Character Analysis : Coach Carter And The Richmond High Basketball Team

Ken Carter displayed the most leadership in the film Coach Carter. He broke rules and explored boundary’s that helped turn an adversity basketball team into a dream team. Coach Carter Transformational leadership factor was Intellectual Stimulation. This factor includes leadership that stimulates followers to be creative and innovative, by challenging their own beliefs and values as well as those of the leader. The Richmond high Oilers had to develop new approaches and innovative ways of thinking in order to become a winning basketball team. The first thing Coach Carter made them do was run. He told them that their problem was not being able to shoot baskets but that they were tired running up and down the court. After getting there stamina

Coach Carter is a sports drama based on a real life experience of a former Richmond High alumni and basketball coach, Ken Carter, who became known in 1999 for benching his entire basketball team, undefeated until that point for poor academic standing. It is though this film, but

Coach Steve Rocker is one of the most successful high school basketball coaches in Kentucky’s history. Coach Rocker was very successful in previous years. Strangely, this year was very different for him. For the first time in his professional life, he is falling short of his expectations, the community expectations, and the team’s expectations. His team lost a lot of games, but most importantly the boys had no motivation or desire to bring the team out of the rut they found themselves. His players have lost their will to win, their love for their teammates, and their passion to play. Coach Rocker’s motivational methods that have always worked before and resulted in success are now failing, and he doesn’t know why. He argues that his players have become selfish and bored with winning because they have been so successful in previous years. “And there’s no question that my guys have lost their drive to win because they’ve won so much in the past. Now all they want is individual ‘wins’…which just doesn’t cut it on a team” (Gongwer, 2010, p. 17).

“The battle you are going through is not fueled by the words or actions of others; it is fueled by the mind that gives it importance” – Shannon L. Alder. The novel, Hoops by Walter Dean Myers, follows the life of Lonnie Jackson, a high school student from Harlem who has an unusually impressive talent for playing basketball. Lonnie’s goal in life is more than just being one of the best players to ever hit the court; for Lonnie wishes to create a new life for himself– one that is free from the struggles of Harlem streets. This goal along with his environment bring constant conflicts in Lonnie’s journey, which gradually develops his character from self-centered to compassionate. Lonnie’s professional relationship with Cal Jones as well as his bond with Paul and Mary-Ann guide him on how to both become a respected player and how to grow up into a noble man.

My father, Jason Katcher was my Coach for nine years. We have had our ups and our downs. Through all these years of sports there are these unfathomable moments in time that will be frozen in to my mind. One of these moments was for the championship in a football tournament. My team and I needed a touchdown to when the game. I hear the fans screaming, my heart is pounding, the other team is nervous, I look up less than ten seconds left, forty-five yards to go, I look left I look right like I do before every play and then I look at my coach.

The article Higher Education by Gary Smith is about a basketball coach who changed the lives of a whole community. Perry Reese Jr. was a black basketball coach in Berlin, Ohio which used to be one of the most Amish settlements in America. Many in the town wrote him off because of their racist views. What they didn’t know was that one day he was going to be the man that created magic in that small community. He was not only a coach but someone who genuinely cared for all of these people, breaking the traditional views of segregation and life all together.

In 2010, Penny’s childhood best friend, Desmond Merriweather became ill with cancer. To help his friend out, Penny Hardaway assisted Merriweather in coaching his son’s basketball team at Lester Middle School. Eventually Desmond Merriweather became too sick to head coach so Penny took over. He started a tutoring program that was mandatory for all players, and as a result, their GPA improved drastically. He was not only helping out a dear friend and serving as a role model for those young boys, but he was also contributing greatly to his hometown.

When Benny was a baby everybody knew that there was something special about Benny since the day that he was born. As Benny got older older basketball became his passion, he loved everything about the game of basketball. When Benny was growing up in school it was apparent to see that Benny was always stronger, bigger, taller, and faster than all the kids Benny's age. Before Benny went of to the University of Duke as the #1 recruit in the nation Benny had accomplished a lot of things. In high school Benny started on the varsity basketball team and in all four years in high school, Benny won 4 state championships in a row, and never lost a game, Benny never lost in anything, Benny always won in everything he did.

While Lebron has always dominated the NBA for 14 years, he had to overcome his own challenges both on and off the court. Like loosing two NBA finals with the Cleveland Cavaliers. He had to overcome everyone doubting him and him doubting himself. Also, he had to overcome all the critics and mad fans when he left Cleveland to go to the Miami Heat. People called him a traitor, coward, and selfish when he left Cleveland. The Cavaliers owner, Dan Gilbert, wrote a public letter addressed to LeBron calling him a coward and heartless. LeBron talks about how he felt when he left Cleveland and how depressed he was because it seemed like everyone was mad at him. However, he pushed on and went to the Miami Heat with the support of his family and friends.

Coach Carter is a 2005 movie which was based upon a true story. The movie underlines the social structure and stratification of life in the American ghetto. The theme of the movie is the outcome of such societal boundaries on this group of students who play basketball; how it outlines their life, affects their social life and also their life goals. The movie depicts a Structural-functionalist of society

The second one is from Larry Bird: “He is a person who can make me feel that he eventually would be able to transcend our all in the alliance”- Larry bird

In this film, we see how it examines the insights of many of the players who are involved with the true story of the TC Williams High School. It also shows us the insights of the coaches and their hard work to bring together a legendary, exciting, and winning football team as the athletes struggled to overcome their differences, and the members of the entire community as they witnessed this team in their

This book touches on a stern coach who wants more than basketball from his team. He wants educated men with a purpose in life. Coach Carter approach is hard but fair he expects his team to stand tall on life choices and holds everyone accountable for their actions. When he begins teaching the variety basketball team at Richmond high he was

Someone in my life whom I have always considered as a hero is Coach Cavitt. The three characteristics that describe Coach Cavitt are generous, honest, and respectful. So let me explain how these characteristics illustrates him with a couple of examples.

Bill Garret—the forgotten pioneer who broke the color-barrier within college basketball and paved the way for so many black athletes to follow—fought a constant battle on and off the court against ignorance, racism and discrimination all too often. Bill grew up in an integrated community although racial segregation was “just the way things were” in this town. Nothing was ever said directly, the rules and social expectations had been set in place since before their time and nobody dared change it. Bill Garrett was the perfect example of just how hard you have to fight to change social barriers and norms. How hard you have to work and act in order to succeed in a system that sets you up to fail. Throughout Getting Open, we see Garrett’s transition