best basketball movie??

Again riding on the coat-tails of Brian, and Gray's blog about best football movie i thought i'd bring this up. While I wasn't there in Memphis (and from the sounds of it, i wish i was), I was there in panama city when Brian broke out the hickory jersey (we also went by hickory since we were a hodge podge of interns) and made me one for the black-top tournament. Following Allen Iverson's philosophy of shooting as many shots as possible, we rode Brian's back to the championship. I don't think we would have won it though were it not for the constant Hoosiers quotes being thrown around. The game went on forever b/c u had to win by two, when we up like 17-16 dying for this to end we got the ball, huddled up (Carlton took a quick puke break) and Brian looked at us all with our hands on our knees and simply said "I'll make it." ---and He did. I think i cried that afternoon, just like everytime I see Dennis Hopper in the hospital say "...and Son, kick their butts."


Now clearly we are all in agreement that Hoosiers is best basketball movie of all time, I would even argue best sports movie. There just havn't been that many good basketball movies like their have been football movies (unless your from the Bronx or West Philly and only wear 'AndOne' clothes). So what follows in the footsteps of Hoosiers??????? Please contest or agree:

2. The Pistol

3. Glory Road

4. White Men Can't Jump

5. Hoop Dreams


I'm really unsure about most of that, but I think i do stand pretty firm on 'The pistol' being #2. Still, Hoosiers is legendary. How amazing was it in the 1991 Final Four When Coach K quotes "After he makes the second free-throw" in the last time-out. If the DVD "The Answer" qualifies in this category, we have to re-think everything though.