
[SNIFFLES]
I don't know what they want me to say.
I could talk about the, uh...
tumors in his brain and his spine.
[SIGHS]
Thirty rounds of radiation.
He used to scream when he had seizures.
Nobody wants to hear that.
[SNIFFLES]
[DOCTOR] We can't change the past, Jack.
[SIGHS]
What we can do is choose
how we move forward.
Think about Michael.
What would he want for you?
[BREATHES DEEPLY]
Hi.
[JACK] Hey.
Thanks for coming.
Can I take your coat?
- [SIGHS] Have a seat.
- Okay.
How's it going?
Good. Good.
Good.
I'm really glad you're here, Jack.
Yeah. Me too.
[SIGHS] I shoulda come here
a long time ago.
I just want you to know that, uh...
I know that I failed you.
And I know that
I failed our marriage.
I failed our son...
'cause I didn't take care of his mom.
And I hope that, uh,
one day you can see in me...
the man that, uh...
That you once hoped I would be.
[TEARFULLY] I'm so sorry.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER CONTINUES]
[CELL PHONE VIBRATING]
Hello?
Hey, Dan.
How you doing?
It's, uh... It's Jack.
[FATHER MARK] Heavenly Father,
we welcome your presence here
among us and your spirit of love
alive in the community of Bishop Hayes.
Please help us to be the best we can be.
To strive not so much to win,
but to play fairly and well.
We ask this in your name,
Lord Jesus. Amen.
[PLAYERS] Amen!
Hey, fellas, let's win this fucking game
for Coach Cunningham, baby.
[PLAYERS SHOUT EXCITEDLY]
I'll talk to him.
[BRANDON] Let's go.
Bring it in. Bring it in.
[SAM] Bring it home.
All right, we stay
in press all game, okay?
All right.
Nobody gets past you.
You stay in their faces, all right?
Play with that chip on your shoulder,
stay hungry. Who are we?
- [PLAYERS] Hayes!
- Who are we?
- [PLAYERS] Hayes!
- Right! Win on three. Let's go.
One, two, three...
[PLAYERS] Win!
[WHOOPING]
[CROWD CHEERING]
[ANNOUNCER] To the
sharpshooter Dawes in the corner.
He fires up a three...
and it's good!
Hayes is hitting
on all cylinders tonight.
[COMMENTATOR] For a team that
hasn't made the playoffs in 25 years,
they seem to be awfully comfortable
out there.
[ANNOUNCER] Full-court pressure agatn
from Hayes.
[COMMENTATOR] Dougherty
has just not been able
to figure out the Hayes pressure.
The defense has been
absolutely suffocating.
[ANNOUNCER] Sanders trapped in the corner.
He fires across the court to Jenkins.
Pass intercepted by Durrett!
[COMMENTATOR] Brandon Durrett
is gonna take it by himself.
[ANNOUNCER] Reverse layup and...
it's good!
And he's fouled!
[COMMENTATOR LAUGHS] Wow!
He has been really special today,
hasn't he, Tom?
[ANNOUNCER] He has been magnificent.
And now Hayes is out
to its biggest lead of the game.
[COMMENTATOR] We said earlier
that Coach Jack Cunningham,
the man responsible
for this amazing turnaround,
wasn't able to be on the bench today.
But you have to imagine
he'd be very proud
of the way these boys are playing.
[ANNOUNCER] You know, I can remember
watching Jack as a player.
He was tough, intense, competitive,
and he has instilled in these boys
all those qualities
that made him such a winner.
[COMMENTATOR] And you can see
Jack's imprint all over this team.
[ANNOUNCER]
Clearly a reflection of their coach.
I have never seen a high school team
with this much composure.
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[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[SHOWER RUNNING]
[SCANNER BEEPS]
Okay, Jackie,
yourtotal is 67.85, please.
All right.
[STORE OWNER] Here you go,
my friend.
[MAN] Hey,
yo, Jackie.
Hey, Sal.
What's going on, man?
- What's up, man? How you doing?
- [JACK] All right. How you doing?
- Good to see ya.
- You too.
Yeah, what's going on?
Where's your turkey today?
Uh, my sister's house.
My mom just moved in over there,
so we're doing Thanksgiving.
Oh, nice,
man. Nice.
Well, say hi to your mom
and Beth for me.
I will. You still reffin'
the Catholic League games?
Little bit, here and there.
Yeah, my oldest is at UC Santa Cruz.
So, you know,
every little bit helps, right?
You bet.
Well, happy Thanksgiving.
Happy Thanksgiving, Jackie.
Good seeing ya.
- [JACK] You too, Sal.
- What's up, man?
Give me a couple
of scratch-offs, please.
- [STORE OWNER] Sure.
- Thank you.
[STORE DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES]
[BOTTLES CLINK]
[KURT] Don't fill up on bread.
You gotta eat
the rest of your beans. Okay?
Hey! Happy Thanksgiving.
- [KURT] Look who's here.
- [RYAN] Hey, Uncle Jack's here!
- [KURT] Hey. Happy Thanksgiving to you.
- [JACK] How you doing, man?
- Glad you could make it.
- No problem. How's the car business?
- It is going good. Thank you For asking.
- Good.
Would you like some wine?
No. I have some.
Thank you very much.
Hi, Uncle Fart-Poop.
- Uncle Fart-Poop!
- [LAUGHTER]
Don't tickle me!
No, no, no.
- Uncle Jack's getting tickled.
- [ANNE] Hi, sweetheart.
- Hi, Mom.
- [ANNE] Mmm.
- Hello, sweetheart.
- [JACK] All right. Good.
Hey. Happy Thanksgiving.
- Sorry I'm late.
- Hi. Really?
- Yeah.
- Some people call when they're late.
I didn't have my phone with me.
[BETH] Oh. Well, then why have a phone
if you're not gonna use it?
I don't know.
That's a good question.
- How you doing, buddy?
- I'm good.
Good to see you.
[BETH] I don't understand why
somebody has a phone
if they don't ever answer it.
[JACK] Can I have
some of those potatoes, Mom?
- [ANNE] Do you want some potatoes?
- [JACK] Thank you so much.
[JACK] Did your mom evertell you
about our fish tank when we were kids?
No.
Well, your grandmother
took us to the pet store
and we got a fish tank, you know,
a bunch of cool fish.
And I came from school the next day,
and the fish tank
was filled with shampoo.
[CHUCKLES] And all the fish were dead.
And your mom was there crying.
And Grandma said, "Why'd you put shampoo
in the fish tank?"
And your mom said, "I wanted to give
the fish a bubble bath."
[BOTH LAUGH]
Why'd she give the fish a bubble bath?
You're gonna have to ask your mom.
I don't know.
I guess she always wanted
to take care of everybody.
Mwah. I love you.
Don't let your mom near those fish.
- Good night, Uncle Jack.
- [JACK] Good night, chief.
- Hey.
- Hey.
How's Mom,
uh, settling in?
Uh, good. Yeah, really good.
She seems to be.
Can't believe you got her outta Seaside.
Right? It's different now.
It's just all young kids
- and little couples...
- Yeah.
Running around, families.
I think she was feeling
like a castaway out there.
[YAWNS] Yeah, you did good.
I'm glad she's here.
What's going on with you?
What's new?
Not much.
Are you seeing anybody?
[SCOFFS] No.
- I wish you would.
- [SIGHS]
I really do.
I would feel much better.
I hate the idea of you down there
by yourself all the time.
What do you hate about it so much?
That you're,
you know, just alone.
Just drinking all the time and not...
I'm fine.
I appreciate it.
But it's... I'm fine.
I know that Ang worries about you, so...
What does Ang have to do with it?
Why do you know
what Ang would worry about?
Because she called and she wanted to see
how you were doing.
- She called you?
- Yeah.
- Why?
- Is that okay?
I don't know. I mean, what,
she called you to talk about me?
Why didn't she just call me directly?
She just wanted to see how you're doing.
[SCOFFS]
Well... [MUMBLES]
I'm fine.
Look, I know Kathy Collins
says she sees your car
outside Harold's bar every night.
Well, if Kathy Collins says it,
- must be true.
- Mmm-hmm.
You know that something must be wrong.
So, I go to work, and then after work
sometimes I go have a beer.
- I'm just saying...
- You better start calling people.
- Okay.
- Better get on this fucking case.
- Okay.
- She has other things
maybe she ought to be worrying about,
instead of worrying
about how much I drink.
I mean, she needs to worry about
staying out of her fucking refrigerator.
- Nice.
- She's losing a huge war
- agatnst the refrigerator.
- What are you talking about? Jack...
- She needs to find a fucking treadmill.
- Stop it.
That is so mean.
She's my friend.
Well, she should mind her business.
- Okay.
- That's why I don't come here.
- 'Cause it always turns to...
- [CAN CLATTERS]
[CHATR SCRAPES]
Which one of the 20 bedrooms
am I supposed to be staying in?
Take the second one on the left.
[JACK] Hey,
Ang, it's Jack.
I'm just, uh...
Happy Thanksgiving.
[INHALES DEEPLY]
I wanted to call you,
see how you're doing.
And also because my sister told me
that you had called her
and wanted to know how I was doing.
I'm just saying,
if you want to know in the future
how I'm doing...
you can call me,
as I still have the same phone number
that I had...
when we were married.
[ON PHONE] Hey, Jack, it's Miguel.
Haven't heard from you
for a while, so...
Sofia was asking about you.
Thought I'd give you a call
and see how you're doing.
Thought maybe we'd have you over...
[BUTTON CLICKS]
Hello, Jack,
this is Father Edward Devine
calling from Bishop Hayes High School.
Will you give me a call back here
at the rectory when you get a chance?
1-424-145-3233.
And I'll be up until about 10:00
this evening.
If that doesn't work,
we can chat in the morning.
Thanks, Jack.
God bless.
[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
- [BETLY] Hello, Jack. [CHUCKLES]
- Hi.
[BETTY] How are you?
Come on in.
[JACK] Thanks so much.
[BETTY] So, did you have
a nice Thanksgiving?
- [JACK] I did. How about you?
- [BETTY] Oh, it was very nice.
All the kids and the grandkids were in.
- I was in my glory. [LAUGHS]
- I bet.
- Good for you.
- Oh.
You can go right in here.
Father Devine
is just finishing up a call.
So, he will be out
in just a couple of minutes,
so just make yourself comfortable.
- Thanks.
- Yeah.
We are all so excited at the idea
of you possibly coming back
to be with us at Hayes.
[CHUCKLES]
It's nice to see you agatn,
Jack.
[DOOR OPENS]
[FATHER EDWARD] Hello, Jack.
Hey, Father.
It's good to see you.
Thanks for making the drive.
- Sure. No problem.
- Sit down, please.
So, been a while, hasn't it?
Yeah. Since, uh...
my father's funeral.
- That long?
- Mmm.
My goodness.
Where does the time go?
- If I knew, I would tell ya.
- [CHUCKLES]
- Married?
- I'm separated now. For a while.
- Any children?
- No kids.
Okay. [CHUCKLES LIGHTLY]
Well, Jack, it is really good
to see you agatn.
And I suppose you're wondering
why I called you over here.
I'm a little curious.
Yeah.
Our basketball coach, Tom McGarrity,
had a heart attack the other night.
Oh, no.
He's expected to make a full recovery,
but his wife doesn't think
it's a very good idea
for him to return to the team.
And I tend to agree.
We need a new coach, Jack.
You're the first person I thought of.
Try to suppress your enthusiasm.
No, I appreciate it.
I just... It's, um...
You know, it's just, I've been away
from the game for a long time.
I understand.
I understand.
You know,
I've never even coached before.
I just played,
so I don't...
Is the, uh...
I mean...
Is the team any good?
- No. No.
- [BOTH CHUCKLE]
We haven't been competitive
for quite a while, actually.
In fact, the last time
they made the playoffs?
Back when you were playing.
Wow.
Well, I really appreciate you
thinking of me, Father.
- It's just, I...
- Go home and think it over, Jack.
Well, I got a lot going on
in my life right now.
- It's very busy.
- Go home, think it over.
Call me with your decision
in the morning.
- Tomorrow morning?
- Our next game is Monday night, Jack.
I don't have a lot of time.
[JACK] Hey, Father,
listen, I...
[CHEWING] Mmm...
Thank you so much
for thinking of me. Um...
It's just not the right time for me
to take this on. Urn...
You know, my life's very full right now.
Very full.
I just, um...
I've just been away from the game
for so long, you know?
I've just been away from the game
for so long.
Father...
Listen, I've given it a lot of thought,
and I appreciate it.
It's just not the right time for me
right now.
I've been away from the game
for so long.
I don't think I can help you.
I don't think...
I don't think I can help you.
Father. Jack.
Not gonna happen.
[CHUCKLES]
[SIGHS]
What the fuck am I supposed to do?
The team can't play. They're no good.
They're no good.
I can't wave a magic wand,
turn them into fucking Michael Jordan.
I mean. Just...
I don't know.
Maybe.
I don't know.
I can't help you with this.
I can't help you with this team.
[INAUDIBLE]
Father,
I've given it a lot of thought.
I just have no interest in coaching
your fucking basketball team.
[URINATING]
That's all there is to it.
Oh, fuck.
[SIGHS]
- [SAM] Get back on D!
- [BALL THUDDING]
- [DAN] Make up for it.
- [SNEAKERS SQUEAKING]
[MARCUS] What the fuck?
[KENNY] Hey, G. G!
[DAN] D up! Hey, get back!
Let's go! Let's go!
Move! Go quick!
Quickly, quickly, quickly.
[SAM] Stop him up top.
Chubbs, go to the wing.
Watch it.
Screen, screen, screen.
[MARCUS] Yo, get through,
get through.
Get through that.
[CHUBBS] Hey, Freeze.
[KENNY] Go!
- [DAN] Good pass.
- [SAM] Come on!
- [CHUBBS] Hey, nice job, D-boy.
- [MARCUS] What's up, Chubbs?
[PLAYERS CONTINUE SHOUTING]
[DAN] Hey, Coach.
Dan Espinosa.
Nice to meet ya.
- You're the assistant?
- I am.
Uh, I also teach algebra
here at the school.
Uh, I really appreciate you
stepping up like this.
It means a lot to the boys.
Um, do you want me to call everybody in,
- do some intros?
- No, that's okay.
- [SAM] Take the layup, Marcus!
- [MARCUS] Money!
[JACK] Just, uh, get a feel for
what I'm working with here.
- [DAN] Yeah.
- This the whole team? Ten kids?
That's all we've got.
A lot different than
when you played here, huh?
Yeah. No shit.
We got 100 kids just try out.
104 my senior year.
- Play ball here?
- Well, I mean, not like you.
Spent most of my time on the bench,
holding a clipboard like I am now.
I was a couple of years behind you.
Uh, class of '98.
Enrollment's really taken a dive
since then.
[SAM] Freeze, Freeze, Freeze!
I can run down the starting five,
if you like.
- [SAM] Box out!
- Sure.
So, uh, the kid with the ball,
that's Brandon Durreit.
[JACK] Relation to Russ Durrett?
[DAN] Yeah, that's his son.
He's a great player.
Really has a good feel for the game.
Easily our most talented guy.
And then, um, playing besides him
in the backcourt,
that's Chubbs Hendricks.
His, uh, real name's Ronald.
- [MARCUS] Oh, yeah.
- [CHUBBS] Right here, this man.
[DAN] And, um,
Kenny Dawes out on the wing.
Bit of a showboat,
but, uh...
Yeah, he's a solid shooter.
- Whoo!
- [DAN] Good long-range stroke.
[SAM] Get back!
Get back!
[DAN] Sam Garcia,
he's our senior captatn.
Not much of a scoring threat,
but he's a solid defender.
Good kid.
And then Marcus Parrish.
[MARCUS] Money!
[DAN] That is our center.
[MARCUS] What the fuck
are you doing, bro?
- [JACK] That kid's the center?
- [DAN] Yeah.
[JACK] What is he, 6'4"?
- Shut the fuck up, man.
- 6'3".
You guys must get murdered
on the boards.
Yeah, it's not been good at all.
[SAM] You're giving 'em
open buckets, Marcus.
[MARCUS] This is practice, man.
I don't care.
Whds that kid there?
The white shadow.
Oh, yeah, that's,
uh, Bobby Freeze.
He's our sixth man.
He's actually a starting strong safety
for the football team.
Then the resi of the guys, uh,
Dearbom, Daly, Carter, and Amato.
I had to bring those guys up from JV
just so we could hold a practice.
- [SAM] Take the layup!
- [MARCUS] Money!
[CANER] Come on, box out!
All right.
Blow the whistle for me.
- [SAM] Freeze. Chill out, man.
- [FREEZE] Yo, take it easy, man.
[WHISTLE BLOWS]
[SAM] Stop grabbing me.
[FREEZE] That's clean.
That's clean D.
[DAN] Bring it in. Let's go.
Hustle, hustle.
All right, guys. As discussed.
I am honored to turn things over
to your new head coach,
Jack Cunningham.
[PLAYERS] What's up, Coach?
- [JACK] How you doing, guys?
- [PLAYERS] Good. Good.
[MARCUS] What's up, Coach?
[JACK] You're Marcus, right?
That's right.
Get used to calling my name, too.
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
All right. All right.
Marcus, tell me what you see out there.
[MARCUS] Um...
[EXHALES FORCEFULLY] I see Nikki's
fine ass keep looking at me.
Saw she was bending over.
- She tryin' to get my attention.
- Marcus, just be respectful, please.
He asked me what I saw.
What, do you want me to lie to him?
- You know what I see, Marcus?
- What?
- You're the tallest player on the team.
- Oh.
Makes me wonder why you're putting
three-pointers up
every time you come down the court.
Oh, that's 'cause
I got a candy-stroke, Coach.
Ask Coach Dan. I made the most threes
on the team last year.
Coach Dan, how many threes
did Marcus make last year?
[DAN] Um, Marcus...
made 34.
[JACK] Outta how many attempts?
- [DAN] Out of 130.
- [PLAYERS LAUGH]
What's that a percentage of?
For a percentage of 26.
[PLAYERS] Damn!
26%, Marcus.
You wanna know
why they're leaving you open?
It's 'cause they don't think
you could hit the ocean from the beach.
- [PLAYERS LAUGH]
- [CHUBBS] Oh, shit.
Yo, he just spit facts at your ass, bro.
- Man, shut up.
- [CHUBBS] Look it, come on, man.
Don't get all butt-hurt just 'cause
he droppin' some knowledge on you.
You wanna see butt-hurt?
Keep talking shit,
- watch me beat your fat ass.
- [CHUBBS] Shut the fuck up, yo.
- You ain't gonna do shit.
- [JACK] Hey.
I don't need any help.
Who is second in threes on the team?
Number two would be Kenny with 25.
Outta how many attempts?
- [DAN] Sixty-one.
- Percentage of?
- [DAN] Forty-one.
- [KENNY EXCLATMS]
Snap. You hear that?
Give me the rock,
let me go HAM on some bitches.
Yeah, more like ham and cheese, man.
Nah, actually, ham and cheese
is what your sister
fries me up after I'm done
fiddling her bean.
Yo, show some respect.
Coach is here, man.
- [FREEZE] Watch your mouth, man.
- [CHUBBS] Kenny, get in line.
[JACK] All right,
run it back.
Marcus, this time your feet
don't leave the patnt.
- Brandon.
- [CHUBBS] All right. Let's go. Come on.
[MARCUS] Let's go, y'all.
You're the point guard, right?
Put 'em in a motion offense.
- [BRANDON] Chubbs.
- [JACK] Call it out, Brandon.
Don't just wave your hand in the atr.
Doesn't talk much,
does he?
[DAN] Well, I have been coaching
that kid for three years
and I can courtt on one hand
how many times our conversations
have gone past,
"Yes, Coach" and "No, Coach."
- [CHUBBS] Good shot, baby.
- [MARCUS] And That's money!
[DAN] Here you go.
Keys, game balls,
and then I put together a flash drive
just in case you want to get familiar
with the sets we've been running.
I'm also gonna give you my phone number
if you have any questions.
Okay.
Hey, why didn't you take the job?
Would've made sense.
The assistant coach,
step in, take the job.
My mom has MS, so...
My sister takes care of her
during the day,
but she's got three kids of her own.
So I take nights.
- Sure.
- Then with practices,
and then you have scouting...
Yeah, no. Of course.
It makes sense.
There just aren't enough hours
in the day.
- I'm sorry. I didn't mean to pry.
- No, no, no. It's cool.
We all have
our own cross to bear, right?
Um... So you should be good.
Great.
Thank you very much.
No problem.
[EXHALES DEEPLY]
- Oh, Coach.
- Yeah?
What's the dress code like these days?
Oh. Coat and tie for the head coach.
- Great. Thanks.
- Sure. No problem.
- [SIGHS]
- [BALL BOUNCING]
[RATTLING]
[PLAYER 1] Yeah!
[PLAYER 2] Right here,
right here. Yeah!
[PLAYER 3] Here we go!
[PLAYER 4] Yeah!
[SAM] Take the shot.
That's you, Marcus.
Hey, Jack.
Nice to see you in the gym agatn.
[JACK] Thanks.
[SAM] That's you.
Jack, this is Father Mark Whelan.
He is our team chaplatn.
Pleasure to meet you, Jack.
- You too.
- Any first game jitters?
Fuck. I'm nervous as shit.
- [CHUCKLES] Yeah.
- What's this? I.
Oh. They do it before every game.
Gets them psyched up, I guess.
- [BUZZER RINGS]
- [CHUBBS] Let's go!
All right, let's go.
Bring it in.
[PLAYERS SHOUTING]
- [DAN] Ready?
- No.
[FREEZE] Let's go.
[JACK] All right, guys.
Let's see what we're made of.
[JACK] And the big burly inmate says,
"Don't worry about it.
Everythings gonna be fine.
I just want to play a little game."
He goes, "Okay."
And he says,
"In this game, you can pick
whether or not you want
to be the husband or the wife."
And he says, "All right."
"Well?"
"Well, guess I'll be the husband."
He goes, "Okay."
Come on over here
and suck your wife's dick."
- [LAUGHTER]
- That's a good one.
"Suck your wife's dick."
I fucking love that.
- Hey, Doc.
- [DOC] Hey.
How'd opening night go, ace?
Yeah, our boy got sent to the woodshed.
Hey, get Doc a drink, will ya?
And hit me with another one.
Doc, did I ever tell you the one
about the nerdy accourttant
who does 15 years for embezzlement?
- Don't worry about me.
- [DOC] I'm not. I know.
Just let me do...
Do my thing.
- Do your thing.
- All right. I appreciate it.
- Okay.
- I'm just gonna...
- All right. Good night, Doc.
- [DOC] Good night.
[OPNS GLOVE BOX]
[CHUBBS] Get your man!
Get your man!
Come on!
[SAM] Watch him.
[ON PHONE] Jackie!
It's Miguel agatn.
Just checking in to see
if you got my call
about David's birthday party.
Give me a call when you get a chance.
[ANGELA] Hey, it's me.
I know it's late notice,
but I'm gonna be down by you
for a client visit tomorrow
and wanted to see
if you wanted to meet for lunch.
Anyway,
call me when you get this.
- Hi.
- Hey.
Sorry I'm late.
Damn bus broke down on the 710.
It was a nightmare.
- [JACK] I just got here.
- Okay.
[JACK] You look good.
Thanks. You too.
How's the new job working out?
[GROANS] It's insurance.
It's boring, but it pays the bills.
Good.
Heard you're coaching basketball.
- Beth tell you that?
- Yeah.
So, you having fun?
Yeah.
I'd be having more fun
if we won a game...
[ANGELA CHUCKLES]
But keeps me occupied.
Keeps my mind off other things.
Good.
I was worried about you.
What were you worried about me for?
You weren't moving on with your life.
You were seeing the world
in some dark ways.
Why?
Are you?
Seeing the world in dark ways?
Moving on with your life.
Uh-oh.
Hafs his name?
Nick.
How'd you guys meet?
Through mutual friends.
How long has it been going on for?
Few months.
Few months? What, like, six months?
Eight months?
Okay. All right.
Come on.
[WATTRESS] You know
what we want for lunch?
Um...
Just give us a second, actually.
Thank you.
[WATTRESS] Sure.
I wanted to tell you myself
before you found out
through one of our friends.
Say something, Jack.
What do you want me to say?
"Congratulations"?
No.
- Completely fucking blindsided by this.
- Not "congratulations."
Blindsided?
We've been separated for over a year.
Will I see you at the birthday party?
What?
Miguel and Sofia.
They're having
a birthday party for David.
Satd he called you a few times.
Let me know if you want to go together.
Bye.
[ERIC] Jackie hit's his second free throw
and he just holds his hand like this
in the atr for like 30 seconds.
Purcell says, "Jackie, you keep holding
your hand like that"
and Eric's gonna ask you out."
[PATRONS LAUGHING]
Fifty-five points, man.
- [RUSS] To the legend.
- [PATRONS] Yeah.
[MAN] You gotta dim the lights
for the man.
- [RUSS] To the legend.
- [MAN 2] To the legend.
[PATRONS LAUGHING
AND TALKING INDISTINCTLY]
[JACK] Get the fuck outta here.
[MAN] Why the fuck do
I need a sausage?
He was like,
"It's a PK. It's a Polish kielbasa."
[PATRONS LAUGHING]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[JACK] Ah. Yeah.
[DOC] Fellas.
Evening, boys.
[PATRONS CHEER]
[ERIC] We're talking old times here.
[DOC] I know what you're talking,
and I'm telling you it's time for him
to get going.
Come on, let's go now.
Come on. Let's go.
No, you're not.
- Now you are!
- [PATRONS CHEER]
[ALL MUGHING]
I'm up.
[PATRONS] whoa!
- Shit.
- There you go. That's it.
[MAN] Where are you taking my friend?
Where are you taking my friend?
[PATRONS CONTINUE CHATTERING]
[FATHER MARK] Okay, okay.
Uh, where's Kenny?
Kenny is the only one missing.
Kenny and Coach.
[KENNY] I just want you to know
that I respect you, a'ight?
- And I love you.
- [GIRL] Hmm.
Every time that ball
goes through the hoop,
- I'm gonna be thinking about you.
- Kenny.
Okay? And that goes
through the hoop a lot.
- Kenny, let's go! The bus is watting.
- [GIRL] Okay.
Hey, what up, Coach?
- Bye. Yeah, I'll text you after. Okay.
- You'll text me? Okay. Cool.
Hey, what's going on, man?
- [GIRL] Good luck!
- Thanks.
[JACK] You better watch out.
Priests catch you doing that
and you're gonna be spending
your weekends here.
[KENNY] Nah, but it makes
my game better though, Coach.
[CROWD CHANTING] Memorial!
Memorial! Memorial!
Memorial!
Memorial!
Memorial!
Memorial!
Memorial!
Memorial!
[PLAYER] Let's go.
[DEVON] Hold on,
hold on.
I want to talk to you.
These scrubs ain't worthy of being
on the same court as us.
[CHANTING CONTINUES]
[PLAYERS TALK INDISTINCTLY]
[CROWD CHEERING]
[CROWD CHANTING]
- Hey, Coach.
- [LOMBARDO] Hey, Coach.
- How are ya?
- Good, good.
I heard you got a new general in charge.
Yeah. Jack Cunningham.
Yeah. I'm surprised you could keep him
oui of the bar
long enough to hold practice.
[CROWD CONTINUES CHANTING AND CHEERING]
Coach Lombardo.
Jack Cunningham.
He says that
like I don't know who he is.
He's the best high school
basketball player I've ever seen.
Listen, I was front row when he hung 47
agatnst Trinity
at the Catholic League semis.
Got quite a team there, Coach.
21's a hell of a ball player.
Yeah. So, how ya liking
coaching so far?
[JACK] Great.
Just getting used to the players.
What players?
Ah, I'm just breaking your stones, Jack.
- Good luck.
- [LOMBARDO] You can have the luck.
I'll take the thoroughbreds.
What an asshole this guy is.
Yeah, big time.
[PLAYERS YELLING AND CHEERING]
[BUZZER RINGS]
Let's go.
Bring it in.
[SAM] Let's go,
let's go, let's go!
[CHUBBS] Holy shit.
[SAM] Here we go,
here we go, here we go.
Chubhs. Hey!
No more dancing.
Coach, are you serious?
Yeah. I'm serious.
We're one in nine.
You're out there jumping around
like you hit the Powerball.
You're embarrassing yourself.
Win a few games,
we can talk about bringing it back.
But for now, that act's retired.
Got it?
Yeah.
[BRASS BAND PLAYING MUSIC]
[CROWD CHEERING]
[DEVON] One, two, three.
- [WHISTLE BLOWS]
- [CROWD CHEERS]
[CHUBBS] Hey.
Help, help.
- [CROWD CHEERS]
- Let's go!
[CROWD CHANTS]
Motion, motion.
[PLAYER] Let's go!
Bring him through.
[KENNY] Hey, hey.
[SAM] Backup, back up.
[CROWD] Oh, yeah!
[JACK] Show hands.
Let's go, guys.
You guys gotta move.
[CROWD] Oh, yeah!
[DEVON] Let's go. Lock him up.
Lock him up.
[CROWD CHANTING]
- [JACK] Fuck.
- [DEVON] Come on.
[CROWD CHEERS]
Time-out!
[LOMBARDO] Get over here.
All right. Listen up.
- [FREEZE] Come on.
- [SAM] Fuck.
Get back.
Get back!
[CROWD CHEERS]
[CHEERING]
[WHISTLE BLOWS]
[CROWD CHANTING]
Defense, defense, defense!
- [MARCUS] Back screen, back screen.
- You guys gotta move! Set picks!
Then squeeze!
[CHANTING CONTINUES]
Go.
Let's go. Let's go. Let's go.
Shoot!
Watch the clock!
[CROWD] Five, four,
three, two, one!
[WHISTLE BLOWS]
[CROWD SHOUTING]
Time-out!
[BLOWS WHISTLE]
Full time-out.
Let's go.
Bring it in.
[DAN] Come on.
Let's go.
[JACK] Nobody sit's down.
Stand up.
Stand up.
I thought I said to force him left.
- Coach, I'm trying.
- Try harder.
What did I say
about fading off your man?
Why's shit always my fault?
Freeze, sub in for Marcus.
- You taking me out?
- That's right.
Sit the fuck down.
This is some bullshit, man.
Listen to me.
I want every one of you to reach
in your shorts right now
and tell me if you find a patr.
'Cause right now, you're playing
like a bunch of fucking pussies.
And that's the truth.
Next time 32 goes
over your back like that,
put a fucking elbow in his stomach.
Yes, Coach.
And if Childress tries to put you
on a poster like that,
you hit him so fucking hard
he never comes down the lane
like that agatn.
I got you.
Have a little fucking pride.
I don't give a shit if we lose
every fucking game this year.
I will not coach a team
that has been out-toughed.
All right?
Let's go!
Fuck yeah, man.
Here we go.
[SAM] "Team" on three.
One, two, three.
[PKIYERS] Team!
[CROWD CHANTING]
I'm in for 50.
[WHISTLE BLOWS]
[CHUBBS] Come on.
Switch up, switch up!
[BRANDON] Chubbs.
[KENNY] Let's Go, 3.
[CHUBBS] Come on!
[PLAYER GRUNTS]
[WHISTLE BLOWS]
[CROWD BOOING]
[FREEZE] Hey, hey, hey. Chill.
[FATHER MARK] Get back here.
Get back here.
[FREEZE] Get the fuck off, bro.
Hey, get the fuck off, bro.
[KENNY] Bro, I'll beat your ass.
I'll fuck you up, bitch.
[ALL CLAMORING]
[WHISTLE BLOWING]
That is a flagrant foul.
[FATHER MARK] Hey, that's enough.
That's enough.
I didn't do fucking anything, man.
Watch yourself.
- Get back there.
- Ge1 over there!
What the hell is that?
That guy should be out.
Control your players, Cunningham.
- That is bullshit, man.
- [CROWD BOOING]
- What the hell? Come on!
- [WHISTLE BLOWS]
Right. All right.
I'm feeling a comeback.
- Jack?
- Yeah.
Uh... [CLEARS THROAT]
Just wanted to have a little chat
with you
about something that was on my mind.
Um, I don't know if you recall
from your days as a student,
but we have a code of conduct at Hayes.
Part of that code includes
the use of appropriate language.
I understand you're trying to
motivate the team,
I just wonder if maybe
there's a different approach.
So, you would, uh...
You would like me to be
a little more, uh...
Christlike on the bench?
I'd like you to keep in mind
that our mission at Hayes
isn't to win basketball games.
It's to develop men
of integrity and fatth.
Just give it some thought for me.
Will you do that?
- Yes, I will.
- Thank you.
Father, let me ask you something.
With all the terrible stuff
going on in the world,
you think who's ever up there
really gives a shit
what I say to these kids?
[INHALES DEEPLY]
As Christians,
we are called by God
to integrate our fatth
inio our datly lives.
So, yes, Jack. I do think
he really gives a shit
about the example you set
for these young men.
Don't underestimate the impact
you can have on them.
[JACK] All right.
I'll take a look at the game tape.
We can talk about if we wanna use
that 1-3-1 zone.
[DAN] Got it.
Sounds good.
[JACK] Have a good night.
- Hey, Jack.
- Yeah?
I noticed some empty beer cans
in the office earlier.
- Do you...
- You've been sneaking around the office?
Well, Garcia lost a contact lens,
so the solution...
A friend came by.
He wanted to look at some...
And we were hanging out.
I mean, you're not gonna break my balls
about a couple of beer cans, are ya?
Just don't let it happen agatn, okay?
Yeah, no problem.
[SIGHS]
[ROWDY LAUGHTER]
Hey, hey, Jackie!
I'll sel you up inside, all right?
[CAR ENGINE STARTS]
[JACK] All right. We're gonna
change things up a little bit.
We're the smallest team in the league
and our half-court offense sucks.
We're gonna score some points
with defense. We gotta press.
1-2-1-1.
Call it the diamond press.
- [DOOR OPENS]
- Requires two things,
toughness and quickness.
We're gonna be picking up
after every dead ball.
Full court, all game.
Keep your clothes on, Marcus.
[MARCUS] Talking to me?
Come late to the game,
you don't play.
We'll talk about it
at practice tomorrow.
What are you talking about?
I'm, like, four minutes late.
You know what? Forget about tomorrow.
Go home. You're off the team.
Coach Dan, what the hell is his problem?
I'm barely lale.
You heard Coach, Marcus.
Go home.
[SCOFFS] Are you
fucking serious right now?
I'm barely fucking late.
Y'all fucking stupid, man.
This dumb-ass team.
Freeze, you're starting tonight.
Means you're gonna be guarding
the inbounder, okay?
Got it, Coach.
[CROWD CHEERING]
[SAL] Ah, this should be fun.
- Evening, Sal.
- What's up, Jackie?
Give us some friendly whistles tonight,
will you?
[CHUCKLES] Yeah, right. That's funny.
They ain't paying me enough for that.
[CHUBBS] Let's go.
Here we go.
[SAM] Freeze, Freeze, Freeze!
- [SAL] Hands up. Hands up!
- [JACK] Freeze, help! Help out.
Freeze, help!
- That's it!
- [WHISTLE BLOWS]
- What? Come on, ref.
- What's the call, ref?
White 23 blocked.
Two shois.
Oh, bullshit!
Come on!
That's a fucking horseshit call, Sal.
Jack, settle down
or it's gonna cost you.
It's bullshit.
- And you know it's fucking horseshit.
- That's why I didn't make it. All right?
- Tell him to go fuck himself.
- I'll tell him after the game.
[JACK] Bullshit!
God damn it!
[SAM] Box out.
Box out.
[CHUBBS] Let's go, y'all.
[CROWD CHANIING]
[JACK] Box out.
[CHUBBS] Come on, fellas.
Hey, let's box this out.
Rebound!
[FAN] Come on, Hayes!
Time-out!
Time-out!
- Sal, time-out. God damn it.
- [WHISTLE BLOWS]
[SAL] Time-out.
Full time-out here.
Full time-out here.
[SAM] God damn, man.
[JACK] Bring it in.
Sit down.
All right. Come on, guys.
Let's go. Let's win this fucking game.
We've got 15 seconds left.
We're gonna go on 8.
Gives us time for a rebound or a tip-in.
Brandon, 20's gonna pick you up
full court. All right?
Freeze, you're gonna come up
and set a ball screen for Brandon.
Brandon, you roll around to the right.
Garcia, come up,
set a back screen for Kenny.
Kenny, come out to the wing
for the three.
That way we got three options.
Brandon attacking right will look
for Freeze coming off the screen.
- Watch the clock! Watch the clock!
- [JACK] If neither of those are there,
go to Kenny for the three in the corner.
You got this, okay?
No, Don't just nod.
I wanna hear your voice. Yes or no?
- Yes, Coach.
- [WHISTLE BLOWS]
[FATHER MARK] Set it,
set it, set it!
[CHUBBS] That's you, B!
[FAN] Go, Brandon!
[FATHER MARK] Watch the clock!
Watch the clock!
[CHEERING]
[JACK] We won!
Brandon, you need a ride?
No, I'm good, Coach.
Where do you live?
Uh, Los Codona Ave.
Come on, get in the car.
You walk home alone every night?
[BRANDON] Mmm-hmm.
Where's Mom or Dad?
My mom died three years ago
and my dad's at home
with my little brothers.
That's why he didn't come
to any of the games?
Yeah.
You played a hell of
a game tonight.
Next time, shoot the ball.
On the last play?
That's your shot,
not Kenny's.
Yeah, the defense collapsed on me,
so Kenny was open in the corner.
Right.
So that was a smart play.
Sometimes a smart play
is not the right play.
You're the best player on the team.
The game's on the line,
100 times out of 100
I want you taking that shot.
Why is that so hard for you to believe?
What?
That you're the best player on the team.
You understand this game in a way
these guys don't.
I saw you get frustrated at Chubbs
when he didn't go backdoor
on the ball reverse.
Or Freeze, when he didn't duck under
on the Atlanta set.
Why didn't you call him out
for not making the right play?
Uh, it's not really my thing
to call someone out.
I'm not, like,
the team captatn or nothing, so...
So, if I make you the captatn,
are you gonna chew Chubbs out
when he doesn't go backdoor?
Yes or no?
[BRANDON] I'm just up here on the left.
Night, Coach.
[RUSS] Hey, son.
Who that?
[BRANDON] That's my new coach.
[RUSS] All right.
Go on, get with that homework.
[BRANDON] Yes, sir.
[BRANDON] Atlanta high,
Atlanta high.
[JACK] Stop, stop,
stop. Reset.
- What set are we in, Brandon?
- Atlanta high.
- Did you call it out?
- Yeah.
- Did you guys hear him?
- [PLAYERS] Nah.
We're in an empty gym,
and nobody heard you.
Do it agatn.
[BRANDON SPEAKING LOUDER]
Atlanta high. Atlanta high.
[JACK] Reset.
Brandon, I still can't hear you.
You're gonna be our point guard,
people need to be able to hear
what you say on the floor.
You hear how loud I'm talking
right now?
Yeah.
- That's how loud you need to be.
- All right.
[CHUBBS] You can do it, B.
Come on, Brandon.
I can't hear you, Brandon.
[SAM] Come on, break that press.
B, break that press.
[JACK] Call it out.
Brandon, I can't hear you.
[BRANDON] Yo, are you fucking serious?
Get off me!
There's 3,000 people at Memorial
screaming their heads off,
and I don't know what set we're in!
[BRANDON] Fuck you!
Can you hear me now?
Can you?
[SOFTLY] Yeah,
I can hear you now.
[KNOCKS]
[MARCUS] What's up, Coach?
How'd you find my house?
I looked you up on my phone.
Oh.
What do you want?
Uh... So my momma,
she works till 7:00 every night.
And she was like,
she doesn't want me really
being out on my own after school.
So she was wondering maybe
if you'll let me back on the team.
I already told you, Marcus.
I don't want you on the team.
If it's about finding something to do
after school, I'll talk to Coach Dan.
We can set you up with study hall
or something like that.
All right?
Sorry.
[DOOR CLOSES]
[GNIFFS]
[KNOCKS]
I thought that was a pretty fatr offer,
Marcus.
[SNIFFLES]
My momma ain't sent me here, Coach.
I'm here 'cause I wanna play ball.
I miss it.
I don't fucking like
nothing else, Coach.
Don't swear.
There's a code of conduct policy
at the school.
- You know that?
- My bad.
There's a big section in there
about swearing.
I'm sorry. I won't swear.
[JACK SIGHS]
Be at practice tomorrow at 4:00.
- You serious?
- Don't be late.
Ah, fuck no...
I mean heck.
I'm sorry.
Heck no, I'm not gonna be late.
I'm sorry about cursing, Coach.
[JACK] Let's go.
Bring it in.
- [SAM] Oh, my gosh.
- [CHUBBS] It wasn't me.
A few things before we get started.
As you can see,
Marcus is rejoining the team.
Judging by that reaction,
I expect it'll be some time
before he regatns your respect.
Second thing is...
Sam and I discussed...
we're gonna make a change
to the captatn spot.
Brandon, you're gonna be our captatn
going forward.
That's it. Get to work.
[CHUBBS] All right, fellas.
Let's go. Let's work.
[SAM] Let's hustle up.
Let's do it.
Good shit, B.
I'll follow your lead. Come on.
[KENNY] Every time that ball goes
through the hoop,
I'm gonna be thinking about you.
- You know that?
- Yeah.
Yo, let's go.
- [KENNY] Bro, what?
- [BRANDON] Come on.
A'ight. I'll see you after.
Okay?
[GIRL] Bye, Kenny.
All right, let's go.
Move.
What did we discover last night
at Baptist?
[SAM] That defense creates offense.
[BRANDON] We have to matntatn pressure
for all four quarters.
- [JACK] That's right.
- [KENNY] All right.
[JACK] Discovered that
we're a pressing team.
We don't take any plays off,
we don't let 'em breathe.
As soon as they get over half-court,
we trap.
Even if the hall's
in the middle of the court?
Anywhere and everywhere.
You can't trap if the ball's
in the middle of the floor.
You need the sideline.
Who says?
We can do whatever we want.
[BRANDON] Get up!
[JACK] There you go. There you go.
Stay with him!
Pressure, pressure.
Don't let him breathe.
- There you go.
- [CHUBBS] Trap, trap, trap!
Bring it around. Stay on him.
- [CROWD GROANING]
- No! Bullshit!
That's a chickenshit fucking call.
God damn it!
- I'm working on it.
- Work harder.
Come on!
[JACK] If we're gonna
keep winning games,
we gotta make our lack of size
an advantage.
We gotta speed the game up.
We gotta play every possession
like it's a war.
Come on! You've gotta be fucking blind!
That's a horseshit call!
[MARCUS] We done yet, Coach?
We're a pressing team.
It's not even the third quarter.
We're just getting warmed up.
Motion, motion.
[JACK] What did we discover last night
at Downey?
We gotta take charges.
We gotta play with chips
on our shoulders.
Play with a chip
on your fucking shoulder. Goddamn right.
Marcus.
Come on, you're going in for Chubbs.
Marcus, I want you
to cover the inbound, okay?
Big arms.
Force him to pass into the comer.
That's it!
The Itttte things add up.
Let's do all the little things right.
Loose ball gets us two points.
Tip pass gets us to four.
Steal gets us another two.
Now we're at six.
Turnover out of our press gets us
to eight.
All this shit adds up.
Every box-out, every hustle,
every loose ball, every trap.
Put all that shit together,
all of a sudden
we're pretty fucking tough to beat.
[MAN] Hit that!
[CHEERING]
- [CHUBBS] That's how we do it.
- Got that candy-stroke.
[SAM] What quarter are we in, Coach?
[JACK] The fourth quarter.
The other team's gassed.
Let's see what we got left in the tank.
[CHEERLEADERS] Hayes, let's go!
Bishop Hayes, let's go!
Hayes, let's go!
Bishop Hayes,
let's go!
Kenny.
Coach, why you gotta do me
like that, man?
Good luck tonight, Kenny.
[BOYS CHEERING]
[SAM] What quarter are we in,
Coach?
Holy shit, look at that.
We just went into overtime.
[BOYS PANTING]
[JACK] What did we learn
about ourselves last night?
[BRANDON] That we have
to respect the game.
[JACK] That's right.
Respect.
[PANTING]
[KENNY] Yo, Coach,
how many more I got?
Well, Kenny,
it's not up to me.
- [GIRL 1] Let's keep him moving.
- [GIRL 2] Come on.
[KENNY] Hey, y'all.
How y'all gonna do me like that?
I loved each and every
one of you girls.
- [GIRL 1] Have fun.
- [GIRL 2] Bye, Kenny.
- Hayley, you know I...
- [GIRL 2] No, keep going.
[KENNY] Girls, you're all in my heart.
- You each have your own little section.
- [JACK] Hurry up!
- [WHISTLE BLOWS]
- I'm going!
- [GIRL 1] Bye!
- [GIRL 2] Bye, Kenny
[BIRD CALLING]
[JACK] Hey.
[BREATHLESSLY] Hey.
Ready? [EXHALES]
- [VIDEO GAME SOUND EFFECTS PLAYING]
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER]
- Hi.
- [SOFIA] Angela!
- [ANGELA] Hi.
- [SOFIA] Oh, my goodness.
So, the doctors are optimistic?
So far, so good.
Great.
They told us, "Lel him do all the things
any normal kid would do."
- But you know what remission's like.
- Yeah.
Living life watting on pins and needles
for the other shoe to drop.
- [INDISTINCI CHATTER]
- Spoke to Ethan lately?
[JACK] He called me a couple of times.
I haven't gotten back to him.
Andrew's not looking so good.
And now they're, uh,
talking about hospice.
Jesus.
Can I use a different bat, Dad?
[MIGUEL] Pick any bat you want, son.
But first say hello to Mr. Cunningham.
- [DAVID] Hi, Mr. Cunningham.
- Hey, how you doing, pal?
[CHUCKLES] Michael's dad.
You remember Michael.
Remember, we were in the hospital.
- It's all right.
- Halloween, we...
No, no, no.
We put you two in a wheelchatr
and then we pushed you all
around the hospital
- collecting candy.
- [DAVID] Mmm-hmm.
- Doctor was gonna kill you for that.
- Yeah.
[MIGUEL] That was your idea.
- Michael was Dracula.
- [LAUGHS] That's right. He was Dracula.
[SOFIA] Who's ready
to sing Happy Birthday?
- All right, buddy. Let's do this.
- [SOFIA] Who wants cake? Whoo!
- [CHANTING] Cake, cake, cake.
- [MIGUEL] it's cake time.
Come on, son,
let's go.
[SOFIA CONTINUES CHANTING]
Cake, cake, cake.
Cake, cake, cake.
[SINGING] Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday,
dear David.
Happy birthday to you
[ANGELA SIGHS, WHISPERING]
Hi, Michael.
Please, Lord,
look after my son.
Please let him be happy.
I miss you, pal.
[ANGELA] Thanks for coming to the party.
I know Miguel and Sofia invite us
'cause they don't want us to feel...
excluded,
but I just end up feeling like...
even more of an outcast.
It's like I just get angry
all over agatn.
Look around at all the boys,
and wish it was one of them...
not Michael.
Does that make me an awful person?
I never stop being angry.
I know you're suffering.
Yeah, I'm suffering.
And I miss my son.
And I don't believe
he's in a better place.
I believe the best place for him
was right here with you and me.
Yeah.
Home.
We're both suffering.
I don't know, Ang,
you seem to be doing pretty good.
A new job...
fucking some rich guy
while we're still married.
Sorry.
[CAR ENGINE STARTS]
[RYAN] You could go to the library.
They have a book club there
every Friday.
- [ANNE] The library? Really?
- [KURT] Yep.
[ANNE] Would you go with me?
[KURT] Well, it's for senior women.
[ANNE] For heaven's sakes, Kurt.
I don't have a problem making friends.
I don't.
But it's just, it's a whole new place.
I've only been there a little while.
Give me...
[KURT] Well, il's called
a two-way street, though.
You gotta get out a little.
Uh...
You think maybe it's time
for a new shower curtatn, Jack?
No, I hadn't thought about it.
[BETH] Well, you should,
'cause that thing smells.
Anybody want a drink?
- [ANNE] No. No.
- [KURT] I'm good.
So, what does the scout report
look like for the team today, Jack?
[SIGHS] Uh, well,
they're struggling a little bit.
Trinity has lost six in a row.
They have one good shooter, TJ Edmonds,
bui Uncle Jack's team should win.
And they kinda have to win.
'Cause if they don't win tonight,
their next chance at getting
into the playoffs is agatnst Memorial.
And Memorial's the number one
ranked team in the state.
[KUN] You should see him,
Jack.
Every morning,
the night after your game,
he wakes up early, he goes downstairs,
checks the stats on the computer.
Maybe I should be
the assistant coach tonight.
[ALL CHUCKLE]
Number 41.
Get your head in the fucking game.
Come on, Brandon.
Let's go!
[CHEERLEADERS CHANTING]
Push up!
Defense!
[JACK] All right.
Motion, motion, motion.
- Don't stop.
- [WHISTLE BLOWS]
41's the shooter.
Watch the drop screen.
[CROWD CHEERING]
Push it up.
Let's go!
Look out.
- [WHISTLE BLOWS]
- Kenny!
Playing with their heads up
their fucking ass.
They're just really nervous right now.
These guys have never played a game
that's ever mattered.
One stop.
No threes.
- [CROWD CHEERING]
- Shit.
- [SAM] Switch up, switch up.
- [CROWD CHANTING] Defense!
- Move! Move!
- [CROWD] Defense!
[JACK] Here we go,
here we go! Go!
Come on, Kenny! That's stupid.
It's the back court!
- I know.
- Yo, commit to the top.
- We had an open player. Let's go!
- All right, all right. I know.
22! 22!
- [FREEZE] Watch the screen!
- [JACK] No threes!
[CROWD CHEERING]
- Any time-outs?
- None.
[JACK] Push it, push it!
[MARCUS] Get through,
get through, get through.
Hayes, look up.
[CROWD CONTINUES CHANTING]
[GRUNTS]
- [WHISTLE BLOWS]
- Oh, that's bullshit.
What's the call, Sal?
[SAL] Offensive foul,
number 23.
That's bullshit.
He was moving his feet!
- Offensive, number 23.
- He was moving his feet.
He was already set, Jack.
You don't make that fucking call
at the end of the game!
- It's the end of the game!
- His feet were set, Jack!
- It's a chickenshit call.
- [CROWD BOOING]
- Come on. That's a pussy call.
- Listen, that's a warning.
And you're a fucking pussy
for making it.
[SAL] All right, you know what?
That's it.
[JACK] Fuck you.
- Hey, Jack. Jack!
- [SAL] Technical foul, right here.
You don't fucking decide the game!
Okay?
The players decide the fucking game.
- That's bullshit.
- Jack, Jack, Jack.
[JACK] You don't fucking do that now!
- The players decide the goddamn game!
- [WHISTLE BLOWING]
- [DAN] Hey!
- You've gotta calm down.
Technical foul.
You're outta here.
[CROWD SINGING]
Na na na na.
Na na na na
Hey hey, goodbye.
Take a breath.
[CROWD] Na na na na
Na na na na.
Hey hey, goodbye.
Sorry for losing my temper tonight.
I shouldn't have done that.
You know what my dad told me last night?
He said that you got a full ride
to Kansas...
and that you just quit.
No reason.
[EXHALES DEEPLY]
Why?
[SIGHS]
My father didn't like me very much.
And then someone told him
I was good at basketball...
and he patd a lot more attention to me.
And the better I got,
the more love he showed me.
Then I realized it wasn't me
that he loved...
it was what I could do.
So, you just quit playing
as a "fuck you" to your dad?
[SIGHS]
Yeah, I guess so.
I made a lot of bad decisions, Brandon.
I got a lot of regret.
Went away from basketball,
got into a different life,
got into drugs.
Spent a lot of time hurting myself,
trying to hurt my father.
It was my wife who got me outta that.
I never picked up a basketball agatn.
[RUSS] Yeah,
go ahead and lower it in.
Russ! Yo, Russ!
You got a visitor.
[RUSS] Yo! Dump that.
Dump it!
- Let's go! All right. Back.
- Excuse me, are you Russ Durrett?
Yeah, can I help you?
Yeah, I'm Jack Cunningham.
I coach your son over at Bishop Hayes.
Get this tuna on the scale now.
Yeah, man,
I know who you are.
Yeah, I used to come watch you play
down at Cheviot Hills.
You and Benny Green and YaYa Davis.
Yeah, man. YaYa and Benny, man,
we used to do our thing.
So, how can I help you?
[JACK] Well, I want to talk to you
about Brandon.
Has he shown you any of the
recruiting letters he's been getting?
Brandon ain't shown me nothing.
Well, he's getting a lot of attention
from good schools
that want him to come play ball for 'em.
Thanks for coming by here
and letting me know...
Coach.
How come we don't see you
down at any of the games?
'Cause I got responsibilities at home.
I got two boys that need to be bathed,
fed, and helped with their homework.
[JACK] Well, we got a big game
this week.
If we win it,
we go to the playoffs.
Listen,
I don't come to any games
'cause I don't support my son's ideas
about the game, okay?
I don't want him relying on basketball
lo make a life.
That was my mistake
and it ain't gonna be his.
These schools are offering him
full scholarships.
Oh, come on, man.
It don't matter.
They offered me the same.
Putting your faith in basketball,
it don't work out.
And if anybody ought to know that,
it oughta be you.
Yeah.
Your son loves the game.
He's gonna keep playing it.
- [INDISTINCT SHOUTING]
- [WOMAN] Lets do this!
Let's go Bishop!
Whoo! Let's go!
[MAN] It's the Tigers, baby!
Let's do this, Hayes!
[BRASS BAND PLAYING MUSIC]
[CROWD CHEERING]
Um... So, are we gonna stay in the press
the whole game or...
[JACK] Yep, right from the tip.
Okay. I'd better get the lineup out
to the scores table.
And, uh...
I know nobody expected us to be here,
and we got no business winning
this game,
but I really want to beat
these fucking guys.
[CHEERLEADERS CHEERING]
[BRASS BAND PLAYING MUSIC]
[CROWD CHEERING]
[MAN] Come on,
Coach Cunningham!
[WOMAN] We love you,
Coach!
[CHEERING CONTINUES]
- All right.
- [JACK] Let's fly.
Coach.
[BUZZER RINGS]
Let's go.
Bring it in.
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]
All right. We're on Diamond press
right from the tip.
Keep that pressure up.
They break it, fall back into 22.
Look, you're nervous.
I get that.
The truth is, they got more talent
over there than we do.
Probably got a better coach.
Nah.
But I promise you,
they are not a better team.
I would take anyone on this bench
right now,
for any one of those players.
You worked hard to be here,
you earned this.
Have some fun out there.
Now go out there and earn the playoffs.
[SAM] All right, do it!
Win on three.
One, two, three...
[PLAYERS] Win!
[CHEERING]
[RHYTHMIC THUMPING]
[WHISTLE BLOWS]
Up! Up!
- [MARCUS] Get your man.
- [DAN] Hands up, hands up!
Gonna eat us alive, if we give
that shot. Push him io his left.
[BRANDON] Atlanta high,
Atlanta high.
[KENNY] Quick, quick!
Switch, switch, switch!
[CROWD CHANTING]
[SAM] Get back,
get back!
That's it.
[CROWD CONTINUES CHANTING]
[LOMBARDO] Box out!
Watch it! Watch it!
[KENNY] Rebound!
Switch up.
Come down, come down, come down!
- [DEVON] Corner, corner, corner.
- [SAM] Hey!
[DEVON] Go, go, go!
[CROWD CHEERING]
[JACK] Help out!
[PLAYER GROANS]
- Time-out, time-out.
- [WHISTLE BLOWS]
[CHANTING]
Get up and yell "Bishop?"
[JACK] We need stops.
So let's double-team Childress
every time he comes across half-court.
Make somebody else fucking score.
Stay on him! Press!
Pressure! Don't give up!
[MAN] Watch the pick.
[MAN 2] Pick left.
Switch off to the side.
[BRANDON] Go! Let's go.
[MAN 3] Throw it in!
That's it! That's it!
Here we go, here we go.
- Put it in there.
- [BRANDON] Go on, go on!
You guys gotta move.
You can't stand around.
[BRANDON] Switch, switch,
switch, switch, switch.
[CROWD CHEERS]
[BRANDON] Let's go.
Bring it through.
- [SAM] Here we go!
- [MAN 4] Pick him up. Pick him up.
Look, we're not gonna make it all back
in one possession.
You gotta just keep chipping away,
and chipping away at it.
[MAN] Watch him, watch him.
Down the rail.
- [MAN 2] Up!
- [CHUBBS] Come on. Come on.
Little things,
do the little things.
[CHUBBS] Take it to the rack.
- That's you.
- [WHISTLE BLOWS]
Let's go, baby. Let's go, huh!
- [CROWD CHEERS]
- Let's go, son.
[JACK] Yeah!
There you go.
All right. Up, up, up!
- [BRANDON] D-up, D-up,
- [MAN 3] Let's go.
[BRANDON] Get your man,
get your man.
[JACK] Get up in their faces.
Get in their face.
[DAN] Bobby, Bobby, watch this guy.
Watch this...
[JACK] Let's get a trap!
[MAN 4] Pass it.
- Yeah! There you go!
- [CROWD CHEERING]
Too easy.
That's too easy.
[DEVON] Switch, switch.
Get through it.
[BRANDON] Motion, motion.
[FREEZE] Here you go,
here you go, here you go.
[KENNY] Hey, coming through,
coming through.
[BRANDON] Pick left, pick left.
Go through, go through.
- [JACK] Nice pass.
- [CHEERING]
- Time-out! Time-out.
- [WHISTLE BLOWS]
Keep pressing, trapping,
taking charges.
Make our lack of size an advantage.
Play like we've got a fucking chip
on our shoulders. Let's go!
[BRANDON] Go, go, go.
Lock up.
[GRUNTS]
- Offensive!
- [WHISTLE BLOWS]
- 0fiensive.
- [JACK] Yeah!
Come on!
Jesus, you guys.
We're playing right into their hands.
[JACK] Move the ball.
Move the ball.
[KENNY] Let's go!
[ALL CHEERING]
Diamond, Diamond, Diamond!
Zach, he's six inches shorter than you.
How does he make that shot?
Chips on our fucking shoulders.
Let's go!
[BRANDON] That!
- [DEVON] Defense!
- [PLAYER] Stay on your man.
- [CROWD CHEERING]
- That's it. Beautiful.
I don't even know who I'm looking at.
[MAN] Go, Go, go.
- [WHISTLE BLOWS]
- [REFEREE] Out!
- [MAN 2] Ran out. You ran out.
- [MAN 3] Get him, get him.
[CHEERING]
- [KENNY] Hey, Diamond! Diamond!
- [MAN 4] D-up!
- [JACK] Pressure!
- [MARCUS] Come on, break through.
- [JACK] Pressure!
- [SAM] Reach. Shoot.
Attack this.
Attack their pressure!
[CROWD CHANTING]
[SAM] Switch, switch, switch.
Come on! Box out.
[JACK] Twenty-two.
Ploi it out! Plot it out!
[WHISTLE BLOWS]
[CROWD SHOUIING]
That's it, that's it,
That's it. That's it!
Yeah, That's a great call.
- [LOMBARDO] That is a bullshit call.
- How many time-outs do we have?
- One time-out left.
- His hands were all over 'em.
- It's a home job.
- [JACK] All right. Time-out!
[WHISTLE BLOWS]
Time-out.
[JACK] All right.
Bring it in. Bring it in.
- What's up? Say something.
- Hey, hey, hey. Chill. Chill.
- [LOMBARDO] Bring it in.
- [CHUBBS] Chill, man. Come on.
- [DAN] Whafre you gonna do?
- I'm gonna run Atlanta for Brandon.
But Childress is on him.
You gotta expect a double-team.
So, is he gonna get an open look?
[SOFTLY] Yeah.
All right.
12 seconds, no time-outs.
We're gonna run the Hawk for Kenny.
Marcus, set the high pick.
Freeze, Garcia, come round,
set a double screen.
Brandon, go right,
look for Kenny on the wing.
Three, we're stopping three.
He gets the ball,
he doesn't go five feet.
We lock him up.
One stop.
- [JACK] Stay focused, run our set.
- [BUZZER RINGS]
Get out there and win this.
[PLAYERS SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
- Team on three.
- [SAM] Win on three.
[LOMBARDO] One, two, three...
- [PLAYERS] Win!
- [SAM] Let's go, man! Let's do this.
Brandon...
Forget that.
Take the shot.
Don't nod your head at me.
I got this.
[WHISTLE BLOWING]
[INAUDIBLE]
[ALL CHEERING]
[CELL PHONE VIBRATING]
[JACK] Hello?
[ANGEW] Hey, it's me.
Hey.
I just got off the phone
with Miguel, and...
What?
[ANGELA SIGHS]
- Hey.
- Hey.
[SIGHS] What happened? A few weeks ago,
he was hitting baseballs.
Yeah, he, um...
He had a fever at school.
Sofia picked him up,
and then he just started seizing.
Is he conscious?
He's sedated.
Is he, uh...
gonna be okay, or...
[ANGELA] They don't know.
They did a scan this morning,
they're just watting on results now.
[INAUDIBLE CONVERSATION]
[SOFIA SOBBING] No!
No! No!
What do you mean? No!
[CONTINUES SOBBING]
[EXHALES SHARPLY]
I can't. I... I gotta go.
- Just watt. Where are you going?
- [JACK] I gotta go. I gotta go.
[SOFIA CONTINUES SOBBING]
[DOC] Come on.
Come on.
[STRATNING]
Just a few more.
[SLURRING] You should see my moves.
They're better than my old man.
[GRUNTS] Your old man
didn't have moves.
I used to carry him up the stairs.
Got the key? Huh?
Let's go.
- [KEYS JANGLING]
- No. No, no, no.
Give it here.
There you go.
[SNEAKERS SQUEAKING]
[INDISTINCT SHOUIING]
[DAN] Look at Marcus!
[MARCUS] Come on, man, I'm right here!
[DAN] Let's see the ball move, okay?
- [BRANDON] Double back to me.
- [DAN] Go, go, go!
[SAM] Snap it back through!
Nice, Sam.
[PLAYER] Call 'em out!
Call 'em out!
[CHILDREN SHOUTING]
[PANTING]
[BRANDON] Get through,
get through.
- Come on, get through, get through.
- [DAN] Nice, Kenny.
[PLAYERS CONTINUE SHOUTING]
- [CHUBBS] Come on.
- [MARCUS] Come on.
- [DAN] Hey, Jack.
- [JACK] Coach.
[DAN] Are you all right?
Where you been?
Yeah. Had a power outage
in my, uh...
neighborhood.
Alarm didn't go off so...
I overslept.
I apologize.
Bring it in.
[PANTING]
I had a power situation
at my place.
I overslept.
That's on me, okay?
Let's get into a Hawk set.
Brandon, take the ball.
Kenny and Garcia on the wing.
Marcus and Freeze,
start in the box.
[SIGHS DEEPLY]
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
[JACK] Yeah.
Hey, Padre.
How's it going?
How are you, Jack?
I'm all right.
What can I do forya?
[SIGHS]
Jack, I'm afratd
we're gonna have to ask you
to step down from coaching the team.
Why?
[FATHER EDWARD]
It's come to my attention
that you've brought alcohol
around the players.
We're gonna have to let you go.
And I'm gonna need youroffice key.
I'm worried that this might be
part of a larger problem, Jack.
Would that be true?
You didn't want to just come talk to me?
[DAN] I did come talk to you
about it, Jack,
- and then you lied to me.
- [JACK] I never lied to you.
I didn't lie to you about anything.
You lied to me today
about your alarm clock.
[SLURRING] I had a poweroutage
at my house.
- You were drunk at practice.
- Oh, bullshit!
- [DAN] I could smell it on you.
- Bullshit.
[DAN] The boys could smell it on you.
[DAN SIGHS]
[SIGHS]
Uh...
All right, look...
Let's just get to the playoffs,
all right?
Guys, please. Just don't do this.
Okay?
I just... You know, I had a bad night.
And, uh, I got it under control now
and I can take care of it.
Let's just, please...
I'm asking you, please, okay?
I'm sorry.
Please, don't do it, do this.
Jack, you've made this decision for me.
I can't accept responsibility
for allowing you to be
around the boys anymore.
[JACK] You know...
[CLEARS THROAT] Fine.
Look, please, just...
Please, don't do this.
[FATHER EDWARD]
Our decision is final, Jack.
We have a zero-tolerance policy
- when it comes to alcohol.
- Fine. Fuck it.
I tried to do something good
with these kids.
You know...
[MUTTERS INDISTINCTLY]
It's your choice.
Who's gonna coach the team?
You? You're a fucking math teacher.
I came to help you out.
Look what we did.
Tried to come in here and help you.
You asked for my help.
And I tried to help you.
This is such bullshit.
I can't get this fucking...
I don't need this job.
[FATHER EDWARD]
We are trying to help, Jack.
- You know what? Stick...
- [KEYS CLATTER]
[DOOR OPENS]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[JACK] What's this?
From the blonde in the corner.
Says she knows you.
[LIVELY BLUES MUSIC PLAYING]
Another one from the blonde
in the corner.
Only this time
it comes with a message,
"Stop being a jerk-off
and come over and talk to me."
I think it's one of the Pearson girls
from Satnt Dorothy's.
Yeah, I think it's Diane.
I patd for you.
- I patd for the whole bar.
- [DIANE] You didn't pay for me.
[BOTH LAUGH]
I mean, if everybody...
Here, give me...
Can I have a drag of that?
- [DIANE] Mmm.
- Please?
God.
Thank you.
You know, I'll tell you a secret.
- What?
- Give me a kiss.
- No. You're driving. No. Fuck off.
- Yes, I am driving. Give me a kiss.
- Okay, just one. Just one. Just one.
- It's one kiss. My, God.
- [CAR ALARM BLARING]
- [DOGS BARKING]
[JACK] Shit.
Oh, God!
- [JACK SIGHS]
- Oh, shit. Shit!
This is my neighbor's house.
- What?
- You've gotta go round the back.
- Hurry up! Just go round the back...
- [JACK] All right.
[DIANE] I'll meet you there.
It's the third house on the right.
[METAL CLATTERING]
[TIRES SCREECHING]
- [CAR ALARM CONTINUES BLARING]
- [DOGS BARKING]
[JACK IN SING-SONG VOICE] Hello?
Forget to pay the electricity bill?
[SIGHS]
[BOTTLE CAP POPS OPEN]
Well...
[GRUNTS] I think we made it.
Think we're safe.
Somebody's gonna come out
for a fucking surprise,
check their mailbox in the morning,
find out their boat's fucking...
sunk. [SNIFFS]
[SIGHS IN RELIEF]
[URINATING]
Pull your fucking pants up.
My wife's calling the cops right now,
asshole.
[WOMAN] Yes, my husband's speaking
with him now.
Diane's your wife?
[MAN] Who the fuck is Diane?
I don't know.
Who's...
I'm in the wrong house, man.
Oh, you're goddamn right,
you're in the wrong house.
Look, I'm sorry.
I'm real sorry.
I'm just gonna go home.
Nah, you're not going anywhere.
Sit down. Watt for the cops.
Come on, sit down.
Sit down!
Hey!
[BOTH GRUNTING]
[SIREN WATLING IN DISTANCE]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER ON PA]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER ON PA]
[BREATHING DEEPLY]
Okay?
Can I get you anything?
Did they tell you that they found you
unconscious in the street?
And that you broke into someone's house?
Yeah.
You're gonna kill yourself
if you keep going like this.
That's why I'm gonna get you
some help, okay?
[DAN] it has been decided that he will
no longer be with the team
due to personal issues
that we'd rather not go into.
I will step in as the interim coach.
And I don't see why...
- [DOCTOR] During our family session...
- [DAN] ...anything has to change.
[DOCTOR] ...your sister and mother said
that you've isolated yourself
since Michael died.
Would you agree with them?
Yeah. I mean, I certainly don't see them
as much as I used to.
They also said you never talk
about your son.
[SNIFFLES]
I don't know what they want me to say.
I could talk about the, uh...
tumors in his brain and his spine.
[SIGHS]
Thirty rounds of radiation.
He used to scream when he had seizures.
Nobody wants to hear that.
[SNIFFLES]
[DOCTOR] We can't change the past, Jack.
[SIGHS]
What we can do is choose
how we move forward.
Think about Michael.
What would he want for you?
[BREATHES DEEPLY]
Hi.
[JACK] Hey.
Thanks for coming.
Can I take your coat?
- [SIGHS] Have a seat.
- Okay.
How's it going?
Good. Good.
Good.
I'm really glad you're here, Jack.
Yeah. Me too.
[SIGHS] I shoulda come here
a long time ago.
I just want you to know that, uh...
I know that I failed you.
And I know that
I failed our marriage.
I failed our son...
'cause I didn't take care of his mom.
And I hope that, uh,
one day you can see in me...
the man that, uh...
That you once hoped I would be.
[TEARFULLY] I'm so sorry.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER CONTINUES]
[CELL PHONE VIBRATING]
Hello?
Hey, Dan.
How you doing?
It's, uh... It's Jack.
[FATHER MARK] Heavenly Father,
we welcome your presence here
among us and your spirit of love
alive in the community of Bishop Hayes.
Please help us to be the best we can be.
To strive not so much to win,
but to play fairly and well.
We ask this in your name,
Lord Jesus. Amen.
[PLAYERS] Amen!
Hey, fellas, let's win this fucking game
for Coach Cunningham, baby.
[PLAYERS SHOUT EXCITEDLY]
I'll talk to him.
[BRANDON] Let's go.
Bring it in. Bring it in.
[SAM] Bring it home.
All right, we stay
in press all game, okay?
All right.
Nobody gets past you.
You stay in their faces, all right?
Play with that chip on your shoulder,
stay hungry. Who are we?
- [PLAYERS] Hayes!
- Who are we?
- [PLAYERS] Hayes!
- Right! Win on three. Let's go.
One, two, three...
[PLAYERS] Win!
[WHOOPING]
[CROWD CHEERING]
[ANNOUNCER] To the
sharpshooter Dawes in the corner.
He fires up a three...
and it's good!
Hayes is hitting
on all cylinders tonight.
[COMMENTATOR] For a team that
hasn't made the playoffs in 25 years,
they seem to be awfully comfortable
out there.
[ANNOUNCER] Full-court pressure agatn
from Hayes.
[COMMENTATOR] Dougherty
has just not been able
to figure out the Hayes pressure.
The defense has been
absolutely suffocating.
[ANNOUNCER] Sanders trapped in the corner.
He fires across the court to Jenkins.
Pass intercepted by Durrett!
[COMMENTATOR] Brandon Durrett
is gonna take it by himself.
[ANNOUNCER] Reverse layup and...
it's good!
And he's fouled!
[COMMENTATOR LAUGHS] Wow!
He has been really special today,
hasn't he, Tom?
[ANNOUNCER] He has been magnificent.
And now Hayes is out
to its biggest lead of the game.
[COMMENTATOR] We said earlier
that Coach Jack Cunningham,
the man responsible
for this amazing turnaround,
wasn't able to be on the bench today.
But you have to imagine
he'd be very proud
of the way these boys are playing.
[ANNOUNCER] You know, I can remember
watching Jack as a player.
He was tough, intense, competitive,
and he has instilled in these boys
all those qualities
that made him such a winner.
[COMMENTATOR] And you can see
Jack's imprint all over this team.
[ANNOUNCER]
Clearly a reflection of their coach.
I have never seen a high school team
with this much composure.
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