Jump Shot

I wish I could take responsibility for it as I think it's a sweet little documentary. It was just something I found online.
 
It was nicely shot and produced but bait-and-switch documentaries are a low form of propaganda. I would have liked it a lot more if it had actually been about the jump shot or up front about its real subject matter. For me it left a bad taste in my mouth after the 'switch'. It's not an anti-religious sentiment on my part, by all means touch on it since it is part of his story. But then come back to the purported subject. The jump shot and basketball is the smaller part the story here.
 
I love it. Because this is the kind of approach I take in producing material for my Parish. But this is well done.
 
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Actually, I am being unfair to it. It would depend on the context in which this is being shown. If it is being shown in a church or a place where the content is expected then it is totally appropriate. Coming to it cold I just wanted to know more about the jump shot and his role in it, which was only lightly covered. I'm not even into basketball but the first couple of minutes had me wanting to know more about a groundbreaking moment in the development of a sport. I was interested to know more about the socio-political context of the time, from the footage it appeared to be a more segregated time in history and would have been interesting to explore that and relate to the current era. A lot of places that could have been explored but weren't. Then the story expanded to the latter part of his life and never really came back to it. That left me really disappointed. The invention of the jump shot could have been a jumping off point for a full 30-45 minute documentary.
 
Beautiful, really enjoyed it nice pace, great shots, thou the God Squad thing kind a came up abruptly...then it is the God channel :-)
 
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