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elliott back again reviewing the season one episode 9 of winning time which was titled
acceptable losses an episode in which we see a lot of our characters having to make tough decisions
dr bus having to make a decision on his mom as well as who's going to be the next coach
and speaking of our lakers they have a tough decision and cutting one of their key players
we're discussing that and so much more in today's spoiler breakdown before we get into
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favorite moments least favorite moments moments that you just really thought were amazing because
we got some really great performances this episode and of course what do you all expect to come up
next week in regards to now with them cutting a lot of us know what happens with the finals
but let me know in the comments how do you all feel what will next week's finale have to offer
and are you excited for it let's discuss that in the comments we got some playoff basketball to
talk about in this episode but i do want to for my sports fans even though i know some people in the
comments don't like when i talk sports even though this is a sports show but neither here nor there
just a quick little question this as i'm recording this video as you can see on the screen now
this is the current playoff picture right now so i'm just curious in the comments let me know if
your team's still in the playoffs and if they're not who do you think will win the nba finals this
year based on everything we got in this first round let's discuss that for my sports fans in
the comments below but we're here to talk about winning time episode 9 acceptable losses which i
thought was a very great name for this episode in regards to titles there were so many moments where
our characters had to face with loss and had to come with tough decisions and i just thought it
was just we didn't get the i do i will admit out of all the episodes i was really hoping to get
more of the playoff aspect of the the basketball side of this show just because it was a really
great playoff run and i hope i really hope when it comes to next week's finale seeing them
which i'm kind of jumping ahead seeing them playing against the 76ers there is a game i
want to see which is game six magic johnson one of the greatest performances of all time i won't
get into it more because obviously there are some people that don't really know what was going to
happen in the show and i want to keep that to a surprise from them but i do hope that we get
some more basketball at next week's finale but as far as performances there are so many great scenes
and i'm excited to break down that i thought were just emmy-worthy performances but we're going to
get into my thoughts here again full spoilers as we open up the episode with dr buss pampering
his mom but he also gets the news that they are losing money by winning which is so weird to hear
to say because they're playing so well they have a first round buy and in order to break even they're
gonna have to make the finals no pressure right but as we get back into it we see that claire
wants jenny full time the bus doesn't want her to get distracted and lose focus of taking care of
his mom and we also know that right now another pressure some more news all the news is coming
at once for dr buss jack he is back and he wants to coach the lakers full time for the playoff run
what's gonna be that decision i can't wait to get into that discussion as we are and now in
march 1988 days away from the playoffs is it paul is it jack well the decision comes to
my boy jerry west which we'll get into here but as the weeks have gone on we see more a bust over
his head as he confesses to west and wants his advice and i really love that that priest joke
when he's like he can confide in a priest but probably the priest is a celtics fans which i
thought was just so funny and and jerry west he has to take some time and he has to sleep on it
i hope you all are noticing that they're planting the seeds for season two like as in this episode
jerry west making this type of decision him getting involved and management something to look
forward to in future seasons as well as pat riley they're suddenly throwing in those easter eggs for
my lakers fans out there but let's get back into it as we see both pat riley and spencer haywood
are having demons to face before the playoffs as pat isn't sure if he'll be even coaching the
lakers in a playoff which brings us into spencer he is going through it in this episode his drug
addiction is really causing him a problem as kareem confronts him about him using again and
gives him one more shot spencer does vow that he's gonna stay clean i do have an issue with how they
handled the spencer situation a little bit later but i will mention now because we don't even get
any scenes from these two i think this episode dropped the ball on a narrative plot where we
know that spencer and pat riley were having beef he couldn't trust pat riley based on you know the
trade rumors and all that but this episode completely forgets that plot like obviously they
have to make a tough decision later in the episode but i'm just like i wonder why they decided to
kind of stray away from that pat riley coaching relationship with his players and how spencer felt
about him i really feel like they kind of dropped that ball in that narrative and there's also
another plot in regards to his drug addiction that we'll talk about that i thought was just kind of
underwhelming for my personal taste but we'll get that into that conversation a little bit later
getting back into we see him attempting to go cold turkey as the lakers clinch the first place
the only complaint i really do have again it's like i said i feel like the emotional beat so far
with spencer wood harris has been fantastic but i feel like when we got him in the season i wish we
i wish i would have had more emotions and seeing him making that change trying to attempt to make
the change not only for himself but his for his family legacy trying to win a championship i feel
like the emotional beat was just not as prominent as i personally would have wanted it to be for
that type of a great storyline but again that's just my thoughts let me know how you all feel
about the spencer plot getting back into more bad news buzz learns that this experimental medicine
for his mom is not working and the inevitable is right around the corner referring to her death
as we see that dr bus is in full denial and i talk about performances and this is one of them there's
many great examples and this is definitely one of them seeing john c riley and just not wanting
to accept losing his mom and just the anger and the frustration he played that scene so
beautifully as well as later on when he's having a conversation with his mom john c reilly i believe
he will be getting a nomination for best leading uh male performance in a tv series come to enemies
next year he has been killing it this season getting back into it his speech was incredible
about him not wanting to accept the inevitable and the impossible and when he hits the camera
and breaking the fourth wall like i said the scene was absolutely great let me know you
also thoughts in the comments magic missing his cookie and jenny missing an opportunity cookie
isn't taking his calls and he wants to talk to her about the rhonda situation that it wasn't his baby
she lost the baby which that's another plot that i feel like has been kind of mishandled and honestly
there wasn't a lot of magic in this episode uh besides you know a couple basketball scenes and
one great scene at the end of this episode which is fantastic but the cookie stuff just kind of
felt like it was thrown in this episode which i felt like wasn't even really necessary because
they didn't really give us a resolve they're just showing us that they're still at beef i thought
that plot could have been completely written out of this episode let me know how you all feel about
that but getting into genie who is definitely feeling the pressure of continuing to help her
grandmother or take this job and she's gonna have that decision coming a little bit later as we see
them taking a familiar beat into breaking into a mansion and they're sharing stories about young
bus and when they were poor and they're starting to play a game of cards and this might be the
last time they do so and we see this conversation between genie and her grandmother and she tells
her you're a better woman you're a better person do better kind of continue break this mold that
me and your father have created and be your own person and take the job opportunity sally fields
oh she was so fantastic in this episode as we go to the next morning and get a very great emotional
moment between a mother and her son and the chemistry between john c reilly and sally fields
and you know the relationship between the mother and her son i got emotional man during that scene
again like i mentioned john c reilly has really wanted his back to bring out some of his best
performances i've seen as him an actor i've seen a lot of great roles that he's been in and more
the funny roles but this really kind of shows his acting sensibilities unfortunately this might be
the last time he gets to spend with his mom as she's not waking up we cut to them showing that
she has hemorrhages on her brain and she's on this you know life support and it's gonna have to come
to the decision if they're gonna have to pull the plug which we'll talk about a little bit later
as we get five days into the playoff west meets with jack but we see that he still isn't a hundred
percent as he is just kind of dizzy his mind he's not healthy but we know again remember the title
acceptable losses he's not willing to accept what's factual that he's not in a position to
coast the lakers we see that pat riley hears your news and he wants paul to take a chance on them
but we see that pat doesn't have the fool he has a moral code he does kind of feel bad for jack in
the situation because he's like i'm gonna tell jerry you know what i just found out about him
falling out in the hallway but he ultimately decides not to do so and they say just f it
f everything will let the chips fall as they may but again it's something important to note in this
scene watch jerry west taking some management skills if you all don't know he's one of the
greatest managements as far as executives look at the lakers drafting kobe and the shack trade and
all the different situations him going to memphis for a little bit i'm saying i believe he was
executive producer of executive management with the uh the memphis grizzlies and then obviously
now what he's doing with the clippers he's a great basketball mind and i love that they're kind of
implementing that within this episode but getting back into the conversation here face of death this
episode was filled with beautiful moments this is one of them as we see bill it's really kind of
quieter scene as we see my man jerry west talking to bill in the uh the hallway there watching the
game and they're talking about distractions right we hear bill talking about he lost his
wife he lost you know he went to the army and had some really tragic things but he used different
outlets to distract himself as they're referring to basketball being a huge distraction for dr bus
with what's going on with his mom so i love that narrative there how people uh use distractions to
avoid their pain remember acceptable losses really great scene let me know what you all
thought about that as we get back into it wes has made a decision and he looks he makes his pros and
cons list and he has made the decision to go with doesn't make a decision which i love that he puts
it all on dr bus to make the decision but again i really enjoyed that scene and dr bus he he avoids
a lot of his trauma he avoids a lot of his pains but he's gonna have to face that music he makes a
decision which i don't know if you all caught i'm really excited to break down that scene as we get
another example of a character using their work to avoid the situation jack is having a confrontation
with his wife as she clearly knows that his health is not a good place like he doesn't even remember
where they live and she's telling him she's at the position now where she's just kind of had it
with him just forcing himself to get back into the coaching chair even though he's not willing to
accept that this might not be the opportunity for you and you might need to fully recover and stop
pushing so hard to put yourself in that coaching chair which brings us to a big surprise bus
arrives with a package to celebrate bus was gonna pick him as the coach i don't know if you all peep
that he was willing to say i'm going with you to be our coach to kosher lakers to the promised land
but it's not until we see jack open the door he doesn't even realize that that's dr bus
his wife you know comes and answers and says you know this bus honey and instead of for dr bus
going in the house he just says oh this is just a gift hopefully you get boiled well you know
better soon and we'll be talking about the future he was going to pick him he was going to pick him
as a coach but once he realized oh he's not fit to be the coach right now that's when he made
the decision as we'll get into that i thought that the way that that scene was framed and the way it
was put together was so well good because again he was gonna pick him but as soon as he realized that
he's not fit to be the coach due to his health he had to make that tough decision accepting the loss
very great title but back into who is the coach at lakers bill is taking the task to talk to jack
about the news meanwhile we see that bus lets pat riley and lets paul know that they will be
coaching or first he says can you take this team to the promised land we see paul as hesitant he
says as long as his goodwill with jack which i believe speaks into season two i don't want
to spoil it in regards to who ultimately decides to coach the lakers in the following seasons but
notice how paul reacted to it and how pat reacted to it let's just say that is a very big scene to
the future of this show but i thought that that was a great moment let me know you all's thoughts
on that as it is time to play playoffs we get the shots of the players and the coaches preparing for
the lakers to head into the playoffs as they win the first round with the semi-finals with ease
we see them win the western conference finals and then we get the scene between magic and kareem
finally embracing each other which dates us back to like three or four episodes ago when we saw
them winning that game when they shot and magic was so happy but cream was like listen young buck
we still got a whole season ago but they finally embraced each other like i had mentioned up top my
only criticism with the basketball scenes was that playoff run was fantastic and i wish we would have
saw more of a game the game type situation i know this episode is morally focused on the off-court
situation with accepting losses but i would have loved to have seen a little bit more basketball
but again i will accept the loss of basketball for the great scenes the great acting that we got in
the show let me know how you all felt about the basketball playoff sequences within this episode
getting back into the conversation we unfortunately see that dr bus have to accept the
loss of his mother as he ultimately pulls the plug and i was again i was emotionally invested i'm i
love the mother and son relationship i love sally phil's performance and this is the last time we'll
be seeing her shout out to sally field shout out to that relationship let me know how you all felt
about that scene as we wrap everything up it is time for the finals 76ers beat the boston celtics
which means the lakers will be facing the seven sixers which also means we're gonna have the hero
dr j going against his uh you know young apprentice of his swords and magic and they
have to face each other and again i hope that they give us that game six they better show us some
basketball because there are some incredible games within that finals and i won't reveal who won but
this is a fun moment because i love when we break the fourth wall we see larry bird look
at the camera and tell magic same time next year [ __ ] i love that moment and again season two the
planting the seeds we're gonna get that magic and bird match-up come season two but getting back we
see that spencer has used again but we see as an audience we don't know exactly what brought
him to that moment it seemed like everything was working good which kind of brings me to my faults
they kind of mishandled that situation with spencer but i will say going to this scene with
wood harris the team has to come to a decision on allow him to play or get him the need that
he is actually needing right now and i love that norm pointed out we're weak right now if we put
him back on the team what does that say about us i love that moment we see how the team kind of
shakes it all out and this scene here even though i wasn't a fan of like i don't feel like the show
emotionally gripped me with spencer and the team and his usage of drugs and how they handled that
but you need a great actor to convey it and i thought that wood harris and kareem in this scene
right now solomon hughes let's talk about it here now it comes down to the conversation and we see
that spencer's telling him about his family how his family was involved in slavery and god knows
and it says that he god loves them more in regards to the white people he thinks that the white man
has made a decision to cut him but kareem tells him it was a team decision and i was the last vote
the swain vote and we see him upset and mad that story that he was talking about with the slavery
and god loving white people more but you know now you know i have my brothers i have my team
and they're not there for them except being that loss it was his decision also because he was
doing drugs and all that stuff but what a great scene and the way wood harris played that and uh
the his acting partner in that scene with kareem that was so fantastic and i will let
you all know as far as the accuracy there there was some creative choices but in reality it was
factual that in the real world when it comes to how this was handled we see that hayward did
become addicted to coach kane and he was dismissed from the lakers by coach paul westhead during the
1980 nba finals for falling asleep during practice due to his addiction so again that is a factual
thing i don't know if it played out the same way in regards to the team voting and the conversation
and all that different stuff but it did happen in real life that they did cut him from the team
what a great scene but we're gonna wrap up here with the even maybe better scene as we get into
the conversation one day into the finals magic practices his skyhook with kareem watching and he
shows him how it's done and then when he explains how potent how detrimental and how incredible
that hook shot that skyhook can be one of the most unstoppable moves of nba history
that scene to me was so fantastic and number one seeing magic kareem embrace each other he's giving
the rookie some tips and then just speaking about again how just how amazing how incredible that
move is there's no counter how important is they can't see your next move i thought that was one
of my favorite scenes of this entire show and i absolutely loved it we end the episode with seeing
spencer going to his connect and he wants to kill the lakers i don't know what that means because
again factually speaking i don't want to give too much away but he goes on to play basketball
in italy and some you know washington wizards and whatnot a little bit later his career but
i don't know what he was referring to to killing the lakers so i don't know if the show's gonna
go completely off the rails and show him trying to attempt to kill pat riley or someone on a team but
we'll see what comes with next week's finale but i thought this was a great way to set up what i
hope to be a fantastic finale come next week but hey those are all my thoughts let me know
your thoughts in the comments from your favorite moments least favorite moments how they handle
certain plot points what do you think of the performances let's have that discussion in the
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