Jun 28 2010
Streaming Glory Road Online
Five MOMENTOUS Stars!! A Mammoth Movie!! “Glory Road” tells the good fable, with grand dramatic license along the blueprint, of one of sport’s greatest moments. A moment that changed the face and color of college basketball and rippled across all sports. It’s the tale of a small known college basketball coach, Don Haskins, and how he came to be the coach of petite known Texas Western College in El Paso, Texas. It’s also the sage of the unlit players who would be recruited from all around the USA to eventually wind up playing in one of the greatest moments in college basketball: David “Daddy D” Lattin, Nevil Shed, Willie Cager, Orsten Artis, “Wee” Willie Worsley, Harry Flournoy, and of course the slack floor general, Bobby Joe Hill. And the other team members played their notable roles also: Jerry Armstrong, Louis Baudoin, Dick Meyers, Togo Railey and David Palacio. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer does a extraordinary job of bringing succor the singular moment of the all-white Kentucky team under Adolph Rupp (Jon Voigt is a hoot in this role) and Haskin’s all-black starting five meeting in the NCAA basketball national championship final game spotlight during some tough racial times for the USA. In fact, Haskins had played this combination of players many times before during the season to cramped local fanfare, so it was no sizable deal to him. He unbiased wanted to bag. Josh Lucas is stout as Don “The Contain” Haskins in this advantageous James Gartner-directed movie. It’s said that Lucas, in preparing for this role, was driven out into the desert by Haskins in his truck and they unprejudiced sat and talked (and drank) for many hours discussing how Haskins did it and the draw he did it. (This has turned into quite a edifying friendship since then.) The movie pre-screenings, with all of the living modern players on hand, in El Paso are greatly appreciated by all of us who lived through those improbable times and are detached here.
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In light of today’s social freedoms, the movie does a astronomical job of depicting the tough racial times of the 1960’s and the events that assign Haskins, the team, and TWC on the athletic design forever. Not to mention the ample pot of money that TWC got from participating in the tournament. Shortly after these events, the University of Texas education system made TWC a fat partner by the redesignation of the “University of Texas-El Paso” and a boatload of construction/faculty money flowed from Austin to El Paso. I was there and it was a vast moment to be remembered. A stout must-see movie not fair for the sports but also for the social impact of those times. Hats off again to Jerry Bruckheimer for personally carrying the banner on the national-level TV and radio shows promoting this movie. Five “Slam-Dunking” Stars.
(Notes:
*”Glory Road” won the “ESPY” Award as the Best Sports Movie of 2006.
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*The Texas Western College NCAA Championship team was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2007.)
“Glory Road” tells the sage of the Texas Western Miners, a college basketball team who won the NCAA Championship in 1966. But this wasn’t unprejudiced an ordinary championship, no, for the starting line-up in the championship game was all Sunless players, a thing that was unheard of in ‘66. Or better yet, even a dismal player being recruited by a college team was out of the ordinary. However, the 36 year extinct coach Don Haskins recruited seven Sad players for his Texas Western team (when the season begins, he starts three of those players) . The team was barely even understanding of in the college world before then, then with the back of the seven dim players, they went on to rep the championship.
The movie opens with a girls basketball game, and you leer that Don Haskins coaches girl’s basketball. Later on, he is asked to coach Division 1 basketball, for the Texas Western team (with one drawback; he would have to live in the dorm room with his wife and kids) . Then, he sets out to recruit players that would benefit the team come by. When he recruits all Murky players, it’s positive that most people (even the Shadowy players themselves) belief Haskins was crazy. Among the players he recruited were Bobby Jo Hill (played exceptionally by Derek Luke), Willie Cager, David Lattin, and Harry Flournoy. His practices for the team were intense and his rules were strict. This would all pay off in the waste though, with the Miners winning the championship over Adolf Rupp’s Kentucky Wildcats (with Pat Riley, who is a character in the movie, it’s irregular to hear his name called while he’s playing, quick-witted he’s a game-winning coach with plenty of rings) .
The movie does depict the racism at the time as well. It wasn’t an easy promenade for the coach or the Gloomy players on the team. In the first game, the fans clapped for the two starting white players, but the whole arena was serene when the Shadowy players were announced. The team had racial slurs written in their hotel room during their game. One player was even beat up in a bathroom. Haskins was harassed as well. The racism almost tore the team apart, but with the coach’s abet they stayed together and changed the course of basketball.
All around, the acting was vast. Josh Lucas did a spacious job as Coach Haskins, completely becoming his character. Derek Luke did immense as Bobby Jo Hill. Jon Voight played Kentucky coach Adolf Rupp, but you wouldn’t really know unless you read the credits. Nonetheless he did a immense job. Mehcad Brooks, Sam Jones III, Schin A.S. Kerr and Damaine Radcliff (who played Flournoy, Worsley, Lattin, and Cager, respectively) all did proper in their roles. The actors practically become the players. The cast couldn’t have been better.
Overall, Disney has released another satisfactory movie about sports underdogs winning it all (I enjoyed Remember The Titans as well) . If you like that movie, there’s no device you’ll loathe this. It is a well-cast, well-directed movie that will satisfy any basketball fan, and will support everyone watching. It’s been said that it follows the cliches of all other similar movies, but don’t we always examine them anyway?
The film triumphantly shows how one coach changed the game (and face) of basketball completely. One quote from the film is “You’re acting like negroes are gonna be the future of basketball!” and I couldn’t aid but laugh when that line was said. The importance and significance of that season and the tribulations of the team is wonderfully shown. Don’t pass this up.
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