:21:11
Mr Dale, I wanna talk to you.
:21:14
Leave him alone, all right?
:21:16
He's a real special kid and
I have high hopes for him, and...
:21:22
if he works really hard, he can get an
academic scholarship to Wabash College
:21:26
and can get outta this place.
:21:28
- You have something against this place?
- For him, yes, I do. He could do better.
:21:34
You know, if Jimmy's as good
as everybody says he is,
:21:37
I'd have thought a basketball scholarship
would have made a lot of sense.
:21:41
Who'd ever see him play?
:21:43
The only thing that comes into Hickory
is the train, and it's here for five minutes.
:21:50
Basketball scholarship... A basketball
hero around here is treated like a god.
:21:54
How could he ever find out
what he could really do?
:21:57
I don't want this to be the high point of
his life. I've seen 'em. The real sad ones.
:22:01
They sit around all their lives talking
about the glory days when they were 17.
:22:06
You know, most people would kill to be
treated like a god, just for a few moments.
:22:11
Gods come pretty cheap
nowadays, don't they?
:22:14
You become one by putting
a leather ball in an iron hoop.
:22:17
I hate to tell you this, but it's only a game.
:22:19
Why so unfriendly, Miss Fleener?
:22:24
Well, I know men like you.
:22:28
You don't know anything about me.
:22:30
I know you're here.
:22:33
I know this place doesn't
even appear on most state maps.
:22:39
A man your age comes
to a place like this, either...
:22:43
he's running from something
or he has nowhere else to go.
:22:46
What I'm doing here
has nothing to do with you.
:22:50
Just stay away from Jimmy.
:22:54
I don't want him coaching
in Hickory when he's 50.