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I never have gotten around to seeing CC but I may well be changing that.

Hey bro, lets whip out a best hoops documentary thread with poll.

Some early nominees for that, naturally Hoop Dreams.

City dump, the story of the 1951 NYU scandal was awesome sauce.

Battle for Tobacco Road naturally makes the list since I am a unabashed UNC nut.


The Iran Job was really well done, and I think gives a glimpse in what maybe the life of the average working class stiff buzzerbeater player would resemble.

Rebounds could well serve as a companion piece with the setting changed from Iran to Chile.

Last edited by Coach Lambini at 10/18/2015 5:42:41 PM

Man as far as documentaries go... There are just to many! And so many of them are so good.
I really like a lot of the espn docs, and anything I can find on btn to do with the flying illini. That 'City Dump' was entertaining, and in on demand right now on showtime I think. Hoop Dreams was awesome, use to rent that with along with Above the Rim back in the day.



If y'all need some good non fiction, here ya go!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXNQ4NJTYMc
http://grantland.com/the-triangle/elite-eight-memories-th...

I remember that game well, was running the sound board at the sports talk radio station I was working, Arizona had that game dead to rights....

But I am a Carolina fan, and we all know what happened the next weekend in St.Louis that year.

Then again that's not a comeback...this is a comeback. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO445W4mtZI

So your a Illini fan eh...what did you think of that beat down UNC put on them a few weeks back. Took my kid to that one, he enjoyed it immensely, as did I :) then again Illinois football is a dumpster fire.

Last edited by Coach Lambini at 10/19/2015 11:43:39 AM

But I am a Carolina fan, and we all know what happened the next weekend in St.Louis that year.

Sean May got away with murder? Wish I could say the best team won that game.

Yes, Illinois football has long been a dumpster fire. I wish the culture of the University was a little different. But we still have more national titles in football than UNC and Iowa combined. So that's a plus.

As a Heel fan, are you not at all worried about the long term health of the ACC? Feels like a couple of those schools are going to be left in the cold with the next realignment cycle.

I have run into Sean May many times at football games, dude is a beast and he was on a MISSION the whole tourney. As to if the best team won, debatable. Illinois may have had more depth, Carolina more front end talent, May McCants, Felton, pretty damn fine trio there. My theory is, to win it all you will have to at some point steal a game, but if put back in that position a 2nd time its curtains. Which is why States 1983 title run is so memorable because they did flirt with death many times over.

I should not run too much Tarhole futbol smack, ya'll did have Red Grange the guy who basically served a the foundation for the NFL as a major entity. But man we had Choo Choo Justice, the only man to finish 2nd for the Heisman twice, but never end up winning. Oh and he was the subject of a hit song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNXzqjobefE That era over 60 years later is still the benchmark for Tar Heel football glory as they have not appeared in a bowl named after a commodity since New Years Day 1950. Had our chances from time to time, but there always end up being Cubs style heartbreak. And yes Illinois has a national title in their history, but hey the Heels were top of the charts for one week in 1948, and proceeded to be tied 7-7 the next week by William and Mary and in the words of Donald Fagan, oh no William and Mary won't do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkm6E14Y-yI

The ACC will be fine, bit overcrowded but workable. John Swofford has always had the ACC ahead of the curve and I think they are now. Notre Dame one day will join in football. Wake one day will drop in football, or perhaps altogether because as time goes on they really better fit the profile of a CUSA school as opposed to ACC,. Football though has always been and will always be the lounge act before hoops. In terms of history, the ACC was at its most intense in the 70's when it was only 7 teams and that only one (thru 1974) or at best two (1975-79) were going to what was then a much smaller dance. The league was at its best in the early to mid 80's, a perfect example of this would be 1986 where 6 of 8 went dancing and the 6th place team in the league was a senior Len Bias led Maryland.

Last edited by Coach Lambini at 10/19/2015 2:42:07 PM

Is it that more of the people who have voted need to see Hooisers, or is it that being from the Midwest makes me partial to the film?

"He got game" is the only Spike Lee movie worth watching.

Ahem

Real talk.

Maybe being from that region gives you an affinity for Hoosiers, but it is still the best of the list.