Wolves

-You saw that? -Yeah!

Yo, that nigga jammed it on his dome, man.

Yo, man.

I told you to stop saying stupid shit like that.

-I'm a minority. I can say what I want.

And that nigga dunked it on his head.

-You can't say shit like that. You not a nigga.

You got it, nigga?

-Whatever. Hey, man, we should get a team and come out here.

-Yeah, man, if you wanna get killed, we can come out here.

Oh-oh, got it.

-One of these guys supposedly played with the nets for a year.

I bet that's him. -What?

Back in the day with j-kidd, right?

No wonder that nigga is so nice. -Yo, practice.

-What did I just tell you about saying that shit?

- Hey, yo, Saint. -Yeah?

-Hey, you know if that coach from Cornell is comin' again?

Yeah, I think so.

-Alright. -Hey, ant.

You should Jack that move, yo, show off your handle, you know?

Ha! Ha! Ha!

Yo, watch that shit.

How do you eat that right before practice?

-'Cause that nigga don't play, that's why.

-Shut up. -"Shut up! Shut up!"

Man!

-I'm gonna fucking kill you! I'm gonna fucking kill you!

-Why are you usin' me? -Gonna kill you, bro!

Take it, take it!

You don't wanna be last, hakim! You don't wanna be last!

Muscle up!

Taste it!

Muscle up, muscle up!

Stop!

White, red. Gimme, uh, five on the clock.

We're gonna work the offense.

Clean, crisp passes.

Otherwise you will run until you throw up.

Garbage can's in the corner.

Yo.

You heard jimenez dropped 42 last week?

-So what? Saint's done that before.

-Yeah, but the whole team had 50.

-Well, I guess he didn't have a lot of assists then, huh?

Hey, Dunn.

Go red. And I want you guarding Anthony.

Ian, you down there.

-Let's do this then, motherfucker.

- Alright, hustle up. Intensity, intensity. Let's go.

I got red.

Come on, hakim, lead 'em.

Let's go! Look alive! - Keep movin', guys.

Keep movin'.

There you go.

Easy.

-I'm sorry. -Alright, bitch.

You'd better not get too tired.

-Let's go. Let me see some defense. Get low.

-Hey, coach, which should I run?

-Golden state. -Come on.

-I'm coming for you! Ah, fuck.

Aah!

-Hey, Dunn, Saint's lighting you up!

Play defense!

That's fucking it for you!

Right here. Right here.

Way to go, Billy!

- Hey, Saint, toughen up, man! -It's like all day!

Ooh! Barbecued chicken, bitch!

-We gotta get him used to getting hit

'cause everybody's gonna do that.

Run the offense.

You're not even gonna see

the fucking ball anymore.

-Is that so? -I'm like glue.

Like white on rice. Like me on your girl.

-Come on, come on. Swing it, swing it, swing it.

There it is.

Hey, shooter..

Shoot the ball, shooter! He's gotta shoot that.

-I know you're only passing it 'cause you're scared.

Oh, I got the mouse!

I got the mouse in the house!

Mouse in the house!

-Get on the floor! Get on the floor, that's it!

Goddamnit, Billy!

-Hey, sorry I'm late, dad. -Yeah.

You gonna be able to record it?

Yeah, I'll do it on my phone.

No, it sounds like shit.

Last time i could barely hear it.

-I'll plug it directly into the mic.

It'll be good. It'll be good. -Yeah.

Hello, everyone.

Uh, tonight, we will continue our series

on fiction writing.

Tonight's topic will be..

"Bringing a character to life.

The novelist as midwife."

Please help me welcome professor Lee Keller.

-Thank you. Thanks for your Patience.

What goes into defining a character?

Is it their actions or..

...is it what they feel inside?

Hopefully in fiction, it's both.

Were there a lot of people?

-Well, their advertising budget is about enough

for a bagel and a cup of coffee, so surprise, there weren't.

-Everybody was pretty engaged though.

-Yeah? -Yeah.

You should buy an iPad, dad.

You could do the slide show right

from there and record it too. It would look nice.

It's really cool. -Good idea.

-And it'd probably be on time too.

Wouldn't it?

Right? -Yeah, probably.

Anybody from your class come?

-What is this, an interview? No.

There wasn't a single, solitary soul from my class.

Maybe if I was lecturing about how to tweet

while instagramming, they would be there.

-I'd really like to learn how to do that.

-Oh, yeah? It's dead simple. -Mm-hmm.

-Let me tell you. Blah, blah, blah.

-So, um, it looks like I'm gonna get

that promotion to senior manager.

-No way. -Yup.

I mean, it'll mean weekends, but the pay is good, so..

-You charmed them into it, didn't you?

I don't know.

I can't say I blame them.

-So are you gonna tell me what happened?

-Elbow. -Hmm.

Billy? -Yeah.

Mom, I'm, I'm eating.

-Well, he is aggressive, but you need that on your team.

-You have like a burning desire

to look at it from all sides?

I do. Hot, hot.

Hey, get up.

I'm gonna show you how to avoid being elbowed.

-Lee. -What?

Lee, we're, we're eating.

-Come on, it'll take ten seconds. -Can you just..

-Alright. - Alright.

So I'm you and you're bill.

You got it? -I got it.

So I'm the shooter. Right?

And I'm the man, bro.

You can't stop me. Right?

I'm gonna light you up.

Jesus.

Oh, back it up.

Back it up!

Yeah, punk. Punk. Right?

So, uh, I got the ball, you know, I'm gonna shoot.

Where you gonna be? -I'm gonna be right here.

-Oh, well, what's Anthony gonna do?

Huh? You gonna shoot it?

-No, not with the defender right here.

Wrong.

You are gonna shoot it. Like this.

-Lee! -Whoa.

Jesus.

That's not my foul.

-Honey, you alright? -I'm fine, I'm fine.

-And nobody's ever gonna guard you that close again.

Guaranteed.

-I'm gonna go get you some ice.

-Why are you getting him ice? He said he's fine.

Right? -I'm, I'm fine.

I don't need ice.

Take this, please.

-So, um, what's going on with your novel, dad?

- Well, I had a major breakthrough.

I'm gonna rework the entire beginning

and give every character their own chapter before they meet.

-Hmm. -Yeah.

-That sounds great. -Mm-hmm.

-Does that mean a lot more work?

-It just means throwing a bunch of shit out

but if you're afraid of work, you're not a writer.

- Yo, Saint, man, Billy fucked you up.

-No, man, I'm good. I'm good. -No, it's not good, man.

If we don't got you, we don't win, so he's gotta back off.

-Or I'm gonna lay that nigga out.

-Hey, what'd I say about that, man?

-I mean -- I mean, i will lay him out. -Stop.

Alright. -Yo, hey, ant.

Try to get us up by a lot on Friday, alright, so I can get in.

Yo, my aunt Janice is coming from tarrytown

with her daughters, and they are hot.

-Whoa! -So I want them to see me play.

-Yo, that shit is gross, man. -What?

Those are your cousins, bro.

-What? -What's up?

-No, it's not. That's not true.

-Yes, it is. Those are your cousins.