After the Shot Drops

After basketball practice, Bunny is at a meeting with his coach and teammates analyzing the Bishop Jackson High School basketball team’s plays because they have an upcoming game against them. Even though St. Sebastian’s beat Bishop soundly in the past, Bunny is intent to study and not become overconfident. The coach notices that Bunny is the only one listening and calls everyone else’s attention to it. Bunny doesn’t like his coach calling him out because it makes the other teammates resent him and he feels like even more of an outsider.

Nasir is at his school’s library studying a book on landlord-tenant laws to glean some information that could potentially help Wallace’s eviction case. Wallace smells like he has been smoking marijuana and shows no interest in Nasir’s book. When Nasir asks Wallace if he has found a job, Wallace informs him that he is planning on winning a gambling wager he placed against St. Sebastian’s, even though they are favored to win because they have Bunny as their star player. Wallace expresses a personal grudge against Bunny for deserting Whitman High and defecting to St. Sebastian’s. He asks Nasir to go watch the game with him, and when he declines, he invites him to go see a horror movie.