About 6:30 into the first episode, a local coach, Tamara Awartani, praises a pioneering American player, Dante Hunter, whom she says has a great heart and has been very supportive in an environment that can be so disappointing.
And it occurred to me that while there are a tremendous number of people out there who are really good at coaching or playing and are lucky enough to do that, that's not nearly enough, right?
By that I mean, Dante and Tamara may be amazing coaches or players. But that's not nearly enough to build a career. You need all kinds of perseverance, and an ability to connect with all different kinds of people.
What Dante and Tamara are doing in that gym -- persevering in the face of long odds -- a lot of really great people are doing all over the world.
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It's a funny thing, isn't it? In many ways, basketball is a really rich sport. But it's not like there are people out there handing opportunities (gyms, players, uniforms, transportation, hotel rooms) to people just for being good coaches.
By contrast, if you're a doctor, it's generally understood that you will expect to work somewhere that already has jars of tongue depressors and that little rubber hammer for whacking kids just below the knee. If you're a basketball coach, there's a good chance you're also someone who knows about sweeping, and sweet talking people into donating basketballs.
The point being: The way basketball works all over the world, if you want to do one thing (coaching, in this case) you have to be really good at a whole bunch of other things, from counseling and janitorial services to fundraising and making the right friends.
And in a lot of cases, I suspect, how good you are at those "other things" may matter more to your long-term success than how well you can coach.
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