“We took them all out on the court, because there's one thing I didn't want to get saddled with is someone who couldn't play ball. That's the first thing that breaks down as far as the authenticity is concerned. They went to boot camp for two to three weeks prior to shooting, where they were just drilled for a long, long days, which helped somewhat, but you can't make an athlete. If they couldn't play ball, I knew I was just screwed.”
“One of the first things I saw before making this, just by coincidence, was this old black and white footage of a game, and it was a CBS documentary that they did on this team, that coach and this season. I watched it and that's when the story really became significant to me, because it wasn't just a contrived Hollywood movie. It was real. At that moment, the seed was planted that I want to do interviews with these guys and stick it in the closing credits, which is what we did.”
