Blog Post Number 7

          In Trevor Martian's documentary,  "Schooled: The Price of College Sports", he teaches that college athletes should be payed to play sports! The author first states by showing stories from ex college athletes who didn't have enough money to provide for themselves in college. He then shows how Arian Foster didn't have enough money to get food for himself. So his coach brought him some food, but that was a rule violation. This that they should be payed because they don't have enough money to get food, but the people with money can't bring them food. In conclusion he persuades the audience with having analysis talking about how if the players don't perform they can lose their scholarship, which proves they aren't student athletes because they could be doing great in school but still lose their scholarship. His purpose is to captivate the audience in order to get them to see the athletes sides of things, so they can understand what they go through. She seems to have the NCAA as the audience in mind because it seems she is talking to them when the narrator is speaking. I agree with Trevor Martian because the coaches get payed millions of dollars, but the players are doing all of the work and don't get paid anything. This is why the college athletes should get paid to pay!
          At the beginning of the documentary, it showed what the environment of college sports is like. Then it told the stories about the life of a college athlete. Then it brought in old players it they told stories about how they couldn't survive in college because they had no money. The athletes didn't understand why they did all the work and the NCAA got all of the money. After that the documentary brought in analysts to give them there side of the story, and they all said that they believe the athletes should be paid. It was said that the phrase student athlete was used to save the NCAA from law suits if students get injured. They told stories of how athletes got injured and the NCAA didn't pay because they were a student first. Everyone believes in the future students will be paid. This movie goes over the fact that students are treated unfairly. It goes over all the facts about it and shows why they should be paid. I agree with the movie and hope to see the student athletes getting treated more fair in the near future.

Kentucky's Perfect Season

         On March 3rd in Stegeman Coliseum Kentucky Wildcats complete only the 3rd undefeated season in men's division 1 history. They beat Georgia 72-64 after being down by 7 in the second half. The star of the team Karl Anthony-Towns was in foul trouble with 4 when he makes a bone headed play when he doesn't pass to open man and Georgia's defender takes charge to give him his 5th. When he comes back to the game he takes over getting 17 of his 19 points in the second half. With many key contributes not performing up to their usually Other players stepped up such as The Harrison twins at the starting guards scoring a combined 28 points with their bench out scoring Georgia's 19-15.
         All year Kentucky has had a historic defense with two 7-footers manning the paint with Willie Cauley-Stein being one of the favorites to win player of the year, and Karl Anthony-Towns, but near the end of the year their offensive has become one of the best in division 1. They play two units of 5 player,which makes them a huge threat to go very deep in the tournament because of their depth playing 10 kids. This team is scary and no one was to see them up against Kentucky in the tournament.

Celtics vs Warriors

Stephen Curry knocks down a three as the Warriors pull of  wild comeback vs The Celtics

         Isaiah Thomas' 20 points wasn't enough to hold 26 point halftime lead against Stephen Curry and the Warriors. Last night at the TD Garden, the C's defensive breakdown cost them the game, after a mediocre second half performance. The Celtics fall 106-101.
       Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson were too much for the Celts to handle. Curry with a game high 37 points lead the comeback, while Thompson added 20 points while holding Avery Bradley to 5 of 17 shooting.
       Warriors Coach says "It was a fun challenge for us. If we lost it wouldn't have been the end of the world." Stephen Curry says "We didn't want to be down 26. We had to be mentally tough to make it an interesting game."
        After the huge second half it wasn't curry making the big plays, it was Andre Iguodala dunking to tie the game then Harrison Barnes making the go ahead lay-up.
         Isaiah Thomas, scoring 20 points in the game needed 23 as he missed a pull-up three when the were down 101 to 104 and who else but Curry secures the board and gets fouled. He sinks both free throws to clinch the amazing comeback.

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Hoop Dreams

              The movie Hoop Dreams is about a pair of boys from the ghetto who go to high school to play basketball. Their names were William Gates and Arthur Agee. They both went to St. Joes to play basketball. Family members supported them and paid their tuition. William started on Varsity as a freshman while Arthur is starting point guard on the freshman team. They both had pretty good freshman seasons, but going into sophomore year the family stopped paying for Arthurs tuition so he had to start over at Marshall High School. William is a star as a sophomore,  he is carrying the team and everyone loves him. Meanwhile Arthur is playing varsity as a sophomore but not to his full potential.

        St. Joes loses in the playoffs again even though Arthur had a great game. Going into his junior year William hurts his knee and he can't play the whole regular season. Arthur is starting on Varsity, and playing well. William comes back in the playoffs and in their final game William hurts his knee again, but comes back into the game. In the clutch Will misses 2 free throws and they lose again. Senior year William is a McDonald's All american. In the camp William hurts his knee once more and can't compete in the last days. When he comes to play his senior year at St. Joes he isn't as confident in his ability anymore, and they don't go very far in the playoffs. Arthur leads Marshall to the playoffs. They go on a streak where they beat a list of ranked teams to win the city championship. They even beat the number 2 ranked team to win the championship. William gets a scholarship to Marquette, but he quits after the season then drops out of college. Arthur went to college and played as well.

              The theme of the movie is how basketball become a job for the kids not a sport for them. When they first started playing they loved playing and they were having fun. Near the end the were just playing so they could get money and move their families out of poverty. William couldn't take it any more so he dropped out of college and stopped playing, but he got convinced to go back to school. I enjoyed watching the movie and the story it told. It shows that if you work hard you can succeed, just like Arthur did when he took an unranked team to win the championship.