Oscar Williams

Gabe Kaplan plays David Greene, the coach of a Nevada collegiate basketball team. The local talent is pretty pathetic, so Greene convinces a group of jive-talking New York street kids into playing for the college.

Gabe Kaplan plays David Greene, the coach of a Nevada collegiate basketball team. The local talent is pretty pathetic, so Greene convinces a group of jive-talking New York street kids into playing for the college.

A New York delicatessen worker talks his way into a position as head basketball coach at a Nevada college. He accepts the job on the condition that he can bring his street-wise New York City players with him. The players are standouts on the court but lost in the classroom which leads to trouble.

In contrast to most of the violence-laden "blaxploitation" films of the period, this low-budget effort eschews exploitation for humanity and domestic drama. Leonard Jackson plays a barber who is also the domineering head of a middle-class African American family. Jackson is forced to rethink his values when his previously docile wife joins their three children in rebelling against her husband's retrogressive behavior.