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Message: [QUOTE="nwhoopfan, post: 5084996, member: 7894"] Just saw "Rez Ball" on Netlifx. A bit cliched as sports movies can be. Apparently it was at least loosely based on a book. It was set on the Navajo Reservation, although the book was in Chinle in Arizona and they moved it to Ship Rock in New Mexico. About a high school basketball team struggling to continue with their season after their star player takes his own life (he lost his mom and sister the year before). It's about a lot more than basketball though, follows several characters, both students and adults. Among the cast there were two from the series Dark Winds. Jessica Matten was the coach and Ryan Begay was the father of the star player (that guy has tough luck, he lost a child in Dark Winds too). Amber Midthunder was in it too but she had a very minor part. Anyway I liked it, thought it was fairly well done. They got some real ballers for small roles. Nicole Kornet played at Oklahoma and UCLA, she portrayed the girls coach at Ship Rock. Pretty sure there have been multiple Kornets, even multiple generations, that have played college and pro hoops. The superstar from the rival school who they played for the state title is a guy named Sam Griesel. I wasn't familiar with him but he was at North Dakota St. for 4 years and then grad transferred to Nebraska. [/QUOTE]