Hurricane Season, directed by Tim Story, follows a high school basketball coach named Al Collins, played by Forest Whitaker, who builds a team of players around the Louisiana area that were affected by the devastating Hurricane Katrina, and leads them to a state championship. On the way, Coach Collins encounters many obstacles, such as where to play, trying to recruit players and keeping them from joining other teams, and also negative influences in the locker room. All of these issues they faced kept them motivated and helped the team become more of a cohesive unit and winners.
We are first introduced to Coach Collins when he talking to team before the hurricane hits about he expects from them, “ I don’t claim to be a basketball guru. My playbook
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You can tell he is very cocky and boastful about his basketball playing ability. Also, when Coach Collins goes to visit him to try to get him on the team, he tells Brian that he was out of line for fighting with his players and that he must change his attitude if he wants to join the team. At the first game of the season, coach and the other players see Brian’s selfishness on the court first hand. Brian gets a technical foul and is very disrespectful to the referees, his coach and his teammates. Coach Collins finally meets Brian’s father, and from their conversation after the game, you can see that Brian’s selfish attitude stems from his father, “feeding the monster,” so to speak. After multiple games, it is clear that Brian is losing the team games and his teammates are very frustrated that they are coming together the best they can and all he is thinking about is himself. At practice, coach lets Brian go against the whole team to see what it is like to have no teammates helping him and that helps Brian realize what it’s like to not have any teammates helping him but still doesn’t like the fact that he needs them to win games. After his coach and teammates talk some sense into him, they become one cohesive unit that is motivated to win …show more content…
You’re 9-11. One more loss and you don’t make it to the playoffs. Do you want to play? Ain’t there nothing else for me to say to you. You got to make the decision to be a team. So before you go out there on the court, you got to work this out amongst yourselves.” At that time, all the players confront Brian about the issues they have with him and tell him to leave. As he’s leaving, Gary tells him to not walk out on the team, but Brain exclaims, “What team.” Gary follows him telling Brain to handle this situation like men. Brain tell his teammates that he doesn’t play for them, so Gary tells him he is right then asks him who he plays for and keeps badgering him about it until he answers the question and Brian tell Gary that he plays for his big brother Ray. He tells his team about his brother’s story about how he was a great player and how a drunk driver had killed him. Brian tells them that its there is a lot of pressure to fill his brother’s shoes and that his father has worked him so much to try to fill them and has to make his dad proud. After hearing Brian talk about his situation, his teammates tell him that they got his back and that they’re his brothers now. I agree his Coach Collins’ method he used because it brought Brian and the team together as a whole. Sometimes, when you have a coach yelling at you all the time, you need the coach to step aside
In James S. Hirsch’s book about Rubin "Hurricane" Cater, Hurricane, the author describes how Carter was wrongfully imprisoned and how he managed to become free. Hirsch tells about the nearly impossible battle for Carter and his friend John Artis for freedom and justice. Both, Carter and Artis, were convicted of a triple homicide, and both were innocent.
“When I got the job, I looked at the program as a bus,” said Hoyt. “I am jumping onto the bus. The program and school already exist, and there is a recent history of not having a successful basketball program. How do I change that for the better and make it my own? The first thing is get rid of all the people that you don 't want on the bus, and that is what I did. Then I looked at it as a scorched earth theory, where you burn everything that preexist to the ground. We got new jerseys, new players, and everything else is dead. We brought in new freshman, and those freshman were going to be foundation of what 's going to come down the road.”
The first personal traits that Coach Dale was forced to exhibit were his toughness and his assertiveness. On his first night in Hickory he met the men of town in the barbershop who were all willing to provide their experience and insight on the team and how to coach. Coach Dale had enough self confidence to know that none of these “insights” were going to help the Hickory team win basketball games and let them know they weren’t welcome by turning his back and walking out. Additionally, he was forced to demonstrate his toughness twice more on the first day of practice by telling the temporary coach, “Secondly, your days of coaching are over,” and then by standing up to the group of men after he dismissed Buddy from the team. These actions made no friends of the men; however, th...
Coach Herman Boone, who is played by Denzel Washington, is a very influential person. He is a perfect leader. While it cannot be found out for sure, Coach Boone can be classified under the trait theory of management, that “Leaders are Born”. The type of leadership he displays cannot be taught, he is able to bring together two different types of groups to act as one, to respect each other and play together. He shows power in the movie, he has a large capacity to influence others. Using his power, he gets the players to conform and forget how others think they are supposed to act towards each other. The goal specificity is also clear in the movie. Coach Boone expects his team to be ‘perfect’, he expects them to win the Virginia State Championship. Former head coach and now assistant coach Bill Yoast, played by Will Patton, is also a very influential person and good leader. He is in charge...
From the opening we see that Chopin intends to use the storm to move the
The gym is full of people; the stands are so full that they overflow onto the edge of the court and out the doorway. The shrieks and screeches cry out from the crowd’s cheers. The ball crashes through the net, as they jump popcorn flies. The home team hit a three-point shot; they are winning with only a few seconds left. In these few seconds, the coach looks around. He realizes why he does what he does. At this point, none of the labor, time, and effort matters. The only thing that matters is the win, seeing his team succeed; watching a team grow is unlike any other feeling. In order to understand that feeling, one first has to appreciate the game: the rules and regulations, the legends that have played and coached, the development of the game,
Hurricane Irene affected the Caribbean and much of the United States' east coast and was one of the most damaging tropical cyclones of the 2011 Atlantic tropical cyclone season. Irene originated east of the Lesser Antilles from a well defined Atlantic tropical wave in that area, and became Tropical Storm Irene on August 20, 2011. Irene reached its highest point as a 120 mph Category 3 hurricane. Irene was ranked the seventh costliest hurricane with damages that cost around $15.6 billion in the United States. Irene produced record breaking rainfall across the mid Atlantic and northeastern United States. The highest rainfall recorded during Hurricane Irene's storm run was in Bayboro, North Carolina at about 15.7 inches of rain. At least half of the deaths that were caused by Irene in the United States were due to fresh water flooding from heavy rainfall.
Pete’s parents were always at his games whether he was playing or not to let him know that they were there to support him through the tough and good times. When Pete finally got his opportunity to play he went in the game and threw a no look pass but his teammate was not ready and the ball bounced off his head and out of bounds which led to Pete’s team losing the game. Later that night Pete was in the gym shooting and his father walks in the gym and tells his son that he didn’t lose the game for his team and that the pass he threw to his team mate was a perfect pass. Pete’s father trusted him and would encourage him through his mistakes to let him know that he has a gift and he’s on the way to achieve great achievements if he would keep practicing and dedicating himself to the game. Also, his parents were truthful to let him know that they didn’t have the money to pay for college for him but they knew he had the talent to earn a basketball scholarship that would pay for his
It was the middle of November, 7 p.m. and very chilly outside. The team was walking into the court. “The basketball court looked and felt brand new. It smelled like it was just built and ready to be played on,” Rashim excitedly explained. It was Rashim’s first game of the regular season against Wissahickon High School. Usually Rashim doesn't care about the regular season, but he found out that this could be the most important game of his life. 76ers recruiter, Matthew McLane, came to watch the game to find an incoming star to bring to the NBA. Rashim knew it was his chance to show how he is good enough for the NBA, but he was very nervous. The game
For nearly ten years, Miami has not seen hurricane landfall. This fact may be troubling to those who are inclined to believe, whether through superstition or scientific knowledge, that one is bound to occur anytime now It may be pleasing news for those who have not had to suffer the destruction of these weather-beasts in ten years. Nostalgia, however, is my overwhelming reaction to the topic of hurricanes. I am taken back to candle-lit evenings tinged a mixture two parts electric fear one part mystic coziness.
How does the change in climate affect the frequency and the path of those powerful hurricanes and tropical storms in the tropical Pacific and Atlantic Oceans? Global warming has a profound vast impact on the Earth. Besides landmasses, ocean is warmed unevenly. Additionally, unexpected changes in ocean current will aggregate the uneven distribution of water temperatures along the globe. Warmer or cooler than normal sea surface temperatures occur along the Tropical Pacific will provide good indications of the future climatic change. These weather scenarios are also known as El Nino, and La Nina. They are indicated by the Southern Oscillation Index, which shows the prevailing winds in the tropical Pacific Ocean. How will El Nino and La Nina affe...
I figured that I had grown about five inches since my freshman year and had gotten stronger it might be time to play basketball competitively once more. When November rolled around I was on the varsity team, but unfortunately my basketball skills was not up to par. It was tough at first, because I was a new face on the team, and the guys on the team had a great chemistry that they had built up throughout the years. After a few weeks had rolled by, I realized that I would not be in the rotation.I told myself that the team’s success is more important than my personal desired statistics.I decided to make the most of my role on the team. It was a tradition for the guys who were not in the rotation to contribute to the game in some way, guys did this by preforming stunts after significant plays and momentum shifts in the game in our favor. This was great because the crowd loved and it and more importantly my teammates fed off of the
Hurricanes are powerful and destructive storms that involve great rain and wind. The United States of America has dealt with many hurricanes that have cost a great amount of damage. However, there is one hurricane that happened in 2005 that stands out among the others, Hurricane Katrina. Hurricane Katrina was one of the worst hurricanes to hit the United States, a category 5 on the Saffir/Simpson Hurricane Scale. An estimated 1836 people died because of the hurricane and the floodings that happened after (Zimmermann 1). Katrina initially beg...
The movie Coach Carter is a drama sports film about the game of basketball that was made in the year 2005. This movie identified themes such as commitment, teamwork, leadership, sportsmanship, education, work ethics and life skills.
Hurricanes are large storms that form over warm ocean water and moist air. These storms are usually pushed toward a landmass by winds blowing in a particular direction. For instance, the trade winds will blow hurricanes toward the United States coast. Over the past hundred and fifty years, the United States has made changes for how these storms are detected and tracked. These advances help protect human lives and property. This is how hurricane alertness has changed.