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[ Floor squeaking ] >> Forget ball.

Forget ball right now.

You're not talking about basketball.

You're talking about the game of life.

Talking about the game of life.

I think y'all think that this is a game out here, man.

It's not okay.

They're going to kill y'all.

They're going to kill y'all, man.

This ain't no...game, man.

...the ball.

This is the game of life, man, y'all playing now.

Now, mind you, six...guys shot.

They only talk about one on the news.

** **

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>> [ Laughs ] What's up, boy?

>> What's up?

>> What's going on with you?

How you doing, man?

>> I'm good.

>> You all right?

>> Oh, yeah.

>> Hey.

What's going on?

Yeah, I'm gonna take...for a minute.

Yeah.

Okay.

This is rough around here, man.

But they always -- There's always a respect for me, though,

but it's -- [ Gunshot ]

[ Laughs ] That's a gunshot.

You know what I mean?

Before I was a coach, I had a whole different life.

I had this whole area.

I was in control of all of this.

Those were really my guys.

About right there, where that guy was, where the stop sign at,

this dude start shooting.

He shot one of my friends.

He got paralyzed.

He shot me in my side with a 9-millimeter.

I drove myself to the hospital.

Changed my life and let God take over.

>> What's up, baby?

>> I never had a father.

You know, having no parent or just having one parent is tough.

Forty boys on my team don't have fathers.

Forty guys depend on me every day.

** [ School bell rings ]

[ Indistinct conversations ] >> [ Laughs ]

>> Who you honor?

>> Tyquone.

>> Girl, I helped you -- >> You fixed my nose!

>> You had a Michael Jackson nose.

I helped you turn your Michael Jackson nose to

a...Willy William nose.

[ Indistinct conversations ] >> My goal and aspirations is to

making it out of Chicago, making it out of the West out of

Chicago.

I want to get a chance to experience the world.

I really want to go to college because I know it's my only way

out.

The city of Chicago is one of the most segregated city not

only in race but in gang-wise, too.

It's like a swamp.

Once you get your feet stuck in the quicksand, it's hard to get

out.

>> Left, right, left, right, cross.

Left, right, left, right, cross.

Okay, come on.

It's okay.

>> All you do is dance around.

Think about it.

Once you go one dribble pull-up, two dribble pull-up...

Turn and shoot.

You can shoot, Tyquone.

Arches up here.

Just turn and shoot.

>> Orr is not a big-time academic school.

We know colleges look for student-athletes.

They are skeptical about coming to recruit us.

We have to not only win, but we have to show that we have good

character while winning.

I don't want to be the one to get stuck in the quicksand.

>> Tyquone Greer has the size.

He's got that athletic ability.

He's one of those kids we're really waiting to see if he

becomes that elite player that he could be.

>> He's one of the top-rated players in the state.

>> I think Tyquone Greer, if he ever puts it all together, will

be in the league somewhere.

>> * Tyquone * Hey, hey, Tyquone

* Hey, hey, Tyquone * Hey, hey, Tyquone

* Hey, hey, Tyquone

>> This is a pre-paid collect call from an inmate at the Cook

County Department of Corrections in Chicago, Illinois.

You may start the conversation now.

>> Hello.

>> What up?

How you been in there, man?

Yeah, we been praying for you out here, though, shawty.

I ain't gonna lie.

When you get out, you're gonna have to get on top of your

stuff.

Yeah, yeah, I've been living in the gym, shawty.

>> This is a collect call from an inmate at the Cook County

Department of Corrections in Chicago, Illinois.

>> We'll wait, shawty.

I love you, too, shawty.

Keep your head up in there.

>> Marquise was walking a friend home.

The train station just so happened to be in a rival gang's

territory, so Marquise decided to walk him to the train

station, but with a gun.

** >> Well, tonight it's Orr and

North Chicago.

A trip downstate is at stake here tonight, and, Kenny, we

talk about this Orr team.

They are out their star player, Marquise Pryor, who was arrested

before the season, but that just means Tyquone Greer is gonna

have to step up.

>> Greer has done a great job.

Coach Adams once again doing a tremendous job with his

basketball team.

They want to get downstate to the Final Four for the first

time in the school's history.

>> We talk about this Orr team, of course.

We talk about Tyquone Greer.

But there are a couple other players -- Marlon Jones and

Louis Adams Jr.

>> He's a 6'3" guard.

He thinks like a coach, and he should because his dad is the

head coach of the basketball team, Mark.

>> You hear what I'm saying?

We need this game.

>> Hey, you, what do you have to say?!

>> Hey, you, what do you have to say?!

>> Tyquone Greer has it here to the near side and now makes the

move to the hoop and has it stripped, and it goes out of

bounds.

On the offensive end, here's North Chicago.

Fake the 3.

Step in and miss the shot.

>> They jumping that screen, Coach.

>> Another drive left baseline by Greer, and he loses it.

[ Buzzer ]

>> It's going to come to you, man.

Don't rush it.

Easy.

It's gonna come.

Pull it up.

If Tyquone get it, you cut it.

Cut to the bucket.

[ Whistle blows ] >> Yeah!

** **

** [ Buzzer ]

>> Greer and the Spartans will head downstate for the first

time in the school's history.

>> Good stuff, man.

Who would ever, ever, ever, ever thought Orr would be going

downstate, man?

You guys, man, are truly and simply amazing, man.

I mean, all the hard work we've been doing since September.

We've been through a lot.

And you finally made it, man.

You guys are unbelievable.

>> Hey, family, family, family.

"Family" on 3.

1, 2, 3...

>> Family!

[ Indistinct shouting ] >> How you doing?

[ Indistinct conversation ] **

[ Indistinct conversation ] **

** >> Let's go, man.

Let's go.

Take five, take five.

You can't party, man.

You're in high school and expect to win, man.

Y'all 16.

How the...do I want to be like TQ16?

No...want to be like Manu the king.

Nobody.

I ain't heard y'all say his speech not one time.

Be your own man.

>> What's the word?

[ Gunshot ] Man.

But, yeah, that's where we used to be at, every day.

Coco got killed on the curb, and Cornell died in the back, but he

got shot and he collapsed in the back.

>> Just based where you from, you obligated to be a part of a

gang.

It's just that segregated.

Like, you can't come over to this side of the neighborhood

because you're not CCG.

>> Tyquone -- I tell him all the time, "You really don't know

what you're doing out here.

This will suck you up."

This will suck any of those kids that we got, man.

** >> Oh, my God.

>> [ Laughs ] First of all...

[ Clears throat ] You know how old I was when I

met your daddy, right?

You don't know that story?

>> Mnh-mnh.

>> Seven years old.

>> Yeah?

>> Mm-hmm.

>> You know you like my best friend.

I can talk to you, but it's the serious stuff I can't really

talk to you about 'cause you haven't experienced it.

>> Why?

'Cause I don't have the parts?

>> No.

I know you haven't experienced it.

>> How do you know what I experienced?

>> I mean, I am your son.

We have talked about a lot of stuff.

>> I know we've talked a lot of stuff.

>> You know a lot of stuff.

You're a very bright young lady.

>> [ Laughs ] Don't do me.

[ Laughs ] But I'm saying -- That's what

I'm saying, like, you know, I understand that.

I do.

And I know you don't have that role in your life, but I don't

want my kids feeling like they can't talk to me or, you know,

they want to be sneaky and do stuff behind my back, and then

when they get in trouble, then that's when they want to come

talk to me.

No.

You talk to me before you do it, and we're gonna work this out

together, you know.

>> I know what I'm gonna get from you, but I don't have no

male, like, you know what I'm saying?

>> Mm-hmm.

[ Telephone rings ] >> So, tell me what's been going

on with the heart.

>> Been pretty good.

After my stint, you know, sometimes, um, if, like, it's

fluttered a little bit, but nothing serious.

>> Okay.

How is your stress level these days?

>> Um...

So-so.

>> Do you ever feel any chest pressure or chest tightness?

>> No, no.

>> Okay.

Do you ever feel any jaw or throat tightness?

>> No.

>> These are what we call angina symptoms.

So I want you to watch for those and always alert me if those

occur because the most important thing going forward is keeping

your stress levels down.

All right.

[ Door open, closes ] **

** **

[ Indistinct chanting ] >> Close the gate!

>> Hey.

[ Indistinct conversations ] >> Open the gate!

Let him out!

Open that gate!

[ Indistinct chanting ] [ Chanting continues ]

[ Indistinct conversations ] [ Crowd cheers ]

>> He's out!

He's out!

He's out!

[ Crowd cheers ] He's out!

[ Crowd cheers ] He's out!

>> I'm back, man.

>> You good?

>> Yeah, I'm good.

I'm good.

>> Ready to work?

>> Yeah, I'm ready.

I'm out of here, big dawg.

I'm free, man.

[ Indistinct conversations ]

>> I realize, like, just how grateful I was to just be alive.

That's a blessing just to wake up every day.

I think...

>> Everybody's got a different path that they got to take.

It's your path in life.

Everybody's path not to graduate with straight A's.

But your path is gonna make you stronger.

>> Right.

>> So you got to take it as a chance --

>> It's probably what I needed, though, you know?

>> You're right.

>> I think it was what I needed, though.

>> That's real life...man.

That's real life.

It ain't worth it, man.

** >> Now we can prove it.

>> But I'm doing it in -- >> You go first.

Go ahead.

Go first.

>> Look.

>> Yeah, I see right now.

Look at that.

>> Ah!

But I have on boots and I'm doing it like that.

>> And I'm taller.

You older than me by how many days?

>> Couple days, about a couple weeks.

>> Yeah, my birthday on March 3rd and his on -- No,

yours on the 3rd.

Mine's on the 29th.

His on the 3rd.

>> You don't know your own birthday.

>> Marquise Pryor came to Orr with me as a freshman.

I had him in eighth grade.

So I mentored him.

I monitored him.

I fathered him.

I have to stay in his life for him to go on to be successful in

life.

But you make mistakes in life.

You got to pay for it.

** >> He pretty much was the heart

and soul of our team.

After he was arrested, he lost all his scholarships, and the

only way for him to get those scholarships back is if we win

and he show that he's on a straight path now.

Now that he's back, we're gonna be unstoppable.

>> Wanted to say, like, this is my first day back and all.

I know y'all been doing good, but, like, got to be 100%

dedicated, bro, or we're gonna fall, bro.

>> It's so good.

It's so good he said that.

It shouldn't have to take him to lock you up.

Yeah, but it be like that.

That's cool.

But you know where you got to go.

But listen.

All that...behind us.

We got to move forward.

See, we can write our own story right now.

No plan, no talking.

Let's just give it our all, man, and see what happen.

Let's go.

>> Family, family.

1, 2, 3...

>> Family!

>> And we welcome you to Peoria and the Final Four, and, Kenny,

for these Orr Spartans, its very first trip downstate.

>> This is a great opportunity for Orr.

Carver Arena in Peoria will be loaded with college coaches.

>> You take kids from poverty and you make it all the way to

the state.

You're really doing something big.

I want to see how good I really can coach, you know, where I'm

at with this.

It's your turn.

This is our turn right here.

They got more money than we all got.

They got better cars.

They got better houses.

So how the...they gonna be better than y'all at basketball?

It's all we got.

This is all we got.

** [ Players praying ]

>> Thy kingdom come.

>> Thy kingdom come.

>> Thy will be done.

>> Thy will be done.

>> On Earth.

>> On Earth.

>> As it is in heaven.

>> As it is in heaven.

>> Give us this day.

>> Give us this day.

>> Our daily bread.

>> Our daily bread.

[ Crowd cheering ] >> With Pryor out, the pressure

really falls on Tyquone Greer.

>> Now, are they gonna have that letdown and not be able to,

like, amp it up?

[ Whistle blows ] >> Inside to Tyquone Greer.

Has his shot blocked.

>> Hey, be smart.

>> Three-ball by Cahokia.

It's good.

Orr starting out slow.

They just don't seem to have it offensively.

>> [ Shouting indistinctly ] >> Rebound!

>> We got to get a little grittier, man.

We got to press the defense, man.

Let's go diamond, man.

Let's go diamond.

>> Spartans in the open floor.

They've got the numbers.

McDowell with a nice dish to Adams Jr., who sends it home.

>> It's all right.

It's all right.

>> Here's Greer.

Pins it up against the backboard.

No good.

Oh, and a foul, a hard foul.

This one is just about over.

This is gonna be the end of the season for the Spartans.

**

>> We had a good year.

A great year.

[ Speaking indistinctly ] But you got to put the work in,

man.

One thing about basketball -- you can't trick nobody.

You can't fool nobody when it come time to show up.

That's probably the worst we've played all year, man.

Tyquone, you got to put a lot of work in, man.

You want to live two lives, man.

You want to be a playboy and then you want to be a basketball

player.

You don't put no work in, man.

We want to live like a basketball player, but you don't

want to put no work in to be a basketball player, man.

** [ Seagulls crying ]

** **

** **

>> If this thing go fast, that'd be scary.

That'd be scary 'cause it gonna feel like you gonna go off in

the water.

Like it's gonna throw you out of this and gonna come back around

and catch you.

>> Marquise Pryor.

[ Cheers and applause ]

>> [ Speaking indistinctly ] That's too wide.

>> I just want you to finish school, you know.

Just know that, you know, I'm always in your corner.

>> I'm gonna miss my mom.

She reminded me every day how much she was proud of me.

Meant a lot to me.

She was my best friend, my heart and soul.

>> I love you.

>> I love you, too.

** Everything that I'm doing is

because of my mom, and it's for my mom.

Like, right now she's not at her strongest.

And I feel like I'm her only hope and chance.

>> Man, what's up, shawty?

>> Oh!

>> Man, Tyquone, you...

>> [ Whistles ] >> The police came.

[ Indistinct conversations ]

>> * Here's the story * Of a lovely lady

* Who was bringing up three very lovely girls *

* All of them had hair of gold * Like their mother

* The youngest one in curls

* Here's the story * Of a man named Brady

* Who was busy with three boys of his own *

* They were four men * Living all together

* Yet they were all alone

>> Tyquone.

It's 10:00, man.

>> All right.

>> It's time you go to the street, man.

You don't want to live and learn.

You don't want to do but what you want to do, man.

You have a better -- Come back down.

Come back down.

Come back down, man!

Come here, man.

Been late every day of the week.

>> [ Speaking indistinctly ] >> You were late before.

[ Indistinct conversation ] Where's the bell?

>> I just told you...

>> Man, go on.

>> Hey, hey!

[ Laughter ] >> Yeah!

>> Hey!

[ Indistinct shouting ] >> Ah, let me ask you this.

Did you -- I'm not seeing it on here, but let me know in case I

missed it -- Did you ever take, like, a college-level English

before?

Because it looks like you got credit for mostly, like,

basketball, exercising.

You can always register.

It's just you won't get college credit until you actually build

yourself up to, like, English 101.

>> You enrolled already?

>> I'm saying, that's who we running on right now.

>> He can't go to Kennedy King.

It's gonna be ugly.

They ain't for real.

They tripping.

Marquise wanted to go to Kennedy King, but we knew that

wasn't a good fit to go to Kennedy King because it's

infested with gangs, and we was trying to get Marquise not to be

a part of any of that, just to play ball and go to school and

get his education.

>> Could be a chance that he won't be able to play basketball

again.

I just don't know what he's gonna do.

>> What up, bro?

>> Good evening, everyone, and welcome.

Tonight it's the season opener for the Orr Spartans.

Their opponent -- the defending state champs from Wisconsin.

>> This senior year, it's Tyquone Greer's last chance.

If he wants to play at the next level, he has to step it up.

He has to prove it now.

He has to erase those doubts from anybody's mind.

>> Since I started playing sports, I heard that word

"potential" a lot.

And it just puts so much more pressure on me.

What am I gonna do if I don't reach my dream?

>> Talented, yes.

On paper, we're good.

Between the lines, I don't know.

Can we win state?

We should.

Those are the questions I ask myself at night.

[ Buzzer ] >> Tyquone Greer goes baseline.

>> Got to get your man!

>> Pull-up jumper by Greer is good.

Boy, he's showing a lot of confidence tonight.

Little Lou goes up with a big dunk.

>> Good job!

>> Orr back up by 7.

They get it into Greer.

His shot...

is good!

>> He good.

He real good.

>> Orr is gonna win this one by a score of 54-43.

Tyquone Greer finishes the game with 18 points.

He was dominant on both ends of the floor.

And there's several college coaches that were in attendance

tonight, and, boy, they have to be impressed with the effort of

Tyquone Greer tonight.

[ Water running ] >> Every morning, man.

My mother used to tell me you can always look like you're

healthy.

And you be sick.

>> Classic example -- Orr -- because I know the trials and

the tribulations that they have to go through to get to where

they want to go.

>> Unbelievable.

Unbelievable.

Every day I see him on my way to work.

Sun up, sun down.

"Hey, Coach, hey, Coach, I'm-a come see you, Coach, I'm-a come

see you, Coach."

Good kid.

God bless him.

>> Is it important to him?

Does he really want to play?

>> Yeah.

He want to play, Coach.

He want to make a difference wherever he go because he can --

he a team player.

>> Yeah.

>> You know, he want to win.

>> Let me ask you this.

In all sincerity, if he comes down to our place and he doesn't

start, is he gonna be bothered by that?

Is he gonna play through that?

>> Yeah, yeah.

>> You know what I'm saying?

I'm not saying that won't happen.

>> No.

He a ballplayer, Coach.

The one thing you don't have to do is give him nothing.

>> No, I'm not gonna give him anything.

>> He can get it done.

Yeah, he can get it done, Coach.

He'll get it done.

We couldn't really get the college coaches in, in our

school, no matter what we did, until we started to win.

We started winning games, then coaches started coming in.

>> So if you're getting him up the left side, you're coming

this way behind him almost, at an angle...

>> We just kind of lead you to him.

>> Yeah.

>> Check my mailbox.

>> You have reached the voice mailbox of --

>> [ Sighs ] I feel isolated.

I feel alone.

I feel like I'm here by myself.

>> Welcome to Orr High School, as the Spartans take on the

number-one team in the state, the Whitney Young Dolphins.

>> Whitney Young against Orr is the classic case of the haves

versus the have-nots.

>> They have the number-one basketball player in the country

in Jahlil Okafor.

They have Paul White going to Georgetown.

>> It's gonna be a real test for Tyquone Greer.

>> Greer going to the reverse, and he lays it in.

Three-point field goal by Rodney Herenton no good, but the

putback is good by White.

Greer has his shot blocked.

And coming away with it is Herenton Jr.

Quickly ahead to Okafor.

>> Showtime by the All-American.

>> Greer gets shoved out.

He'll take the 18-footer.

>> Greer is not in sync today, Mark.

>> So now we got to fight back.

We got to dig in.

>> You and the point guard, you got 5.

You got 33 now.

You got the point.

>> Herenton Jr. with some fancy dribbling.

Puts up kind of a wild shot.

Okafor -- Look at him battle on the offensive glass.

The in-bounds pass by Greer and a steal and a bucket.

And that will just about do it, and now Greer is gonna come out

of the game.

>> Well, he just didn't have it tonight, Mark.

**

>> We lost tonight because we got other things that's going on

in our life.

Them boys' -- Them boys' life is together.

Tyquone, you was all distraught tonight.

You didn't give us anything.

I don't know what this -- We're in the gym at 3:30.

In the gym at 3:30.

We lost already.

All right?

So listen.

Let me be clear.

Be there, be there.

Get to practice.

Get to practice.

Get to practice.

Get to practice.

Get to practice.

If you're not there, if you're not there, don't come.

Don't come.

Don't come.

Don't come.

Don't come.

>> You're a crybaby.

Sorry.

>> What's wrong with y'all, man?

What's wrong with y'all?

What's wrong with y'all, man?

What's wrong?

Y'all don't know how to talk to each other, man.

We all "you this, you that."

Man, we ain't -- we ain't -- we nothing, man.

>> True booty.

[ Dog barking ] >> What did you do?

>> [ Speaking indistinctly ] [ Indistinct conversation ]

>> [ Speaking indistinctly ] [ Indistinct conversation ]

>> Ever since my mom left, I've just been trying to look for

that positive energy again.

By me being around CCG as much as I do, I was starting to feel

that positive energy again because they remind me how proud

of me they is.

So, when we say...it's not just a gang.

It's more than a gang.

We family.

[ Needle buzzing ] >> We kicking it, man.

Where Tyquone at?

Hey, Tyquone!

Tyquone!

>> Some pay maybe.

Hopefully one day.

Blow, man.

>> Hey, man, come on with that...

You ain't gonna be able to focus till you start listening people

out and hearing what the...they got to say to you.

>> I told y'all.

I used to kick it -- >> Was you helping them sell

dope?

>> No, I wasn't never selling no dope.

If I was selling dope, I'd have money in my pocket.

I'm saying -- >> No, no, player, you got to

listen me out.

You walking around here with your hat to the back, looking

cool, smiling.

>> I -- I -- >> No, no.

>> You telling me to talk to me about screwing off.

You don't want to hear about my take.

You don't want to hear about my take.

>> Hey, man, hey, man.

>> We ain't got nothing to talk about if you don't want to talk

about my take.

>> If I'm your dad, you can't tell me what to talk about.

>> Ease up.

Come on, man.

>> Your dad can't talk to you?

Man, beat it.

Go on with this...

No time for that, man.

** **

** **

** [ Indistinct conversations ]

** [ Indistinct conversations ]

>> I know what it's for.

Don't wear this.

I don't want to wear this, ever again.

No, don't wear -- [ Speaking indistinctly ]

Yeah, this is dangerous.

Don't wear this.

>> We ain't got to talk about -- Wait till Lou leaves.

[ Speaking indistinctly ]

>> Tyquone, don't touch me.

You just put your...fingers -- >> He hit you, call the police.

If he -- Call the police.

That's how that go.

Why you jumping the girl, man?

What the...you trying to do?

>> I didn't jump on her.

>> You going towards her for what, man?

I can't -- Why you going towards her?

You going back towards her, man.

>> [ Speaking indistinctly ] >> What's wrong with you, man?

Y'all take him home now.

Help out.

You all right?

>> My neck hurts.

>> Are you bugging out, Tyquone?

Come here, man.

I know what's going on.

Look, son, you all right.

Are you okay?

It's okay.

It's okay.

It's okay.

It's okay, man.

It's okay.

You got to be able to take it, kid.

You got to be able to take it.

You got to be able to take it.

You got to be able to take it, man.

You got to be able to take it, Tyquone.

You got to be able to take it and move on, man.

Graduate and go to school.

You got to move on, man.

You can't just go right now.

Come on, big boy, man.

Come on, you're a big boy, man.

Come on, you're my man, now.

You're my man.

Don't do that, man.

My man, don't do that.

But that's what they do.

This is what they do.

I keep telling y'all that.

This is what they know.

It's what they do, Tyquone.

>> Lou, I get irritated -- >> It's gonna keep going.

I already know, son.

I been down this road.

I been down this road.

People, that's what they do.

They jealous of you, man.

But you can't get -- you got to move on.

Come on, you a big boy, man.

Come on, now.

You're a big boy.

[ Speaking indistinctly ] **

** >> I keep having a lot of scary

dreams.

I wind up going to a place where my last homey just got killed.

And I was talking to him for a minute, and then all of a sudden

he just leave.

Some dude walked up and killed my homey right in front of my

face.

I tried to run, but then the dude chased me.

I don't know why I keep having nightmares.

** **

** **

** **

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>>Y' Oalh,l ygoeat h,to l lises what y'all got to learn, man.

Y'all having a hard time trying to distinguish who really with

y'all.

If you ain't got no bus fella, who you got next?

No, hold your head up.

Let me hit you with something you might not want to hear is

where your daddy at.

Look at me.

Huh?

Where your daddy at?

Okay, because I love you.

He love you.

You understand that?

Because we gonna give y'all our best shot.

I'm gonna give y'all my best.

>> Well, we've hit the midway point of the season, Mark.

7-3 sounds good, but Coach Adams is not happy with this team.

They're struggling just a little bit.

Greer is not the Greer you would like to see.

>> Greer backing down the defender.

Fadeaway.

Boy, that's a tough shot.

>> Should've been there anyway.

>> Yeah, he should have.

>> Here's Greer, shot from behind the arc.

And that one is off the mark.

Tyquone, down there!

Here, man.

You got to play basketball, man.

Armani, to this side!

That's what you want to do!

No rebounds from you!

Huh?!

Nothing!

You got to play, man.

You scared!

You scared!

You terrified!

And you're terrified!

You got to bring it, Tyquone!

>> Hey, Coach.

Hold on.

He had one rebound.

>> Explain to him what a 1-3-1 setup is.

>> Our two bigs.

>> No, the guard's first.

[ Indistinct conversation ] [ Indistinct shouting ]

** **

** **

** >> All right, just breathe

comfortably and remain still.

I'll let you know when we're done, okay?

Thank you.

>> The doctor said to me I had 90% blockage in my heart.

So I don't know, uh, as far as health-wise, I don't know how

long I can do it.

I don't know how long I can keep walking the sidelines.

I don't know how long I can keep hollering.

I don't know, you know.

I don't know.

I am sick.

Heart trouble.

I give you everything I got, man.

Money, time, everything.

I don't want to be nobody's daddy, man.

But I just try to fight for y'all, man, because if I don't,

nobody will, man.

>> Lou been like the father I never had.

Without him, I don't think that a lot of us would be where we at

today.

All he wanted to do was win, and I feel like I let him down.

Now it's only right that we do our part.

Take advantage, man, and play hard.

Play hard.

Leave everything on the floor.

Everything.

>> That ain't the balanced team we didn't see.

That's...

>> The Orr Spartans playing some very, very good basketball, and,

boy, Tyquone Greer has certainly been the leader.

>> This is the team we thought we would see.

Right now, they can't do anything wrong.

** >> Everybody got to get...back,

man!

>> Man, it's just crunch time now, y'all.

We got to get in some good shape.

We got to run.

We got to dedicate ourselves.

We're working, man, or go back home to your mama.

Get the...out of here.

>> This team now, they're playing Spartan basketball, and

the rankings are starting to show.

They now are one of the most dangerous teams in the state of

Illinois.

[ Indistinct singing ] >> It is now playoff basketball

for the Orr Spartans.

They are just five games away from heading downstate.

>> "Together" on 3, "family" on 6.

1, 2, 3...

>> Together!

>> ...4, 5, 6...

>> Family!

>> Tyquone, Tyquone, Tyquone!

>> Greer is playing his best basketball ever.

Look out if you're in the same bracket with Orr.

>> The Spartans are now four games away from getting

downstate.

[ Laughter ] The Orr Spartans are playing

awful well.

>> And the big question is, can they keep it up, Mark?

>> Listen.

We're two games away.

It's gonna be hard.

The game tomorrow night gonna be a hard...

>> A win tonight for Orr, and the Spartans will find

themselves one game away from returning to the Final Four.

They alley-oop to Greer, and Tyquone sends it home with a

dunk.

Tyquone fakes the 3, steps in, takes the 18-foot jumper.

And he buries it.

Hayes kicks it out.

Greer will hit from the perimeter, a 3-ball, and Tyquone

has got his entire game going.

[ Buzzer ] He has really come on and has

had an outstanding game here tonight.

>> Greer, you was huge tonight, man.

>> Huge!

>> You was huge, man.

>> You had 33 points.

>> Yeah!

>> But that's not even the big part.

This is what you were from the field.

One second -- 13 for 17.

>> Damn.

>> Twelve rebounds.

I was walking by.

The college coaches over there was stopping and asking me how

many you had.

** **

** **

** **

** **

** [ Sirens wailing ]

[ Police radio chatter ] >> A developing story -- a

Chicago high school basketball player is among six people shot

early this morning.

>> It happened at a house party.

Police believe the shooter left the home after a dispute with

another man and returned with a gun and opened fire on the home.

>> One of the victims is 19-year-old Tyquone Greer.

He plays for Orr Academy.

The team is currently playing in the state tournament.

The team is currently playing in the state tournament.

>> Forget ball.

Not talking about basketball.

Talking about the game of life.

Y'all think this is a game out here, man.

They're going to kill y'all.

They're going to kill y'all, man.

This ain't no...game, man.

...ball.

This is a game of life, man, y'all playing, man.

Look, man.

Go get your little girl and go home.

Don't go to no parties.

I say that every day.

Don't go to no parties, man.

Now, mind you.

Six...got shot.

They only talk about one on the news.

Tyquone Greer.

But that's what the media do.

Their job is to write stories, and y'all keep giving them

stories, man.

"I been shot."

That...is hot.

Y'all can't take no bullets, man.

We are fragile.

You guys are fragile, man.

You guys are real fragile.

Come on, man.

>> "Together" on 3, "family" on 6.

1, 2, 3...

>> Together!

>> ...4, 5, 6...

>> Family!

Quone, pull your leg out.

Pull your leg out.

You good?

>> Is it hurting?

>> I just heard a bunch of shots go off.

I felt a funny feeling in my leg.

I could just see all the police lights, all the panic outside.

Why did this just happen to me?

>> To get you where you need to be to get up out of school, to

make it to college, to make it to the rest of your future, we

trying to make sure you don't go out there and get shot.

Last thing I want to get another call saying the shot this time

was worse than the first one.

>> It would've been just another cliché.

And you hate for them to be scared to go anywhere or do

anything because that ain't no way to live either, so you just

have to just take a deep breath every time they leave home, and

I don't want to get that phone call ever again.

** >> Tonight is the biggest game

of the year.

Winner of the game goes to the Final Four for state.

And I'm not able to play, and it kills me.

>> It's the Elite Eight, Orr and North Chicago, as the Spartans

try to get back downstate for the second year in a row, and,

of course, the big story out of Orr is Tyquone Greer, who was

shot in the calf nine days ago.

** >> Outside shot by Hall.

And that's good.

>> But had there been a hand in his face.

>> Back the other way.

It's rejected.

Yeah, here come the Warhawks.

Again from the perimeter.

And that one is good.

Quickly the other way.

The alley-oop and the dunk by Jones.

>> Put it down, big Pookie, put it down.

>> The drive and the friendly roll is good, and now

North Chicago leads by 4.

North Chicago on the attack.

Oh, he gets by the defender.

Puts it up the floor.

It's good.

>> Hall is having a field day today with Greer on the

sidelines.

>> Soft!

Punkin' y'all, man, straight punkin' y'all.

Ain't about no basketball.

It's about heart.

They want it 'cause y'all...scared.

Scared.

Scared!

>> The other thing is, guys, against the zone, why are we so

much in a hurry?

Penetrate the zone.

If guys collapse, kick.

Move and penetration.

Keep the ball moving.

Listen.

We got to the free-throw line.

We got to knock down some shots.

We got to get some free throws.

We got to grind the lead down.

Grind it.

>> Go!

>> Well, the winner of tonight's game will move to the

Final Four.

Orr working it around.

There's the 3-ball by Louis Adams.

And it's good, and now Orr trailing by just 1.

They try the 3.

And it's good!

Kurt Hall.

He'll pull up from the elbow.

It's good.

Another drive by Adams.

And he goes diving into the sidelines.

Now he's getting helped by a couple of cheerleaders, and,

boy, we hope he's okay, Kenny, because they can ill afford to

lose him.

North Chicago now with a 5-point lead, and the way this game has

been so close, that is a huge lead.

>> See it?

>> Right here?

>> Yeah.

>> Boy, Chicago doing a nice job defensively.

There's the double team, then the steal.

Orr gets it back, however.

It's gonna result in another Jones flush.

>> Mark, this has really been an impressive comeback by Orr.

>> Orr by 2, a little over a minute remaining here in

regulation.

McCloud into the front court.

Down low to Hall.

And he gets fouled.

So Kurt Hall, Kenny, will be to the line for the two biggest

free throws of his career.

Adams drives.

Splits the defenders.

Off the glass!

And one!

What a move by Louis Adams Jr., and now he's looking to complete

the 3-point play.

[ Net swishes ] Yes.

The Spartans lead by 3 with 39 seconds remaining.

>> You need now just good, solid defense.

[ Crowd cheers ] [ Whistle blows ]

>> Lookit, Kenny, who's coming into the game.

Can you believe it?!

>> I can believe it -- Greer is checking in.

29 seconds to go.

He hasn't played the entire game.

[ Crowd chanting ] >> Adams Jr. into the frontcourt

for Orr.

Gives it off to Hayes.

>> Let's go!

>> Hayes looking for an outlet.

Now he gives it off to Adams.

** Into the corner, to Greer.

He'll launch the 3!

** [ Cheers and applause ]

And it's good!

Tyquone Greer just got the 3 at the buzzer, and Orr wins!

Can you believe it?!

[ Cheers and applause ] **

** **

>> Whoo!

>> [ Speaking indistinctly ] That's the thing -- you're

shining a light, boy.

>> [ Speaking indistinctly ] >> Listen, listen, listen,

listen, okay?

Listen.

>> Whoo!

>> Listen!

Good win, folks.

>> Thank you!

[ Cheers and applause ] >> Yeah!

[ Indistinct conversations ] >> [ Laughs ]

[ Applauds ] [ Indistinct conversations ]

** >> Me being up for the game --

it gives us a mental boost.

>> That's why -- Any chance we can see?

I mean, is there any residual...

>> Oh, no, I just...

>> So -- So what -- the bullet came in there?

>> Went in through here and came out through my calf muscle.

>> Tyquone Greer shows where a bullet entered.

>> Tyquone Greer, Orr High -- this kid was shot in the leg at

a party, came back, and made that happen.

>> Good story.

>> Yeah, good it had a happy ending, you know?

[ Indistinct conversations ] >> This is almost over, man.

Like, there won't be nothing to do Monday at 3:00 but go back to

the streets.

You guys done lost a lot already, man.

I just want to give y'all the chance to win one championship.

>> Tyquone Greer is dressing tonight.

Apparently, there are still bullet fragments left in his

leg.

We'll see how much he can give his Spartans tonight.

** >> Hey!

[ Cheers and applause ] [ Whistle blows ]

>> Your Spartans off to a sluggish start.

>> [ Shouting indistinctly ] >> Ball loose, and now it's Orr

in the open floor.

And the rebound taken down by Morgan Park.

>> You're gonna lose...

because you're by yourself!

We can't play basketball like this.

We have to play together!

** >> Josh Cunningham hits for

the 3!

Oh, look at this.

He's bringing in Tyquone Greer, who did not play in the entire

first half.

>> [ Speaking indistinctly ] [ Buzzer ]

[ Cheerleaders chanting ] >> Let's go...

[ Chanting continues ] [ Indistinct shouting ]

** [ Crowd cheering ]

** >> [ Shouts indistinctly ]

[ Cheers and applause ] >> That should just about do it

for Orr High School.

[ Cheers and applause ] >> Damn, man!

>> [ Speaking indistinctly ] >> Ty, come on. Yo.

[ Cheers and whistling ] [ Indistinct conversations ]

>> Mnh-mnh.

>> Have a seat.

Tyquone, have a seat, man.

[ Indistinct conversations ]

>> [ Crying ] [ Sniffles ]

[ Crying ] >> Ain't your fault, kid.

>> It's my...fault.

I shouldn't have went.

>> Hey, this is our fault, man.

>> Damn!

...me, man!

Damn!

Never...

This is my...fault!

>> You never...

>> Damn!

>> They did -- >> I'm telling you...

>> ...legs, and...still.

>> Damn.

>> [ Speaking indistinctly ] >> Oh, my God, man.

Damn! This is my fault.

I ain't trying to...

>> No, it's not.

>> Yes, it is.

>> It's not.

>> [ Sighs ] >> It is not your fault.

This is not your fault.

>> [ Sighing ] **

[ Sniffles ] [ Indistinct conversations ]

** **

** [ Indistinct conversations ]

[ Door opens ] Hey, Mama.

>> Tyquone, you -- >> Yeah, I need you.

We got to run.

[ Door closes ] Well, Daddy be -- sometimes, he

thinking he know what he talking about.

He just be hollering sizes out.

>> Okay.

Ain't no safety pins?

We can fix this.

Hold your arms out.

I used to alter your suits.

[ Indistinct conversations ] **

>> There he is!

>> Tyquone Greer.

[ Cheers and applause ] **

>> They made it.

They made it out.

[ Indistinct conversations ] This is...the whole team to

college.

You know, we send the whole team.

That, within itself, to me, is a state championship.

[ Indistinct conversations ] **

[ Birds chirping ] **

[ Music fades ] [ Chirping continues ]

>> [ Breathes deeply ] >> Let's go.

Let's keep it going.

>> [ Shouts indistinctly ] >> Keep it going.

>> Come on, boy.

>> Oh, what?

>> What's up, bro?

I was just trying to get a hug out of you, man.

>> Yeah...

[ Chuckles ] >> [ Chuckles ]

>> No, but how you been in here, though, Shorty?

>> I'm really staying to myself, bro.

I'll be in a cell all day.

Maybe -- I don't know -- it's a lot of them, bro.

I'm telling you, bro -- I would give up anything, bro, right

now, in the world, bro, to be on the court -- be on a court

somewhere sweating, bro, tired, than to be here, bro --

jail cell, doing nothing -- nothing, bro.

>> I didn't see this coming at all -- none of this.

From -- From when I first met you and Lou, Shorty, from

eighth grade...

>> I was never gonna turn out like this.

>> ...I ain't never think you was gonna turn out like this.

>> No, man, never thinking it was gonna turn like...

>> But, dawg, I ain't gonna lie to you -- gonna lie, though.

Lou told us, though.

He been telling us this since he been telling us this, bro.

I'm talking like -- I ain't gonna lie -- he called it,

though, Shorty.

>> He did call it, though.

Yeah, yeah, he did.

He called it, dawg.

He called it.

>> Everything that happened, Shorty, he called it...

>> Yeah.

>> ...on all of us, bro.

>> And then, we used to always think he didn't know what he was

talking about.

>> Yeah, we go, like, "Man..."

>> We used to tell him he was cray -- he don't know what he's

talking about.

He said, "All right, all right."

He definitely called it, though.

I miss you, bro.

I'm mad that you're leaving me.

I love you, though, boy.

>> I love you, too.

>> Man.

>> Look at you, man.

Looky here.

>> I got my hug, so...

>> I'm...

Oh.

>> I like that with the chain, man.

Tuck your chain, son.

They'll take it.

>> [ Chuckling ] Okay.

>> All right, bro.

>> Keep it real. Keep it real.

>> I'm gonna talk to you, though.

>> All right.

>> All right.

All right, y'all.

** **

** **

** [ Basketball bounces ]

>> This is it right here.

** Tied game.

[ Basketball bouncing ] All I need is 1.

[ Basketball bounces off backboard ]

Missed the first one, "Keyzo."

Got to make the second one.

Tied game.

[ Basketball bouncing ] It's gonna give you the win,

Keyzo.

Bring it on home, Keyzo.

[ Basketball bouncing ] All you need is 1, Keyzo.

** [ Grunts softly ]

[ Net swishes ] [ Basketball bouncing ]

** >> You got to...man.

Go!

>> [ Panting ] [ Footsteps ]

Good, Ty.

Best group -- the best group I ever had is what I got now.

Go!

** And I just want to do -- finish

this group out that I got now, and then I think I'm gonna call

it.

I think I'm gonna call it quits.

See, that's why you got to come every day...'cause every day you

miss, you get behind, man.

You can't be last all the time.

That's why you got to come every day, man.

Yeah, I can't save them all.

I mean, no one can save them all, but I got to try.

[ Applause ] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7!

** **

>> Okay, we have about 15 minutes of class left.

So, is there anything -- any final question you have for

Ashley or me?

If there's anything you want us to look at, please ask us to do

that.

>> You see, game after game after game, we're getting

better.

We're elevating.

It's all 13 of us -- all 13 of us are still...

[ Indistinct conversations ] [ Indistinct shouting ]

[ Net swishes ] [ Cheers and applause ]

** >> I left in June, and over that

time period, three or four of my friends is locked up for a good

amount of time, and I lost about three or four friends to gun

violence.

[ Bird calling ] I think about from -- from when

I was a freshman, all the way up until when I was a senior...

about how good we was, about, like, how much potential we all

had, only if we was -- if we had discipline, only if we knew how

much was out there in Chicago.

And I think about that all the time.

** I -- I like playing basketball,

but I don't think I -- I love it because I know it's --

it's gonna give me a free education.

I know what basketball can do for me and what it can do for my

family, so I do it.

** I take my story, and I hold it

inside to help -- to help, you know, push me to where I'm

trying to go, to, like, make sure that I don't ever go back

to that.

[ Birds squawking ] **

** **

** **

[ Music fades ] [ Squawking continues ]

[ Waves crashing ] [ Waves crashing ]

>> [ Vocalizing ] [ Vocalizing continues ]

[ Vocalizing continues ]

[ Vocalizing continues ] [ Vocalizing continues ]

* Ooh, ooh, ooh, incredible *

* My Lord, incredible *

* My Lord, incredible, ooh *

* And believe * Hey, ooh-ooh-ooh

* Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh [ Fingers snapping

rhythmically ] >> [ Humming ]

>> [ Vocalizing ] >> [ Humming ]

** * Socks on concrete,

Jolly Rancher kids * * I was talking back, and now

I gotta stay at Grandma's crib * * Bunch of tank-top,

nappy-headed, bike-stealing Chatham boys *

* None of my...

ain't had no dad * * None of my...

ain't have no choice * * JJ, Mikey, Lil Derek,

and them * * 79th Street was America then

* Ice-cream truck and the beauty supply *

* Blockbuster movies and Harold's again *

* We were still catching lightning bugs when the plague

hit the backyard * * Had to come in at dark 'cause

the big shawtys act hard * * Okay, now, day camp at

Grand Crossing * * First day...shooting

* Summer school, get to losing students *

* But the CPD getting new recruitment *

* Our summer don't * Our summer, our summer don't

get no shine no more * * Our summer die

* Our summertime don't got no time no more *

>> * You're my friend >> * Summer friends don't stay

>> * You're my friend >> * Summer friends don't stay,

hey * >> * Call on us

>> * Stay around here * Summer friends,

summer friends * >> * You're my friend

>> * Summer friends don't stay >> [ Vocalizing ]

>> * Summer friends don't stay, hey *

* Stay around here >> * And call on us

>> * Ooh, I used to kill 'em with the long... *