Hickory Runs The Picket Fence

Hoosiers clip

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Sports

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• hoosiers
• hickory
• basketball
• two
• man
• screen

[jmuduke99]

My dad played all his home high school basketball games in this gym. Knightstown, IN

[phelius]

Cool. I played a few away games at a gym just like it in middle school. Delta Middle played their home games at the old Royerton High gym and they were in our conference. At the time we complained about the gym being so old, but now we are thankful for the memories of experiencing the history of Indiana basketball first hand. Royerton High had an old analogue clock on the wall and very bad lighting. That was 82/83.

[hinder27]

this isnt the real movie

[phelius]

ha ha! What's not real about it?

[bluejack11]

I know there have been tons of great American sports movies: Friday Night Lights, Eight Men Out, Bull Durham, Major League, Ali, Pride of the Yankees, Field of Dreams, Slapshot, Rudy and even Raging Bull (which shouldn't even be considered "simply a sports film"), In my opinion there is no finer, more uplifting American sports movie than HOOSIERS

[YoScooby]

Great movie, very moving theme music.

Anybody who played team sports in their youth has got to be touched by this.

[thefroable]

@RageKing117 There's actually 4 players. 2 players set up the fence. Jimmy sets a screen for the 3rd player running from the left and then the 3rd player sets a screen back for Jimmy (which puts 4 defenders behind the 3-man fence), giving Jimmy the wide-open shot after he gets the pass from the 5th player with the ball.

[gbleather]

@jimaroo100 That's not true. You can watch the actual shot by Bobby Plump here on Youtube. It was a jump shot.

[charly1gi]

@jaydee624 "don't get caught watching the paint dry" is what people who don't swear say instead of, "don't just stand there with your thumb up your ass".

[bpm1313]

@RageKing117 It just looks like your standard double-screen play. Simple but if executed right, effective. I don't think there's really anything else to it.

[331RBD]

Jerry Goldsmith is the man :)

[RageKing117]

Gosh, I'm still not sure on how the picket fence works. I see the two players standing side by side then the other player comes around behind them. Ok, is that it? Gotta be something else to it. Someone help me out. Great Movie!

[gmartinz01]

@jimaroo100 I agree. My dad liked playing basketball, was in high school in the 30s, and once in a while he'd go on the court, and it was all set shots. The funny thing is, he was a great shot. He just needed to get free to push that shot off his chest.

[gmartinz01]

Dennis Hopper is such a great actor, and this is such a great movie, that you feel that you're honestly watching a down and out, town drunk, have a blessed moment of redemption and grace.

[jimaroo100]

I love this film..... but i do have a quibble. The winning shot is a jump shot. Even the pros were not using jump shots in 1952 - it was all set shots. But still a great film.

[gmartinz01]

This movie is like reading a parable from the Bible