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Peter Berg's State of Play on HBO - E1:S1 Trophy Kids
Posted on 1/8/14 at 10:25 am
Posted on 1/8/14 at 10:25 am
Watched the first episode last night with my wife. The episode was titled Trophy Kids and features clips from the documentary of the same name:
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I swear I not only recognized the awful behavior of some of the parents from my days of coaching HS basketball and then reffing, I also found myself getting angry. The entire documentary is available on HBO Go and I am debating whether or not to even watch it.
After the 40 minutes movie clip was over, Berg interviewed Todd Marinovich and a Family Counselor. Marinovich looks like what I would imagine Layne Staley would look like today if he had lived.
I also felt so sorry for these kids. At the end of the show my wife was in tears.
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In the 40-minute cinéma vérité documentary that serves as the bulk of the hour-long program, the audience meets four parents and five children across a wide range of sports -- golf, tennis, high school basketball and football. We go to practice with the children and parents, watch them during competition, hear their screams and curses and often cringe during the brutal post-practice and post-game conversations captured on film. Basketball dad Steve yells so loudly that his son tells him "shut up or leave." Tennis mom Jamie wants to support her sons’ athletic success but defers to “God’s will.” Golf dad André curses repeatedly in public and withholds encouraging words to his prodigy daughter Amari “until we get where we’re trying to go.”
One of the more heartbreaking and difficult-to-watch scenes takes place after Justus, the would-be football star, gets interrogated by his domineering father, Joshua, after the 15-year old is pulled from a game. “Whenever I get in the car, I feel like I’m in trouble,” Justus says to his father, tears in his eyes.
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I swear I not only recognized the awful behavior of some of the parents from my days of coaching HS basketball and then reffing, I also found myself getting angry. The entire documentary is available on HBO Go and I am debating whether or not to even watch it.
After the 40 minutes movie clip was over, Berg interviewed Todd Marinovich and a Family Counselor. Marinovich looks like what I would imagine Layne Staley would look like today if he had lived.
I also felt so sorry for these kids. At the end of the show my wife was in tears.
This post was edited on 1/8/14 at 10:29 am
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Posted on 1/8/14 at 10:29 am to supatigah
Sounds interesting. Overbearing sports parents are so fricking awful.
That can't be good for Marinovich.
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Marinovich looks like what I would imagine Layne Staley would look like today if he had lived.
That can't be good for Marinovich.
Posted on 1/8/14 at 10:33 am to supatigah
It really was an interesting piece.
I couldn't decide which parent was the worst.
I frost tips guy was a douche, but I think it was between the golf girl's dad and the football dad.
The tennis lady was just loony.
I couldn't decide which parent was the worst.
I frost tips guy was a douche, but I think it was between the golf girl's dad and the football dad.
The tennis lady was just loony.
Posted on 1/8/14 at 10:35 am to tylercsbn9
The thing that I did not understand about frost tips guy was. How could he afford to not work? I don't think they ever said. Also, he claimed that the goal was to just get the kid into college for free/play college basketball. With the amount of money that he claimed to have spent on the kid with basketball training, he could have easily paid for any undergrad degree in the country.
Posted on 1/8/14 at 10:47 am to Eric Nies Grind Time
Frost tips said he owns 9 businesses, whatever that means.
I saw a reference where his kid, Derek is playing D-II basketball
Derek Biale
I saw a reference where his kid, Derek is playing D-II basketball
Derek Biale
Posted on 1/8/14 at 10:52 am to Eric Nies Grind Time
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The thing that I did not understand about frost tips guy was. How could he afford to not work? I don't think they ever said. Also, he claimed that the goal was to just get the kid into college for free/play college basketball. With the amount of money that he claimed to have spent on the kid with basketball training, he could have easily paid for any undergrad degree in the country.
Supposedly sold a bunch of businesses????
Likely in organized crime or something illegal.
Posted on 1/8/14 at 10:55 am to tylercsbn9
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Even sadder is that now, Justus has almost no relationship with his father. He left his private school and moved back with his mother. He's playing football for his local high school.
Derek accepted a five-year scholarship to Division II Colorado Mesa University, a far cry from the Division I scholarship Steve proclaimed "was the goal."
Blake and Tanner made the JV tennis team as high school freshmen.
And Amari won the Kikkor Golf Classic in Southern California - a tournament at which parents weren't allowed on the course.
Coincidence? Not a chance, given the way Andre carried on in the film, reducing Amari to tears.
Posted on 1/8/14 at 11:01 am to supatigah
Yeah, I remember them saying he reached the goal and got his kid into some crappy basketball program. But he said he dropped like 300k or something like that on all of the training. What a dipshit.
Posted on 1/8/14 at 1:41 pm to supatigah
The worst was the black dad with the kid who played football. The kid sucked bad, and they dad had it in his head that his kid was actually good. I actually think the kid has some sugar in his tank. Their story was the saddest
Posted on 1/8/14 at 2:57 pm to Lester Earl
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The worst was the black dad with the kid who played football. The kid sucked bad, and they dad had it in his head that his kid was actually good. I actually think the kid has some sugar in his tank. Their story was the saddest
his mom was nice
the tennis mom was weird and her kids could barely stop from outright laughing at her with her "God's will"
I wonder where was the golf girl and basketball player's mom? And where was the tennis twins dad?
Posted on 1/8/14 at 5:27 pm to CocomoLSU
Marinovich is in a really good place. Watch the 30 for 30 ESPN feature. Very humble, made peace with his dad, has a good life. Meanwhile Marv is still a trainer to star athletes.
Posted on 1/8/14 at 6:42 pm to Snakebucket
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State of Play on HBO
Saw it too. Riveting, to say the least.
Posted on 11/5/14 at 9:54 pm to supatigah
Do you have any children of your own supatigah? LOL.. I am basketball dad STEVE, Do you know me in any way what so ever, or the amazing, loving, caring, great relationship I have with my son Derek to comment so ignorantly after hearing one statement from me trying to motivate my son and him reacting in a very cool manly response! Which we discussed appropriately in private after the game, so morons like yourself with no knowledge of our relationship wouldn't continue to show their ignorance!Learn about someone before you speak and make a fool of yourself and get the facts first before you talk complete shite!
Posted on 11/5/14 at 10:01 pm to steve biale
Posted on 11/5/14 at 10:04 pm to supatigah
Batman.
Posted on 11/5/14 at 10:47 pm to Eric Nies Grind Time
Who r you arse wipe? Have you ever been to CMU? It is a gorgeous sports college! With a very good basketball program... the money I spent was meaningless! I can buy and sell you punk! The time, the love and the relationship I was able to build with my son was timeless and incredibly awesome! Obviously your another moron, without a son.. and when you call someone a dip shite on an internet site like a punk, you should leave a phone number so I can kick your punk arse inside out so that It can make your punk arse look like the pussy that you are "Eric Nies Grind Time Pussy!
Posted on 11/5/14 at 11:09 pm to steve biale
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Who r you arse wipe? Have you ever been to CMU? It is a gorgeous sports college! With a very good basketball program... the money I spent was meaningless! I can buy and sell you punk! The time, the love and the relationship I was able to build with my son was timeless and incredibly awesome! Obviously your another moron, without a son.. and when you call someone a dip shite on an internet site like a punk, you should leave a phone number so I can kick your punk arse inside out so that It can make your punk arse look like the pussy that you are "Eric Nies Grind Time Pussy!
No way....
no way
Posted on 11/5/14 at 11:38 pm to steve biale
You need your arse whipped
Pussy
Your kid will be calling me dad once I'm done with you
Pussy
Your kid will be calling me dad once I'm done with you
Posted on 11/5/14 at 11:42 pm to supatigah
Yo a-hole.. the basketball players mom has never missed a game in 13 years! she has watched DEREK win an AAU Division 1 National Championship!5 CIF CHAMPIONSHIPS,A REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP!A SOUTHERN SECTIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP! A CALIFORNIA STATE H.S. CHAMPIONSHIP! PLAYER OF THE YEAR! FIRST TEAM ALL DIVISION! THIRD TEAM ALL-STATE CALIFORNIA! TWO STATE ACADEMIC AWARDS! BAY LEAGUE MVP! CIF MVP! REGIONAL MVP! Think maybe its time to take down your dumb, uneducated, statements about the basketball player, his father, and his mother you three morons! By the way Peter Berg didn't produce 1 minute of that documentary! Was not present for a single minute of filming! And MESSED WITH THE FILMING TO MAKE EACH FATHER LOOK WORSE THEN THEY ACTUALLY WERE! THE REASON YOU NEVER SAW ANOTHER EPISODE!
Posted on 11/5/14 at 11:46 pm to steve biale
Are you really that tool from the show?
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