It just wasn't a good movie, and the culprits, as usual, was the very poorly written script and horrendous game-play. It's hard to pinpoint one particular part of the script, because it was mostly all bad. It was bad to the point that Queen Latifah, a very credible actress, looked amateur, proving you cannot act your way out of a terrible script. Common, who was to make his mark as a leading man, had no chance in this one. I'm wondering if his star will lose a bit of luster in some regard, due to what will seem to most like bad acting - which is, again, directly related to the script. So what was wrong with the script? It was the following: unoriginal, predictable in every way, and generally not very believable. The other downer was the game-play was horrendous. Not that Common doesn't look like a ball player, but the shooting of the hoop scenes, just had no reality to them - the pacing of the games were incredibly slow, they didn't feature enough real players, and situations weren't realistic. How many die-hard Nets fans are there? Die-hard, physical therapists? That meet pro basketball players at a gas station? One of the killers was that it's highly, highly doubtful ANY player, even LeBron James, comes back from a serious knee injury, to play a game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals, and play well at that. Just not well done at all, and I was trying hard to enjoy it.
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