The Luck of the Irish Page #3

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I saw him do it.

Come on.

Hey, Kyle!

Show 'em how you can

touch the rim.

Yeah, Come on, Kyle!

- Let's see.

- Yeah.

Show 'em how to do it, Kyle.

Get it, man.

Do it!

[ BOYS ]:
Aw! [ LAUGHING ]

Get a ladder, man,

you can't even get the net.

[ WHISTLE BLOWS ]

[ COACH ]:
All right,

let's line up, guys.

Tonight is the semifinal

of the State Tournament.

You win tonight, you make history.

The first time this school has ever

had a basketball team make it

to the Championship Game.

[ BOYS ]:
Yeah! All right!

[ COACH ]:
All right,

all right, listen up.

There's no running on game days.

To make sure

everybody stays sharp,

I want everyone to make 10

foul shots before you go home.

That's make 'em, not take 'em.

Russell, start us off.

[ EVERYONE ]:

Come on, Russ.

Let's go, Let's go.

Any day now.

Look, you're trying too hard, Russ.

Just relax. Let it drop.

[ EXHALES ]

End of the line, Kyle.

[ COACH ]:
Let's keep it

moving, keep it moving.

Right.

[ COACH CLAPS ]

[ COACH CLAPS ]

[ RUSSELL SIGHS ]

Ha! That's 10. Give me 5 more.

So, how many you have left?

You haven't made any yet?

Man, I've never seen you go

ice cold like this.

Yeah, That's because

I've never been ice cold.

Well, you want me to hang

till you make your shots?

[ SIGHS ]

Nah, man, It's cool.

I'll catch up with you at the game.

- Sure.

[ SIGHS ]

I think you need a little more arc

in that shot.

I just lost my temper for a second.

I don't want to perpetuate a stereotype,

but they say the Irish are

a little hotheaded.

How did you know I was Irish?

- Russell told me.

So, what are you gonna

do for Heritage Day?

I saw some Irish dancing

over the weekend.

Maybe I could do that.

You're gonna learn

to step dance

between now

and Heritage Day?

Didn't look that hard.

Well, everything's

easy for you, isn't it?

What's wrong with you?

What, are you mad

about something?

I've known you

for a long time, Kyle.

You're a nice guy

and all that,

but you'd be a better person

if everything hadn't

always been so easy for you.

Look at basketball.

- The last game?

You guys were outplayed,

but you won anyways

Because you got lucky!

The State Championship

isn't supposed to be

something you just luck into.

Look, just because you know everything

does not mean you know anything

about basketball.

Lucky shot.

That wasn't luck.

That was practice.

You know, hard work?

What do you mean, practice?

You don't even play basketball.

[ KYLE ]:
It was the perfect ending

for the worst day of my life.

Too bad it wasn't over yet.

[ WHISTLE BLOWS ]

[ CHEERING ]

Boo!

[ BOOING ]

Come on, get him out of the game!

Mmmh!

[ IRISH ACCENT ]

You can do it, boyo!

Come on, Kyle!

[ CHEERLEADERS CHANTING ]

Way to go, Drake!

No!

I'm open! I'm open!

Ohh!

Take him out, Coach!

Aw, man!

[ BOOING ]

[ KYLE ]:
It was

like I never played before.

It was awful!

I couldn't even

make a shot,

and half the time,

I missed the rim completely.

I just--

[ BOB ]:
Everyone has

an off night, Kyle.

I never did before.

The important

thing is your team won.

You're going to the finals!

Yeah, thanks to Drake!

He played a great game,

Especially after Coach took me out.

[ IRISH ACCENT ]

You don't need to be playing basketball.

You should be hurling!

Mom, Im not sick.

I just played lousy.

[ SIGHS ]

Are you sure

you're feeling all right?

I might drink a bit

of a warm bonnyclabber

before I go to bed.

[ ALARM CLOCK RINGING ]

[ RINGING STOPS ]

[ IRISH ACCENT ]

Do you smell something, Da?

I mean, Dad.

Smells like something's burning.

Ah, boys, there's nothing like a peat fire

to put the taste of Eire in your breakfast.

Ah-- [ COUGHS ]

[ COUGHING ]

[ COUGHS ]

My dad says if we don't win tonight,

he's gonna adopt the other team.

Hey, you look shorter.

I think maybe I'm having a growth-spurt.

No, I'm just, uhyou know,

packing on a little weight.

My mom's on this Irish kick.

We had spuds again--

I mean, potatoes.

Hey...

maybe that's why

they blocked so many of

my shots last night.

I wasn't getting

enough vertical jump.

You were moving OK...

like you always do.

So, you think everybody's

gonna be ticked at me 'cause

I played so lousy?

Look, they're not gonna

turn on you over one game.

Besides, we're still going to the Finals.

Yeah.

I can't believe he did that!

He's so pathetic. - Loser.

You loser!

[ GIRL ]:
Real nice.

Way to choke, Johnson!

[ BOY ]:
Hey, watch me

touch the rim!

Hey, looking good, girls.

Heh, heh.

Oh, look, there's Drake.

Hi, Drake! Great game!

- Drake, Hi!

- Good game, Drake.

- Hey Drake!

Well, he did play a great game.

Hey, Kyle. I Just wanted--

- I got to go to class.

Sorry.

[ BELL RINGS ]

Can anyone tell me what a magnet is?

Heh, heh. Holly!

A piece of iron that attracts

another piece of iron.

Good, but a magnet

doesn't just attract iron.

Man, one bad game,

and I feel like I'm nobody.

Kyle, since you feel like talking,

why don't you tell us

what 3 kinds of metal

are attracted by a magnet.

Ah, iron and, um...

Anyone?..

Russell!

Iron, cobalt, and nickel.

Very good. Iron, cobalt, and nickel.

Now, take your magnet,

and one of the metal objects

in front of you.

If that object is

attracted to the magnet,

then it must contain either iron,

cobalt, or nickel.

[ CLANK ]

I thought you said that was solid gold.

It is.

Magnets don't lie, man.

No, no, no, no....

This is different!

This isn't my lucky coin.

Look, I've got to

call my mom, all right?

I bet that coin was like

a family heirloom or something.

That's probably why she wanted

me to wear it.

No, that's probably why you had

such a bad game last night.

Man, somebody

must have stolen it

Ohh!

Oh, for the love of Mike!

Kyle! Kyle, I need to talk to you.

Look, I'm a little busy right now.

He lost his lucky charm thingy

- What?

It's a gold coin.

It's probably, like,

a hundred years old.

Ahh, Got it.

- That's just a quarter.

Does he look shorter to you?

Nah. He just bulked up.

There's something wrong

with this stupid phone.

Look, Kyle, I have to go.

I'm going on a field trip with

the Young Achievers,

And I just wanted to say,

I hope nothing I said yesterday

threw off your game.

You know,

about you being lazy.

- Lazy?

You never said I was lazy.

- I mean, all that other stuff

about everything being

too easy for you,

about not deserving to win

the State Championship.

Whoa, check out that hair!

Man, my dad

won't let me dye mine.

He's got this thing

about Dennis Rodman.

[ EXHALES ]

Tonight's the

State Championship, man.

If you cut school without an excuse,

the Coach might not let you play.

An excuse? OK.

First I find out I've been robbed,

now my hair is turning red!

Hey, I used to be taller than you.

[ IRISH ACCENT ]

Oh, saints preserve us!

I am gettin' shorter.

Mom, Dad, there's

something wrong with--

There's something your mother and I

need to tell you, son.

I am a leprechaun, Kyle.

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