I haven't seen it, but a few people I know who have said it was one of the better sports movies they've seen in a while. 

Currently sitting over 90% in both critic and audience scores on RT 

It's the usual sports movie story.  You already know the story without watching the movie. 

But I enjoyed it.  It's amazing how many famous people they got in the movie. It's fun to watch just identifying everyone you can. 

Is also fun to watch from a sixers fan perspective because Sandler works for the 6ers. You see their facilities,  a bunch of 6ers players... I also feel like the management situation in the movie was a satire on the colangelo situation.

And Philly fans in general,  lots of Philadelphia Easter eggs. Sort of like The Ofice had actual Scranton things placed in scenes,  abs references. You get that sort of stuff in this movie. 

1 hour ago, HazletonEagle said:

It's the usual sports movie story.  You already know the story without watching the movie. 

But I enjoyed it.  It's amazing how many famous people they got in the movie. It's fun to watch just identifying everyone you can. 

Is also fun to watch from a sixers fan perspective because Sandler works for the 6ers. You see their facilities,  a bunch of 6ers players... I also feel like the management situation in the movie was a satire on the colangelo situation.

And Philly fans in general,  lots of Philadelphia Easter eggs. Sort of like The Ofice had actual Scranton things placed in scenes,  abs references. You get that sort of stuff in this movie. 

ill second this, basically word for word

5 hours ago, HazletonEagle said:

It's the usual sports movie story.  You already know the story without watching the movie. 

But I enjoyed it.  It's amazing how many famous people they got in the movie. It's fun to watch just identifying everyone you can. 

Is also fun to watch from a sixers fan perspective because Sandler works for the 6ers. You see their facilities,  a bunch of 6ers players... I also feel like the management situation in the movie was a satire on the colangelo situation.

And Philly fans in general,  lots of Philadelphia Easter eggs. Sort of like The Ofice had actual Scranton things placed in scenes,  abs references. You get that sort of stuff in this movie. 

What I didn’t get is why does an nba international scout feel like he makes $65,000 a year, and even in his 4-month run as AC, dude still seems middle class… like I would thing ACs still make at least $300k a year with some HCs making over $10M

9 hours ago, Agent23 said:

What I didn’t get is why does an nba international scout feel like he makes $65,000 a year, and even in his 4-month run as AC, dude still seems middle class… like I would thing ACs still make at least $300k a year with some HCs making over $10M

19 hours ago, Agent23 said:

What I didn’t get is why does an nba international scout feel like he makes $65,000 a year, and even in his 4-month run as AC, dude still seems middle class… like I would thing ACs still make at least $300k a year with some HCs making over $10M

Because if he made half a mil, drove a Benz, and had a mini mansion in the mainline area, then they couldn’t call the movie "hustle.” 

On 6/12/2022 at 1:02 AM, iladelphxx said:

that seems painfully low

42 minutes ago, Agent23 said:

that seems painfully low

$18k?  There's absolutely no way that's true.   Someone working 40 hours a week at $10/hr makes over $20k a year before taxes.  

12 minutes ago, mikemack8 said:

$18k?  There's absolutely no way that's true.   Someone working 40 hours a week at $10/hr makes over $20k a year before taxes.  

I don't think it would be a full time role. They might have interns they send out to X amount of games or watches X amount of film that they pay for a couple of months. So they wouldn't be working 40 hours over 52 weeks. It might just be March Madness or the month leading into the NBA draft etc. 

7 hours ago, Mat said:

I don't think it would be a full time role. They might have interns they send out to X amount of games or watches X amount of film that they pay for a couple of months. So they wouldn't be working 40 hours over 52 weeks. It might just be March Madness or the month leading into the NBA draft etc. 

Or they probably work from home watching tape 

Yeah, the wife enjoyed this movie more than me. I don't know how you can be a real diehard sports fan and enjoy movies like this. I guess it depends on how obsessive you are.

But sports stuff aside, there was too much that just wasn't realistic with this,

including Sandler quitting his job and still paying for the international draft hopeful to live at a 5 star hotel every night ordering room service until the combine which he hopefully gets invited to, and hopefully gets drafted at. No wife would say thats okay, its fine you quit your job on a hunch and are going to continue paying to house this person out of your own bank account. There was also a 3+ minute training montage, that ended... and went right into another 2-3 minute training montage. I was fully checked out at that point. It was generic sports movie overkill. 

29 minutes ago, JBENT87 said:

Yeah, the wife enjoyed this movie more than me. I don't know how you can be a real diehard sports fan and enjoy movies like this. I guess it depends on how obsessive you are.

But sports stuff aside, there was too much that just wasn't realistic with this,

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including Sandler quitting his job and still paying for the international draft hopeful to live at a 5 star hotel every night ordering room service until the combine which he hopefully gets invited to, and hopefully gets drafted at. No wife would say thats okay, its fine you quit your job on a hunch and are going to continue paying to house this person out of your own bank account. There was also a 3+ minute training montage, that ended... and went right into another 2-3 minute training montage. I was fully checked out at that point. It was generic sports movie overkill. 

 

I liked it but you're right

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I actually thought when he quit he took the agent job Kenny Smith offered him and was the guys agent. It never occurred to me that he was unemployed and paying out of pocket until they came out and said it. It made the movie very unrealistic. 

 

2 hours ago, JBENT87 said:

Yeah, the wife enjoyed this movie more than me. I don't know how you can be a real diehard sports fan and enjoy movies like this. I guess it depends on how obsessive you are.

But sports stuff aside, there was too much that just wasn't realistic with this,

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including Sandler quitting his job and still paying for the international draft hopeful to live at a 5 star hotel every night ordering room service until the combine which he hopefully gets invited to, and hopefully gets drafted at. No wife would say thats okay, its fine you quit your job on a hunch and are going to continue paying to house this person out of your own bank account. There was also a 3+ minute training montage, that ended... and went right into another 2-3 minute training montage. I was fully checked out at that point. It was generic sports movie overkill. 

 

She wasn't ok with it.  But then kinda just rolled with it.