[soft piano music]
[commentator] Biggest lead, now up to nine for Minnehaha.
Back to a double-digit lead.
Sierra Canyon could not lay it home.
Minnehaha cruises in the second half
to knock off the biggest attraction in all of high school basketball,
78-58 the final score.
[teacher] Everyone, please pay attention.
This is Hamlet. The point of no return.
It's as easy to go forward as it would be to go backwards,
backwards as it would be to go forward.
And he is going to choose to go forward.
All right, guys, I want to talk about page 115.
If everyone could turn to page 115...
[talking indistinctly]
Everyone go to 115.
This is such a big soliloquy that we are gonna go to
that most people know it without ever even reading it before.
We are reading the soliloquy known as...
Does anyone know it?
[students] "To be or not to be."
We're gonna have someone read this.
- All right? - Uh-oh.
Who's gonna read it?
You guys have a preference?
You guys want to see someone read?
You want to see Rif? Oh, Rif, is it?
[students laugh]
This is the guy, right here.
I think everyone should rise.
- Oh, yes. - Stand.
- I'll read with the group. - Stand.
- Everybody rise, brothers.
[indistinct chatter, laughter]
- Stand. Stand up. - Stand up. Stand up.
Me, too, I just read. I already read.
It's with the group. With the group.
- As a group. - [laughter]
[teacher]
All right? Here we go.
On the count of three.
Ready? Here we go.
[all reading] "To be, or not to be,
that is the question:
[pensive music]
[teacher] Hamlet enters the scene.
He's about to do something that's existential,
like, "Who am I?
How is it that I exist in this world?
What is my role?"
Yet for whatever reason, in this particular play,
with this antihero,
we say, "Do what you gotta do, Hamlet.
Do what you gotta do. To be or not to be?"
[basketballs bouncing, sneakers squeaking]
- Let's go, let's go, come on. - Play.
- Go, go, go. - Play.
Hands, blue.
Hey, get out there, Amari!
Go, come on, Harold!
Go, Metoyer!
Come on, Thibiant!
There, you're gonna get taken out of the game every time.
And you're gonna be pissed. Get your ass up!
Sandy, you want to talk to Z-Will?
Can't be celebrating that you made it miss,
and guessed, and you jogged your ass back.
Gotta screen, Shy. You're missing too much.
Come on, Shy.
You can't keep on dribbling the ball out of bounds,
all for yourself.
I kind of let my mental get to me.
I fell into a-- I fell into a little hole.
Out here in California, it's just...
missing family, not being able to go home,
being in a different space, new people.
It got tough. It got really tough.
I know when I moved from Chicago to L.A.,
I was like, "Whoa."
This was like a whole different scenery,
so him dealing with all that,
I feel like it built his character a lot.
I know the coaches were hard on Shy.
Pushing him to his limits for sure.
I mean, I remember when he first came to Sierra.
What happened, I bulled him in the chest on a lay-up,
and he just stopped.
And he stopped, and he grabbed his eye.
And Dre stopped him in that moment.
He said, "If you were a monster, you would have finished
and then think about being hurt. You would play through.
And he told me, away from practice,
"Nobody ever talked to me like that before."
I challenge Shy and hold him to a high level
because I think that Shy has the ability to be great.
So when I see him not performing,
not going hard, not focused,
then I'm going to challenge him to get to a place
that I know that he can go to.
If you watch the film of us playing in China,
you will see what he's capable of.
And so we were super excited
about what he was going to bring to the table.
But there was the games where he was wonderful,
and there was the games where he didn't show up.
I was just pushing him to be consistent
and to be elite.
[pensive music]
[Ryan] I was actually
hanging out in Calabasas the night before with some friends.
[Zaire] Somebody sent it to me in a group chat,
and I just, you know, swiped out, whatever,
not thinking it was nothin'.
[Ed] I was going through my phone and I saw a post.
[Amari] I was sleeping at one of my friends' house.
Like, he came to wake me up. He was like, "Kobe just died."
I was like, "Shut up," like, "I'm going back to sleep."
I went to sleep, woke back up.
The next morning I wake up, and I'm home, and...
I look at my timeline,
I see like 50 texts, like, "Kobe just died."
Breaking news on this Sunday afternoon.
Five-time NBA champion, former league MVP
Kobe Bryant died earlier this afternoon.
Retired Los Angeles Lakers basketball star Kobe Bryant
has been killed in a helicopter crash.
It happened this morning.
He was, of course, one of the most legendary players
in NBA history,
starring for two decades with the L.A. Lakers.
[newscaster] This is gonna be like JFK.
You will remember where you were when Kobe Bryant died.
[high-pitched tone, no other audio]
I went to practice, and I just remember crying.
Just not knowing what to do.
It's crazy.
[Ed] For a lot of them, Kobe's like their hero.
It still hasn't really hit me yet that Kobe's gone, man.
It hurt me. I cried about it like seven times that day.
[Ed] Z-Wade and Bronny, they called Kobe "Uncle".
It was just devastating to everybody.
Wow. I'm, like, "Wow."
Today is... It was a hard day.
[Ed] We took time out from practice
so we could go sit there
and go watch and support the middle school team.
And I think that probably took a lot of edge off of the kids,
just to see young kids playing just to have fun
and smile and laugh.
[Zaire] I remember my dad...
we didn't even say nothing. I just gave him a hug.
There wasn't really much to say.
So...
[unsettling music]
[newscaster] The loss of Kobe Bryant
is hitting the L.A. community, the NBA community,
the sports world,
and in fact people all over the world really, really hard.
[Shy Odom] It definitely hurt the team,
knowing that some of them had a personal relationship with him,
like Z-Wade and Bronny.
[applause]
[Shy Odom] I got to see people who are actually close to him,
and people that call him family,
you know, I saw how they were reacting to it.
[Zaire] I knew...
well, I didn't know Gigi as well, but...
...I knew Uncle Kobe a lot.
[commentator] LeBron James, at Sierra Canyon,
watches son Bronny James play against Campbell Hall.
First public appearance for James
since the death of Kobe Bryant.
[Zaire] Yeah, I remember Bronny,
he was obviously very sad about it, but...
just had my arm around him, and just telling him that
we're gonna get through this together.
I feel like everybody in the world misses Kobe, but...
you know, if you know him, it's just a little...
just a little different.
He was like an uncle to me.
You know, every time I saw him, he was just happy.
You know, he always gave me advice
on how to approach life, the game.
[chanting] Kobe! Kobe! Kobe!
[commentator] And they've set the shot clock to eight seconds,
the other number worn by all-time Laker great Kobe Bryant.
[buzzer sounds]
[high-pitched tone, no other audio]
[melancholy music]
[Coach Dre] I think it's important that we allow people to mourn.
So, you know, if there needed to be tears shed, or anger,
or whatever it is, we allow them to get that out.
But we also talk to them about,
"What would Kobe do in this situation?"
He would still go out and play the game.
[cheering]
He would still be focused,
and he would play at an elite level.
[cheering]
[transcendent music]
[commentator] In dark times, there's nothing like family.
You see LeBron surrounded by family, sharing embraces.
These moments that we're witnessing are very important
for families, especially when you're grieving.
It's sort of therapeutic at times. It's cathartic.
We just wanted them to go out and, you know,
use this experience in their life...
to get better.
Not just on the basketball court, but...
in every aspect of life.
Because, you know, this is a great example
of not knowing...
if tomorrow is going to show up for you.
[panting]
Oh, yeah.
- [shouts] - [both exclaim]
[laughter]
[Ed] To me, they're just, you know, some kids, man.
Some normal kids that just happen
to be great at what they do.
[laughter]
[Ed] I mean, they're teenagers.
So some days, you gotta be on them.
[indistinct conversation]
And you gotta tell them every day to do something...
and learning the system, and learning the process,
and learning just the environment.
- Yeah. -Yeah.
[Ed] And the film and the scouts and all of that stuff.
Every team gets to watch us.
They get to just turn on ESPN
or go on their ESPN app and watch us.
[commentator 1] You're watching high school basketball.
[commentator 2] Sierra Canyon, two-time defending
- California state champion... - [commentator 3] 17,000 people at...
[Sandy] Of any of the teams we've had
in our three-year stint that I've been here,
this is the team that watched the least amount of film.
You can't just be always in the gym.
That's not the only thing to be good at basketball.
There's so many other things that come with it,
and one of it is preparation.
Yep. So...
[edgy music]
[Sandy] We give them no excuses when it comes to preparation.
[Ziaire] That LuHi game...
we just weren't on the same page.
[indistinct clamoring]
[unsettling music]
LuHi knew what our weakness was. They exposed it.
[commentator] Look at Curbelo go! The runner!
- Bang! - [wild cheering]
[indistinct shouting]
Curbelo dribbles through the press.
Missed the block!
[cheering]
We were pressing them, like full court.
And this one kid, their point guard,
he broke it every time-- with ease.
[commentator] Curbelo!
And they're making everything right now.
[Coach Dre] Get back!
[all shouting]
[shouts indistinctly]
Not him. Him!
[upbeat hip-hop]
[cheering]
[Ziaire] The press would work sometimes,
but sometimes we'd get our butts whupped.
[cheering]
Go! All you guys gotta do is just sprint!
[arguing indistinctly]
All you have to do is just run!
Y'all just jogging.
Eleven's already tired.
- He is not! He's busting our ass. - He is tired!
- He's not moving! - [arguing indistinctly]
Listen! Listen, listen.
[commentator] And Sierra Canyon trailing at halftime.
Long Island Lutheran is game for this one.
As a team, we felt like it wasn't working.
So what we decided to do was, in the locker room at halftime,
was be vocal about it.
They weren't watching the film that they needed,
because they figured they would just show up and win.
So this team wasn't buying in
because they weren't doing their homework.
[upbeat hip-hop]
[commentator] Curbelo, waiting for Bailey to come to him.
Yeah, both screens a good situation too.
Wow! Curbelo from bonus distance.
[Coach Dre] We had a game plan
that we thought would have won the game.
They needed to understand that, and they didn't.
[commentator] Curbelo...
finishing it off with an exclamation point,
and Long Island Lutheran takes down Sierra Canyon.
And as a result, we took an L.
[subdued music]
[player] Yo, come on.
[Coach Dre] I'm gonna say this.
You guys are not good enough to do it yourself.
If y'all think y'all are, just challenge me...
and say you want to go out and play a game.
Well, I'll pick a game that you can go out and play,
and you don't run our stuff.
Right? This is supposed to be a team effort.
It's not supposed to be your team versus our team.
And it still is your team versus our team.
So you guys can decide what you want to do.
I don't know what y'all came here for,
but if you came here for the cameras,
if you came here for the celebrity life,
if you came here for the shoes,
if you came here for the uniforms,
you came to the wrong place.
You guys need to find a way to trust us
that we're trying to help you.
There's not one person on this side of the wall
that's trying to hurt you.
Everything that we're telling you is trying to help you
as an individual and help you as a team.
And you guys are fighting against us continually.
All right?
- Play hard. - Play hard, play together.
Family on three, be great on three. One, two, three.
- [all] Family. Be great. - One, two, three.
Walking in, putting on that Sierra Canyon jersey,
you better know that you have all the lights,
everyone's gonna be watching you,
everyone wants to see you make a mistake.
You're gonna have your supporters,
but you're also gonna have those people praying on your downfall.
[melancholy music]