"I never would have said, 'I'll make it.' “I don’t think people realize how talented these actors are and how much work goes into it. Back To Topics. What a … “I don’t know if it’ll make any change, but I figure it’s time for me to start playing ball.” Then, after announcing his return to the team after a self-imposed exile, Chitwood adds, “There’s one other thing: I play, coach stays; he goes, I go.” In the climactic scene, shot at Butler’s Hinkle Fieldhouse, Chitwood wears a pained look as Dale sets him up as a decoy on the final play, finally telling the coach, “I’ll make it.” “What you see is what actually happened,” Indiana-born director David Anspaugh says on the DVD release of the movie. When his mouthpiece gets knocked out and he picks it up and smiles at the other fighter you know it’s on.I don't know why Frank didn't recruit Jimmy Chitwood, the kid can shoot !! “I tried out three years in a row,” Maris Valainis says, “and I got cut three years in a row.” But as Jimmy Chitwood in the venerated 1986 film “Hoosiers,” Valainis calmly sinks the game-winning jumper to give the Hickory High Huskers the 1952 Indiana state title. You can’t take it for granted.” A former scratch golfer who walked on to the golf team at Purdue but didn’t make it into matches, Valainis worked in golf-course management before landing his current job. One of the 5 best sports movies of all time. Jimmy Chitwood I’ll make it. “When I’m playing, yes,” says Valainis, whose picture-perfect shooting form can still be seen in Southland pickup games, “and when I’m out sometimes too. George Steinbrenner once told the filmmakers he’d seen “Hoosiers” about 250 times. “If I’m in a social situation, I’ll get a lot of, ‘You look really familiar to me.’ And then finally someone will figure it out, which is amazing to me that 25 years later people would remember. 8. But Valainis, though portraying the star player, was not the star of the movie, which featured Gene Hackman in the lead role, supported by Barbara Hershey and Dennis Hopper. !So is Miracle...I keed. "I was a very shy kid," Bobby Plump told the Washington Post in 1995. I swear when he says “I’ll make it” I nearly get tears in my eyes every single time. And the fact that coach Dale changes the entire play because he knows Chitwood’s gonna sink the shot is amazing. “We all took that to heart, and I think it really showed up.”Newsom takes a more cautious and stringent four-tier approach than his first reopening effort. One was Kobe Bryant, leading to a round of golf with the Lakers star. Valainis, 47, says that even NBA players have done double takes when meeting him. “I enjoyed it — when I got work,” says Valainis, a construction consultant who lives in Costa Mesa with wife Sheri and their two young daughters. I like the 1970s anti-authority ones...Bad News Bears, The Longest Yard, Slap Shot. And, even though parts of it are terrible, the actual game/Pele sequence in Victory is awesome.Posted on Jun 12th, 9:50 PM, , User Since 169 months ago, User Post Count: 0Posted on Jun 12th, 9:52 PM, , User Since 169 months ago, User Post Count: 6,038Posted on Jun 12th, 10:14 PM, , User Since 32 months ago, User Post Count: 1,291Posted on Jun 12th, 10:22 PM, , User Since 80 months ago, User Post Count: 5,837Posted on Jun 13th, 5:05 AM, , User Since 119 months ago, User Post Count: 29,690Posted on Jun 13th, 5:43 AM, , User Since 68 months ago, User Post Count: 966Posted on Jun 13th, 6:03 AM, , User Since 16 months ago, User Post Count: 658Posted on Jun 13th, 6:26 AM, , User Since 170 months ago, User Post Count: 4,116Posted on Jun 13th, 6:40 AM, , User Since 139 months ago, User Post Count: 58Posted on Jun 13th, 6:41 AM, , User Since 119 months ago, User Post Count: 3,629Posted on Jun 13th, 9:53 AM, , User Since 80 months ago, User Post Count: 5,837Cinderella Man is one of my top 5 favorite movies ever.
In reality, Coach Wood told Bobby Plump to take the final shot all along. Reply. The teammate, who is uncertain of himself, looks to Jimmy, prompting Jimmy to say with confidence to his Coach, "I'll make it."