Coach Carter (3/9) Movie CLIP - Push-Ups and Suicides (2005) HD

CLIP DESCRIPTION:
The team shoulders the remaining drills assigned by Coach Carter (Samuel L. Jackson) to Timo (Rick Gonzalez) in order to help him earn back his spot on the roster.

FILM DESCRIPTION:
The true-life story of a coach who tries to teach his players that there's more to life than basketball is brought to the screen in this sports drama. Ken Carter (Samuel L. Jackson) was once a star player on the Richmond High School basketball team in Richmond, CA, and years later, after establishing himself in publishing and marketing, he returns to the school and to the team as the new basketball coach. Carter quickly sees that his work is cut out for him -- the team is having an awful season, and their fights off the court are more decisive than their play on the court. While Carter wants to make the Richmond cagers into a winning team, he also wants a lot more -- to teach the boys to respect themselves and one another, and that they must excel in the classroom as well as in the gymnasium. Under Carter's guidance, the team turns their losing season around, with the state title a genuine possibility. However, when Carter learns that a number of his players have let their grade point averages slip below 2.3, as mandated in a contract he entered into with the students, he decides to lock the team out of the gym and send them into study hall until their marks improve. Carter's plan quickly becomes a subject of controversy among parents and team boosters, and their objections are soon picked up by the local news media, many of whom are not sympathetic to Carter's belief that his players must have goals beyond college ball or the NBA. Coach Carter also features Rob Brown and Rick Gonzalez as members of the team, and R&B diva Ashanti in her film debut as the girlfriend of one of Carter's players.

CREDITS:
TM & © Paramount (2005)
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Rob Brown, Robert Ri'chard, Rick Gonzalez, Nana Gbewonyo, Antwon Tanner, Channing Tatum, Texas Battle, Clyde Goins
Director: Thomas Carter
Producers: Thomas Carter, David Gale, Nan Morales, Brian Robbins, Caitlin Scanlon, Sharla Sumpter, Van Toffler, Michael Tollin
Screenwriters: John Gatins, Mark Schwahn

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[XELITExXxGHOSTX]

Greatest quote i have ever heard, "You said we're a team, one person struggles we all struggle, one person triumphs we all triumph."

[Sultan]

The real MVP is Clyde and his counting skills.

[DwightKoh]

A lot of people say this is cheesy, I say this is noble teamwork.

[___]

The heartbroken look on Crews face when Coach tells him to get out gets me every time. And when the team steps up makes it that much more powerful

[Miki_vaniki]

The way the last dude was like "I'll do sum too"😂😂he only got like 5 at this point

[tmphunk]

That last guy is like "Fine, I'll look like a douche if I don't don't do any."

[noreensumey]

We're a team, one person struggles, we all struggle... One person triumphs, we all triumph.
One of the best scenes ever.

[ARMON]

"You will live, eat, breathe and sleep as a team. The word I is no longer in your vocabulary do you understand?"

[KarateSpencario]

Maybe he woulda been more comfortable if he wasn't wearing 2 shirts

[jacobsherman]

This scene made me cry. It really shows the players have changed a lot ever since Coach Carter showed up.

[jessesegel]

I've done some calculations. Based off of a clip of Mr. Cruz doing pushups, he does roughly one every second. 2500 pushups, minimum 2500 seconds, or 41.67 minutes. Now the suicides. The average basketball court is 28.6512 meters long, and the distance to the foul line is 5.7912 meters. This would mean a total running distance of 71.628 meters per suicide. He is tasked to do 1000 suicides, so, in total, he would run 71, 628 meters. If the average jogging speed is 2.2352 meters per second, it would take him a total of 160, 102.9056 seconds to do the suicides. That's 1.85304289 days of continuous running. I don't know what day he was given this task, but assuming the basketball period is 1 hour, it would take 44.4730293 days to complete it, taking him long past Friday. Taking into account that this is the absolute minimum amount of time it would take him, as we are not considering the effects that fatigue would have on his speed or the amount of time it would take him to stop and turn around during the suicides, Coach Carter was correct in saying that Mr. Cruz’s task is impossible.
Edit: My calculations here are wrong. As I posted this three years ago, I can't really be bothered to fix the mistake. Feel free to try and find it for yourself, or just read the responses to this comment in which somebody already pointed it out.

[eamonnlogue]

I like how earlier in the film it shows Cruz and Lyle fighting the most, and Cruz and Worm getting along the best. However in this scene when it was time to stand up for Cruz, Lyle was the first to say something, and Worm was the last... makes you think

[kyleschwartz]

I love this scene. In the beginning all of these kids had huge egos and they thought they were better then one another. They later bounded over this season and became not only teammates but friends.

[shaquanbeverly]

"I'll do some too" he knew that he didn't want to do that shit LOL

[AuyongProductions]

1:27 the dude to his left is trying not to laugh

[ghostface]

I loved this scene because Cruz is the dude that bullied the team constantly and tried to make up for it by befriending his victims the team has no right to do what they did but they chose to because they saw him truly trying to change and decided to take up his punishment to show him that they forgive him

[michaelcueva]

Definition of teamwork and perseverance that Kobe showed the world.

Farewell Kobe and Gianna. Ball in Gods Paradise

[crossbone]

The guy with a black headband on 1:30 was laughing, anybody notice that? LOL

[dylencitta]

The actor struggling to keep his composure at 1:30 for the scene is epic. 😂🤣

[tooicey]

Greatest qoute i have ever heard, "You said we're a team, one person struggles we all struggle, one person triumphs we all triumph.