Glory Road Page #5

- I think you can go some more.

You got energy for all kind of nonsense

instead of putting it in your team!

Instead of demonstrating some respect

and being a leader!

I ain't got no team!

We ain't going nowhere! You telling us

all the time how bad we are!

We know we ain't gonna win!

What do I got to respect?

My old man drove a truck

for the better half of his life.

Now, there ain't nothing wrong with that...

other than the fact he hated it.

That's the only way he knew

how to put food on the table

and give his kids a chance

to do something they loved.

I love this game. I love this game.

I never was the greatest player.

But I busted my butt.

and I outworked better players.

I ain't the smartest coach, but I bust

my butt and I outwork smarter coaches.

And when I see the talent you got

and I see you wasting it, ticks me off.

Now, if you couldn't get in the gym.

if you didn't have the opportunity.

there'd be nothing for us to talk about.

but, son. I've been there.

Times are different. You're in the gym.

And if you're in the gym, you step out on

that floor, you better respect my father, me.

and you better respect yourself

and play some basketball.

Midway through the first half.

Iowa playing well.

Of course, that's to be expected. They're

undefeated, number four in the country.

Iowa, always a contender in the Big Ten.

And there's a bucket for the Hawkeyes.

Coach Haskins is not happy.

It's an eight-point game right now.

Hey! Tighten up out there!

Stay on him! Stay on him!

Shed, box out! Shed!

- Count the bucket.

- Shed, would you box out?

That's it! We got 'em now.

Texas Western struggling to score

against this tough Hawkeyes' defense.

And there's a great block

just before the half.

I've seen a lot of rough halves in

basketball, but the Miners are struggling.

They'll go to the locker room

down by 16 points.

Say it. Hill.

Come on. Hill, say it.

We can't play like this!

They're better than us at your game.

You need to let us loose!

Just stick to the plan, Bobby Joe.

You want fundamental basketball, right?

Iowa is just flat outplaying Texas

Western. It's been a difficult game so far.

Ain't our night. Coach.

Hey. Hill. Time-out.

Time, time, time!

Time-out, white.

Coach...

if you let us play our game.

All right. Hill, you play your game.

And you play my game.

- You ready to play?

- Yeah, let's do it.

And the Miners have a couple of baskets

back to back.

Still, though, a huge deficit.

Orsten Artis with a steal. Bounce pass to

Bobby Joe Hill. He drives it in for two!

Well, the Miners have really turned it up

a notch defensively.

Now it looks like Iowa is the team

that's struggling.

This full-court pressure by the Miners

has the Hawkeyes rattled.

Go to the basket! Go!

- Whoo!

- Whoo!

Whoo! Whoo!

The comeback is on. 59-48.

Iowa still with the lead.

Come on, son.

Bring us home.

Defense! Defense!

There it is.

Yeah!

Down 16 at the half. Texas Western

has clawed their way back into this game!

Miners trail by one with 15 seconds left

in the game. They have a shot to win this.

Hill! Hill! Nine, nine!

Spread their D! Their D!

Hill goes down the middle.

Looks right, nothing there.

Looks left.

He's gonna try it himself!

He is swarmed by Hawkeyes.

splits the defense, puts it up!

And it's good! Miners win!

Miners win! I'm seeing it with

my own eyes and I still don't believe it!

The Miners take down

perennial powerhouse Iowa.

number four in the nation and the first

top-ranked team we have faced all year!

These Miners are for real!

You were playing tonight.

not acting like a chump.

I'm never a chump.

I was always a player.

My man.

Douse the fire and call in the dogs!

Whoever heard of Texas Western?

Well, the Hawkeyes have.

- Y'all going to church?

- Shh!

Shut up.

Why we got these honkies with us?

Yeah, what are you honkies doing here?

Hey, man.

We got more in the car behind us too.

- What are you doin' up front?

- Calm down.

Hey! Don't...

Ooh-ee!

Big Daddy's home, baby.

Hi.

Baudoin! Man, you something else!

I didn't think a white boy would eat chitlins!

Pig intestines.

- What's your friend's name?

- Uh...

- That's Big Daddy.

- Hm.

I'm-I'm Little Daddy.

So I was wondering... Do you guys wanna

be called colored or black?

- Do we look like a load of laundry to you?

- Jerry, look.

Jerry, we black. OK?

- Black?

- Yes. We black.

- I thought you were called the other one.

- No, man. Black is bad, man. Bad.

That's what I mean, black is bad.

- Can I preach to him?

- Preach on.

- No. Mayberry Jerry. "Bad" means good.

- OK, now.

- No, no, no. "Bad" means bad. I know that.

- No, no. Listen.

With Ellie Mae. Uncle Jed and Granny

out on the farm. "bad" might be bad.

- Well...

- But with us. "bad" is good. You dig?

- Say it, rev.

- Come on.

- OK. "bad" is good.

- Talk to me, baby! You're with me now.

OK.

So then what does "good" mean?

- Is that Billy Joe Royal?

- Yeah.

His white ass wouldn't know the poor side

of town if I dropped him off in it.

Ah!

- What you got?

- Wait, wait. Check this out.

Y'all know this song?

Aw, man! Turn that down!

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.

Now we're gettin' our groove on, baby.

Hey, hey.

You cats need to get with this.

- New Orleans!

- New Orleans!

Whoo!

For 12 years.

I've been a good friend to this school.

I support basketball, football.

put up the money for the stadium.

Always had Texas Western in my heart.

We could never have done any of it

without you.

But I got a little problem with Haskins

and all the colored boys he's playing.

Now, he doesn't need 'em to win, does he?

Well, we're undefeated.

Whoo, man.

- It's blazin' out there.

- I'm starving.

Hey, man. I gotta hit the john.

Order me some huevos rancheros.

Man, will you save that for El Paso?

I'm ordering us some pancakes.

Whatever you get, get me something

with salsa on it. OK?

- I already know what I'm gonna order.

- Hey, y'all, pass the menus.

Hey. Great game last night.

Never seen anybody play like that.

Oh, good morning.

I need eggs. I need some sausage.

Sausage.

Unh!

- It must be a New York thing.

- That's cool.

Unh!

Are you guys ordering pancakes?

Don't get your black stink on me, boy.

- Hold on!

- Give it a good scrub, huh?

Have a merry Christmas, though.

And have a good day. All right?

Hey, man, you see them eggs up there?

Man, them a little plastic.

- I don't know, man.

- Man, you can't see it.

Shed!

Shed, what happened?

Something's wrong.

What happened, son?

Shed, what happened?

- Help me out here.

- What's going on? You all right?

- Help him.

- Who did this?

Anybody see 'em?

Son, get on this bus. Let's go.

Look at me. Look at me. Get on the bus.

- Baudoin.

- Who did this?

- We ain't going nowhere!

- Get on the bus! Everyone get on there!

- That everyone?

- Move.

- I could kill a honky tonight.

- Ain't nobody killing nobody.

I'm gonna start carrying a knife.

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