I am a huge fan of college basketball, to be more specific Duke, so I was a little pissed off to see Bob Hurley playing for Bob Knight at Indiana. Did anyone else notice or care about this?
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I still love Bobby Hurley, so it's great to see him in anything, even if he is in Indiana red.
shareHey, it coulda been worse...he could have been in his Sacto Kings jersey!
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I think that the reason Hurley played for Knight was because of the ties between Duke and Indiana (Coach K being a Knight protege) and therefore had comparable styles of play. As I remember it, all of players on Knight's team in the movie were either ex-players of his (except for Matt Nover, whose character played for Nolte) or had played for real-life teams somehow affiliated with Knight's coaching tree. Helped with the authenticity thing...and, if I recall an interview with one of the player/actors in the film correctly, because Knight wanted his players to kick the crap out of Nolte's players in the simulated game they filmed, which they did (the film was later edited to make it appear Nolte's team won, but in the unofficial real-life total Knight's team decimated them).
shareI'm also a big Duke fan (my grandfather graduated from there), so I thought it was cool to see him, and not a problem. It didn't make me angry. After all, it is a fictional movie. Now if he were playing for the North Carolina Tarheels in the movie...
Being inconsistent is better than being consistently bad.
I had no issue with it. It was a movie, not a documentary.
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