Mike Tollin

He settled for a tie.

Exactly.

That's why, you know, how much closer are you going to get to an opportunity to win it?

Once again, see, unhappy endings in your life.

Wendell's been telling his children and his grandchildren, and they're like, show it to us, Grandpa.

Well, sir, we don't even have the footage.

So our version of that, not quite as tragic or as heart-rending, but the first doc we ever did when Brian Robbins and I got together and we formed Tolan Robbins, we started doing docs because that had always been my thing.

So we make a deal with Morningside High School in Inglewood, California, and it's a storied basketball powerhouse.

Not known a lot for academic excellence, but... What?

Englewood?

On the hardwoods, they were the champs.

So they had won the state championship.

This is 1992.

They were defending state champs in basketball, and all five starters are coming back.

That's kind of unheard of because if you're winning the state title, you assume you've got seniors.

So out of the five, three are blue-chip Division I prospects who all think they're going to be the next Michael Jordan.

We make a deal with the school.

They let us basically matriculate.

I mean, we took our little – they were canon –

cameras you know cost probably two thousand dollars each you could use them for home movies and we went to school every day and we shot there was gunfire in the in the hallways and there was crazy kids flunking out this and that but the team you know you go to practice every day and there they were you just saw these guys who were just like thoroughbreds all you know seeing dollar signs in their eyes and they go cruising through the season into the playoffs