[crowd cheering]
[yells]
[whistle blows]
[yells]
[man] Come on, Shy!
That's talk. That's not tough.
[Coach Dre] I don't know what y'all came here for,
but if you came here for the cameras,
if you came here for the celebrity life,
if you came here for the shoes,
if you came here for the uniforms,
you came to the wrong place.
[crowd cheering]
[commentator] Curbelo from bonus distance!
[fan 1]
[fan 2]
[woman]
Okay. The needles...
[Bronny]
[woman] ...are not gonna hurt.
They are thinner than your hair.
Okay? So that's how thin of needles we're working with.
I'm all about communication.
So if anything feels uncomfortable, just let me know.
- Okay? - Yeah.
[woman] All right.
[woman]
[Bronny]
- [woman] - [Bronny]
[woman]
[BJ] Lowest moment of the season was that LuHi game.
It was just so much tension going into that game.
I feel like mental health
is the most important thing a person needs.
[Shy Odom] Mental health is by far the most important step
to success for Sierra Canyon.
I myself went through a couple breakdowns
throughout the season, thinking I couldn't do it.
It was the ultimate sacrifice, but it's for the greater good.
And all the struggle can't be for nothing.
If you're not mentally there, like, you're not gonna...
you're not gonna accomplish anything.
[Brandon] I meditate a lot.
I try to look at certain quotes and stuff
just to, like, guide me through the day.
[woman] Deep breaths.
Take your time getting up.
[Ziaire] The meditation
definitely just keeps me locked in.
It relaxes me.
If I miss a shot, got a turnover,
okay, let me... [inhales]
...take a deep breath in, relax, get my mind back in,
my mojo back, and then just start back hooping again.
[Ziaire] Everyone has their own way of going about things,
but mental health plays a big role
not just in, like, basketball, like, how you deal with people,
how you introduce yourself.
Like, that all plays a big role.
[Z Wade]
Bro, y'all don't get how this works.
I'm gonna have to teach y'all, man.
You're popular right now,
high school, you get all the media.
College, there's no cameras.
There's barely no cameras in college.
So all that's gonna be gone.
You'll get buckets at any D1 college you go.
You're not gonna be forgotten about.
Ja Morant went to Murray State.
He was the number two pick in the draft.
[man] Talk to him about it, Rif. Talk to him louder!
Dame Lillard went to Weber State.
Where is that? I don't even know where that is.
That's Dame Lillard.
You're Z Wade! You're Z Wade!
[man] Talk to him about it.
Some motivation.
[laughs]
I love you, man.
Let's play, man. Let's play basketball.
Please, get me to the hoops!
Now my ankle's good...
[Z Wade] I always say that it's meant for me.
I was born into this, you know. I didn't have a choice.
So it is what it is.
I just gotta be great at it.
[indistinct chatter]
[music playing]
[crowd cheering]
[announcer] Zaire Wade.
[commentator] Zaire Wade,
trying to find his place
in this Sierra Canyon team.
[announcer] At guard, a senior, number two, Zaire Wade.
[crowd cheering]
[commentator] Well, it's gonna be interesting to see how
Zaire handles playing the point guard position.
[commentator 2] A real chance for him
to flourish tonight.
[Zaire] Basketball is about momentum.
It's about confidence.
It's about opportunity.
So when opportunity comes,
you can't shy away.
[Zaire] Can't worry about if the injury is gonna come back.
Can't worry about what the coach is gonna think
if you miss a shot.
You just gotta play right through it
and continue to believe in yourself, really.
Ah.
[man] Yeah, Z Wade!
[crowd cheering]
Yeah, Z Wade!
[man] Yeah, Z Wade.
[commentator] They feel that they know each other this year.
Here's Ziaire Williams, kicks it and...
Zaire Wade.
[commentator] Deadly pass by Z Wade.
[man] Ooh!
[commentator] Z Wade hitting from beyond the arc.
[announcer] Zaire Wade.
[buzzer sounds]
[whistle blows]
[commentator] That's gonna do it.
An incredible night for Sierra Canyon.
[commentator] 117-62.
It was a blowout.
What a convincing win for the Trailblazers.
[commentator 2] Sierra Canyon just came out
and took care of business.
[all cheering]
- Hey! - Yes, sir! [grunts]
[man]
Me?
[man] Z Wade, let's go.
Oh, oh, oh.
Do I have time to change clothes or no? No?
[man]
[Z Wade] I just remember before the games,
Z Williams be there, telling me, like,
"Yo, this is one of the chances
to prove that you should be out here."
I was ready.
- How are you, man? - Good, man.
Coach Dorsett, North Carolina A&T.
- All right. - But I'll be back though, my man.
- Keep doing it, all right? - Yeah.
- Stay on top. - Yeah, for sure.
[man]
Aah! Don't say that.
Ah, don't get me hyped up right now, dog.
Damn, dog, not in front of the cameras.
[man]
We learn a lot every time we lose.
With the LuHi game, you know, after we lost that game,
you know, it got everybody on the same page
and everybody on the same goal.
The tough conversations are what makes you a man
and what prepares you for life.
So we are not going to shy away from it.
We are always going to run directly to it,
deal with it, and move forward.
That was conducive to, like, all of us coming together,
because you can even see, like, some players and coaches
that, like, may have had, like, their little tension.
All that got thrown out of the way.
That moment right there really helped us
come together, really, from coaches and players.
It just helped us become a stronger team.
It helped us be trustworthy of each other.
It helped us try to trust each other in hard moments.
Players being able to express how they feel
means that coaches care.
I'm excited. I'm definitely ready, prepared.
I'm prepared for it.
You know, this week, I'm getting in the gym.
getting ready so I can, you know, play in front of my family
at my best.
[crowd cheering]
First game back in Boston, it was a great vibe.
You know, I just felt good about, you know, being home
and knowing that I'm gonna see family.
For Shy, it was definitely difficult for him,
especially in the beginning.
You know, me and him used to talk.
He used to be like, "Damn, like, I miss home."
You know, he's still young. He's, like, only 16.
He might seem like a big kid, but he's still...
still really young.
It'd be difficult for him.
Like, he'd always...
When I'd be around him,
he'd always be on FaceTime.
I would kill to go back home, man,
play in front of my family and my home...
my home crowd.
It was just heart-warming to see, like,
him do his stuff in his own city.
[Shy Odom] It was kinda like best of my both worlds, you know.
I got all my guys from Sierra Canyon
and I also got, you know, my family, I'm back home.
It was like me being in my dream land.
Just in terms of seeing everybody, I'm ready.
You know, I'm ready to say what's up.
[Coach Dre] Shy! Shy!
[Shy]
those first couple minutes of the game
where I didn't see her, it was always like,
you know, I don't know where she's at.
Like, maybe she...maybe she's a couple minutes away.
Maybe this happened, maybe this happened.
Once I did see her...
Let's go, Shy.
[Shy Odom] ...everything just kinda relaxed,
calmed down.
I could go back to being me.
Listen, I be telling him just dunk everything.
Like, don't think about it.
Get your buckets, get your dunks,
'cause you're capable.
You got the potential.
[commentator] Shy Odom, man,
he's explosive this game,
even though he's a sophomore.
You mentioned that
he was a borderline ESPN 25.
Like, show people why you're here.
Like, you're not just, you know,
this passive player that just throws passes.
Dunk on everything.
[crowd cheering]
There you go, baby!
Let's go, baby! Let's go!
[commentator] Nothing shy about that from Odom.
[crowd cheering]
[Shy's mom] Let's go, baby!
[commentator] Bronny James fires underneath.
Excellent pass.
Laid in by Shy Odom,
who's got 20-plus family members here.
He grew up in Roxbury,
about an hour and half away from here.
[Shy Odom] That's what I love to see.
I love to see my family behind me,
because they've been behind me this whole time.
I just wanna put on a show for them...
[crowd cheering]
[commentator] Shy Odom... yet again.
[crowd cheering]
...and make 'em proud.
[chatter, laughter]
I love playing for the team, and all the attention is crazy.
The energy in the gym is wild.
Like, it's...it's a once-in-a-lifetime type thing.
[commentator] This one's over.
And it is a team win.
[all cheering]
[crowd cheering]
[Shy Odom] That day, that feeling...
that really meant the world to me.
[Shy's mom] I needed him to have a game like this
just to bring his confidence back,
with all his family around.
[woman] I was about to cry.
Bro... you threw that--
- you threw that way out of... - I know.
You made me get a highlight.
Aah! Look at this! Look at this!
Three claps.
[all clap]
[all] Yeah!
Hey, listen, great job today.
I'm very impressed with the way you guys are working.
Keep on pushing, keep on grinding for each other.
I love to see you guys supporting each other,
so keep that up.
Get some, BJ.
[BJ]
[Shy's mom] I love my son.
He's my only son.
And the sacrifice to follow his dream,
because he has the potential to be great,
is a blessing of an opportunity.
[Shy Odom] You know, I think about it every day,
what my mom did just for me.
It makes me feel like she's really 100% with me,
and I'm with her,
because I feel like it's something
that's gonna help me
and help us in the long run.
Yo. Shy's the limit, man.
#Shysthelimit. That's our hashtag.
- Shysthelimit. - Yeah.
You okay, cousin?
[Shy Odom] All the people who've just, you know,
been around me my entire life, I just...
I don't see me being me without them.
I couldn't see it.
[all cheering]
[chanting] MVP! MVP! MVP! MVP!
[Shy Odom] After the game, I had a lot of emotions
going through my mind.
[indistinct chatter]
[Coach Dre] I try to be sensitive to the fact that, you know,
he wants to stay and spend time with his family.
But he has to understand and look forward at the calendar
to know what's coming.
If you are a CEO and you're spending time with your family,
and there is a company event that you have to go to,
you have to be disciplined enough to go,
even when you don't want to.
You have to understand that...
the kids are still in high school.
You know? He's a sophomore.
They are young men moving into adulthood.
[laughter]
So we have to treat them as kids,
but also prepare them to be men.
You just call me "dumbass"?
[Coach Dre] If I can teach them to have tough conversations,
I think that that's preparation
for the next level of their life.
Oh, don't hit me.
Why you do it?
[laughter]
I'm their first line of defense against life.
Let's three-clap us winning league championship.
[players clap]
[all] Yeah!
[Coach Dre] All right, this is our first championship of the year.
[clock ticking]
We get in the playoffs, every game is a monster.
Us taking care of our bodies is going to be imperative.
You being mentally locked in is going to be imperative.
So let's make sure we don't have no hiccups.
I don't wanna hear nothing from the school. Nothing.
When we get in the playoffs, we go into lockdown mode.
We don't talk to parents. We don't talk to administrators.
We don't talk to teachers.
We don't talk to anybody during playoffs.
So please don't make me have to talk to a teacher.
Do what you gotta do.
Can you turn the camera off?
[clock ticking]