02x06 - You Go, I Go

[bunniefuu]

Oh sh*t.

Coach, Steve Ballmer.

Very nice to meet you.

- Coach, oh my gosh.

- There's somebody else too.

- Wow. You're all coming to watch this?

- How you doing?

- I can't believe y'all came out here, man.

- Yes, sir.

I can't believe y'all came out here, man.

- Uh I appreciate you coming out.

- Sure.

Let me go I gotta go do my thing.

And then I'll see you guys.

I'm kind of humble right now, man,

because we got some more to do

to finish this thing off,

but you guys have been

able to answer the call so far,

so I'm proud of you with that.

Because of that, man, we got some people

out here coming to watch you play.

It's just because of the spirit

of what we do.

You got Steve Ballmer out there,

coming to watch us play.

You got Tyronn Lue

coming here to watch you play.

So, live in that moment, enjoy it,

and, uh, we still got work to do

so that we can win on the end.

So we got something special.

I need everybody playing hard.

"Family" on three. One, two, three!

- Family!

- Let's go!

I put the new Forgis on the Jeep ♪

I trap until

The bloody bottoms is underneath ♪

'Cause all my n*gg*s got it

Out the streets ♪

I keep a hundred racks

Inside my jeans ♪

Good block by Washington.

Washington all by himself.

On his head.

The lob inside, Penn-Johnson.

Baseline drive, baseline slam.

Shemar Morrow.

- Oh, beautiful move, Josh Phillips.

- Okay, Josh!

So this one quickly has

become a highlight reel for East LA.

'Cause I'm gettin' money now ♪

On his head!

Bryan Penn-Johnson,

double figures with 22 points.

Either you from the Yah g*ng

Or you're Suwoop ♪

Got a New Orleans b*tch ♪

Can somebody, can anybody

just give East LA a challenge?

I put the new Forgis on the Jeep ♪

I trap until

The bloody bottoms is underneath ♪

Huskies win it 109-47.

A 62-point win.

They hand PCC

their biggest loss in school history.

Hey, hold up for a second.

What's up, fellas? What's up, y'all?

What's going on?

What's up? What's going on?

What's up, brother?

How you doing?

- What's up? What's going on?

- Coach, how you doing?

Just for me, man, like I said,

I love what y'all doing.

I was y'all. No bullshit.

I know y'all hear a lot of times.

I've been through

a lot of sh*t in my life.

A lot of people don't understand.

What kept me going, my main thing is,

I'm doing it for my family, like

Exclude yourself and everything else from

Take that off the table.

Forget you. I'm doing it for my family.

My mom, my grandma, my sisters, brothers.

That's what kept me motivated

and kept me going.

It's not easy, you know.

So whatever you put into life,

it's what you're gonna get out of it.

And, um If you want to come to games

or whatever y'all want to do,

like, I'm here.

We got you, you know, so.

Talk to Coach Mosley, yeah.

Yeah, I know Now Now

Now one thing, though.

When I walked in,

he wasn't f*cking with me.

I seen how he was looking at me

like, "Aw, this"

Hey Yeah, you right there! Yeah!

We wanna lock you out now, bro!

He's like,

"That's the n*gga AI stepped over."

Oh yeah!

Yeah! I saw it! I saw it!

Yeah! I saw it in his face!

You know what I'm saying?

- I saw it in his face, yeah!

- Hey, he had

- But he had the assignment, though!

- Yeah!

- He had the assignment, though.

- That's right.

You got a man who looks like

Karl-Anthony Towns back there.

Karl-Anthony Towns. Yup.

- But whatever y'all need

- Could I get a contract?

Just let us know.

And, um, like I said

- If you need anything, Coach

- That's amazing, man.

Really appreciate it, Coach.

- Let's bring it in, man.

- Bring it in.

- You got it.

- Yeah, Coach!

- The CEO, let's go!

- Make it loud!

"Family" on three! "Family" on me.

One, two, three!

Family!

Stand right here. Let's get

Back up. Let's get a picture.

You guys, Erick gotta take 'em.

Erick, can you get a picture?

What they talking about, homie?

What's it feel like today?

- The same.

- Yeah?

- To the touch, still hurting?

- Yep.

- Swelling went down.

- Yeah, it don't look that bad.

I broke my nose once.

It was like my eyes were so puffy.

Barely could open 'em?

They got black,

like I got punched in the face.

I don't know why

they can't let me play with the mask.

'Cause the mask doesn't allow it

to touch my nose.

DC!

- DC!

- Yes?

- What's up with your leg? Did you see her?

- Yep.

What'd she say?

She said practice today, see how it feels.

If I can play on it, then I can play.

Is your thigh quad swollen?

No.

I don't know. She just said

When I told her I pulled it,

she iced it and

- What's that other thing she put on it?

- Stim?

- She stim it?

- Yes.

These m*therf*ckers hurt, man.

- You've had knee problems for how long?

- Yeah.

- Yeah, a while now.

- A while.

- Probably most of your adult life.

- Yeah.

Okay, we're gonna give you

some Mulligan.

Ready? Go. Come on.

Good.

Three.

Let's see if that helps it. Okay?

Okay. Let's get you to practice.

Do what you can at practice.

If you have to limit yourself,

limit yourself.

- Uh-huh.

- You guys should all go light.

- Right?

- Yeah.

Okay. All right.

- Did you dunk?

- Yeah.

Oh.

I wanted to throw

It looked like one of them Driss dunks.

That's why I thought it was a layup.

- I had one hand on it.

- What the hell's wrong with this dude?

Is your kid showing

them ADHD tendencies already too?

- Yeah.

- Ah, damn.

- It's over with.

- Yeah, man.

In school, it's bad.

I already know.

We can't get scholarships

or win injured. Can't do that.

We need everybody, all 16.

It pisses me off,

'cause we don't get hurt here at ELAC.

- We don't get hurt.

- I don't have a choice.

So that we can get scholarships

and get out.

Well, maybe if you grinded on the weights

and you repped, and you repped and repped,

you wouldn't have pulled your leg

when you took off for the dunk.

When you miss reps and try to explode

in the game, it's a wrap.

I just keep it 100.

I've been doing this for 20 years, man.

You been doing what you been doing

for whenever. I been doing this 20 years.

Do me a favor, bro, just be a f*cking

adult today, and please just

- It's not even about being an adult.

- I get

The mature part is

not keeping myself hurt.

I get what you saying, bro,

but it's bigger than that.

Everybody out here sacrificing.

You have to sacrifice too.

That's great and all, but if I can't

stand on two feet and run on two feet,

then I can't play.

Fourteen! Thirteen!

Twelve! Two! Eleven!

I don't think I'm that hurt.

I just need to let it heal.

I don't know

how long it's gonna take, though.

I at least gotta play in Friday's game,

'cause I wanna be in mode for playoffs.

That's the Mt. SAC game.

Yeah, Dez!

Lock it down, Dez! Bang on him!

Scary, dawg! You scary!

- Eyeball!

- Scary.

- You could've stopped that.

- Charge?

You're not good enough

to get there and stop that?

You get there, take a charge.

You make something happen.

At the next level,

everybody's just as fast as Shemar.

If you can't get there and make a play,

you're not good enough.

All y'all want to go to the SEC,

and they look way better than that.

They 6'6" with 40 more pounds, that fast.

- Tell 'em, Bryan.

- Mm-hmm.

That fast and that quick,

coming off the freaking bench, deep.

- In the SEC. Faster.

- Boom Booming sh*t.

All y'all.

If you're not quick enough

to get there and make a play, you D2.

NAIA D2.

Ain't nothing but

a few minutes left in the season.

Ain't nothing but a few more minutes left.

Do you want 'em?

Bring it in. Here we go.

I can't get you out

unless we win the whole thing, bro.

- Half of you ain't

- Who gonna come recruit you?

- Who gonna recruit you?

- Yeah.

- Who gonna come recruit Rich?

- What?

Who gonna recruit Rich

unless we in the state championship?

- He's right.

- "Family" on three.

- Who gonna recruit you? Look at you.

- Ain't nobody coming.

Ain't Barnum Barnum and Bailey

- Who gonna recruit y'all?

- You know this.

Chris, who gonna recruit you

unless we win it all?

The portal is fatter than a mug.

- Thousands this year.

- Thousands in the portal.

- That's first.

- Thousands.

Prep school second,

JUCO third, high school

unless the high school is

four and five star.

- Yep.

- It's real out there, man.

Unless we can come

and look like a machine.

All right, man. We

Quit touching my hand, dawg.

Don't touch my hand.

- "Family" on three. 1, 2, 3.

- Family.

So what's your thoughts on everything,

over all?

I just am really interested

in offers, or anything about that.

- How's your academic stuff?

- It's good.

- You passing?

- Passing everything.

Everything's been passed with As or Bs.

Don't be stressed.

Been getting a few phone calls

here and there.

There's interest there.

Just, uh, don't panic.

It may be early. It may be late.

You know, you in a unique situation.

I'm very clear with everybody

with who you are and what you're about.

You know what I'm sayin'?

We want to make sure you comfortable.

- Then that shrinks the recruiting pool.

- Yeah.

'Cause there's only

a few guys that I'm willing to trust.

As long as it's the right program,

I don't care if it's California,

uh the middle of Tennessee,

Vermont, anywhere like that.

- Yeah, it don't matter.

- Yeah.

- You can go to the cold?

- Yeah.

- I mean, the cold, the hot

- Yeah.

I wanna play basketball, get that degree.

- Play and get the degree.

- Have my 2, 3 years there.

- Mm-hmm. Yeah.

- About two years.

Just make sure you communicate

with me who's reaching out.

- Yeah.

- Dudes go through the backdoor.

And they don't know your backstory.

Uh-huh.

- I got you, so

- Yeah.

- Uh, we'll figure it out.

- Okay. All right, sounds good.

- Good talking to you.

- Okay. Yep.

She said they want two portal,

two high school, one JUCO.

- So that's they plan.

- We the bottom of the barrel.

But some schools are like,

"We taking four transfers, one JUCO."

And it used to be,

"We taking four JUCOs, one high school."

It's all jacked up, man.

It's all jacked up. Ain't nobody leaving,

'cause everyone got an extra year.

So what you're gonna take?

The dude who averaged

12 points at Southern Mississippi?

Or you gonna take Dez?

It's a bad situation, man, so

- Bad, bro. After my

- Just gotta stay in there, tough.

It's pretty scary.

You got COVID, that stuff is

It's all backlogged, man.

It's a backlog and transfers

and players and stuff like that.

They're coming here

because we're able to get 'em out,

and now, uh

We're doing everything possible,

and it seems kind of

It's tough.

- What you doing over there?

- It's Earth Science.

You actually doing it? Wow.

- I'm doing it.

- Amazing.

He actually kinda focused.

He really trying to get out this year.

- Trying.

- You couldn't get him to sit down.

He really trying to get out. I see you.

All right, bro.

Let me know if you need some help.

Okay.

Come on, Brandon. You ready to go?

What are you

already talking about?

No, I got a 19 out of 25.

I'm happy for myself, bro.

It's hard out here.

- What class is that?

- It's Earth Science right here.

Ain't that a C?

No, dumbass. 19 out of 25,

that's definitely an A. It gotta be an A.

- What?

- That's

19 out of 25.

Yeah, times it by four, dude.

That's a C, bro.

- Times what by four? You crazy?

- Oh yes, bro

25 times 4 is 100.

- And then 19 times 4 is

- 78 or some sh*t.

- I don't take math.

- 76.

- I don't take f*cking math.

- 70-something.

- I'll do it now.

- That's not 70. You crazy?

19 out of 25, bro.

- 19 times 4

- 76.

Seventy-six, like I said.

- That's a C.

- You got a C, bro.

- What the f*ck

- You just trying to pass?

Erick!

If you had got one more question right,

bro, you would've got an 80.

That's why you got a C!

I worked my a*s off for a C!

It doesn't look that bad.

Scoot up just a little bit for me, hon.

Okay, let's

- Uh hurt?

- Mm-hmm.

- How bad? Zero

- Down here doesn't really hurt.

- It's all up there.

- Just up here.

You're probably gonna have

a crooked nose the rest of your life.

But let's do the SCAT.

- Okay.

- Okay? Just relax.

- Any pain or anything on your head?

- Uh-uh.

Okay. Any blurred vision? Double vision?

- Headache?

- Uh-uh.

Get your balance.

Now close your eyes.

I really don't think you have

a concussion, okay?

But what we're gonna do I want

You need to see that EN

before I can release you

back out onto the court.

Can I practice, no contact?

I don't have a problem with that,

but no contact.

We can't afford for you

to have another shot to the face.

I understand.

Like I say, if this is already broken,

we don't want any pieces going up.

- Going

- Okay?

Mm-hmm.

Ay, ay, ay.

He caught a tough elbow

the other night. It looked rough.

I felt for the kid.

It's going to be hard for him to get back

because of the way he plays.

He ain't Richard Hamilton, when he was

running around with that face mask on,

just hitting threes.

This dude takes charges, blocks shots.

He throws his body to the wind,

and so it's, um

it's gonna be a rough couple weeks,

and painful weeks for Damani.

We're not able to keep him off the court.

Doctor says he can play,

he's gonna go out there and do it.

He's a guy

that can bring tears to my eyes.

He's the epitome of what a player

how they should be and how

they should be approaching the game.

He is the epitome of how

I want everybody to approach the game.

Yeah!

Whitlock,

able to draw the charge.

That's the fourth one

he's been able to draw this ballgame.

There's guys on our team who think

they are more talented than Damani,

but not one of them will say

they should be playing instead of him.

That's how much respect they have.

Like, "I'm better than Damani."

"But, yeah, that dude

should probably be playing,

because I'm not doing what he's doing."

"I'm not getting in front

of that 6'6" dude,

and have him break my face."

Yeah! Let's go!

Damani ends up just catching all our eyes.

You know, he's never been asked

to lead before, so it was all new to him.

He has won over

every dude on this team.

Now he can talk a bit more.

Now he can say,

"You need to get on the floor and dive,"

because he gets on the floor and dives.

"You need to get over and help,"

because he's gonna get over and help.

Damani is cut from the fabric

that a lot of coaches wanna see.

Damani's dad is a coach,

and that's what I see in Damani,

is a coach's son.

My dad one of

the greatest people in the world to me.

As a coach's son, I mean,

he taught me everything I know.

One thing he told me, he was like,

"How far you get is

how much work you do on your own."

And I've really stuck with that,

and just been on the grind ever since.

For Mo

For Coach Mo, Damani is perfect.

Is his jumper the epitome? No.

Is this epitome? No.

Is his ball-handling the epitome? No.

But his approach

to the game is the epitome of how

I feel a player and a point guard

should approach the game.

Here we go. Knee to chest.

Pull those knees to chest.

- Both or just one?

- Yeah, both knees.

Oh-h*-h*.

- Outside the knee, Bryan.

- Yep. My bad.

Palms down.

Now we are on our shins.

Okay. Let's bring our feet together.

Oh snap. I done got some cramps.

We want to sit down on the

- Hey, he said, "You gotta

- You gotta sit dow"

Sit on y'all shins, man!

Sit on y'all's shins, dawgs.

Sit on y'all's shins. Listen.

Mani!

Your phone ringing.

You ain't doing it right.

What happened, bro?

My dad just sent us a text

saying he loved us,

'cause I guess

he's sitting in a tornado right now.

- He's in a tornado? Wow.

- Mm-hmm.

So he sent us all the information

to the life insurance people.

He said, "Just in case I"

"My cell phone's about to go out again."

"Just in case I don't get a hold"

- The tornado is right by him?

- It's in his path. Yeah.

Your father's gonna be all good.

You good, Mani?

- Set the mats right here.

- Erick will get it.

- What happened, Damani?

- Come on, Mani.

We got it. We got it. Come on.

Come on, Mani.

Oh man, what happened? Headache?

You got a phone call?

What'd they say?

- My dad's in a f*cking tornado.

- Huh?

My dad's in the middle

of a tornado right now.

- In a tornado? In Texas?

- Yeah.

- Them things ain't nothin' but trouble.

- Alabama.

- What city is he at?

- I don't know.

He just sent the text saying that

he loved us all,

and how to proceed

with the life insurance lady

if anything happens.

And that he'd get in touch

with us whenever.

I mean, I talked to him just

for a few seconds on the phone,

but the connection was bad.

He said his truck was just that his truck

was moving while he was on the side

O God.

God, I just pray in the name of Jesus,

O God, that you protect him.

Father, we pray to you

to protect Major, O God.

Father, we know

that your will is gonna be done, O God.

We pray in the name of Jesus,

O God, that you just give Damani peace.

O God, just give him strength

right now, Lord.

We glorify you, O God.

We stand with him right now, O God.

I just ask that you could protect him,

O God, let him see your face right now.

O God, let Major call on you right now.

O God, in the name of Jesus.

Amen.

I can't lose my dad.

- Yeah.

- I can't lose my dad.

He's my everything. I can't lose my dad.

I got, like,

a billion cousins in Alabama, dude.

So I'll keep in touch

with them through the night.

- Yeah.

- I'll sh**t you a text message.

- Let you know.

- I appreciate it.

From what they told me,

it's clearing up over there, so

Let's pray that's what

the news should be on your end.

- That's all I'm hoping for.

- Yeah, man.

Were you able

to talk to him last night?

Yeah, I was talking to him

last night and then this morning.

His phone kept going off

with all the warnings and stuff

after I got in contact with him,

after the fact.

He was telling me

it's all good at that point,

that he was safe.

And that's pretty much

what all I needed to hear.

He's just telling me he was able

to just sit in his truck and wait it out.

I guess a lot of praying.

He's just trying to

trying to get through safely,

and that's all I'm hoping for.

Oh my God, my knee.

Damn, my knee hurts.

Whether you make or miss,

just keep moving. Everybody moves.

- When it touches your hands, pull it.

- Y'all ready?

- When it touches your hands, pull.

- Yeah.

Weave, duck.

- Here we go. Look, weave

- C'mon.

- Come on.

- Duck in.

Rebound.

Knee, use this time to rest.

Rebound, reactions.

I need energy.

And I need toughness.

Just keep going.

Two seconds. f*ck' right now.

Let's get it.

Here we go. Ready?

Let's go. Come on.

- Let's go.

- Ready? Set!

Good, here we go. Whoo!

Good. Here we go.

He was there, bro!

Stop, stop! He was there.

Dawg, we gotta get out of that.

We keep going over there.

And then we pass it,

and by the time we pass it,

we right here.

Nah. Hell nah. I want the ball right here.

I want it right here.

- Here we go.

- I'mma trust you. My bad.

Ready?

Here we go. Ready? Set, set!

- Yes! Hell yeah!

- Yes, sir!

That's how we gotta get it!

I need five of those!

Set, set!

Coach messes with Bryan

every day about,

"Hey, your knees hurt. His back's hurt."

Like, "Something's wrong with him."

Bryan gonna always grab his knee.

- He didn't wanna practice today.

- He don't wanna practice any day.

But you're not gonna find

very many seven-foot guys

who aren't broke down physically.

Your body's not made to do that

at that height.

In the past, he'd be like, "Oh,

my knee's hurting. I'm not gonna play."

"My back's kinda messed up.

I'm just gonna take the day off."

Well, now he's someone

who understands, like,

you gotta get through that

in order to be the best

you want to be at the next level.

This may be the first year

he's gone through a whole season

and been needed.

And so, with that,

he has calculated steps

of how he wants to handle himself.

Get out of that average mindset!

Freaking average minds.

Freaking be a player, be a man!

It's definitely frustrating,

But, um I feel like it's also helping me

build as a player,

because I feel like I can play through

pretty much anything now.

I f*cking know you're hurting.

Push through.

Ain't nobody give a f*ck about that sh*t.

- That's what I want!

- Fellas!

- What, man?

- What, dawg?

Y'all look like something

something wrong right now.

Nah, we're going to see Diane.

Make sure.

- Where y'all finna go? Diane?

- The office for some Gatorade.

You look like y'all finna

do something wrong, something bad.

He's finna go to Diane!

I'm finna go to Diane with him.

- You're not finna do that

- Did you make ten in a row?

Yes! Man! Come on, dawg!

You know I made ten in a row.

- You saw me. Come on.

- I didn't see you.

Like Coach Rob said,

you probably shot ten.

I don't know

if you made ten in a row, though.

Shemar.

I made ten.

- I made my ten, dawg!

- I made ten.

I for sure did not make ten.

He came up in there, n*gga, I

Everything hurts.

Everything hurt.

I know. I feel you guys.

It was a shorter practice, huh?

- It was.

- But intense?

It was intense.

It was good, though.

Yeah. And then, do you need ice as well?

No, I'm cool, for real.

I'm here for moral support.

- Moral support? I feel you.

- I hate this, man.

- Me too.

- Okay. Cool. I'll get that ice.

Yeah.

My little sister's birthday's

like next week.

- How old's she turning?

- Nine.

Damn.

- Ain't seen her since she was 7.

- There goes a year.

Damn.

That's how hoop sh*t be, bro.

Honestly, that's the best part

about being at ELAC for me.

- I can go home and see my little sister.

- You close as hell.

I ain't been to the crib in some years.

That's the thing, though.

I ain't been remotely close to home

in, like, six years, so it's like

It's nice.

I'm afraid of him driving too.

- She has a bad temper.

- Insane.

She'll get up

and drive that car right up a pole.

She'll probably

ram into somebody,

like, "You saw me at the red light."

You know.

- She'll get out

- The baby's in the car

Out of the two of us,

I have the good temper.

Like I'm not

I'm fine, out of the two of us.

What?! What?! Wait, me?

Compared to me and Bre,

I have the good temper.

You do.

I have the best temper, though. I don't

He's got a bad temper,

but, compared to him and Breanna,

he's got a better temper.

How's that? When that n*gga punched

a hole in the door?

- Hey! Hey!

- Damn!

Damn! Damn!

- Oh, oh. My bad, my bad.

- Let at it.

- The truck.

- We got evidence.

You got a

You got a bad temper too.

I think it's genetics.

You all three are my children.

- Look at me, tell me I got a bad temper.

- That's where they got it.

- I got it from my mother.

- You do.

You just react in different ways.

You don't react by getting angry.

I don't think Bre

Maddie have that bad of a temper.

No, but wait until you get

in my room, by myself though?

- That's a different story.

- We have different temperaments.

- Bre gets violent. I just get frustrated.

- We won't talk about that.

She gets sad.

- That's her temperament.

- Maddie's the sad.

Breanna's the mad, and Bryan's the angry.

- You gonna stay the night?

- Yeah.

We don't have a shootaround till three.

So tell me about

your game tomorrow, Bry.

Is it like, something we can buy tickets

to attend, or?

Honestly, Ma, just let me

close this sh*t out.

- You don't want us there.

- Let me close it out.

I didn't have y'all

I had y'all just pull up to

I haven't been to any of them

since you've been to ELAC, so

Just let me close this sh*t out.

Let's not even

Okay.

Lemme just finish it.

Move on with our lives.

- Bryan.

- What's up?

I'm thinking about

switching one of my classes.

From what to what?

What are your grades like?

- We had an agreement.

- They're really good.

What'd I promise I'd get you

if you had good grades?

Converse. I got them.

- But you already got 'em.

- Yeah, 'cause my grades were good.

Oh, okay.

- And then Mom got 'em for me, though.

- That's good.

My grades are really good now.

'Cause it's the beginning

of second semester.

But I hate orchestra.

- Why?

- What instrument are you playing?

Cello.

You gotta roll with the punches.

I didn't like

any of my orchestra teachers.

They're not supposed to be nice.

- You played orchestra?

- I played for six years.

I played violin, viola, cello,

flute, uh orchestra bass.

I played drums for a little bit.

Growing up,

Bryan didn't like basketball.

You know, he wasn't into it.

He was into art and he was into music

and he was into different other things,

but it was not basketball.

I was a book-reader,

so I read whatever was in the house.

My grandma always had something random,

whether it was the Bible, or

I read The Great Gatsby a lot,

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,

picked up books that took me to

different places.

Being in North Long Beach right on

the edge of Compton and Long Beach,

uh, definitely,

uh a hot zone for g*ng activity

and just all-around drama.

So a lot of my childhood was avoidance.

You know,

just trying to stray away from conflict,

just because I knew that,

regardless of how the conflict went,

it might be, you know

not a good situation for me, so

just decided to kinda isolate myself

a lot as a child.

A lot of the time,

I was just with my babysitter or my aunt,

because I guess

my mom wasn't around a lot, so

My dad lived in New York and my mom

she was kinda in and out sometimes, so

Me and my younger sister were

very, very close when she was first born,

especially her going

into elementary school.

And even now, she's, you know,

I look at her more like

a kid of mine more than my sister,

just because I've been there,

helped raising her since she was born.

So it's like, anything she's ever needed,

like, she'll just come to me.

I'd just turned 13.

My birthday's in January.

This happened in, like, end of March?

A lot of screaming in the apartment,

a lot of arguing.

I didn't know what about

'cause I didn't care.

'Cause it was always arguing,

arguments going on in there.

My mom comes in and just

basically tells us that she's leaving.

I sat him and Breanna down

and was like, "I have to go."

"Me and Maddie, we're gonna go and, um"

You know,

"But you can stay here with Granny."

"We We cleared that up that

you can stay here with your grandmother."

And then Bryan was like, "You go, I go."

"Who's gonna take care of you?"

You know?

"Who's gonna take care of Maddie?"

And I was like, "You're a kid."

He was like, "Uh-uh."

We're Yeah, he's been Yeah.

That's my baby.

I sleep with my knees up.

I sleep on my back with my knees up.

And my girlfriend,

she's like, "Oh, that's weird."

I was like, "Well,

when I lived in the homeless shelter,

we would get our stuff stolen a lot."

"So I would sleep with all of our bags

and our belongings under my knees,

under the blanket

so no one would take anything."

For about a year, while we were bouncing

around from shelter to shelter,

and while she was working,

trying to scrape enough money

to make sure we were okay,

I was basically just raising

my sister on my own, so

We made sure we ate

one big meal in the morning.

'Cause we understood that

we probably weren't gonna eat again

until Mom was off work,

if we could that night, so

I don't think she ever knew

we were homeless, so

I kinda take pride in that.

It was, like, overnight, he, um

He went from, like,

playing with video games and, um,

with his friends and stuff, to

Sorry.

To, um kind of having

to grow up overnight, you know?

Making sure that, um

our stuff didn't get stolen

when we were in a shelter.

Which it did. Um

And it was just like,

"God, why is this happening?"

Like, "Why am I having to, um

having to, you know,

for him to go through this?"

And he was like, "It's okay."

His thing is that he just didn't want,

you know, for one day for me to go

to the bathroom or something with Maddie,

and then something bad happened

to our stuff or to Maddie, or

He was just his thing was,

he had to protect us.

And, uh, I said, "I'm your mom.

I'm supposed to be doing that."

And he said, um

he was like, "No, it's us."

You know, "I'm gonna do it."

He quickly became

the man of the "no-house" house, you know?

Yeah.

It's like he had to literally grow up

to be a man overnight.

You know, "Mom, do we have this?

Do we have enough of this?"

We were homeless

for about a year and a half, two years.

That's actually when

I started playing basketball.

You know, those times got hard.

I kinda distracted myself with basketball

and put myself in the work.

It's definitely humbling, just because

I understand that, like,

at any point, if I stop working,

that's definitely a real possibility

of going back to that.

So, it's like,

it gives you some drive

when you start off,

seeing where you don't want to be.

And then being able to move from there.

I want to be able to go to sleep

and be comfortable with the fact that

my family had something to eat tonight.

You know? They had a meal.

They have somewhere to sleep.

I have somewhere to sleep.

The people I love are taken care of. So

That's honestly all

I'm pushing for at this point.

Here we go. Hand off.

Guards, pull that thing up.

Separate, big separation. Good.

Separate. Pull up on that thing. Come on.

Act like you wanna make it!

Games get tougher now!

Tonight, Wednesday, and from here on out,

they get tougher and tougher.

C'mon, lock in the details, man.

Be efficient.

Lock in, be efficient.

Off two. Here we go, good.

Let's go. Hey, let's go base.

Let's go baseline.

Hey, listen. Mt. SAC,

their whole season depends on this game.

Hell yeah.

They got conference title at stake.

They got playoffs at stake.

They're gonna play desperate,

and you can't give 'em no hope.

Last time, we didn't give 'em hope.

Didn't give 'em a glimpse.

And they didn't know what hit 'em.

And the way y'all was guarding,

and top foot up,

and dudes just couldn't figure it out.

We're freaking pit bulls!

We're not going away!

Freaking Josh is freaking

putting your head in the pads.

Bryan Penn-Johnson is gonna freaking

put the ball on the glass on purpose

with two hands, like this.

That fool, we knew it was going to him,

but hell yeah, Bryan!

- Put that junk on the glass!

- Hell yeah, it was.

Hell yeah, it was going to you.

Hell yeah! Once you take the ball,

and you freaking every time.

I love that junk.

- Yeah, man!

- I love that junk, dawg.

- Hey!

- Hey! I love that, dawg.

- Don't you love that?

- I love it.

So, anyway, I feel sorry for 'em

a little bit.

Bro, in in three weeks,

we should be in the Elite Eight,

and we playing for something bigger.

So this is a preparation for that,

and we don't play around with this game.

You know, I was thinking about it today.

I woke up this morning.

I'm folding clothes thinking about,

"Dang, this is going down the stretch."

It's tougher and tougher and tougher.

It don't get no easier anymore.

They may not make the playoffs

if they don't beat us.

I'm just telling you,

you're gonna get popped in the mouth.

You guys gotta

take care of business tonight.

The intensity needs to be like last time,

and we need to get

our playoff mojo in place, all right?

We on this side.

- f*ck y'all.

- Watch your mouth.

Hey, bro, who is

Who the f*ck is you

Shut your dumb a*s up.

n*gga, who the f*ck is you?

"I'm not one of them either, n*gga."

The f*ck is you talking about?

- f*ck is you talking about, really?

- Hell yeah.

- f*ck is you talking about?

- Let's go.

Look at them, yes, sir.

Look at them, yes, sir.

These n*gg*s are not ready.

Yeah!

Come on! Come on!

Y'all n*gg*s are not ready!

Y'all n*gg*s are not ready!

It's all or nothing for them.

This is all or none.

This is Conference Championship

riding on this right now.

This is they freaking gym.

They second.

They trying to tie for first

so they can win conference.

So we need to come out

with a lot of energy, a lot of enthusiasm.

Let 'em feel your scream

in your freaking stance.

That's where they hear your scream.

In your stance.

Not with your mouth. With your stance.

In front of 'em.

You guarding 'em, locking 'em up.

It's coming there, getting in the stance,

and we playing hard.

And they like,

"Dang. Where did this come from?"

They don't know

how to play harder than us.

It's over in two, three weeks, man!

Turn this thing up, and let's go!

Let's go!

- "Family" on three. One, two, three!

- Family!

Stop playing, man! Let's go.

ELAC is plotting

a sixth straight conference title,

but they cannot afford a loss

from here to the end of the season.

According to the CCCAA Coaches' Poll,

ELAC is ranked number nine in the state,

a fragile ranking that would plummet

if ELAC took another loss.

Mt. San Antonio will have to win

this ball game

in order to secure a share of the title.

Defense! Defense!

Defense! Defense! Defense!

Easy lay-in.

Washington hands it off

in the corner to Cofield.

- Gets called for a travel.

- Inside! Look inside!

Hey! Why don't you move inside?

I had the n*gga wide the f*ck open!

Ain't nobody on my right.

No f*cking reason with y'all.

My God!

Defense! Defense!

Crossover, a move

an attack to the cup.

That's Edmonson who loses the dribble.

Up ahead to Gladney. Gladney loses it.

Edmonson easy lay-in.

And gives Mt. SAC

their first lead of the game.

6 to 4, 16:08 left.

Yeah!

Gladney diving.

Mt. SAC able to recover,

and here's Edmonson.

Josh?

Josh is bullshitting.

Josh I don't know what he's doing.

I'll punch you in your f*cking sh*t

right now, you b*tch-a*s n*gga.

Push me like that one more time.

Taking Josh out this game.

Get the f*ck off me.

Sub!

He's frustrated

about some other stuff.

C'mon, bro!

You can't do that sh*t.

Josh, what happened? What happened?

Get him, Coach.

- What's wrong, bro?

- Base! Base!

See where he goes.

Come here, come here.

Come here, come here. Pick it up.

- What's wrong? What's wrong?

- Nothing.

Just relax, relax.

We need you in this game.

We don't need you doing that, all right?

Remember, there's colleges

watching you. Feel me?

Yeah.

All right,

he's gonna be back in.

- Defense!

- Damani.

Mani!

Whitlock will check in.

And Whitlock turns it over at midcourt.

My bad, my bad.

Laurie crossover move

to the corner to Bender.

Step back!

Bender against Whitlock.

- Oh, and Whitlock will foul.

- Come on, Mani!

It's the second game in a row

you did that.

Same thing.

- What am I doing wrong?

- Change without foul.

- He's landing and then falling.

- Nah.

You came in his space.

You came in his space.

The rest is good.

That comes with discipline.

Damani!

Why does he not have the thing on him?

He said he ain't wearing it ever again.

Whitlock will come

into the frontcourt with it.

- Whitlock throws it up!

- And one!

Let's go, Mani, Mani!

Sink! Help side!

- Defense!

- No catch!

- No catch.

- Wilkins

Throws it up, no good.

Up ahead, Cofield, too easy.

Let's go!

- Come on!

- Let's go!

Back! Back! Back!

Wait, hold up!

Let me go!

Sit Sit down! Get 'em down! Get 'em down!

- Go! Go!

- He came over.

- Come on!

- Good job, Dez.

He came over here.

That's gotta be Come on, now.

- Hey, Mar!

- Here.

- Good job, Mani.

- Yeah.

All right, you'll see me outside.

You said we ain't gonna do what outside?

Ain't gonna do what?

- Ain't gonna do what outside to you?

- I like your butterfly locs.

You're gonna be here

next year, huh? Gonna be here next year?

- Defense!

- 38-32.

A steal by Washington.

Washington attacks to the corner.

Tre b*mb good.

Huskies taking their time now.

Defense! Defense!

Morrow will rise

rattles that one home!

And one.

Hey! Butterfly Locs

can't guard you, boy!

Josh.

Let's go, baby. Come on.

- Get JT.

- Get it!

JT!

Come on, Josh. Sit down, Josh!

Under 40 seconds.

Yeah!

- Go get it, Josh!

- Pull up!

Wilkins from three.

Splashes that one.

Mounties refuse to quit.

Damn, Mar, what for?

That one no good.

Phillips puts it up.

What did you sh**t that for, Mar?

Rebound!

as a blocking foul

will be called.

- What you gonna do?

- Shemar! Get it!

Josh!

- I didn't say nothing.

- Sub!

I didn't say anything to him.

I didn't even say nothing to him.

I didn't say a word.

I know, but here's the problem.

It's the extra bump.

Shemar! What do you sh**t that for?

Yeah, my fault,

my fault, my fault!

- All of that happens 'cause of that.

- I know.

The foul, the technical,

all of that happens.

Go, go, go!

sh*t ain't smart at all, man.

- That cost us Josh and three points.

- Four.

Oh my God, bro.

Hey, Mar.

I don't wanna hear that sh*t.

I don't wanna hear that sh*t.

You good, Josh!

Don't even f*ck' play me

in this game bro.

Just let me take that jersey off.

Cory, back!

In the game! In the game!

Wilkins goes 2 of 2.

One second left.

A heave.

Not in time.

That brings us to halftime.

Huskies holding on to a 48-42 lead.

This is like playoff basketball.

These dudes right here, they have to win!

They have to win!

Have to win!

We need to clip 'em right now

and just shut it down.

Don't turn the ball over.

Let's go!

- "Finish" on three. 1, 2, 3!

- Finish!

Told y'all

don't get caught up in it.

They trying to get you all turnt up.

Dude, what's up? What's going on?

I don't know, man.

I just wanna fight somebody.

- I don't give a f*ck.

- Get it out.

Whatever the f*ck it is,

get it the f*ck out now. Come on.

I'm just angry as f*ck. Yeah.

- I need you, bro. Come on.

- Yeah.

If it's f*ck' nerves, if it's

hot chest, get that sh*t out now, bro.

- We got 20 minutes. Go hit something.

- Josh.

Bad possession,

get to a good possession.

- Don't compound it.

- Yeah.

- Josh need to calm down a bit.

- Nah

I He's not going to.

He's not capable.

- He's in a different mode right now.

- Right.

- Somebody gonna say something to him.

- Right.

Whatever I got, Imma get you.

They about to bait you, Josh.

Don't fall for it.

Don't fall for it.

As the ball gets poked

to the corner and a steal.

Cofield able to recover. Gets swatted.

Into the hands of Edmonson.

Why are we walking?

Josh, what are we doing?

That's Hunter.

He's off the mark.

Bender there to put it up.

Josh ain't right, man.

Set! Set!

Set! Fist!

- Go! Play, play! Go!

- To the high post.

Six seconds on the ticker.

Gladney gets ripped.

A steal by Laurie. Laurie attacks.

- Hey, Justin!

- Puts it up A blocking foul.

You see what I got on me?

You see how I got one on me,

the point guard?

I got the point guard, you see,

and I can't get the ball at all?

Not even a f*cking look.

Come on.

Cofield down low to Phillips.

Phillips off the mark.

Dunk the basketball!

Reset, backpedal,

pushes it left side to Edmonson.

Edmonson, easy lay-in. 50-46.

Fist, go. Dribble.

Fist. Right here, right here.

Defense!

Down low Phillips.

Point-blank range, no good, and a whistle.

Get me the f*ck out the game.

I don't want to play.

I can't f*cking play.

I can't do this sh*t.

- No, you're good.

- No, I'm not. I'm f*cking not.

That's Josh.

Yeah, I told you to get him out.

Bryan! Bryan!

Sub!

We need to let

Bryan go a little more long.

Yeah, Bryan get rid of them dudes.

JT, that's it.

I got you on defense.

You're our leader on offense.

I got you.

Washington attacks down low.

Penn-Johnson stuffs it home.

You go. You got it.

b*tch, you thirsty

Please grab a Sprite ♪

My Crips lurking

Don't die tonight ♪

I just want to dance with you, baby ♪

Just don't move too fast ♪

Stay there! Stay there! Stay there!

Under! Fist!

Stay there. I'm here!

sh*t! Boom!

Let's go, man!

f*ck they talking 'bout, bro?

f*ck wrong with them?

Bryan! Bryan!

It's Justin Gladney,

down low to Penn-Johnson!

Norfside, Long Beach ♪

Hit the corner

Make a dollar flipping ♪

Split the dollars

With my mama children ♪

Folks need Porsches

Hoes need ab*rtion ♪

Sanders off the mark.

Penn-Johnson there,

tries to rip down the rim.

Driss, go! Driss!

That's the big man

leading the way for East Los Angeles

to secure the SCC North title.

Block! Block!

From the city

Where the skinny carry strong heat ♪

Norfside, Long Beach

Norfside, Long Beach ♪

Defense! Defense! Defense!

JT, stay. JT, stay.

Stay high! Stay high!

There's Bender,

lays it up on the left side.

- What the hell?!

- Bunny. Runner, no good.

- What would you do that for?

- Up ahead.

Scoop layup, nope.

Putback attempt on the right side.

God, man.

That's Bender

with back-to-back deuces.

You changed the game.

Know what I'm saying?

A blocking foul

now called on Whitlock.

This time, couldn't get the charge.

Oh my God!

East LA struggling.

There's no quit in the Mounties.

- Defense!

- We good. We good.

Should have known

that was gonna happen.

Oh!

That's a foul!

He tripped him! He tripped him!

He got caught off the screens.

But his

he tripped him with his leg.

No, he's established.

Two feet on the ground.

Bring it in, Black!

Rebound, Hunter.

- sh*t!

- Up ahead.

Three-pointer, splashed home.

Time-out! Time-out!

Hey.

Listen. They're desperate.

They gonna sh**t threes.

We gotta make sure we get back. All right?

- "Finish" on three. One, two, three!

- Finish!

East LA

holding on to a thin lead.

- Green!

- hands of Washington.

- Washington attacks.

- Dez!

A steal by Bender.

Bender attacks coast-to-coast.

- And one!

- Charge!

- Whitlock takes the charge.

- Yeah!

Hell yeah, baby!

- Yeah

- Shut up!

Pass it, Jon!

The Huskies will go

to 8 and 0 in conference,

and capture the SCC North

for a sixth straight term.

Their win streak moves to 15.

And they go to 23 and 4.

- That's a lock. Get out!

- Grab your bag and go. Let's go.

- Good work.

- Get out. Get 'em out.

- It's fine. Go.

- I'm gonna clip somebody.

I ain't gonna shake, Coach,

'cause these dudes was acting crazy.

Y'all gonna clip some. Nice work.

Y'all gonna clip Y'all gonna clip

You can't play bad in my eyes.

Whaddup.

- Scoot. Let me sit next to you.

- Here.

You with me? You with me after? Okay.

- Oh, no. I'm not gonna

- Aw

- God, n*gga.

- You straight, boy. You straight.

You straight, man.

Almost done, Josh.

Let's just stay motivated, dawg.

Hey, man. Let me tell you

Let me tell you.

We got We got too much at stake

for all that little fake stuff.

Dudes is trying to come over here.

"Oh, where are they at?" Man, forget that.

Forget that. We stars.

Lock the door. We st

Where's the security? Security.

- We don't fight.

- We Chris Paul.

We don't fight. We need security.

We ain't trying to deal with all that.

See.

Y'all watch this fool, Josh, dawg.

You good, bro?

- You good, Josh? Yeah! You all right?

- Come on. Be straight.

You all right, dawg?

That n*gga wanted

to take somebody's head off, bro.

Listen, we gonna go here.

We going out the back door.

These fools gonna try this

'Cause this happened in the past.

Man, it was bad.

They had helicopters. It was crazy.

- Every time.

- But these dudes is hot because they mad.

Because they gave it they all,

and it didn't happen.

Ain't nobody no punk.

Ain't nobody scared of nothin'.

But you know what?

It's a lot of dudes that

ain't no punks in the grave in there.

And you know what?

Hey, you already proved you ain't no punk.

Am I right?

Twice.

We in, we out.

We in, we out.

We needed that, bruh.

- Yeah, we needed to scrap.

- No, that was a scrap.

- That wasn't a game. That was a scrap.

- That was a scrap.

Oh oh ♪

Ain't nobody ♪

Loves me better ♪

Makes me happy ♪

Makes me feel this way ♪

Ain't nobody ♪

Loves me better than you ♪

Mm-hmm ♪

I wait for night time to come ♪

To bring you to me ♪

I can't believe I'm the one ♪

I was so lonely ♪

I feel like no one could feel ♪

I must be dreamin' ♪

I want this dream to be real ♪

I need this feelin' ♪

I make my wish upon a star ♪

And hope this night will last forever ♪

Oh oh oh oh ♪

Ain't nobody ♪

Loves me better ♪

Makes me happy ♪

Makes me feel this way ♪

Ain't nobody ♪

Loves me better ♪

Ain't nobody ♪

Loves me better than you ♪

Mm ♪

At first you put your arms around me ♪

Then you put your charms around me ♪

I can't resist this sweet surrender ♪

On a night so warm and tender ♪