Home Court (2025)

[bunniefuu]

[bouncing echoes]

When I play basketball, I feel like

there's nothing around me that can stop me.

Like if a meteor came and flew into the gym,

that won't stop me from playing basketball.

It's like my safe space.

[dramatic melody plays]

["Here" by Ruby Ibarra playing]

♪ Hunger in my eyes, this is everything that I risk ♪

♪ k*ll it with my tongue every time I spit a free ♪

♪ But the work is never done and believe I'll never leave ♪

♪ 'Cause I'm here, 'cause I'm here ♪

♪ Get your hands in the air, in the air ♪

♪ Now the greatest is here, is here ♪

♪ I'ma make this my year, my year ♪

♪ 'Cause I'm finally here, finally here ♪

♪ Yeah, I'm finally here

♪ Yeah, I'm finally here, finally here ♪

♪ Yeah, I'm finally here

♪ If you call yourself a rapper talk less and take notes ♪

♪ We slay sheep, respect GOATs and pray, sleep and next toke ♪

♪ We take beats to flex throat, finesse steeze to bless those ♪

♪ They say freeze, test hope, we say peace but stay woke ♪

♪ ' Cause I'm finally here, finally here ♪

♪ Yeah, I'm finally here, finally here ♪

♪ Yeah, I'm finally here, finally here ♪

♪ Yeah, I'm finally here, finally here ♪

[girl] Ball is life!

[all cheer]

-[girl] Happy birthday! -Hi!

-Happy birthday!

Today is my birthday.

I'm turning today.

I'm already so happy today.

I woke up with so many text messages.

I'm super excited for high school.

I'm also excited for club, but, um,

I've been waiting so long to play in high school.

All the gyms were shut down

with COVID happening and everything like that.

We just finished our first workout.

-Back on campus! -[girl] Back on campus!

Tomorrow's my first game back

playing in, I think, seven months.

I'm just really excited to be back,

and I can't wait to put on a show for everybody.

[girls yelling excitedly]

I thought it was just a hurt on impact,

and then my athletic trainer tried to bend it,

and it wouldn't bend.

[line rings over speaker]

[woman] Garvey Medical, how can I help you?

Hi there. My name is Jayme. I wanted to know

if Ashley Chea's, um, x-ray referral

was completed and if I could come and pick it up now.

I'm going to go right now, to pick up Ashley's x-ray.

-Thank you so much for helping. Like, if I don't have you,

I don't know how to do it with Ashley.

-We don't have time. -Oh, don't even worry.

-My God, thank you! -I'm going to go

-to Dr. Edna's office right now. -Oh, okay.

Then, after school,

a regular school day, pick up Ashley.

And then if we need to go see an orthopedic surgeon,

then back to Dr. Edna's office to get the referral.

And then go.

All right, guys, goodbye.

-[Lida] Thank you so much. -[Jayme] Thank you.

[MRI whirring]

[Jayme] Time to wake up.

A tear?

[Jayme] Does that mean completely or...?

-[doctor] Almost completely. -[Jayme] Almost completely torn.

[Jayme] Tomorrow, right away, we start her rehabilitation.

Every school day, five days a week.

So I told her she gets one day to be sad about it,

and at the end of today,

tomorrow she's gotta wake up and the sadness has to be gone.

[dramatic melody plays]

[buzzer sounds, then whistle blows]

[Ashley] I'm still feeling like crap.

Um, because I have

some of the biggest tournaments of my life coming up,

and that's when all the college coaches are gonna be there.

[players yelling indistinctly]

[Coach] Good, quick. Hit that quick!

[Ashley] I just need to, like, throw that thought away

of, like, being afraid to get hurt again.

That's the main thing

that holds you back from being great.

I'm Ashley Chea, and I'm in the class of ,

and this is my comeback.

Oh, yeah!

-Comeback number one! -Whoo-whoo!

[dog barking in distance]

[water running]

[water shuts off]

I feel like junior year's gonna be the hardest year.

Um...

And I think I'm taking pretty hard classes, so...

And I'll see, like, my teachers and everything.

And hopefully, you know, they take it easy on me.

[dramatic melody plays]

[Ashley] Put him in the car first.

[GPS voice] Starting route to Flintridge Prep School.

Head northwest on West Hughes Avenue.

[Baov] I work for Acura now for almost years now.

One day off, I work in a donut shop.

[automated voice] Carla Berube said, "Hey, Jayme,

do you think Ashley is going to be academically strong enough?

Don't want to waste her time if Princeton isn't a good fit."

That's a great question.

I can send you her transcripts from last year

as well as her course load for this year.

But, uh, she's in communication with a couple of other Ivies.

[girls chattering indistinctly]

[Jayme] Ashley is a public-school kid

before she came to Flintridge Prep.

Hey. Hey, Rowan.

-[girl] Hi, Rowan. -Hey, Rowan.

[dramatic melody plays]

[Jayme] We're really a school that is all about

a rigorous education.

We just happen to also have

a really talented basketball team.

[Ashley] Coach Jayme and Coach Kevin

went to one of our games and talked to the team.

She told me the coaching staff was like family.

Coach Kevin and Coach Jayme, they're literally cousins.

So it was really like family.

I just fell in love with what they told me about Prep,

and I knew that I wanted to go there.

I picked up the phone and I called my headmaster,

which I had never done before, in my life

and made a plea

that if we invest in this family,

we're going to change

an entire family's educational path

for generations to come with this one child.

[crickets chirping]

[indistinct chatter over radio]

[Lida] I never played sports before.

So I don't know what sports are important.

Me and my mom, we say, "Wasting time!”

My family, the whole entire family,

no one supported Ashley playing basketball.

We work hard, but I don't want Ashley to work like me.

-[man] Lida, good morning. -Good morning, Frank!

Good morning, David.

To go, number eight, ready! Hi!

I want her to get a good school,

you study hard, you work hard.

[dramatic melody plays]

Education, we don't have that much,

so I want her to get more education

so she can work...

not— not with the power, not with the body,

with the— with the brain.

Hug! A-yah!

[Ashley] My mom, I know that she's always there,

but... sometimes I don't think

that she, like, is thinking about me.

[Jayme] Before this, I was going to school.

I was coaching already.

I started catering.

Both of my grandmothers were amazing in the kitchen.

So, Grandma Kiyomura lived with us

for a lot of when I was growing up.

Check it out.

Her curry rice, here's the secret right here.

Where is it?

Banana. She put one smashed banana.

No, I'm going to— I'm just picking up the girls.

Thank you.

How was your day, girls?

-It was good. -Good.

Was it good? You guys must be tired.

Izzie, Ash!

-Wake up! -[Ashley mumbles indistinctly]

Want something to drink? You gonna wake up?

No?

-[Ashley] Mm-mm. -Okay. [chuckles]

Thank you.

Take off the caterer hat, put on the coach's hat.

Today's our first day of tryouts.

It is a three-day tryout.

For some of our sophomores, they never tried out last year.

We just had one team last year, it was the COVID team.

And anyone who wanted to play played.

We don't really make cuts or need to make cuts.

So, I just want everybody to come out

and just try their best and have fun with it.

[Jayme] We have graduated so many of our top kids

in the last three years

that we look nothing like we did before...

Push dribbles!

I'm not going to give a lot of instruction today

on purpose.

That's okay if you have no idea what a push dribble is.

...with the exception of Ashley.

We still have what I think is the best player in the area.

Let's not let the ball hit the ground when we're finishing.

That's not rebounding!

Our goal every season is to win League.

Two years ago, our winning League was, like, a given.

This year, Ashley could score points a night

and we still may not win.

Lord have mercy.

Wow.

This entire squad is just so far behind.

[woman] Mm-hmm.

[Ashley] I tell Coach J that I want to win CIF,

but she doesn't think we can.

Because everyone is just too new to the sport.

-Use the backboard. -People ask me, like,

"Do you think that you can do this single-handedly?"

I'm like, "Yeah, I can!"

Ashley, you need to be a little more vocal

in getting my teams set up

so that way we're not wasting as much time.

[Ashley] Being a captain is kind of weird.

I feel like last year I didn't play at all,

so I feel like I'm still a sophomore

in every aspect of life right now.

Okay, Ashley, I'll let you explain to your team

the principles of what we're doing.

-[girl] Huddle. -[Jayme] Huddle your team up.

[Kevin] You might want to mix it up.

[Jayme] You gotta learn.

So, you see a line, there's two people on defense.

And then the other two...

[Ashley] I'm just a bit nervous because

teammates that haven't seen me play

won't respect me as a leader and as a captain.

Yeah, so basically there's two people on defense,

the other team's coming the third person running ins thf

once the other team passes half court.

-[Jayme] Four, three... -[girls chattering]

[buzzer sounds]

Here we go, white and blue!

Ashley, get in here! Do your push-ups!

Kev, you want to get her?

‘Cause if I get her, ain't gonna be pretty.

[Kevin] Yeah, Ash!

[Ashley] f*ck!

-[whistle blows] -Goddammit!

Come on, Ash!

You gotta finish, Ash!

[upbeat melody plays]

-[buzzer sounds] -f*ck!

[whistle blows]

[Kevin] Last one, last one!

Last one!

Go, give it—!

[Jayme] Run, Kaylie!

Good, Cat, good, Cat!

-Yes, Cat! -[whistle blows]

All right, Ash!

Way to pass the basketball!

[Ashley] Okay, so that girl over there in the pink

just mocked me, and I cannot take that,

-so I'm gonna— -Going to be a captain

-and let it go. -No, because she mocked me.

You're gonna get mocked your entire life.

-Better get used to it. -I don't like that.

-I mock you on the daily. -Okay, but she mocked me.

-It's Wolfie time. -[Jayme] Okay, get focused.

-Go get the ball. -Get focused.

Go over there, over there.

Here, here.

-[people cheering, applauding] -[Kevin] Yeah, Ash!

[Ashley] She does not mock me like that!

[Jayme] Oh, my God. Do you need a sub?

Need to come out and think about it?

-[Ashley] No, I'm good. -Sure?

Yeah.

[Jayme clapping]

[Ashley] That girl pisses me off.

The girl in the purple.

But that girl has no right to say that to me.

-[whistle blows] -[girls cheering]

[buzzer sounds]

[announcer indistinct]

[announcer] ...The final score, Flintridge Prep Wolves ,

Mayfield Cubs .

Everybody watching me, they say that I'm...

maybe a bad mom maybe because missing the games,

never go to the games, never go to her school.

But her school or her even school...

sometimes— Okay, maybe I don't have time.

And then one thing is, when I go,

I don't understand. I don't understand.

Sometimes they're speaking, I don't understand.

So I miss it, yeah.

Same thing Baov too, sometimes he goes,

but he don't understand either

Parent party, casino party,

or whatever— a tea party.

We never went there.

Because we feel like...

They too much like, um—

What do you say, "high class"?

They're like that, they're rich. We're not.

[Baov] This is the only picture that I have.

Everybody said he looked like me.

[family chattering]

[dramatic melody plays]

[crowd clamoring]

[laughing] No, no!

[in English] Eating time!

I need one more.

[Family chats in Khmer]

[in English] Oh, okay, so there's one, two, three...

[Speaks in Khmer]

[in English] Sorry!

Hello!

-Hello, Ashley.

Sometimes at night, I just get sad.

Because all these, like, thoughts just come into my head.

Good and bad.

Like, when I'm forcing myself to be still,

like right now, like normally I would be moving around a lot

and, like... not just playing with this.

I'll be playing with, like, paper, I'll be rolling paper,

and I'll be doing something to get my mind off of things.

But, like, at nighttime, when I have to force myself

to stay still and not be on my phone...

I don't know why, it's just, I've always been like that.

That's probably why, like, I don't like—

I don't like being alone. I don't like having alone time.

And, like, being around people, all those thoughts just go away,

if that makes sense.

[girls yelling, sneakers squeaking]

[Kevin] Okay, hold on, hold on!

got through without much communication.

Okay, we've gotta talk more. Yeah?

I... The words just couldn't come out of my mouth.

-[Kevin] Okay.

-[Jayme] They have to come..

or we're gonna be handed another L.

[Ashley] Yeah, she saw me say it.

-I know, but it's like— -[Kevin] Okay.

It's that problem that I have or whatever.

[Kevin] So if I— Listen, listen!

[Ashley] I start stuttering

when I don't know what to say next.

[Jayme] All right, here we go.

I don't, like, say exactly what I have to say

a lot of times, especially in basketball

when I want to tell my teammates to do something.

I usually only have stutters with, like, words

that start with, like, an "N" or an "M,"

a "T" or, like, a "W," or, like, a "B."

Like, sometimes when I'm talking to people

and then I can't say the words,

sometimes people think that I don't have, like,

a high vocabulary or whatever.

[girls chattering indistinctly]

[Jayme] All right, welcome to the season opener

of the Flintridge Prep Wolves!

At guard, sophomore Kassidy Huie!

Kassidy, right there, gray line, perfect.

Junior captain Ashley Chea!

[all cheer, applaud]

So we play Providence. I think that that's the game

my team and I are worried about the most,

because they have, like, really experienced players.

Tomorrow's a big day.

Let's get after it, all right?

Home court. Home court tomorrow, guys.

-Let's go. -Yeah!

[all giggle, exclaim]

[all laughing]

"Wolves" on three. One, two, three!

[all] Wolves!

[music plays softly over speakers]

We're going in with a very long winning streak

that went over the course of... since , really.

Switch sides!

I think that there's definitely a lot of pressure

because of this streak, even if we don't talk about it.

[girls yelling indistinctly]

-[Kevin] Yeah! -[all applaud]

[announcer over PA] Ashley Chea!

[Kevin] Where are you, Amadi?

[crowd] Defense! Defense!

-[crowd cheers] -[Ashley] f*ck!

[announcer speaks indistinctly]

[Ashley] Kass, Kass! Kass!!

-f*ck! -[whistle blows]

[announcer] Out of bounds.

[chanting] D up! D up! D up!

[Kevin] Good job, Kass!

[crowd cheers]

[Ashley grunts]

[whistle blows]

[Kevin] Come on, girls! Communicate!

That's our rebound!

Come on, Ash!

[dramatic melody plays]

[Jayme] Give Maddie the ball.

Can we give Maddie the ball?

[Flintridge players applaud]

If I pass the ball, I won't— I won't— [panting]

Trust your teammates. You'll get it back.

Trust your teammates, you'll get it back.

[Jayme] If Ashley ends up taking percent of shots,

we're gonna be in trouble.

[girl] Pass, pass!

[whistle blows]

Listen to me. You have two fouls.

No fouls in the next minute and a half. I don't care.

I don't care if she gets two points,

I don't care if she gets four points.

It's not worth another foul for you.

-You understand me? -[buzzer sounds]

[Kevin] We set out to have a goal,

and the goal is to win League.

Doesn't happen without tonight.

Everything else gets thrown out the window.

The only thing we're thinking about

is taking care of business.

This half of the basketball game is really all that matters.

Your word, both, for the second half is "composure."

"Composure." We're going to be totally in control

of our emotions, okay? Composure.

All right? Let's go, babies. We got this.

[girls chanting] D up, D up, D up!

[rhythmic pounding]

-D up! -[crowd cheers]

[Kevin] That's all right!

-[Kevin] Ashley! -[Jayme] Ashley!

He just tech'd you, he just tech'd you, come on

A technical foul is a personal foul.

-You have four fouls now. -[buzzer sounds]

[Kevin] A teaching moment.

That's great, but you got a technical foul.

That gave you your third foul, now this is your fourth foul,

and we have a whole quarter to play.

I'm glad you had something important to say.

You're gonna have to find moments to communicate that.

Do you hear me, Ash?

You've gotta stop blaming Coach Kev and everybody else

for not listening when you wanted to say something.

You've gotta let that go.

They scored seven points I had to say something.

And when you said something, is that gonna stop the run?

[Ashley] They put in the middle, and then—

-They did. -And they put over there.

So every time I go up, they always had—

-Right.

-They scored seven ..

Right. And Coach Kevin was addressing that.

Your team is all over the place trying to do this for you.

-[Ashley] Can I go back in? -You didn't tell me.

Can you do it without fouling?

[crying] I'll try.

Ashley, you don't understand.

The W doesn't matter anymore.

What matters is that we don't lose this team.

What matters is that they don't lose faith in you

and they don't lose faith in each other.

What matters is that you learn something from this moment.

That's what matters.

[whistle blows]

She's getting herself ready. Getting herself ready.

[Kevin] Compose, compose, compose.

[girls chanting] Defense! Defense!

Defense! Defense! -[Jayme] No offensive fouls.

[crowd cheers]

[Kevin] That's the one we want!

Brick! Brick!

Yeah! We ain't going nowhere!

Sit down! I'm proud of you girls.

Your leader needed to take some time to catch herself,

and you guys held it down.

[girls chanting] Defense! Defense! Defense!

[crowd cheers]

[Kevin] You're a sh**ter! Let's go!

Come on, Maddie, this is you!

Oh!

Yeah! Yeah!

[triumphant melody plays]

-[Jayme] Defense! -[Kevin] Legal!

[crowd cheers]

It's about being disciplined right now, for a minute-thirty.

Okay? And then we'll live wit—-

We'll live with whatever happens, right?

-[Kevin] Shot! -[buzzer]

-[whistle blows] -[crowd cheers]

[announcer speaks indistinctly over PA]

[Kevin] Right here. Hold your composure.

You go up. Hold your composure. You go up. Let's go.

[Ashley] "Wolves" on three.

-One, two, three. -[all] Wolves!

I was gonna call and check on you last night,

but I felt it was better to give you space.

Figured you would reach out to me if you needed me.

Yeah, I was just...

I didn't really talk to anybody yesterday, so...

That's okay.

That's why I didn't call.

Because you know, right, you can just always call me.

Come on, ladies, clean it up!

All right, captains, you have anything for us?

I just wanted to say that I'm sorry

for not being the captain that you guys wanted me to be

since the— since the beginning, and, um,

I'm working really hard to try and get to that point,

but I just want to say that you guys all...

did rea— did r-really good, um, like, collectively,

and you guys all helped the team in one way or another,

so good job.

[Jayme] It is a new day.

Absolutely. It is a new day, all right?

Okay, here we go, let's get after it.

Thanks, Ash, that was awesome.

[Ashley] "Wolves" on three.

-One, two, three. -[all] Wolves!

[indistinct chatter, cheering]

[Ashley] When I think of basketball, I think of...

my dad first, because he's the one

that taught me how to play basketball.

[dramatic melody plays]

He had a basketball game at a local park,

and during halftime, I shot the ball there.

And I made my second attempt, and then I told myself

that, like, "This sport's so easy.

I don't even know why people think it's so hard."

[TV announcer] The Bulls open, scoring first.

, ', I think Orlando Magic and Chicago Bulls,

I was watching on the semifinal.

Me and my brother, after they finished,

we get a basket, but there's no board.

And we make one.

That's how I started.

One of my wife's friends,

her friend said, "Oh, the girls cannot play basketball.

Why do you let your daughter play basketball?"

I think, "Why? Anybody can play basketball here," you know?

All I do is just training with her...

from : to : every day, Monday through Friday.

Doesn't matter if the gym's closed.

We come home, raining day,

she's dribbling in the garage.

"Make sure you've got a good handle,

and maybe one day that you're going to college."

She never complained.

Never want to go to, like, Disneyland,

never asked that.

[Ashley] My dad played in this league called Mofufus.

And then the ref came up to him while I was sh**ting

during halftime and was like,

"Hey, do you want your daughter to play on a small club team?"

And it was for Asian Ball.

I didn't know that, like, that

there was a league just for Asians.

So I was, like, super confused at first.

[man] Asian American Ball is fantastic

for fundamentals and teamwork.

The Asians teach,

and that's a big, big difference.

You have the Parks and Rec, and it's a joke

because they really don't teach.

This is Parks and Rec.

This is J Ball.

This is Club Ball.

So if you can play well up here,

this is where all the colleges are going.

When I first met Ashley, you knew right away.

She was the best ball handler in Southern California.

[Ashley] In fourth or fifth grade,

I was playing with my all-Asian team, SGV.

We were about to play this team,

and we walked past them,

and this one girl was like,

"Look, it's the ching-chong team.

They should go back to wherever they came from."

And surprisingly, all of us were born in California.

We ended up playing them.

And in the first five minutes, we were up by .

After that, every other team we played in that tournament

respected us.

I just know that, like, Asian Americans

get, like, looked down upon off any sport,

but especially basketball.

All the coaches I've ever had in my life has told me that.

Every college coach, every high school coach

will never choose me first.

I mean, that broke me down for a while.

I had months where

I didn't even want to play basketball anymore.

t that was the only thing that would keep me happy.

[Jayme] Right? So yesterday we covered sh**ting,

and today we are going to cover passing.

[Jayme] I started playing basketball at a very young age.

So I was probably about seven.

We come from a big family of Kiyomura kids,

first cousins,

and every single one of them played

in Japanese American basketball.

[dramatic melody plays]

Japanese Americans have been playing basketball

for a really long time here, like over years.

They continued to play during World w*r II

inside of the incarceration camps.

Post-World w*r II,

where Japanese people weren't allowed

to play publicly with everybody else,

and so they formed these leagues.

When I watch the little girls play today,

with their shiny, brand-new uniforms

and their brand-new Nike backpacks,

and they're wearing Jordans on their feet...

I see, like, all of the little girls before them.

Like the ones that, like, probably played in zoris,

had a ball that was probably half-deflated.

We've touched so many people.

We touched a little Cambodian girl.

That's the beauty of our league.

Like, in a place where they were discriminated against

they were like, "Oh, okay.,

Not Japanese? That's okay."

They wanted all Asians to play.

-[children] Two! -[Jayme] Three!

-[children] Four! -Five!

-[children] Six! -Seven!

-[children] Eight! -Nine!

This is my first time driving alone, Kendall.

-[over phone] Is it really? -Yeah.

-Call me later. -Okay, bye.

Oh, I'm so excited!

I want to live on a farm where there's no one around,

And I want two horses, because if my friend comes over,

they can just ride the horse with me.

There's so many things I want to...

Like, I've seen a house that has all of this,

like, on the Internet,

so it's like a big farmhouse type of thing.

But, yeah.

Like, stocks is really catching my eye,

but that— they're hit or miss, you know?

But I don't know. We'll see.

I still don't know what I want to do with my life.

[Jayme] Are coaches calling you directly yet? Okay.

So if they're not yet, they will be soon.

Now, when Ashley goes and visits her top schools,

like, she finally decides, "Okay, after these home visits,

after building relationships over the phone,

these are the schools I like,"

she can only go to maximum five official visits.

Those are gonna probably happen

just as soon as this club season is over.

It's a pleasure to meet you, to meet your family,

thank you for hopping on the call.

I know you're in between

naps and work,

so I really do appreciate your time.

I know this process is

ever-changing and ongoing,

um, but— And I know-

Ash is still trying to navigate

kind of what she wants,

what she likes.

I don't know how much you know about H..

but it's Harvard.

It is an opportunity that will change her life,

uh, you know, forever.

She's not, like, super, super smart.

It's just okay. I don't think that—

I don't know if she is able to get the good grades in school.

I think that I have a lot better relationship

with my dad than I do with my mom.

Like, one time I got an F on a quiz,

and then I told her,

and she was like, "I'm glad you told me,

but now you're grounded."

So if I tell her, there's always going to be a punishment.

And so I don't feel comfortable enough to tell her anything

that's going on in my life.

I don't know. A lot of things happened in the past,

and it's like...

I don't know why, I just can't get myself to forgive that.

And I don't know if that's just me being really petty.

[Lida] My mom raised me in Cambodia,

and I raised Ashley in here, so everything is different.

Pull it— pull it back just a little bit. There we go.

[Lida] My mom, my dad, they never tell, "Oh, I love you,"

or, "Mom loves you" or something, no.

We give Ashley a lot of love, but we just don't show.

[Jayme] Coming from the cultures that we come from

as Asian Americans, like,

we don't hug or show, really, that kind of affection.

We show affection by getting on our children

to excel at everything that they do.

That's our way of telling them that we love them.

It's hard because we're not in Asia.

Like, everything that we see around us is American.

It's different. And so when you—

Your parents aren't the way that you see other parents.

It's difficult.

If she remained in a school that there were more like her,

it would be less obvious that she's different.

But she's at Prep, she's on a club team

that costs thousands of dollars to participate on,

so there are not a lot of people like her.

So I think that's where the frustration,

the animosity, the anger, the resentment comes from,

is, "Why aren't we like everybody else?

We can't we be quote-unquote 'normal'?"

You're an absolutely normal first-generation American.

This is what we go through.

It's just the process she has to go through.

I can't speed it up for her.

I couldn't speed it up for me.

-You have coffee, honey, for me? -[Jayme] Sure.

Oh, let me see what else I'm going to do here.

[Jayme] Do you want to watch the video?

Of the quinceañera? Yeah.

[music plays on TV]

Oh, that's a cute picture!

Oh, there I am!

[Jayme] My mom and I have been through, like, so much.

And I think on so many levels,

that's why I can relate with Ashley.

[laughing]

She just had a moment, she was just like, "I'm sorry."

Like, "I wasn't a good mom.

I only went to see two of your games.

You go to all of your kids' games."

I said, "I go to all of my kids' games

because of the sacrifice you made for me."

I can only understand now as a mother

the internal conflict that she must've had every day

and the guilt

to be sitting here helping me fold laundry

and apologizing to me that she didn't come to my games.

[dramatic melody plays]

She literally poured every ounce

of what she had into my brother and I.

And growing up, I was still just so resentful.

Like, I was just so pissed off all the time,

why, like, she couldn't just go on field trips

like the rest of the moms.

Why my friends couldn't come over after school.

And my mom was like, "You can't come over

because there's nobody watching you. I can't be responsible."

I should've been more grateful.

But just...

gratitude is a hard thing.

[speaking in Spanish]

My mom being Latina, she didn't do silence.

[Jayme] I'm joking, geez!

You didn't sound like you were joking.

In the shouting,

we were still communicating.

It would've been much more difficult

if it was just silence.

[dog barks]

[knocks softly]

Ashley?

It's :.

[line ringing]

-[phone chimes] -Good morning.

Hey.

Oh, okay, outfit, okay? Outfit time.

So I'm worried about the blue one.

And then the jean shorts, I want to know.

But what necklace do I wear today?

-Which one do you have on right now? -The dolphin one.

But I think it's too small. I don't know. Can you see that?

All right, I have to go.

-Bye, love you. -Bye, love you. Bye.

[phone chimes]

Today's the last day of school. I have finals still,

but this is the only week my whole entire summer

that I don't have basketball.

I mean, I guess I never really liked school that much.

Like, I told Coach J I wasn't going to go to an Ivy League,

I know for a fact.

I grew up thinking people who go to Ivy League,

they're just nerds.

This is my dream house. Like, I—

Me and my friends love this house.

It's just like modern farmhouse. I love that type of thing.

It's so nice.

-Go k*ll that test now. -I will. I will, yeah.

-[Jayme] How'd it go? -It was fine.

I finished Chem in like minutes.

Oh, yeah, that's good.

Are you hungry? You want to eat first,

or do you want to open your birthday present?

-Open my birthday present. -Okay.

I actually have no idea what it is. I have— I don't.

Aw!

Oh, my God!

-It fits perfectly, I think. -Yay!

-Nice. -[conversation fades]

-This is good. You want some? -You'll get used to it.

-No, I can't. -It's super sweet.

My blood sugar's too high.

I know. Okay.

This is her first time having poke bowl, first of all.

And then she asked for everything on it.

I didn't know it was gonna look bad.

So I literally put everything on it.

Okay, so that is a real thing. That's not where you're at.

-Did you like it? -Yeah, I do.

-I'm eating, like, all of it. -Good job!

Just go wherever you think you'll be the happiest.

[Jayme] Oh, good advice.

-Like, when you pick. -Mm-hmm.

And then, like, go somewhere where you can actually, like,

see yourself getting along with the people there.

And especially your teammates,

'cause you spend so much time with them.

Okay, what about— Where do you want to be? Like...

-[Ashley] Not in California. -Not in California?

I don't want to send you to an area that's like,

there aren't that many Asians.

Like, that's just so— like you're the unicorn.

-I'll be fine with that. -I know you will be,

and I think the people around you will be.

-Uh-huh. -I just don't know, like,

the climate.

Like the surrounding area.

Sometimes you can go and you can see something

Then you're living there and end up at a Denny's,

and it's not normal.

[Ashley] I was really stressed about coming back

and playing basketball with the club

because I haven't played in so long.

The last game I played with the club was literally two years ago.

I feel like my worthiness as a player has gone down.

Like my value has gone down.

I'm like— Like, I want to prove a point.

A major setback won't hold me back.

[dramatic melody plays]

[man] You're one of the best players in the world.

The United States has the best players.

You're on the EYBL.

There's teams that are EYBL.

You're on one of the teams. You're on the top level.

You're one of the best players in the world.

You have to act like it.

[Ashley] Everybody wants to play in the Nike EYBL.

And every single college coach knows about it.

[man] As an injured athlete,

it's very simple for college coaches

to disregard you or...

even forget that you exist.

She could be forgotten very easily.

Enjoy this moment. Not many kids get to experience this. You do.

[Ashley] The competitive level

is just ten times better and harder.

[George] You're playing Indiana Gym Rats.

They're a great program.

The players are super smart.

The coach is great.

Their tradition of basketball is real.

It's Indiana basketball, okay?

Which is better than anybody else's basketball.

These kids can sh**t, they're smart,

they know how to set screens, they focus.

You have to put it all together against a team like that.

I love basketball! I love basketball!

[juicer whirring]

That's a good court. I've never been there.

That's a big one.

Come on, ball! Grace, out!

[suspenseful melody plays]

Yeah! Good job.

Good screen. Good roll.

Ow! Good.

[George] All right! Go!

[whistle blows]

[George] Ashley!

[Ashley] No.

Her job as a point guard is to ensure

that they keep the possession.

She's not patient enough. Sometimes it's just too rushed.

[George] Go hard, see if you can score!

Hit it!

[girl] Nice job!

[Lida] Whoo-hoo! Good job.

How much time is left?

-Ten seconds. -Ten seconds.

One more stop.

[suspenseful melody intensifies]

-[Ashley] The game's over! -[whistle blows]

-Done. Over! -Yes!

Oh, yeah! All right, we gotta score in the three.

-[all cheering] -[George] Good job.

-Yeah, yeah. [laughs] -[indistinct conversation]

I was hoping I'd see a bright yellow shirt for Michigan,

but I didn't see it.

[people chattering indistinctly]

[dramatic melody plays]

[inaudible dialogue]

What size does Coach J wear?

I'm proud of where I— Like, where I came from

when I was little, just because I was a little Asian girl.

And now I'm playing at literally the highest level

anybody could ever play at in high school.

Coming out of this, I'm really hoping to get ranked,

because you don't see that many people that are Asian

that are ranked on ESPN,

and I wanted to show people that I could do that.

I want people to see that even if I don't play well,

it's not just because I'm Asian.

It's because I'm just having a bad day.

[birds chirping]

[Jayme] We're going to make a spreadsheet.

Name of the school, the coach, the location.

I bet you don't even know where some of these places are.

-I don't. -You little poo.

Okay, so let's start—

Let's just start in the Ivy because it's easy to categorize.

Also, I don't want to stay in California.

I don't want to stay on— in L.A.

Your dad's not going to knock on your door. Neither is your mom.

-I know. -And you're gonna have

all of the autonomy that you want.

They're not probably, unfortunately,

even going to be able to make it to a lot of the games.

'Cause that's too far for them.

[somber melody plays]

[cheerfully laughs]

We're so happy you're here!

You've got to be

very proud of your daughter.

What an exciting time for her.

We're just honored that you were able to come,

because we knew that she hadn't gone on a lot of visits.

So the fact that she's on these visits is big-time.

Ashley, how are you?

[upbeat melody plays]

[Ashley] Anybody that visits colleges,

unofficial or official,

they take you around on campus...

I wanted to talk to you kind of about

all the different Asian Pacific Islander orgs we have.

Like, how many people do you see that are like us?

If you wanted to play professionally,

I think you could. Our job is to help you achieve those goals.

Ah! Ah!

That's amazing.

[Ashley] They put you in a jersey to take a photo sh**t.

I don't know, it just feels like

you're like a celebrity, which is pretty cool.

You're special.

You can pass, score, defend.

You're solid, really a leader. You lead by example.

I'm also really easily influenced.

I love campus. I like it a lot, actually. Yeah.

I feel like for me, it's still so hard to know

what I want or what I don't want.

[chanting indistinctly]

[drums playing rapid rhythm]

[band playing fanfare]

[man] Right here, this is Bear territory!

[Lida exclaims]

Your work ethic and your quickness and your physicality,

we look at you, and we're like,

"You're a guard that could hang in the Pac."

We also talked a lot about playing fast.

You were like, "That's something I want to do."

You do it with the Storm.

In Chicago, you just get downhill, get tough,

and you finish that.

I didn't think that I would like this place as much as I do.

-[coach] Ooh! -It just feels like a family.

-It feels like home for you? -Yeah, a little.

-Good, good. -[Jayme] Like, why not Cal?

I was just wondering why you guys came a little late?

Yeah. Yeah, fair question.

-You didn't play last year. -Mm-hmm.

We did see you young.

I actually saw you last year on the bench cheering your team on,

being an amazing teammate.

But you weren't playing.

When we started watching more,

we were just like, "I think Ashley fits that piece."

I feel like you wouldn't let me.

Not that I wouldn't let you. You owe it to yourself.

You've earned the other visits to go and see.

-Mm-hmm. -Not that I wouldn't let you.

And that's— If this is the place for you,

you'll feel it even more strongly afterwards.

[dramatic melody plays]

Mine!

They got all the things that I liked, 'cause they asked me.

-Like this one? -[speaks indistinctly]

[Ashley] I like how Princeton is in a college town

and it's like a college town

and everybody who is around Princeton loves Princeton.

And everybody who has been to Princeton loves Princeton.

[indistinct conversation]

[woman] They want you to not survive here,

they want you to thrive here, to be successful.

From, like, a nutritionist to a sports psychologist

to the writing center,

to a tutor for every class you could possibly want.

So Ashley would have a tutor for any class...

Yeah, we have— we are-

We are graduating three guards right now.

I would love for her to come in,

and play alongside her old teammate from Flintridge

in Kaitlyn Chen.

[indistinct conversation]

I really want her to go to Berkeley.

Close home.

I can go watch her,

my brother— Take my brother maybe.

My son or my wife.

It's kind of far for me

to come here unless...

Have to sell my donut shop. [chuckles]

It's hard because she just can't possibly understand

the sacrifices that everybody's made.

The way I see it, I don't—

She's not ready yet to commit.

For today, no, I don't think so.

I'm trying not to say the words when I'm next to him.

-You better talk to your pops first. -I already did.

-What'd he say? -He didn't say anything.

I said I'm not going to Cal.

But be patient a little bit.

[Jayme] Do you hear me?

Say, "Yes, coach, I hear you."

-Yeah, coach, I hear you. -Thank you.

-But, like, now. Now.Now.

[dramatic melody plays]

[shoes squeaking]

Keep sh**ting, baby. Keep sh**ting.

[Ashley] I told Coach Berube, I was like,

"I can't say the words in front of my dad

because I feel like he needs more time to process this."

And then minutes later, I was just like,

"Coach Berube, I want to commit to Princeton."

And she was like, "Yeah, let's make it happen."

[Berube exclaiming]

[Jayme laughs]

I committed. So... I think it was a pretty successful trip.

I think that I never had, like, a time where I wasn't happy.

My mom texted me like three days later

after I committed.

But, like, I, like— We didn't talk in person.

[Lida] I want more time with her.

I want close to her, more.

Sometimes I just want to talk to her...

more, like— like...

I want her to tell me what's inside,

what her feelings inside.

[somber melody plays]

I don't think, though, she's going to tell me.

And sometimes I want it, but I can't talk it.

I feel, like, frustrated.

I need time.

'Cause I lost time with Ashley. That's a big...

big mistake.

The time that you miss it...

you can't get it back.

[line rings]

-Hi, Ethan! -Hi, Mommy.

-What you doing? -Play toys.

Play toys?

-Bye, Mommy. -Okay, I love you.

And now we have Ethan.

So we have to show him that we love him a lot.

Hi, Ethan! Give me hug. [laughs]

What are you doing? Give me hug.

Who's that? Hi!

[Lida laughing]

It's okay, mm-hmm. Yeah.

-With your hand? -[babbles]

Mmm!

[both laugh]

[Baov] You broke it.

[laughs] Oh! Oh! Close it. Oy, oy, oy!

-Be careful. -[Baov] Where'd you go?

-[Baov] Where'd you go? You were gone for so long.

[Lida] Oh, that's my boy!

[Lida speaking indistinctly]

-No. -[Baov] No?

-[Lida] No toy? -[Baov] No toy?

[Lida laughs]

[Lida] Sorry! Sorry.

[both grunting playfully]

-[Ethan] Mm, six. -[Lida] Mm-hmm.

-And seven. -Uh-huh.

-[Baov] I'll do it. -Mommy!

-Are you sure? -Yeah?

It's easy, It takes like ten minutes.

Fix ramen noodles.

-I can't eat that. -Huh?

I can't eat it.

It's only one time.

No, I've already ate bad like this whole week.

-[Ethan exclaims] -Okay.

[music and chatter on TV]

[ball bouncing, indistinct yells]

[Jayme] You never feel fully prepared,

even though you've been doing this forever and ever.

Still, the first day is super exciting.

We're following Ashley and Izzie's lead.

Ashley's our only senior,

and Izzie's our junior captain.

Part of the excitement is we have three new freshmen

who are actually basketball players.

All three players probably have been playing

since they were five years old.

They all grew up as J.A. players.

So that instantly raises what we can teach,

our basketball I.Q. -Hustle up!

[Ashley] Good job, guys!

-Hmm? -Do you get it?

-Uh, do I get what? -Do you understand this?

-Yeah, yeah, yeah. -Okay.

-What's your name again? -Audrey.

Audrey? Okay, that's easy to remember.

Good job, Claire.

[Jayme] I know we haven't set team goals yet,

but I think it's important for the captains

to have not just an idea,

but they need to be like-minded and on the same page.

This is different from when I said this last year

and my sophomore year, where I was like,

"I think that we have a chance to make CIF."

I feel like that was really unrealistic.

That was a goal that I wanted for myself, not the whole team.

I feel like now we actually have the talent to win CIF this year.

"Wolves" on three, "family" on six.

-One, two, three! -[all] Wolves!

-Four, five, six. -[all] Family! Ay!

-[Christmas music playing] -[indistinct chattering]

[yips softly]

[indistinct conversations]

Okay, what's the toast? Wait, what was the toast?

Uh, to a... to ring.

-So true! -[all exclaim, glasses clink]

[Jayme] Hear, hear!

[Ashley] My family doesn't celebrate Christmas

how, like, other families do, I guess.

Like, I just... I really don't like being home.

It just doesn't feel like a holiday at all.

["Hummingbird" by Dengue Fever playing]

Hello! Happy New Year!

[indistinct conversations]

[Baov] Anything else today?

♪ Hummingbird

[Lida] Anything else?

♪ Cased inside my chest

Happy New Year.

♪ Endlessly beating its wings

♪ It never gets a rest

[laughs]

[song continues in Khmer]

[all exclaiming]

Where are you? Happy New Year!

-Oh, my gosh. Happy New Year! -[man] Happy New Year.

I have two more to come.

Chinese New Year and Cambodian New Year.

[man] Oh, that's right!

The way we do this is we let the grandparents go first.

-[man] Yay! -Or if you're a senior.

You have to eat at least one black bean

if you want to have good luck.

[exclaiming] Hi!

What do you want in it?

-Um, I want all of it in there. -All of it?

Oh, yeah!

That's my half-Japanese, half-Mexican nephew.

Thank you!

[electronic doorbell dings]

[geese honking]

[indistinct conversations]

The last time we played them last year,ovidence.

we actually lost two games to them.

Ashley being a senior, I really hope

that we can show that maturity and show that, like,

kind of that page-turning from where we were last year.

-f*cking come! -[girl] Go!

[whistle blows]

-Yeah, Prep! -[girl] Go, Prep!

[Ashley] Oh, my f*cking God!

-[Jayme] Ash. Ash. -I am kind. I got it, I got it.

I'm kind. I've got it.

[announcer speaks indistinctly over PA]

[Ashley] Maddie, Maddie!

-[crowd gasps] -[all cheering]

♪ Island woman rise walang makakatigil ♪

♪ Brown, brown woman rise alamin ang yung ugat ♪

♪ They got, they got nothin' on us ♪

-♪ Aye! -♪ Nothin' on us

-♪ Aye! -♪ Nothin' on us

-♪ Aye! -♪ Nothin' on us

♪ Island woman rise walang makakatigil ♪

♪ Brown, brown woman rise alamin ang yung ugat ♪

♪ And they got, nothin' on us ♪

-♪ Aye! -♪ Nothin' on us

-♪ Aye -♪ Nothin' on us

-♪ Hey -♪ Isang bagsak!

♪ I take that shot, I'm a savage... ♪

[cheerleaders] FPS!

[all exclaiming]

♪ On the concrete nothing can stop me ♪

♪ Island woman rise, walang makakatigil... ♪

[crowd cheering]

[Kevin] Keep it tight! Love it!

-♪ Aye! -♪ Nothin' on us

-♪ Aye! -♪ Nothin' on us

-♪ Aye! -♪ Nothin' on us

♪ Island woman rise, walang makakatigil ♪

♪ Brown, brown woman rise alamin ang yung ugat ♪

♪ They got nothin' on us

-♪ Aye! -♪ Nothin' on us...

Good job. Celebrate this with your families.

Make sure everyone hugs their mom and dad.

-League champions! -[all exclaim]

[people chattering, ball bouncing]

[Jayme] All right, so if everybody wants to stand up

as we go ahead and introduce

the Chea family.

Father, Baov,

-mother, Lida... -Go.

...brother, Ethan, and Ashley!

[crowd cheering]

[people chattering indistinctly]

I know, sorry, guys. I'm so sorry.

[all cheering]

All right, so thank you guys so much for coming in.

We think it's really important to celebrate our senior.

[Ashley] I just feel like now that it's senior year,

I feel like I'm appreciating a lot of things

I didn't appreciate before.

Like, I don't know. I'm just trying to, like...

make the best out of every day before I have to go.

[reading] "To my parents and family, thank you for pouring

all of your time and energy into me

and providing me with you do for me goes unnoticed.f s

Your commitment to me and my life

is the best possible gift.

Coach J and Coach Kev, you guys have taught me

how to be a leader, teammate, and friend all in one.

That is the biggest thing I could leave this place with.

I love you guys."

[crowd applauds]

[Jayme] I can say that of course we're gonna miss Ashley,

but we're going to miss just having Lida and Baov,

it's just been a tremendous honor to coach your daughter,

whom I love very much.

Izzie, I believe you're doing the first reading.

So this is from her parents.

"Dear Ashley, from the first day that we knew

you were coming to our family, we were nervous,

excited, worried, and had a lot of things running in our minds."

[dramatic melody plays]

I know it's a hard thing to say, but I don't want to, like...

Like, especially before college, I don't want to be, like...

thinking about having to, like, be okay with my mom.

That would add just more pressure into my life,

and, like, if we're not at that stage by, like,

before I go to college, then it's just, like,

okay, I did that, and she's on the other side of the country.

I can't do anything about it now.

Elbows under, wrists back, and then you want it here.

You have a pad, right?

So it should be here, not here. Here.

Okay, one.

Two.

Three.

[dramatic melody plays]

[Jayme] You are more than prepared, okay?

We have it in the tank, okay?

You guys have premium gasoline in your tanks.

We didn't even go to Arco. We went straight to Chevron.

We filled you up with the best gas we could.

-[man] Who'll win? -[chanting] I believe

that we will win! I believe that we will win!

-I believe that we will win! -[buzzer]

[crowd cheering]

[Ashley] Before CIF, like, we were all pretty confident,

but we didn't know what to expect

because our league is nothing like CIF.

Like, I think we all didn't understand what was, like...

Like, coming to us.

[suspenseful melody plays]

[Kevin] Go! You got it, Gabbie!

[Jayme] There it is. Layup.

[whistle blows]

[man] Your ball! Let's go, let's go!

[indistinct yelling]

[Kevin] Let's move the basketball.

If we start running our stuff, you'll get the basketball.

Everybody's scared to pass it.

Get us in the flow!

-[Kevin] Come on, Ash! -[Jayme] Go, Ashley!

Izzie, Pressley, let's go! My two guards.

[whistle blows]

Those were just the beginning jitters.

Now they're out. Now they're out.

[girl chanting] Defense! Defense! Defense!

[crowd cheers]

Defense! Defense! Defense!

[crowd cheers]

[Kevin] Why are we not stopping the layup?

We're not guarding the house, we're giving them the key!

[crowd cheers]

[Jayme] Izzie, not too early!

Clock management!

-[crowd cheers] -[announcer speaks indistinctly]

-[buzzer sound] -[crowd cheering loudly]

[all cheering]

That's right!

Look, this is uphill.

This is uphill. This is not like League:

"Who's our next opponent? Could be bad, could be good."

No, we're going uphill now.

They only get better.

[dramatic melody plays]

I just get nervous in general.

-What if something happens? -[Jayme] Like what?

-I don't know. Anything. -What if...

[Jayme] What if the worst thing happens?

We'll still be a team.

[whistle blows]

-[crowd cheers] -[whistle blows]

[Kevin] Go, go, go! Go, go!

-[crowd cheers] -Yes! Yes!

-[buzzer sounds] -[whistle blows]

[dramatic melody intensifies]

-[indistinct yelling] -[Kevin] Nice pass!

[crowd gasps, cheering]

We're a team! We're more than just Ashley, okay?

We're not decoration!

[girl] That's it!

-[Kevin] Boom! -[all cheering]

[Jayme] Free throw! Free throw!

-[Kevin] Don't expect the foul! -Free throw!

[overlapping yells]

[crowd gasps]

-[Kevin] Yeah! -[crowd cheers]

-[whistle blows] -[buzzer]

[all cheering]

"Wolves" on three, "family" on six!

-One, two, three! -[all] Wolves!

-Four, five, six! -[all] Family! Ay!

[indistinct conversation]

[somber melody plays]

They're the number one seed.

Well, now we're here.

Do we want to stand on the top?

[Jayme] Have we played our best basketball yet?

-[all] No. -[Kevin] That's the crazy thing.

That's the crazy part. I know that to be true.

And I know that we're peaking at the right time.

[Ashley] Coach Jayme and Coach Kevin have prepared us so much

for this moment, and I just know that it will pay off.

No matter the outcome, I just know

that my team will pull it out one way or another.

[Jayme] We don't look badass.

[laughing] We look like a bunch of misfits out there.

We look like I went on campus and went,

"Hey, you, can you catch?" Like, "Hey, you, can you jump?

Come and play basketball." Like, nobody fears us.

We walk into the gym and people laugh.

ey're like, "This is the Flintridge Prep?!"

I'm like, "Yep, this is us."

[crowd cheering]

[announcer over PA] The Flintridge Prep...

[cheerleaders chanting] Go, Prep!

[indistinct yelling]

-[all cheering] -[announcer speaks indistinctly]

[girls chanting] Defense! Defense! Defense!

[crowd cheers]

-[Jayme] Pick her up! -[Kevin] Pick her up! Hands!

[all cheering]

[Jayme] Rebound! Rebound!

[indistinct yelling]

[Kevin] Hands!

[all cheer]

Here it comes, here it comes!

[whistle blows]

-[Jayme] Key up, key up! -[Kevin] Come on Gigi, back up!

-[crowd cheers] -[announcer speaks indistinctly]

[dramatic melody plays]

-[Kevin] Get out! -[Jayme] Olivia's, um...

[whistle blows]

[crowd cheers]

-[Kevin] Hey, what did she do? -Moving screen! That's a—

-[Kevin] Ref, hold on. -[buzzer sounds]

That girl ran into her!

Can you explain it to me? Then she ran into her.

-She was dribbling this way. -She got there first.

[Kevin] Are you kidding me?

[crowd cheers]

-Horrible call, Ash. -[buzzer sounds]

[indistinct yelling]

[crowd cheers]

[crowd cheers]

Yes! Let's go!

[buzzer sounds, then whistle blows]

Every single time Ashley came off,

our team, somone stepped up so big.

[Ashley speaks indistinctly]

We have someone who is borderline in foul trouble.

We protect that person by staying on the offensive end.

-Do you understand me? -[all] Yeah.

[indistinct yelling]

[Kevin] Be solid with it. Back!

[girls chanting] Defense! Defense! Defense!

-[Kevin] Time-out! Time-out! -[whistle blows]

Communicate! It's defense first!

Pick it up, right now!

-"Wolves" on three! -[Kevin] Game of runs!

Go in!

[Jayme] Call the foul!

Call the reach, please!

-[Kevin] Yeah! -[all cheering]

[Kevin] They gave Ashley a foul. Now she has four.

[Jayme] Yeah. Go get Ashley.

They gave the wrong foul to my number .

-What number does she have? -It was on number .

You called offensive foul on .

You have to go back. She gave 'em number .

Okay, so we're going to keep it that way?

That was her fourth foul

-I just want to let you know. -Can you ask your partner?

-She wasn't in the play. -She wasn't even there.

[Jayme] No, they gave Maddie's foul to you.

There's nothing I can do.

You're gonna play.

But you know you cannot foul at all!

Good job!

[Kevin] Knock it down.

[all cheer]

D up! D up!

[Jayme] Pass her the ball.

[dramatic melody intensifies]

[all cheering]

[Kevin] Finish the play.

[all cheering]

[screams excitedly]

[all screaming excitedly]

[crowd cheering loudly]

[all exclaiming]

-Champions! -[all exclaiming]

Let's go!

We want to go to State, don't we?

-[all] Yes! -"Family" on six!ht?-[all yell]!

-One, two, three! -Wolves!

-Four, five, six! -Family!

[all shouting joyfully]

-Ashley, the jet is— -Go.

-[girls scream] -Oh, my God!

Don't do that, please! Please, please! Please, please, please!

We're freshmen! We're young people.

["Better Than Revenge" plays over phone]

Playing Taylor Swift.

[girls chattering indistinctly]

♪ She had to know the pain was beating on me like a drum ♪

♪ She underestimated just who she was stealing from ♪

♪ But-but-but-but she's not a saint ♪

♪ And she's not what you think ♪

♪ She's an actress, whoa [laughing]

So the goal was to win CIF Championship.

That goal is done.

State is different.

[announcer over PA] The starters for the Wolves.

[crowd cheers]

A junior, number , Kassidy Huie.

[loud cheers]

And a senior, number , Ashley Chea!

[loud cheers]

[indistinct yelling]

[crowd groans]

-[whistle blows] -Time-out taken by Wolves.

-[cheerleaders chanting] -[Jayme] Whatever you give me,

the team's going to give me back. Let's go!

-Defensive stops! -[girl] Come on, Maddie!

[Kevin] Get on it!

[all cheer]

[Kevin] Squeeze! Squeeze!

[all cheer]

[Jayme] Eight, seven, six... -[Kevin] Cut, cut! Cut!

["Tip My Canoe" by Dengue Fever playing]

[all cheering]

All right, who feels like going on a little road trip to almost Mexico?

Nacho!

[all yelling]

[dramatic melody plays]

Takedown number one, takedown number one. Let's go.

[girls] Defense! Defense!

[announcer speaks indistinctly over PA]

[chanting] Pick me up! That's it! You go!

[Ashley] This game means a lot to me because

I've come so far in high school

and only getting to play two seasons of it...

and to be able to get to where I am today is just incredible.

[cheering]

[crowd cheering]

[audience member whistling]

[whistle blows]

[chanting indistinctly]

[dramatic melody intensifies]

I think I was just thinking if this was my last game,

I can't end it on a bad note.

-One quarter. -Let's get ourselves back.

Come on, let's get ourselves back.

[Jayme] Pass it!

-Go rebound! -[Kevin] Come on!

Let's not set each other up for failure.

Let's go. We're not going out like this. Come on!

Hold it together!

Let's go, let's go!

[Kevin] You all got a feel

for what it's like to be a champion.

But now we have to feel what it's like to go home.

[Jayme] We had this amazing high.

Then we just kind of got to ride the wave a little more,

and that was really nice.

The world is so, so big.

Like, this basketball thing is just...

miniscule to what they're going to do in life.

[trumpet plays fanfare]

[students chattering]

[man] The CIF Division Three Player of the Year,

nominated to McDonald's All American,

one of the John Wooden

High School Basketball Players of the Year,

Ashley Chea.

[dramatic melody plays]

[Ashley] I think I've grown the most this year as a leader

and just showing my teammates that I could be somebody

that they can trust and be comfortable around

on and off the court.

[in unison] We love you.

Just being a role model and, like,

I hope that somebody follows in my footsteps

and takes the place that I had this year.

And maybe, like, they'll do more than I did this year.

I just hope that I, like, created this, like, persona

of, like, Ashley, and I hope my teammates see it.

And it's like, "Oh, my gosh, we are going to miss her."

Not because of, like, basketball-wise,

but, like, "Oh, we are going to miss Ashley the person."

This is like my "maybe.” And those are my "maybe" too.

This is too many jackets, huh?

[sighs] Okay.

I'm leaving for college in two days, on Saturday.

And it's hitting a lot more than I thought it was going to.

so I don't have to say bye till then.mily's coming with me,

It's broken.

[Baov] Let's go, we're late!

Okay.

[dramatic melody continues]

["Unbreakable" by Ruby Ibarra playing]

♪ Every time I feel that I'm about to lose my purpose ♪

♪ Moments where I deal with being tested at the surface ♪

♪ Got me climbing hills until my confidence resurfaced ♪

♪ Everything I've built, put in the work ♪

♪ So I deserve this, everything I am ♪

♪ I lay it out, this is the moment ♪

♪ Everything I can, I play it out on my opponent ♪

Go, Ash! That's it!

♪ Me versus me, a better me, that's what I'm hoping ♪

♪ See, that's the key, I'm confident they taking notice ♪

♪ 'Cause this is my time, flight time, prime time ♪

♪ Fighter in my bloodline, forever in my lifetime ♪

♪ Practicing from daytime to nighttime till do time ♪

♪ The champion just woke up, in my mind it's showtime ♪

♪ I'm unbreakable

♪ I'm unshakeable, never gonna stop ♪

♪ [song continues]

Like, is this, like, the ending scene

where it's like, "Cut," and then—