He Got Game….#1 all the way
Catwoman
Escape from LA
Are these good scenes? Not really (and for the first one, it's a definite "no"). But they are memorable.
Last edited by Truth&Justise; 04-29-2021 at 09:42 PM.
He Got Game….#1 all the way
Come on- High School Musical does not get a mention? - basketball dance choreography and songs- Get’cha Head in the Game people.
https://youtu.be/fzoYZV8WIUo
OK casting movies as basketball movies is an issue. There are not really that meany good basketball movies.
1. Hoosiers.
Other movies had some basketball but were about much more.
Not like golf movies.
or football movies.
~rthomas
Sage Grouse
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013
Carbon Copy, 1981:
https://youtu.be/wfy_rhzH-tk
Just remember kids, stereotypes are a great time-saver.
But they might cost you five bucks.
Why are you wasting time here when you could be wasting it by listening to the latest episode of the DBR Podcast?
His game might not have been a thing of beauty but he wasn't atrocious. The fact that he was able to score more than once with his YMCA-esque game is pretty impressive. This article discusses their one on one matchup.
https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/r...n-he-got-game/
Late entry but it would be a travesty if we didn't include "Rebound: The Legend of Earl "The Goat" Manigault" played by the great Don Cheadle.
And some way some how - no one included Juwanna Man!!!
Yep, I loved that movie. I believe it was mostly factual. If things had worked out differently Manigault could have been an NBA legend. Those times in the playgrounds of New York City were legendary!
Another from that scene was Doctor J. who was portrayed well in "The Doctor" which showed some great footage of Rucker Park. I think there are plenty of great players who never made it out of those rough neighborhoods.
Timing was bad. Fresh off the Civil Rights movement, the Vietnam War, and right into the crack epidemic. NYC was the first wave of the repercussions. It's also when we got some of our best NBA players from HBCUs in the south bc well, we didn't go to many PWIs.
Kareem, Wilt, Dr. J, Walt Frazier and Bill Russell were all basically one-offs at their institutions at the time. Meanwhile, Earl "the Pearl" Monroe moved south and dominated college basketball at Winston Salem State allowing him to flourish. Willis Reed, Bob Love, Truck Robinson, Bob Dandridge and Sam Jones all attended HBCUs and made many waves in the NBA. Ok, now I feel like I need to go and do a little research (bc I'm mostly just focusing on the 60s/70s here).
And totally unnecessary add here but a lot of credit goes to Dean Smith for the shift to PWIs - he heavily recruited NYC his entire tenure.
Did anyone "Forget Paris"? (Ok, haven't seen it...but the main character is an NBA ref, right?)
For scenes, I nominate the one from "The Cable Guy". Jim Carrey does his crazy schtick quite well in that one (and the whole movie, really).
And after having watched the "Along Comes Polly" scene, it struck me how much Philip Seymour Hoffman seems to be trying to channel Jack Black in that one (though JB is actually pretty subdued in The Cable Guy...)