How to watch basketball like a coach

How to Watch Basketball – Cleaning the Glass

One day in June of 2012, the Portland Trail Blazers’ offices were abnormally quiet. It was only a few weeks before the draft and we had two lottery picks, so the previous few weeks had been a whirlwind of activity, with draft workouts and long meetings. But on this day, all the scouts and executives were out on a scouting trip. Well, all except one: One of our assistant GMs, Steve Rosenberry, stayed in Portland. And I was the beneficiary.

When Rosey walked in that morning he came straight over to my desk. “Benjamin,” he said. “Let’s watch some tape today.” Rosey told me which games he wanted to see and went to grab breakfast while I downloaded them. I think he wanted me to watch with him in part to handle the technical side of things—to get the games, to put them on the TV, to rewind and skip when needed—so he didn’t have to worry about it. But even though I had some work to do, I would have done the same thing 10 times out of 10, because it turned into a scouting masterclass.

Rosey isn’t exactly a silent scout. When something notable would happen on video, he’d make a comment (frequently sarcastic) and ask me to rewind so we could watch it again. I noticed some of what he’d point out before he said anything. But most of it was eye-opening. I got the opportunity to see what he saw, to learn from someone who had been around the game for decades. In future years we’d repeat this ritual, and I’d look forward to it in every draft prep cycle.

My involvement with the coaching staff under Terry Stotts provided similar opportunities. I would sit in on all of the coaches meetings, and learn from what they discussed and debated, diagrammed on the board, and questioned. But I learned the most from the film review. An assistant coach would have been tasked with pulling clips to go over with the players in the film session that morning. Terry would put in his own clips. We’d review all of them as a staff, talk about them, and Terry would decide what he wanted to keep or cut.

I specifically remember a meeting early in the 2012-13 season when it was apparent just how much I was going to learn in these meetings. One of the coaches had pulled a clip of our offense that ended in a tough midrange pull-up jump shot. “Bad shot selection,” I thought to myself as we all watched silently. But when Terry spoke I did a double-take. “That cut killed the play,” he pointed out. What was he talking about? I didn’t even notice an important cut. He had our video coordinator rewind the play. The set called for a cut off a screen by one of our wings to start the play, but instead of sprinting off the cut, the player just went through the motions. “If he just jogs like that, the defense isn’t pulled over and the next action has no chance,” Terry explained. I hadn’t even noticed that cut. It happened a while before the eventual shot and seemed like the kind of cut NBA players make thousands of times per season. But to a trained eye, it was the key to the play.

I was unbelievably fortunate. Before I was in the NBA, I had been struggling to find resources to learn X’s and O’s, to understand scouting, to see the game the way those inside the game saw it. Now I was inside the game. I could sit with those who had been studying basketball for decades and learn at their feet.

But very few people get that opportunity. What about them? How can someone outside the game learn to watch basketball the way a professional does?

The most important piece of advice I can give on this topic is explained by this short video. See if you can pass the test:

The human eye is not designed to watch everything at once. You cannot physically see and process all 10 players plus the ball at once, in real time. And if you can’t do that, you can’t analyze the game and understand what happened, or scout a player effectively. That’s true for even the greatest basketball minds. Steve Clifford, after a playoff loss in 2016, said as much:

I heard Pat Riley say this 16 years ago: “Until I watch the film, I really don’t know”…I just made my notes in there about what I think will happen…When I watch the film on the plane, half of it will be wrong.

If Steve Clifford and Pat Riley can’t analyze the game without film, then you shouldn’t feel bad for not picking up on important aspects of the game when watching live. If you want to analyze and understand the game, you should follow their example: watch the film.

There are two reasons to watch a game: for entertainment and to learn. Sometimes you can do both, but it’s very difficult. Watching live with no (or infrequent) rewinding, with other people around, or while on social media makes the game more fun. But those factors also make it really hard to learn. When I worked for the Blazers, I would watch every one of our games twice. Once live, so I could experience the emotional ups-and-downs of the game, and once on tape so that I could understand what caused those ups-and-downs. Now I’ll watch only the most anticipated contests live. I can’t do my job without being able to rewind and study.

That is the most important step: figuring out how to watch in a way that makes it easy to rewind. The simplest way to do that is to use a DVR. Fair warning: this will require a lot of jumping back and forth in a game.¹ Anything that makes it difficult to jump back a few seconds will make you less likely to rewind, and you don’t want that. So determining the best setup for you is important. As an example, the online version of League Pass has jump back/forward buttons for 20 seconds at a time. That is way too far to jump back for that to be consistently useful and not make you feel like you’re wasting time. That kind of impediment will make you go back less often, and you will miss things. I will sometimes jump back in the same play three or four times to fully understand what happened. Making sure you can do that easily is very important.

This process is simplified if you can get the video in a file on your computer. That’s what the pros do: the video coordinators provide the video files and they watch it on their laptops. How can you do this? There are a few different options, some of which might be difficult. But if you can find a way to do it, it’s worth it. The easiest, I think, is to use something like Elgato’s video capture device, which allows you to turn video from your DVR or set-top box into a video file on your computer.²

Once you have the file on your computer, you can use free software like VLC player to watch the video. VLC is helpful because you can assign keys to easily jump back and forth or watch in slow motion. For example, I have keys set to make it easy for me to jump backward or forward by intervals of two seconds, 10 seconds, and one minute, as well as to watch frame-by-frame.

Watching the game itself is a necessary first step. But once your questions have been sharpened, you can use tools that show specific groups of plays to get more targeted answers. The NBA.com video tools (which deserve more publicity) allow you to do this. For example, they allow you to watch all of the three-point attempts from Game 7 of last year’s Houston vs. Golden State series.

Acquiring the film in a form that allows you to pause and rewind is a necessary first step. From there, it’s all about approach. The approach I follow is one I learned when I first got my start in the basketball world. I was working for Dean Oliver, one of the leaders of the basketball statistical analysis movement, watching film and tagging each play according to a certain system. The work I was doing was monotonous, but it was very instructive. I broke down each play at an elemental level, watching to see what caused the outcome and tagging it appropriately. It trained me to think through the game, to watch each play and ask why?

I would recommend the same approach when you watch film. Watch to see what happened on a play—say, a wide-open three, for instance. Then rewind and watch again, this time trying to identify why the player was open. How did the defense move? Why did it move in that way? What were they supposed to do? One trick is to watch for player and coach reactions after plays, or listen for mics picking up their conversation. With a little guesswork, you can learn a lot about what they expected to happen.

Then think through the strategy of it all. Would you have done it the same way if you were playing or coaching? Or would you have tried something else? Then put yourself in the other team’s shoes. How would you counter your own counter? Do this analysis often enough and you start to see patterns, and those patterns help you pick things up faster on each subsequent viewing.

This pattern recognition is called “chunking” in psychology. Your brain starts to group smaller pieces together into meaningful groupings, or chunks. So when the Warriors throw the ball in the post and then have their guards screen for each other on the perimeter, you no longer have to think of it as discrete parts, but can instead immediately recognize it as “post splits. ”

The game can be learned without knowing these patterns, but it is much more difficult. When you have a framework upon which to layer what you’re watching, your understanding grows much more quickly. What are those concepts? Some are more basic, like a pick-and-roll or a pin down. Some are more complex, like a single-side tag or short action. Learning these patterns takes time, but it is certainly possible.

When I was starting out in the mid-2000s and wanted to learn more about the game, there wasn’t much I could find. But a decade later there are now lots of great resources, whether that’s following coaches or analysts on Twitter or watching breakdowns or coaching clinics on YouTube. Technology has begun to democratize basketball knowledge.

One of my goals when I launched Cleaning the Glass Insider one year ago today was to continue that process. With articles like Feature Film, midseason review scouting reports, and Watch With Me, my hope is that you can learn by example: You can see the kinds of things I’m pointing out and start to look for them yourself, just like I did with Rosey in Portland. In the future, I hope to continue sharing that knowledge, putting out a more comprehensive guide to specific terminology and actions.

(Update, January 2021: I wrote this article in late 2018, and a little over two years later I’ve finally finished this guide! It’s an in-depth course that helps you learn basketball Xs and Os from the ground up.)

But I will also say this: One of the reasons I love basketball is it feels like there’s always more to learn. There is so much depth and complexity to this game, you can dig and dig and dig and never find the bottom. So much of the fun isn’t even in the knowing, it’s in the learning. And, if you do it right, that learning will be a life-long process. So don’t just rely on others. Do the digging yourself.

1. To give you a sense: when I first started out and used a DVR, I broke my remote’s “jump back” button. ↩
2. If that doesn’t work, you can also occasionally find full games on YouTube or from another source, and download those.  ↩

17 Things Athletes, Parents and Coaches Should Watch for in an NBA Gam

By Joe Abunassar, founder of Impact Basketball and trainer of more than 200 NBA professionals, men’s and women’s national teams, McDonalds and NCAA All-Americans, foreign professionals, as well as numerous talented youth players from all over the world.

At Impact Basketball, one of the most valuable things we think young players can do to improve their game is to learn how to watch an NBA game and notice things that can help their own skill development. I constantly ask young players who insist on over-dribbling or who have poor footwork, or who don’t get back on defense, “have you ever seen anyone in the NBA do it that way?” And when they answer “no,” I simply ask them, “Then why would you?”

Although many people claim that NBA guys are “just talented,” I can tell you that after working with the best of the best for over 20 years, that is not the case. The pros pay attention to details that many young players ignore. They have consistent footwork and balance at all times, and they’re very efficient in what they do. Even for such amazing athletes, many of these things don’t “come naturally.” They require hard work and focus, and the best guys in the NBA dedicate themselves to perfecting the details and playing smart, efficient basketball.

We tell our young guys to watch NBA games and pay attention to these details. Not the dunks and superhuman athleticism of some of the league’s superstars, but the little things in the game that can make a real difference for any player. Coaches can also take note of these details, because they can help themselves manage the game better and get the most out of their players.

Below is a list of things we think people should notice in an NBA game. They are things we train in our gyms every day and things we talk to our players about, working to help them understand and execute them. Player development means a lot more than doing drills. It also includes forming a deep understanding of what good basketball is. In our youth game today, this concept is often lost, and in the hundreds of youth games I watch each year, I am always amazed at the lack of good basketball.

Check these things out in the next NBA game you watch, and you will be on your way to a better understanding of what “good basketball” really means.

1. Footwork. Notice how the players get open, pivot upon catching the ball and set up for a shot.
2. Court positioning. Watch how they get into space away from the ball, where they run during a break, their movements in response to defensive scheme and how they relocate based on offensive flow. Analyze how they better position themselves on the court.
3. How teams defend common plays. See and learn how to improve your defense on ball screens, pin downs, cross screens and out-of-bounds plays based on previous scouting and personnel on the court.
4. Late-clock strategy. Notice how teams offensively and defensively deal with shot clock and game clock situations by fouling, 2-for-1s, timeouts and substitutions.
5. How players finish at the rim. Watch how elite players finish with floaters, off-hand, Euro-step and other moves, and work to integrate them in your game.
6. Quickness of decisions on offense. The best players make split-second decisions when passing, shooting or driving to the rim.
7. Creativity of coaching. Pay attention to how coaches create mismatches through various offensive sets.
8. Reserve players preparing to play on the bench. Reserve players don’t go onto the court cold. They prepare their bodies as best as they can so they can immediately give their full effort and make an impact.
9. The effect of fatigue levels of players playing extended minutes. Notice how his performance dips when a guy appears to be fatigued, while the conditioned players excel late in the game.
10. Efficiency in movement and energy usage of a veteran player versus a rookie. Veterans know how to play at an elite level while preserving energy by limiting wasted movement on the court.
11. The specific role of each player coming off the bench into the game. Every player on a team has a role to play, and it’s valuable to see how each player fits in on his or her team.
12. Offensive tactics. Learn how to attack a weak defender with screens, posts and isolations.
13. Team interaction. Notice how teammates, coaches and referees interact and how it affects their performance.
14. The way shooters set up and use off-the-ball screens. Use this technique to create more shooting opportunities.
15. Defensive screen techniques. Notice how defenders react to and get around screens.
16. The amount of passing vs. dribbling in a possession. Teams that move that ball well and score more easy points tend to pass more than dribble.
17. The amount of times the ball switches side of the floor on offense. Moving the ball to different sides forces the defense to adjust and creates space for offensive attacks.

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By Joe Abunassar, founder of Impact Basketball and trainer of more than 200 NBA professionals, men’s and women’s national teams, McDonalds and NCAA All-Americans, foreign professionals, as well as numerous talented youth players from all over the world.

At Impact Basketball, one of the most valuable things we think young players can do to improve their game is to learn how to watch an NBA game and notice things that can help their own skill development. I constantly ask young players who insist on over-dribbling or who have poor footwork, or who don’t get back on defense, “have you ever seen anyone in the NBA do it that way?” And when they answer “no,” I simply ask them, “Then why would you?”

Although many people claim that NBA guys are “just talented,” I can tell you that after working with the best of the best for over 20 years, that is not the case. The pros pay attention to details that many young players ignore. They have consistent footwork and balance at all times, and they’re very efficient in what they do. Even for such amazing athletes, many of these things don’t “come naturally.” They require hard work and focus, and the best guys in the NBA dedicate themselves to perfecting the details and playing smart, efficient basketball.

We tell our young guys to watch NBA games and pay attention to these details. Not the dunks and superhuman athleticism of some of the league’s superstars, but the little things in the game that can make a real difference for any player. Coaches can also take note of these details, because they can help themselves manage the game better and get the most out of their players.

Below is a list of things we think people should notice in an NBA game. They are things we train in our gyms every day and things we talk to our players about, working to help them understand and execute them. Player development means a lot more than doing drills. It also includes forming a deep understanding of what good basketball is. In our youth game today, this concept is often lost, and in the hundreds of youth games I watch each year, I am always amazed at the lack of good basketball.

Check these things out in the next NBA game you watch, and you will be on your way to a better understanding of what “good basketball” really means.

1. Footwork. Notice how the players get open, pivot upon catching the ball and set up for a shot.
2. Court positioning. Watch how they get into space away from the ball, where they run during a break, their movements in response to defensive scheme and how they relocate based on offensive flow. Analyze how they better position themselves on the court.
3. How teams defend common plays. See and learn how to improve your defense on ball screens, pin downs, cross screens and out-of-bounds plays based on previous scouting and personnel on the court.
4. Late-clock strategy. Notice how teams offensively and defensively deal with shot clock and game clock situations by fouling, 2-for-1s, timeouts and substitutions.
5. How players finish at the rim. Watch how elite players finish with floaters, off-hand, Euro-step and other moves, and work to integrate them in your game.
6. Quickness of decisions on offense. The best players make split-second decisions when passing, shooting or driving to the rim.
7. Creativity of coaching. Pay attention to how coaches create mismatches through various offensive sets.
8. Reserve players preparing to play on the bench. Reserve players don’t go onto the court cold. They prepare their bodies as best as they can so they can immediately give their full effort and make an impact.
9. The effect of fatigue levels of players playing extended minutes. Notice how his performance dips when a guy appears to be fatigued, while the conditioned players excel late in the game.
10. Efficiency in movement and energy usage of a veteran player versus a rookie. Veterans know how to play at an elite level while preserving energy by limiting wasted movement on the court.
11. The specific role of each player coming off the bench into the game. Every player on a team has a role to play, and it’s valuable to see how each player fits in on his or her team.
12. Offensive tactics. Learn how to attack a weak defender with screens, posts and isolations.
13. Team interaction. Notice how teammates, coaches and referees interact and how it affects their performance.
14. The way shooters set up and use off-the-ball screens. Use this technique to create more shooting opportunities.
15. Defensive screen techniques. Notice how defenders react to and get around screens.
16. The amount of passing vs. dribbling in a possession. Teams that move that ball well and score more easy points tend to pass more than dribble.
17. The amount of times the ball switches side of the floor on offense. Moving the ball to different sides forces the defense to adjust and creates space for offensive attacks.

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TOP 13 best basketball movies

A list of good basketball films: there will be stories about victories over oneself and the arrogance of others, there will be legendary basketball players and fictional stars from the ghetto. And then there will be NBA players and coaches who believed in their guys even when the whole world looked away and lowered its head. Basketball players do not give up - this is a sport for those who always strive to the top, even after hundreds of offensive falls. So it will be interesting for those who have not heard about players like Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal: there is something inspiring for everyone in sports movies.

Rebound (2005, USA)

comedy

Director: Steve Carr
Script: John Lucas (“Boy in Vegas”)
Cast: Martin Lawrence, Wendy Racuel Robinson, Brekin Meyer
Kinopoisk: 9000 9000 9000 6, 9000 9000 9000 9000 6, 9000 9000 9000 9000 6, 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 6, 6
IMDb: 5.2

9,000 : 6.6

This basketball movie is based on real events.

Hurricane Katrina was the most destructive hurricane in US history, displacing more than half a million people from their homes, and the survivors of the disaster faced a lack of electricity, water, schools and jobs. August 5, 2005 will forever go down in the history of New Orleans, and in the cinema there will remain the exploits of people who, despite the difficulties, the helplessness of the authorities and the growing crime rate, believed that everything would work out and tried to return the victims to normal life. An example of such heroes is a basketball coach who brought together guys from different schools into one team and led them to a decent result in the state championship. Teenagers who previously did not know or dislike each other must come together in a short time and believe that the future is worth the effort, even if tomorrow the world collapses again.

Trailer:

Love and Basketball (2000, USA)

sports drama, melodrama

Director and screenwriter: Gina Prince Baytvud
Cast: OMAR EPPS, Sanaa Laten, Elfrey Woodard
KinoPoisk: 7.6
9000

A film about a guy and a girl who have been in love with each other and basketball since childhood. And in the outwardly happy, harmonious story, a whole minefield of dramas is scattered. Monica and Quincy devoted themselves to the game: they played in school, played in college, and also played after college. Only now, in the excitement and frenzied energy of the site, the guys began to forget that the rest of life is not a game. There is no arbiter here who will immediately notice the violation, and retribution for mistakes is not a card, but the loss of loved ones, loneliness, and sometimes someone's broken destinies.

Chasing a career and a dream at the expense of one's own happiness is just one problem that keeps Monica and Quincy from being together. Another sore point is the different price of success. Quincy, whose father is a famous NBA player, achieves the captaincy and flutters around the court as easily as if his fairy godmother is Jordan himself. During this time, Monica trains to the point of fainting, struggles with the gender stereotypes of a conservative mother, and still watches many basketball games from the bench.

Bottom line: in a simple story about two real athletes who hate to lose and be afraid to be weak, the creators fit both a suitable melodrama and a serious motivating movie. Here are touching scenes when young heroes play together on the lawn at night and dream about the future, and a well-developed metaphor that everything in life is like in basketball - fractures, losses, falls, helplessness, desperate jerks and the speed at which the world narrows down to one point. We didn’t forget about important questions about a career in professional sports and socially important topics, such as unwanted marriage and self-acceptance - everything to think about and not get bored with the visual.

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Omar Epps was nominated for the MTV Award for Best Actor.

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Pape is 17 Again (2009, USA)

comedy, romance

Director: Burr Steers
Screenplay: Jason Filardi
Cast: Zac Efron, Leslie Mann, Thomas Lennon, Matthew Perry
MovieSearch: 7. 1
IMDb: 6.3

Mike O'Donnell whines all the time: kids don't obey, friend is a freak stuck in adolescence, job is boring, wife isn't the same anymore, tired of wearing a suit, no happiness, life sucks. In order to take his mind off these depressing thoughts a little, Michael drives his wife into depression and constantly mentally returns to his school years, to the day when he chose a family, and not a college with an athletic scholarship. When Mike was seventeen, his girlfriend became pregnant, and the star of the school basketball team, a dream boy with a bright future, gave up everything to stay with his lover and raise a child. Adult act of an adult man. But twenty years later, the supply of nobility and love in Mike's soul ended, and the hero turned into a capricious Dementor, pulling out all the good things from his loved ones. A karmic lesson is needed here, and the universe hurries to the hero with a magical cuff. Mike suddenly turns into a seventeen-year-old guy and becomes a classmate of his own son, goes to his own school and shines again on the basketball court. The coach adores him, schoolgirls drop textbooks at the mere sight of him, a sports career in basketball shines ahead again - but all this does not mean anything anymore, because there will not be the same one nearby. Mike needs to understand himself, help his children during a difficult school period and return to his beloved wife as soon as possible.

Trailer:

And for this film, Zac Efron was nominated for the MTV Award for Best Actor.

His game (1998, USA)

sports drama

Director/Writer: Spike Lee (Uncaught, No Thief, Black Klansman)
Cast: Denzel Washington, Ray Allen, Milla Jovovich
Movie Search: 7.2
IMDb: 6.9

Jesus Shuttlesworth grows up without parents, takes care of his younger sister and beats out resentment against the world on the basketball court. And Jesus really has something to run furiously from, banging the ball on the asphalt - his father killed his mother six years ago. For this, Jake, the elder Shuttlesworth, was sentenced to fifteen years, but the head of the prison gives the killer a chance to reduce the term. The subject of the deal - Jesus, as the most visible and talented player in the city, must go to the right university to bring the local basketball team out of shameful oblivion. Jake is released from behind bars for a few days, but it is hardly possible to regain his son's trust so quickly after the murder of his mother.

The role of Jesus was played by Allen Ray, the NBA record three-pointer, sportsmanship award winner, basketball hall of famer and Olympic champion, a humble, intelligent basketball monster. You can definitely not worry about the quality of the image of the game on the screen. It also shows that real talent is not only a ticket to a secure future, but also a piece of fresh meat for starving predators. There is a fierce hunt for Jesus, and everyone around wants to use the guy for their own purposes - success is dizzy, but if you fall, the fanatical crowd will scatter, and out of a million outstretched hands, not one may remain.

Trailer:

The film is not based on real events, but Tupac's fans note that the rapper did not seem to play - he was just himself on the screen.

Basketball fever (1996, USA)

comedy

Director: Tom Deserchio
Screenplay: Judd Apatow ("Forty Year Old Virgin", "Knocked Up")
Cast: Damon Wayans, Daniel Stern, Dan Aykroyd
MovieSearch: 6.5

The film is not so much about basketball, but about the fans of the major basketball league. Schoolteacher Mike and plumber Jimmy go to every Boston Celtics game and are willing to do anything for another win for their team. Even the kidnapping of the famous and player Scott Lewis, who plays for rivals and seriously threatens the victory of the Celtics. Scott had the imprudence to come to the bar shortly before the match - then Mike and Jimmy finally understand: while they are “part of the ship, part of the team”, their not very successful life is filled with vivid emotions and a sense of something significant, which means that the ship will never must drown.

Tom Shepard could play in the NBA and be friends with Shaquille O'Neal or Kobe Bryant. But instead, a talented man works as a school watchman: a gray reality without hopes and prospects is an excellent hiding place from feelings of guilt. Several years ago, Tom's friend died, and Shepard could never forgive himself for this. Now Tom takes the ball in his hands only at night and alone fights an invisible enemy. One of these workouts is noticed by the main character, high school student Kyle Watson. The guy plays brilliantly, but his temper and aggressiveness prevent Watson from getting an athletic scholarship at a prestigious college. But these qualities do not prevent Kyle from joining the criminal gang: the talented game of the schoolboy was noted by Ptah, the leader of the most influential gang in the area. Kyle finds it hard to resist the temptations: Bird knows what it's like to live in a poor neighborhood with a single mother, and offers Watson gifts for loyalty. Security guard Tom Shepard understands that Watson needs help, and the man will finally stop running from life and is trying to pull Kyle off the streets.

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White people can't jump (1992, USA)

sports drama, comedy

Director and screenwriter: Ron Shelton
Cast: Uesley Snips, Woody Harrelson, Rozi Perez
Kinopoisk: 7.4
IMDB: 900 6.8 6.8

After the movie, Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes lit up in two nominations for the MTV award: for "Best Screen Duo" and "Best Kiss". Their criminal bromance really leaves few people indifferent: it's funny, it's powerful and it's unexpected.

Billy Hoyle realized that it was impossible to threaten South Central long before the release of the legendary comedy. The white guy Billy in the African American ghetto did not even try to show everyone what a cool basketball player he is, but he cleverly makes money on it. Blacks look at Billy as a naive child who got involved in a game with adult uncles, but in fact Billy turns out to be Eminem from streetball, and easily takes the money of those who do not believe in the white's success on the court. Billy carries all dishonestly earned banknotes into a three-liter piggy bank to pay off debts. Gloria, Billy's girlfriend, who dreams of a cozy home without any criminal sports, puts all her savings there. The only problem is, Billy and Gloria live in dreams of different rings, but it will not be clear soon. In the meantime, Sidney bursts into Billy's life - one of the skeptics, who at first did not recognize Billy as a serious player, and then realized that it was easier and more fun to monetize white stereotypes together. This is how an on-screen duo appeared, capable of pulling out both a hackneyed script and a two-hour timekeeping.

Trailer:

Space Jam (1996)

comedy

Director: Joe Pitka
Script: Leonardo Benvenuti
Cast: Michael Jordan, Wayne Knight, Teresa Murray
Kinopoisk: Kinopoisk IMDb: 6. 4