[Coach Dre] Let me say this.
Ultimately, our goal is to win the state title.
When you get into the Open Division playoffs
in Southern California,
anybody can beat you.
So we have to be prepared to go to war.
BJ! They can't guard you!
[Coach Dre] You know that everybody is coming for our heads.
Let's make sure that we're locked in and be ready to go.
[reporter] Reports of a mysterious virus causing pneumonia-like illnesses,
it's a novel coronavi--
[announcer] Playoff preview, guys.
Steve, we'll start off with the Open Division
with Sierra Canyon, number one team in the state for the most part.
-[music playing] -[indistinct chatter]
We all just trying to recover in our own different ways.
-Aquatic recovery. -Mm-hmm.
I've been trying tell all these East Coast dudes,
like, that CIF playoff thing is, like, it's no joke, man.
It's real competitive, and it's fun.
And I haven't... I haven't been able to be...
lead my team at my old school to success, so that's the only goal this year
is to win that championship, and it's gonna be hard,
but it's gonna be fun, and we...
like I said, as long as we stay together, then we can make it happen, for sure.
I-I can't wait for that.
And everyone's gonna be against us.
Everyone wants to see us lose.
[music playing]
[announcer] Amari Bailey.
[Amari] I'm always feeling that we gotta win,
'cause we have the talent.
If we lose, we're gonna be the scapegoat.
[commentator] Watch out.
Stop overthinking. Stop pressing.
You miss some shots, you missed it.
Stop thinking about that. Just play basketball.
I think sometimes players are able to unite around a cause
of being the best team in the country.
You know, but sometimes their rallying cry
has to be that they're proving the coach wrong,
and if that's what I have to endure to help them to be great,
and help them to get over a hump or around an obstacle,
I'm definitely okay with their rallying cry being,
"This fool don't, you know, he don't know us.
He don't know us. We gonna prove to him how good we are."
It's hard to gauge relationships with coaches,
because they're gonna be hard on you, they're gonna yell at you.
You know, they're gonna do stuff and say stuff that you might not like.
But at the end of the day, they all have the same goal for you.
[Ed] And that's the one thing I love about these, kids, man.
Once they calm down and compose themself,
you can just see it in their eyes.
We are built for this.
All the traveling that we've done, all the practice that we had,
all the scouts, everything leading up to this moment...
we're built for this.
[music playing]
[crowd cheering]
[all cheering]
[all chanting]
[all cheering]
[commentator] Incredible night from Ziaire Williams.
Here's a guy who had 17 offers.
He says he's narrowed it down to seven.
My mind's all over the place.
So just... when the time comes, I'll let everyone know.
Academics has always been number one for me.
My mom always said, "If you come home with a C,
you are not going on that court."
And she would mean that seriously.
Really good. You'll be all right.
Mama, see, this is CrossFit training.
Hey!
[Ziaire] You have to just strive to be the best in the classroom,
not just strive to be the best on the court.
I know it'll all pay off.
It's an honor, man, a blessing from the Man above.
It's crazy how fast time flies, you know. It's really a marathon.
It's just a true testament of how hard work pays off, for sure.
It's really a blessing
how I can top my high school career off with this game.
You know, just show people my talents.
Just keep getting better every day.
[Zaire] Oh. Question over here. Guys.
Ziaire Williams. BJ. Oh, wow. He's leaving-- Why are--
You know what? Forget you both!
Forget you both!
[all cheering]
Oh, they have plenty of time for social life. [laughs] Trust me.
[music playing]
[inaudible]
[Coach Dre] You know, they definitely enjoy,
you know, being at Sierra Canyon
and being in Southern California.
This is what happens when I return home from work.
Hey!
[laughs]
[Coach Dre] I'm sure they play games.
They hang out.
They kick it with their girls.
[laughs]
And that's all fine and dandy.
But this life is preparation for the next level.
There has to be a balance and your priorities have to be in order
if you want to be successful.
[reporter] Breaking news tonight, the NBA has players quarantined
in their locker room, testing will be done to all those for the Utah Jazz
and probably all those who have come in contact.
Nah, I can believe that.
[chatter]
Nah, he for sure pulling up. We in Malibu. Exactly, brah.
Bronny, Drake pulling up?
Ooh. Mr. Wade, Mr. Wade, Mr. Wade.
We're looking good, we're looking good, we're looking good, we're looking good.
All the other lines, those are not anything, right?
It's only the white, white line.
[Ed] They usually get off to good starts against other teams.
Today, not today.
All right, so make sure we punch them right in the mouth from the get-go.
... this school. Come on, man.
[cheering]
-Yeah, man. -Let's go!
[Ed] They are not the program we are.
-[Coach Dre] SC on three. One, two, three. -[players] SC!
[hip-hop song playing]
[crowd cheering]
[yelling]
They can't guard you, BJ. That's why they gotta foul you.
No clue, no clue.
Like, April. But I don't really wanna wait that long.
Like, honestly, I might just announce it sometime this month.
[commentator] ...individual talent just too much here.
In Sierra Canyon, they've wrapped up business here,
and now they set their sights on defending their state title.
Know what I'm saying? We're gonna bust it out.
Right over here, baby.
We gonna bust this. We gonna go this way, brothers.
I learned a lot from... from Terren.
He taught me how to deal with school and basketball at the same time this year.
...on the quiz, just as a review to help you guys out.
So let's see how you do.
Uh, we learned that Islam blended a lot of cultures, right?
[students] Yeah.
What is the physical evidence
we can look for, examples of that cultural blending?
Bronny?
Yes, the architecture.
So the examples of cultural blending can be found in architecture.
The reason why architecture would be, like, a stronger example
than their mathematical/scientific advances is that for example, like,
a lot of their mathematical ideas they got from, like, the ancient Greeks, right?
And that's all the help I'm giving you today.
So you have only a couple more minutes to study before I distribute...
[Eric] Well, Sierra Canyon hasn't lost a playoff game since 2018.
Etiwanda has the best defensive coach in Southern California, Dave Kleckner.
[man] Two minutes.
Two minutes to get dressed.
Two minutes. Two minutes.
[Bronny] Etiwanda, they play real hard, they play scrappy.
[Ziaire] Etiwanda has always been one of the best teams out here.
They're gonna give us a run for our money.
You got one more.
And they gonna have their run, just know that.
[Bronny] They're definitely gonna have their run.
Hey, no matter what y'all do today, it is gonna be with maximum effort,
toughness, and y'all gonna play hard.
No weak links. Everybody got each other's back.
[Eric] The question would always be, can they rise up as a team?
[man] Etiwanda has been one of the premiere teams
in the state of California in the last 20 years.
[Ziaire] Every time we've ever played them it's been a war.
People use that word lightly, but I mean,
people are gonna go home with scratches, scrapes.
[Coach Dre] Take care of the ball, be elite, win another championship.
[applause]
SC on three. One, two, three.
[all] SC.
[Ziaire] I'm always gonna respect them.
[fans shouting] Bronny! Bronny!
[chanting] We want Bronny!
[announcer] Welcome to the Southern California Open Division Final,
featuring the Sierra Canyon Trailblazers and the Etiwanda Eagles,
with the winner on to Sacramento to play in the state championship game.
[all chanting]
[commentator] Sierra Canyon's gonna come out with a lot of pressure.
Expect them to full-court press.
Yeah! Get it!
Z-Will!
[crowd cheering]
Harold, under the rim! Harold!
[commentator] An epic start, and Clark throws it down.
I think Etiwanda is making better decisions here.
Kick it back out, and Campbell with a three
to retake the lead.
This is starting to become a battle here.
Stevenson buries the three.
We all gotta be on the string defensively to get stops.
[commentator] Boston blew the lay-in.
[commentator 2] They are playing so much more disciplined
than Sierra Canyon on the offensive end of the floor.
[commentator] What a turnaround by Etiwanda.
Play through contact. Don't complain to the referees.
For the next 16 minutes, you guys gotta...
We can't be fighting and arguing.
No. Work together. Fight together. Win together. All right?
[player] You better go all out 'cause if not,
your heart will be broken quickly,
you know, it could all be over with.
[players screaming]
[commentator] Oh, a blocking foul called on Williams.
[commentator 2] Oh, he got a technical foul.
[commentator] Oh, my goodness.
[commentator 2] This is a complete meltdown right now by Sierra Canyon.
[all yelling]
We good, we Gucci! Come on, let's keep playing!
[yelling continues]
We gonna keep fighting. That's what we do. Let's go.
[commentator] And Pierce, too hard.
And Campbell got another second chance opportunity
and gets it to go down.
And they've got a 10-point lead.
[commentator 2] Sierra Canyon is in a world of trouble right now.
[Ziaire] I've never played that hard of defense in my life. Ever.
Ever.
[Amari] The last three minutes of the Etiwanda game
were very emotional for me.
I just knew in the back of my head that if we lost that game,
that was gonna stick with me forever.
Like, whoever got that game, like, it was definitely gonna be, like, posted.
Like, everyone was gonna see it and it wasn't gonna go away.
It wasn't just high school basketball.
[whistle blows]
[commentator] Amari Bailey going after the official.
[Amari] Emotions start to flood in, like...
There was like a wall in front of my face and, like, tears were shedding back.
Like, I, like, I didn't want this to be my last game
with, like, all my best friends, for real, for real.
Hey, we still got time. Keep our heads up.
We can't do it by ourselves. Together. Fourth quarter.
Come on, y'all, this whole season's for this game.
[commentator] First action for Tookey Wigington,
a sophomore, to be in to guard Stevenson.
He got a quick turnaround, a takeaway.
And that is going off of Etiwanda.
So Tookey comes in off the bench and then he goes right back to the bench.
How about that? What a great effort by Tookey.
That was the 14th turnover of the night for Etiwanda.
And right at the rim, a rebound by Williams.
He gets it in. They've run off six in a row.
All of a sudden, the 11-point lead down to 5.
Another takeaway, Boston.
[all cheering]
[commentator] Oh.
[commentator 2] Here we go.
[commentator] Eight points in the last 1:14
for the Sierra Canyon Trailblazers.
[Chris] I looked over at BJ, and BJ had that calm, cool look that he always has.
I looked at him and I just kinda like said, "You ready?"
He was like...
He didn't even say anything. He said...
[commentator] Tookey's back in there.
Here's Boston.
Boston to tie it up.
You betcha!
Oh, they've run off 11 in a row!
We are tied.
It is the best game going in the country tonight, Parker.
I see him take that shot all the time. Like, that's his shot.
I'm like, "Oh, that's in. He made it."
I was like, "Wow. We really came back."
Lock in, execute.
Everything right now has to be flawless.
It has to be flawless.
No team fouls. Be aggressive.
Let's go, let's go.
[commentator] This atmosphere is incredible.
[commentator 2] Oh, this is amazing.
So Bailey in to Williams, the McDonald's All American.
Seven seconds to go.
[clock ticking]
[Ziaire] I just had that extra last push, that last drive, you know.
Just nothing else to say, you know, so I might as well go all out.
[clock ticking]
[commentator] Williams fires it up.
He got it! Oh!
Sierra Canyon has won it at the buzzer!
[all cheering]
[commentator] The Trailblazers score the game's final 13 points.
They do it in 3:03.
[inspirational music plays]
[all cheering]
Yes, sir! You know we got it!
[cheering continues]
Let me say one thing, brothers. We're going to the championship!
[all cheering]
Congratulations. We don't know yet if we're gonna be able
to go to Sacramento for the game.
Um, they have issues up there, but we'll see.
I'll keep you guys posted.
We got one more game.
-One more. -Now let's go get state!
-You guys did it! -Yes, sir!
- Play hard! - [all] Play hard, play together.
Family on three, be great on three. One, two, three.
- [all] Family! Be great! - One, two, three.
[all cheering]
[roaring]
[reporter] Now the growing concerns about the deadly coronavirus.
[reporter 2] We turn to Dr. Anthony Fauci,
director of the National Institute of Allergy...
[cheering continues]
[reporter 3] Washington state man testing positive for the virus...
[reporter 4] ...without symptoms.
[reporter 5] Thousands of miles away from China's coronavirus...
[reporter 6] The pressure is growing to come up with answers...
[cheering]
[reporter 7] The source of infection is unknown...
[reporter 8] New alarm bells ringing tonight...
-[reporter 9] Here at home... -[reporter 10] ...remain optimistic.
[reporter 11] This story continues to evolve...
[reporter 12] More than 400 people have...
-[reporter 13] ...community spread... -[reporter 14] ...man in his thirties...
[reporter 15] As the number rises, more confirmed cases...
-[reporter 16] According to the CDC... -[reporter 17] The CDC says...
[reporter 17] The World Health Organization is holding
an emergency meeting right now.
One of the guys was like, "I don't know if we're gonna make the playoff game
'cause this COVID thing seems like a big deal."
And I remember distinctly telling him, like,
"This is gonna blow over in a couple weeks.
Nobody cares about this. We're going to Sacramento on Saturday.
Whether you're there or not, we're gonna be there."
And then that Thursday, we definitely got canceled
and never made it to Sacramento.
[man] And today the CIF announced it is canceling
the State Basketball Championships scheduled for this week in Sacramento.
I'm looking around, trying to figure out where the banner is gonna go,
'cause I'm going to say we're champs because to me, if you win your last game,
you're a champion.
For us, winning Southern California is a huge, huge deal.
And so we are going to move forward
as though we are champions.
[inspirational music plays]
This season for me personally, it was the best year of basketball in my life.
Played with some of the best players I can think of playing with.
All of that, like, molded Amari, for sure.
It was a very great experience, for real.
We all came together, like, a lot.
I'm just gonna take that to my sophomore year.
[hip hop music plays]
[Zaire] Like, if somebody say, "Oh, if you could change it, would you not do it?"
Obviously I would wanna play more, but I would still go to Sierra Canyon
because of the relationships that I built with everybody.
Looking back, I would say coming here was the most fun I ever had.
It's made me a better person. It matured me a lot.
This is what I wanna do. I wanna inspire people to live their dreams.
That ending to the season isn't quite what we wanted,
but I still think that it was a good ending.
[all cheering]
Um, what's next for me is, uh, preparing
to make another state championship run next year.
We're trying to win as many state championships as we can.
We're trying to be legendary.
[hip hop music plays]
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