Why was Ray Allen given the "He Got Game" role?

[Eastside Get The Money]

Lowkey Kobe would have been horrible too but are we gonna act like Jesus didn't give the woat performance
Really showed me how good of an actor Denzel is

 

[75 Others]

those assistant coaches at Big State

 

[DrX]

This scene always cracks me up how that nikka got his ass whooped

Lol I love this scene and this movie

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

This thread getting me all nostalgic and shyt...love this movie.

 

[Henry Orbit]

 

[dontreadthis]

The 1st option was Allen Iverson. Spike Lee even said it himself.

lmao word? this movie is already a classic for us but this would have taken it to the next level of black movies

 

[UpAndComing]

Ray Allens acting was so bad it made the movie great...


It's like before they'd film the scene, he'd ask for the line cuz dude sounded like he was reading directly from the script, no kind of passion whatsoever, THATS what makes it classic to me...that and Denzel's acting. Me and my homies laugh at Ray every time we see it (maybe once/twice a year lol)

I been laughing at this quote for the past 30 min

 

[Jplaya2023]

They wanted cam'ron to play the role but he turned it down

"ai yo B you aint my pops B, fukk outta here"

 

[IsThatBrothaMouzone?]

I've always said this too. He was too country sounding. Side note: I thought Rick Fox's role was funny

Bumping this thread because I'm watching it RIGHT NOW lol!

Ray's issue is that he was an army brat that grew up all over the world (born in California, spent time in the UK/EU and then high school in South Carolina). Of course he spent 4 years at UCONN.........so you get a guy with a clear accent but it doesn't really sound like New York at all. He only had 8 weeks of practice but I think he could have nailed it with more time tbh.

Honestly think A.I. could have captured the feeling better than anyone but Ray being 6'5" and a great shooter would look a lot better on film than Iverson....since A.I. is "listed" at 6'0" but was probably more like 5'10". Denzel is shorter than Ray but not THAT much shorter, since 'Zel is a reasonably tall-ish breh himself (maybe 6'1" I'm guessing).

Rick Fox is a pretty good actor tbh. If you didn't know who he was, you'd think he was just some regular actor with a supporting role. Think it's because he delivers his lines the way a person would actually talk in real life. Ray was delivering lines but he didn't sound like himself...if that makes any sense.

 

[Ziggiy]

I want a basketball movie based off the Walter Dean Myers novel Slam.

It would be

Either that or Hoops woulda been

 

[UpAndComing]

Bumping this thread because I'm watching it RIGHT NOW lol!

Ray's issue is that he was an army brat that grew up all over the world (born in California, spent time in the UK/EU and then high school in South Carolina). Of course he spent 4 years at UCONN.........so you get a guy with a clear accent but it doesn't really sound like New York at all. He only had 8 weeks of practice but I think he could have nailed it with more time tbh.

Honestly think A.I. could have captured the feeling better than anyone but Ray being 6'5" and a great shooter would look a lot better on film than Iverson....since A.I. is "listed" at 6'0" but was probably more like 5'10". Denzel is shorter than Ray but not THAT much shorter, since 'Zel is a reasonably tall-ish breh himself (maybe 6'1" I'm guessing).

Rick Fox is a pretty good actor tbh. If you didn't know who he was, you'd think he was just some regular actor with a supporting role. Think it's because he delivers his lines the way a person would actually talk in real life. Ray was delivering lines but he didn't sound like himself...if that makes any sense.

I think all of this was overblown. I didn't mind Ray's acting in the movie, didn't do that bad

The movie was great regardless

 

[Professor Emeritus]

While ray wasn't the best actor I appreciated how spike used a real basketball player for the movie instead of an actor that can't hoop.

Basketball movies with actors who you can clearly tell they're not a baller are the woat. Struggle dribbling, dunking on 8 ft rims, cut aways to an extra playing basketball, close ups of their feet, the actor doing a struggle jumpshot and a cut away of just the ball going through the rim

Having Jesus played by ray Allen made the scene where Jesus played Jake for the letter much more powerful

Leonardo Dicaprio as a sought-after high school prospect was one of the worst decisions ever.

 

[Po pimp]

This scene always cracks me up how that nikka got his ass whooped

Denzel did the same thing to those crackheads in Training Day

 

[010101]

last option*

 

[threattonature]

Bumping this thread because I'm watching it RIGHT NOW lol!

Ray's issue is that he was an army brat that grew up all over the world (born in California, spent time in the UK/EU and then high school in South Carolina). Of course he spent 4 years at UCONN.........so you get a guy with a clear accent but it doesn't really sound like New York at all. He only had 8 weeks of practice but I think he could have nailed it with more time tbh.

Honestly think A.I. could have captured the feeling better than anyone but Ray being 6'5" and a great shooter would look a lot better on film than Iverson....since A.I. is "listed" at 6'0" but was probably more like 5'10". Denzel is shorter than Ray but not THAT much shorter, since 'Zel is a reasonably tall-ish breh himself (maybe 6'1" I'm guessing).

Rick Fox is a pretty good actor tbh. If you didn't know who he was, you'd think he was just some regular actor with a supporting role. Think it's because he delivers his lines the way a person would actually talk in real life. Ray was delivering lines but he didn't sound like himself...if that makes any sense.

The only problem with AI is he ain't always the smoothest talker to be an actor but everything about him would've been perfect for that role. I think Kobe too because they both had that cockiness and swagger to them that would've added a little something extra compared to Ray. Ray was stiff as hell with his acting but the movie was great regardless. KG probably would've best captured that angry at the world scenes but I think KG was probably too raw at that point. Imagine young KG making the rounds doing interviews for this lol. Even old ass KG is too raw to be let loose imagine him at that age.