Basketball team?
As someone who was actively involved in high school sports and currently playing some college sports, I always pay attention to the accuracy of sports teams in a movie. This film seems pretty off. First off, is this the biggest basketball team ever? There were a total of 23 kids on the team, and the school is repeatedly called a "small school". I attented a 6A high school (the largest classification for schools in Texas) and our varsity team only had 13 members on its roster, and you rarely find any team with more kids than 15 count. 23 kids on a basketball roster is pointless, as only 5 players appear on court at a time. The small number of coaches is weird too. Only 2, plus one bus driver who may or may not be a coach, so a max of 3? The total amount of basketball coaches are usually around 6, I think we had 7 and one additional coach in training.
Second, that one white kid (or man, because he was like 28 playing a highschooler) is complaining that he only got 14 minutes of game time. Uh, dude, 14 minutes is a decent time, especially if your team has 35 members like shown in the film. Now perhaps he is just a whiney prema donna, as most sports teams usually have that one guy who gets super butthurt if he isn't a starter, but this wasnt established very well. Most actual game time in a basketball game is around 32-48 minutes (8-12 minute quarters depending on where you live), so 14/40-48 is 30%-44% of a heavily televised, widely broadcasted game. After all, it is the state game, so it's gonna be widely broadcast.
That leads to my third point: this is supposed to be the victory of a state game, THE state championship title. I can assure you, even small towns would not have kids ride old busses to such an event. In Texas and Oklahoma, the state pays for free charter bus transportation. I remember our track team went to state and we got free minivans, probably around 15 to fit all of us, rented out by the state! Not even construction-type vans, but freaking Dodge Grand Caravans. On top of that, that bus would be practically escorted by parents and fans following their children/friends home. Seriously? Not a single mom followed the bus across a nine hour drive? Not a single news crew member? None of the other coaches or staff members? They all just either took a different route or said "see ya back at school!" That is extremely unrealistic.
Fourth, who brings cheerleaders onboard the bus, and why are there only 3 cheerleaders on the entire squad? The cheersquad gets their own bus because coaches are afraid of the male-female interactions on long bus rides. Whenever male athletes traveled with female trainers, we were prohibited from sitting near each other and at night, we had 5 minute "put your hands up in the air" calls so they could see we weren't engaging in anything R-rated. They should've been written as student trainers, as trainers usually travel in packs of 3 or 4, although with a major event like a state game, the entire training staff would've been forced to go. Also, I believe the nerdy guy with glasses was a waterboy of some sorts, which is essentially the job of a student trainer.
Fifth, where are the equipment. Yah, because a team going to the state championship rounds would definetly not need extra basketballs, towels, water bottles, shoes, ect. And we don't need jerseys either, we just threw them away after the game. And why pack personal belongings on a 9 hour bus ride?
Finally, none of these kids look like basketball players. Basketball players, mainly in high school, aren't really short or muscular. Sure, some of them are, but never an entire team, especially a big team that would win state. Where are the lanky people? Is a single one of them taller than 6'1? That's very rare to not be the case. Our basketball team went 16-17 my senior year and we had several kids who were 6'3-6'6, and one kid who was 6'10. These athletes look more like a track team, which is what they should've been written as. I mean, there are a lot of kids, which makes sense for the many different events, and the small number of coaches is normal for track. The stocky, muscular look is very common for sprinters and throwers. There is a *beep* javelin on the bus...why would a javelin be on a basketball player bus? Rewrite this as a track team and javelin makes sense, because javelin throwing is a track event. The white guy's frustration could've been from losing an event, or maybe not running at all. It could've been written as a selective tournament and not a state meet, because both have about the same attention and the entire team is usually invited. Also, tournaments are like the "9 hour drive" as stated in the film. We were invited to a tournament in freaking Oklahoma, and our school was in Texas, and although I didn't go because I wasn't a varsity member at the time, it was a 10 hour drive.
Obviously, Victor Silva knew nothing about sports and I wouldn't expect a morbidly obese and disgustingly unhealthy child molester to be educated on athleticism, but this kind of stuff annoys me.