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50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD

Kobe, Coach K, and the Redeem Team (Documentary Review)

50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD

Jim McDonald

Fitness, Entrepreneurship, Tv & Film, Business, Health & Fitness, Film Reviews

4.92.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2022

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

As the NBA prepares to take the courts for the 2022-23 season, we take a look a new Netflix documentary about the 2008 US Olympic basketball team, Redeem Team.

How much do coaches affect winning? How did a team full of NBA talent ever manage to lose on the world stage? Could anyone by Mike "Coach K" Krzyzewski have gotten this team on the same page? When Kobe Bryant entered a team whose chemistry had really already gelled, how did he overcome his reputation as a selfish player?

More about the documentary here.

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0:00.0

There's gift I've ever received has to be a bike when I was younger, a pedal bike.

0:07.0

It was a sort of slick little road bike and I remember it was all like it was so it was all wrapped up

0:12.7

but it was so obvious what it was obviously because nothing shaped like a bike and I had a little ribbon on it and I was so

0:17.0

I guess. For that was a life changer and I'm still sort of big on cycling around my area now so for that one change me a little.

0:24.0

I enjoy in every sip with red carp snout back at Starbucks.

0:31.0

I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of time,

0:40.0

hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is a sweaty armpit because like you're wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps

0:48.0

and you get to the top and you're like and then you can see the breath but then your nose is still freezing to top.

0:55.0

Enjoy in every sip with red carp snout back at Starbucks.

1:24.0

These are the best.

1:25.0

Realty high. I think last year they won the preseason.

1:31.0

Yeah we won for sure Summer League.

1:33.0

Or the best Summer League preseason team in the nation.

1:36.0

Yeah and then it just falls apart but hopefully this year.

1:39.0

There's mixed reviews on Mike Brown or new head coach but all the players seem to like him so far.

1:46.0

Yeah I like him ish just because he was a Cavaliers coach forever when we were good.

1:54.0

It's hard with big sports college you can kind of figure it out because coaches stay with the same team for so long so you can start to see what happens.

1:59.0

Oh this year he actually doesn't have that much talent and he still did well.

2:03.0

The NBA is kind of hard.

2:04.0

Like obviously certain coaches have large winning percentages and you can go to stats and records but like so much as talent dependent.

2:12.0

Sure some coaches stay there for a long time.

2:16.0

Even seven years isn't that long to me.

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