The movie is an inspirational movie overall, and the Richmond student players shine in basketball under the leadership of Coach Carter. Although they still lost to St. Francis in the statewide game, they got something more precious than basketball, got scholarships, and went to college. Without a guy like Coach Carter, they might have lost the game, couldn't even graduate from high school, fought people in the black district all day, sold drugs, and ended up being shot or jailed. It happened that such a savior role appeared and saved the team. Coach Carter teaches players not just skills, but valuable qualities like respect, trustworthiness, teamwork, thinking, and more.
Before that, they were a scattered team that quarreled with players and left practice. Coach Carter's arrival told them what respect is, and to call people "sir" instead of "nigger", which was originally used by white people to insult black people. They told them to respect their opponents, to have the air of a champion, not to provoke and insult opponents with swear words on the court, and to wear suits and ties. Coach Carter turned the boys into men and gentlemen.
Another thing I admire very much is that Coach Carter really thinks about the players and helps them choose their own lives. When the players were suspended for failing grades, the players' parents and teachers said that basketball was the only bright spot in their group and resolutely opposed Coach Carter's suspension. He said that breaking the rules now is teaching them violate the law later. He opposes the misguided educational thinking that winning is more important than graduating and going to college. He told the players that they can change their destiny through hard work, they don't have to survive like their parents, they can get scholarships and go to college. It was the right decision, too, and Cruz's experience amply confirms it. When he saw his friend get shot, he was shocked and once again decided to go back to the team, study hard and train hard to avoid being shot like a friend. The fate of killing people. Another player's pregnant girlfriend also decided to abort the child to prepare for a better life, avoiding the bottom life of being a mom and dad in high school and working every day for the family's income. As Cruz said to coach "You save my life," Coach Carter has won a whole new life for everyone.
Another point to think about is that basketball is a shining point for players, but if they only care about basketball and ignore education, personal qualities, rules and laws, etc., basketball is not enough to support them to the end. If they don't get a real education and correct bad character, they will end up in jail in their freewheeling and disregard for the rules. In front of the things you love, you lose your morality and thinking ability, ignore the rules and laws, and then the outstanding advantages will inevitably lead to the fate of depravity.
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