Rewatchables Reference

• The last 10 minutes – the one-on-one basketball game for his heart through the WNBA ending and 'double or nothing'.
• Monica and her mom in the kitchen (the slap scene) – probably the best scene in the movie.
• Opening kids basketball scene with 'Candy Girl' by New Edition.
• Monica at USC taking the charge to win the game and the locker room afterward.

• The soundtrack – New Edition, Maxwell, Al Green, Guy, Roger Troutman, Rafael Saadiq, Chaka Khan.
• Dennis Haysbert's career arc (Heat, 24's President Palmer, Allstate).
• The casting overall – everyone went on to solid careers.
• The subtle conversations about gender equity throughout the film.
• Monica's quote: 'When you're a kid, you see the life you want. It never crosses your mind it's not going to turn out that way'.

• Cutting around Sanaa Lathan's high school basketball scenes – she wasn't ready yet, lots of sneaky cuts.
• Quincy as a boyfriend overall – selfish, entitled, arrogant, immediately hooked up with someone else after the curfew incident.

• Serena Williams read for Monica but was unavailable.
• Gabrielle Union wanted the Monica role (was a great athlete / point guard) but had no acting experience.
• Morris Chestnut, Lorenz Tate, Taye Diggs, and Wood Harris discussed as alternatives for Quincy.

Coach Davis (the USC women's basketball coach) – could have dialed it back maybe 15%.

Debbie Morgan as Nona McCall (Quincy's mom) – known from All My Children and soap operas.

• Sidra (Erika Ringor) – in about 4 scenes but each one she's really good.
• The entire USC teammates as a collective – first-ever team Dion Waiters award.
• Gabrielle Union – 'lick the sweat off Q's booty' line.

• Angela Bassett as Quincy's mom (Jemele's pick – Bill says 'that's better than mine').
• Lisa Bonet as Quincy's mom (Bill's pick – she was 33 when the movie was made).
• Nia Long for Regina Hall's role as the sister.

• Dennis Haysbert was hesitant to play another cheater after Waiting to Exhale; took the role because of the father-son relationship.
• Second time Omar Epps played a character named Quincy who preferred to be called Q, and second time he dated Tyra Banks on screen.
• Sanaa Lathan's basketball gets noticeably better as the movie progresses – by the final game she had 4-5 months of training.

• Sanaa Lathan – yes.
• Omar Epps – debated; Bill says no, Jemele argues yes based on career longevity.
• Early WNBA / being optimistic about the future of the league – yes.
• Barcelona professional women's basketball – yes.

• Monica is a senior in 1988, meets Quincy in 1981 – but the Clippers don't move to LA until 1984.
• Quincy wanting to go one-and-done for the NBA draft in 1989 – freshmen weren't doing that yet.
• Quincy is a 5'10" shooting guard – not a realistic lottery pick.
• Quincy blows out his ACL and is hospitalized like he had a kidney removed.

Untouchable – don't remake it. Gina Prince-Bythewood has refused sequel requests.

• What happened to Tonya Randall who got pregnant and lost her scholarship to Monica?
• What was Zeke McCall's NBA career really like?
• What was Quincy's actual NBA stat line? (Bill estimates 3.7 ppg, barely hung on).

Sanaa Lathan – both Bill and Jemele agree; her performance inspired multiple generations of women.