It’s 1997 in Memphis, Tennessee. A rookie head coach is looking to turn around a high school basketball program that had won an abysmal ten games in eight years. In his first year as head coach, his team posted a 10-13 record, winning as many games as the school’s boy’s basketball team had in its entire existence.
But this isn’t a story about a team that defied all odds. Nor is this a story about a coach who turned around an entire basketball program. No, this is the story of the relationship between this Lilliputian coach standing in the shadow of his Spanish towering superstar.