Thunderstruck Page #6

All of Oklahoma City.

Everybody who loves the Thunder

and Kevin.

Every fan who cheer each win

and ache each lass.

Just like you did with your dad.

Make it

I'm gonna make it, make it

Make it out there

I'm gonna make it, make it

Make it out there

I know I'm gonna get

Get far away

I!

I!

I believe!

I believe!

I believe that!

I believe that!

I believe that we!

I believe that we!

I believe that we will!

I believe that we will!

I believe that we will win!

I believe that we will win!

I believe that we will win!

I believe that we will win!

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I think you've noticed some changes

around here, haven't you?

Like a winning basketball team?

Yeah!

Well, let me tell you.

Let me tell you something.

There's one thing that won't change.

And that's what Coach Dan and I

are wearing.

We are going to wear our game day suits

till we win the state championship.

Yeah!

All right. We are one game away.

One game!

That's right. One game.

One game away...

...ta the state playoffs for the first time--

First time!

Hey, let me have this.

I'm the coach, okay? Can I have this?

Yeah.

For the first time

since I scared nine paints...

...ripped three boards

against South Gate...

...32 years ago.

- That was a great game.

- Yeah. I wasn't barn yet.

Now, are you ready to meet our Eagles?

Yeah!

Are you ready?

Let's bring them cut.

- Connor O'Brien!

- Whoa!

Derek Nader!

Isabel, hey.

Hey, listen, I've been trying ta...

- You're not staying for the pep rally?

- I'm going to the library.

Well, I've been trying to call you.

Why'd you leave the party the other night?

- I didn't think you'd notice.

- I did.

Lack, maybe after basketball season,

we can hang but.

Why would you say that?

Brian, when I first met you-

And now for the star of our team

--you were--

- Brian Newall!

- Yeah!

Goad luck, Brian.

Oh, came an. Lack, before this,

you wouldn't even have noticed me.

- Basketball is the only reason you did.

- Brian Newall.

I noticed you the first day

when I walked dawn the hallway.

By your locker, talking to Mitch.

And it definitely wasn't

because of basketball.

Well, maybe we're not cheering

laud enough for Brian.

Brian Newall!

Brian! Brian! Brian!

Ga an. Your fans need you.

Brian! Brian! Brian!

Came an dawn, Brian.

Brian! Brian! Brian!

Brian!

Brian Newall!

What are you still doing here?

Coach, haw close was I

to making the team?

What, the first time?

Well, a lot closer than Pete Stickney.

Isn't he legally blind in one eye?

You see, I don't judge like that, Brian.

You see a disability,

I see a weak paint guard.

That's all.

Lack, Brian, I'm not one of those

touchy-feely kind of coaches, you know.

- I'm really uncomfortable with it--

- Yeah, I've noticed that.

You think Bobby Knight

would be in the hall of fame...

...if he tossed around compliments

instead of chairs?

- I don't even know who that is.

- Okay, I'm gonna forget you even said that.

Here's the paint.

It doesn't matter haw you gut here.

You gut here.

You know, my dad,

he thought I was a weak athlete.

He wanted to strengthen me up

a little bit.

Sc he did a code red an me.

Wake me up at 3 a.m. every day,

made me do extra laps.

- Your dad did that to you?

- Might have been a movie I saw.

Paint is, I still got that juco scholarship.

I'm just glad that whatever you did,

you did.

The whale school is.

- If I had your talent, bay--

- My talent.

What? What?

Nothing.

One more game,

we'll be in the state playoffs.

- Haw good does that sound?

- Tan good to be true.

Tan good to be true.

Hey, I'm proud of you.

Thanks, coach.

You did good. You did good for all of us.

And I'm glad of what

you brought to me tan.

- Yeah.

- Okay.

- We've had our talk?

- Yeah.

You're coal?

All right. Eat well, hydrate.

I'm counting an you.

Hey, it's me.

- Sc, what do we dc?

- You'll see.

Haw long has he been here?

Almost three hours.

And he isn't getting any better.

Came an.

Ya, KD!

Man, what's he doing here?

- I wanna give your talent back.

- You gut him believing this nonsense tan?

That's it. I told you

it wasn't helping in the first place.

After the season,

we gonna sit dawn to have a talk.

Show him.

- Show me what?

Watch this. Get out there and play.

Show him the counter 52.

Okay, okay. He got some skills. So what?

He's watching my YouTube videos.

He's right. But you see, when I used to try

to do those moves, I'd hurt myself.

Hurt myself a lat.

And messed up the garage.

All right. All right. Crossover.

You ain't going nowhere.

- Okay, maybe he's a prodigy.

- Na.

Na, nu.

Listen, show him the KD 35 live special.

Nobody can do that.

I can't do that anymore.

Watch.

Came an, man.

What you gut?

- Whoa.

- That kid's good.

- You convinced?

- Yeah.

Sn, what are we gonna do now?

Ah!

Okay.

Say what y'all said before.

I wish I had your talent.

Hard work beats talent

when talent fails to work hard.

I felt it. You felt--

You feel it? I felt it. It was here.

Let's take a shat. Came an.

Faster, faster. We need a spark.

Okay. Yeah. Rub--

Rub the feet. Rub the feet.

- New say it.

- I wish I had your talent.

Hard work beats talent

when talent fails to work hard.

Keep rubbing. Keep rubbing.

Keep rubbing.

Okay, new touch fingers.

- Felt that?

- Duh.

All right, let's try it. Came an.

Short.

Wishbone.

Let's make a wish.

- I wish I could give your talent back.

- I wish to get my talent back.

Alan, this is not working.

- It's not working.

- Well, just-

Trust me. Touch the ball...

-...and just say what you said before.

- I wish I had your talent.

Hard works beats talent

when talent fails to work hard.

- Whoa!

- Oh! Ah!

Now, that worked.

That worked. That had to work.

Take a shat. Take a shat. Watch this.

I like haw you did that. Give it back.

- Okay, okay. All right, all right.

- Give it back.

We tried.

I didn't do it an purpose.

I know, Brian.

I guess I gotta start all aver

as a basketball player.

A new KD.

It isn't gonna be easy.

Or in time for the season.

Yeah, yeah, yeah

--needing a win at home

in their final regular season game...

...just to make the playoffs.

Are you guys watching

the same thing I'm watching?

He can't buy a shat out there.

Judging by these warm-ups,

he's not gonna be any good to anyone.

Reggie, I hate to say this,

but this has gone an tan lung.

He's played so pearly

for the last month or so.

You sit him dawn.

Take him out of the lineup.

Pretty dramatic, to take a superstar

out of the lineup at this paint.

- Bench him completely?

- Yeah. Bench him.

Hey.

Look, I know I was a jerk

and really self-centered...

...but mast of all, I'm sorry.

- Ga an.

- I was kind of hoping that covered it all.

- You can do better.

- Maybe.

But you're not gonna believe it.

Try me.

- Could I came inside and show you?

- Sure.

Well, thank you.

Sc this basketball player--

Kevin Durant.

--His talent switched to you?

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