- You know what my dad told me last night?
He said that you got a full ride to Kansas,
and you just quit.
Why?
- My father didn’t like me very much.
And when someone told him I was good at basketball,
he paid a lot more attention to me.
And I realized it wasn’t me that he loved,
it was what I could do.
I spent a lot of time hurting myself,
trying to hurt my father.
I never picked up another basketball again.
- We need a new coach, Jack.
You’re the first person I thought of.
- Is the team any good?
- No.
In fact, the last time we made the play offs,
back when you were playing.
- This is the whole team? Ten kids.
Want to know why they’re leaving you open
is because they don’t think you can hit
the ocean from the beach.
- Oh! - Snap!
- I heard you’re coaching basketball.
- Keeps my mind off other things.
[ whistle ]
- You don’t decide the game, the players decide the game.
- I understand you’re trying to motivate the team
but we have a code of conduct.
- Oh bullshit!
I’m working on it.
- Work harder.
- I got a feeling this teams not as bad as its record.
We have to trust each other, we have to have faith.
- I just want you to be happy again.
But you got to want it too.
- Don’t underestimate the impact you can have on them.
- You got this.
No, don’t just nod I want to hear your voice.
Yes or no?
- Yes coach.
- You’re nervous, I get it.
The truth is, they’re more talented than you.
Probably got a better coach.
But I promise you, they are not a better team.
They haven’t been through what we’ve been through.
They don’t know adversity.
They don’t know what it’s like to get knocked down
and have to get back up again.
They don’t know what it is to fight.
- Who are we?
- Hey!
Hey!
- We can’t change the past, Jack.
What we can do is choose how we move forward.