Amateur

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[upbeat music playing]

[woman] Come this way, Terron.

[man] Come on, T. Quick, quick.

[boy 1] Oh!

[laughs]

- [crowd cheering]

- [boy 1] Let's go, T.

Splash!

Whoo!

[girl 1] Give it back.

You're gonna drop it.

Why are you watching my video anyway?

Watch this.

Oh, yeah, layup.

Right? Stoned.

- [girl 2] Is that game?

- No. Ten to two.

- One more and we beat them.

- Come on. I wanna keep playing.

[boy 1] Win already.

All right, whatever.

Let me see that back.

Whoop. [chuckles]

[girl 1] Come on, Terron.

End the game, already. Oh, my God.

[school bell ringing]

[Terron] Oh, come on.

Damn.

[Doug] So, picking up from last class,

we're still dealing with probabilities.

But today we're gonna apply them

to your lives.

The chances of doing something.

The odds, the likelihood.

Who's got something?

- Anyone?

- [boy 1] What draft pick

- will Terron be in the NBA?

- [Doug] That's a good one.

Let's look it up.

We can do that as probabilities

and express them as percentages.

Odds of getting into the NBA.

We have 500,000 high school players.

A hundred and fifty thousand are seniors.

We have 18,000 college players.

Four thousand of whom are on scholarship.

Sixty NBA draft picks.

Thirty in the first round.

Fourteen lottery picks.

[Terron] See how I stepped back?

I was like...

[boy 1] Looks like a reverse layup

on Marcus. Man.

[Terron] And one.

- All right, bro.

- I'm heading out. See you.

[Terron] All right, bro. See you.

[sighs]

Yo, Pops. Where you at?

Ma, you're probably teaching

right now, but I'm at school.

Dad still hasn't come get me yet.

My phone is about to die, so...

you guys hurry up.

[horn honks]

Baby.

What, are you gonna walk the whole way?

- [Terron] What else was I supposed to do?

- [sighs]

I'm sorry. We tried to call you,

but we couldn't reach you.

Yeah, my phone died.

- Did his phone die, too?

- Well, he couldn't find it.

Today is not one of his good days.

I've gotta get my pills. Hold up.

Oh, Vince. I gotta get to class.

[sighs] They're gonna be done

with their tests by now.

Speaking of tests...

They ain't posted them yet.

It went that badly, huh?

How do you expect me to be great if you

kick me off the team for one bad grade?

Why can't you just let me

give it all I got?

Wait.

When I'm done teaching, why am I

dropping the car off at your dad's work?

So he can drive it back when he

finishes his shift. His double-shift.

And why does he have to do that?

I don't know. Because he got

hit in the head too many times?

- Stop. I'm serious. Why?

- I'm serious, too. It's the truth.

He's doing it because he

"gave it all he got."

I'm not gonna end up like him.

I don't even play the same sport he does.

Did.

- "Riverside" on three. One, two, three.

- [all] Riverside.

[crowd cheering]

T, let's go.

Y'all get some popcorn.

There's about to be a show up in here.

You have to put somebody else

on him, coach.

Dude's in, like, the 9th grade, man.

Come on. Let's go. Get up.

Come on. Go, go, go. Keep going. Hit him.

Eighth grade.

- Let's go.

- Here. Right here. Force him left.

Force him left.

Lock him down.

Finish the game strong.

Make the right play. Let's go.

Let's go, boy. Let's go.

Come on. Hold it for the last shot.

Hold it for the last shot.

Okay, T. You got 12, 11, ten, nine...

Hold it. Hold it.

Now, go. Five. Four...

Finish that sh*t yourself.

Take the f***ing shot. Goddamn it.

- [Doug] You made the right play, Terron.

- Thanks, coach.

Forget about the L, baby.

Look at this. We bigtime.

Fifty thousand views, huh?

Give it up.

Go shake them up.

Hey, good game.

Good game, guys. Good game.

Good game, guys. Good game.

There it is. All right.

You a point guard.

But you ain't always gonna be up top.

You ended up on big dog, earlier.

What was that move you came with?

Did I feel something?

Wait. Wait, wait, wait.

Did somebody leave a window open?

I think I felt a breeze. Oh, no.

That was my son trying to bring

that weak-ass stuff. Come on, baby.

Can't try to breeze through the lane.

I need you to be a hurricane. Get low.

[grunts]

That's what I'm talking about, boy. Mm.

Yo, you good?

Yeah. Yeah, I'm good. You know me.

[grunts]

I'm gonna get that weak sh*t out of here.

Better stop that mess.

[Vince chuckles]

I like what I see out there, T.

You got that rock on a string, baby.

This is Byron.

He's been scouting us from, uh...

- Um...

- Liberty Union Prep.

- There it is.

- Program on the come-up.

Yo, let's get moving.

You've seen enough?

- Let's chop it up.

- Get showered up, son.

[boy 1] That was crazy.

That was a great game.

[boy 2] That was crazy. He got right in

the coach's face, that was crazy.

[Vince] This ain't about you,

this is about Riverside.

There are other options for him.

[Nia] What, private?

[Vince] He won't be as good at anything

as he could be at this game.

[Nia] He is too smart for you to say

what he could and couldn't be.

[Doug on phone]

We have 500,000 high school players.

A hundred and fifty thousand are seniors.

We have 18,000 college players.

Four thousand of whom are on scholarship.

Sixty NBA draft picks.

Hey. Having fun?

[Doug] Thirty in the first round.

We have 500,000 high school players.

[Nia] Oh, you recorded your class.

Wow, look at you.

That's good, Terron. That's clever.

[Doug] 150,000 are seniors.

[Nia] Are the math rods helping you

comprehend the numbers?

- Still ain't making no sense.

- "Isn't" making "any" sense?

- [sighs]

- Come on.

You can do this. You got it.

[Vince]

I ain't talking about walk-around money.

It's gonna cost

to get his ass back and forth.

Yeah. Get back to me with something.

All right.

- Who was that?

- Do you like playing on a losing team?

No.

That ain't gonna be a problem

no more. Your pops is on it.

You just gotta keep putting in work,

all right?

- All right.

- All right. Let's go.

Here we go

On a roll

I be movin'

Puttin' rubber to the road

I'm so fast

You too slow

Time's right

Got me aimin' for the gold

-So I take off

- Take off

-Take off

- Take off

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-Take off

-Take off

- Take off

-Take off

- Take off

-Take off

- Take off

[Terron] Skunk.

Here we go

On a roll

I be movin'

Put the rubber on the road

You look taller in the videos.

Who are you?

Coach Gaines. Liberty Prep.

Your dad said I might find you here.

Your team is 0 and 6 this season, huh?

That must be frustrating,

as good as you are.

Yeah, it sucks. We're trash.

If you were at Liberty,

you'd be 10 and 1.

Play twice as many games

with better teammates, better facilities.

You'd get to travel around the country.

You ever been to California?

I never been out the state.

What?

I would have to leave my mom,

my pops, my friends. Everything.

I wanna show you something.

You recognize him?

Yeah, he's nice.

You used to coach him or something?

Yeah. In fact,

I met him on a court just like this one.

He didn't wanna leave home.

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