Lamont eventually gets hired as the coach, and over the next few weeks or months (it’s unclear how much time passes), the Lions rapidly improve just in time for a big city tournament. In the park one day, Schlotz enlists an initially reluctant Lamont to give his team some pointers. The protagonist, Alex “Schlotz” Schlotzky, supposedly the Lions’ best player, is triple-teamed and takes an awful shot instead of passing. One kid falls over with nobody around him. This fact is established right away as the film opens with the Lions, who haven’t won a game in two years, getting crushed by the Warriors, the best team in the league. There’s a lot of downright horrible basketball in this movie, some of which could be intentional because the Philadelphia Hebrew Academy Lions are supposed to suck, at least at the beginning. Warmup: Middle school kids who play basketball for a Jewish academy recruit Lamont Carr, a former Virginia Cavaliers star whose pro career was derailed by injuries, to coach their team out of a slump. Full-Court Miracle (2003)ĭirector: Stuart Gillard Starring: Alex D. What follows is a totally scientific ranking of movies, from least realistic to most realistic. So I assigned myself the backbreaking work of analyzing the most memorable DCOMs to determine which sports scenes were most authentic. Here at The Athletic, we take sports very seriously, and simultaneously not seriously at all.
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