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Five MOMENTOUS Stars!! A Substantial Movie!! “Glory Road” tells the honest fable, with mighty dramatic license along the plan, 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 account of a exiguous known college basketball coach, Don Haskins, and how he came to be the coach of puny known Texas Western College in El Paso, Texas. It’s also the epic of the dismal 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 slow floor general, Bobby Joe Hill. And the other team members played their principal roles also: Jerry Armstrong, Louis Baudoin, Dick Meyers, Togo Railey and David Palacio. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer does a extraordinary job of bringing support 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 exiguous local fanfare, so it was no stout deal to him. He objective wanted to rep. Josh Lucas is broad as Don “The Own” Haskins in this helpful 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 fair sat and talked (and drank) for many hours discussing how Haskins did it and the device he did it. (This has turned into quite a satisfactory friendship since then.) The movie pre-screenings, with all of the living fresh players on hand, in El Paso are greatly appreciated by all of us who lived through those extraordinary times and are detached here.
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In light of today’s social freedoms, the movie does a sizable job of depicting the tough racial times of the 1960’s and the events that keep Haskins, the team, and TWC on the athletic way forever. Not to mention the immense pot of money that TWC got from participating in the tournament. Shortly after these events, the University of Texas education system made TWC a chubby 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 sizable moment to be remembered. A ample must-see movie not impartial 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 account 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 Dusky players, a thing that was unheard of in ‘66. Or better yet, even a dim player being recruited by a college team was out of the ordinary. However, the 36 year stale coach Don Haskins recruited seven Shadowy players for his Texas Western team (when the season begins, he starts three of those players) . The team was barely even opinion of in the college world before then, then with the back of the seven shaded players, they went on to rep the championship.
The movie opens with a girls basketball game, and you glimpse 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 befriend the team derive. When he recruits all Dismal players, it’s certain that most people (even the Shaded players themselves) idea 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 extinguish 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 strange to hear his name called while he’s playing, brilliant 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 chase 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 tranquil when the Dusky 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 wait on they stayed together and changed the course of basketball.
All around, the acting was expansive. Josh Lucas did a huge job as Coach Haskins, completely becoming his character. Derek Luke did broad 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 spacious job. Mehcad Brooks, Sam Jones III, Schin A.S. Kerr and Damaine Radcliff (who played Flournoy, Worsley, Lattin, and Cager, respectively) all did trustworthy in their roles. The actors practically become the players. The cast couldn’t have been better.
Overall, Disney has released another gracious movie about sports underdogs winning it all (I enjoyed Remember The Titans as well) . If you like that movie, there’s no draw you’ll despise this. It is a well-cast, well-directed movie that will satisfy any basketball fan, and will hold everyone watching. It’s been said that it follows the cliches of all other similar movies, but don’t we always look 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 abet 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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