We put out an open call for talent auditions on a search to find the internet's next star hooper. With over a thousand submissions we had to narrow it down to 8 contestants who we flew out to California for an all expenses paid for trip to compete in a series of 1s, 3s and 5s. On day 1 the contestants competed against each other. On Day 2 the Ballislife pannel picked the top 4 to move on to the mystery boss round. And on the final day we had a crazy 3v3 tournament. In Episode 7 we have our FINAL boss round game between Jayo and someone who's becoming one of the most unstoppable forces in the 1v1 scene, Nesco.
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00:00Previously on...
00:30I told y'all yesterday, he wasn't going to come here and do nothing good.
00:38This s*** sucks.
00:39And I just came talking all that s*** about the cookies.
00:44We flew eight participants down to LA for a series of one-on-ones, three-on-threes,
00:48and five-v-fives.
00:49It would be judged by their skills, energy, and personality.
00:52I play basketball.
00:53On the first day, all participants played ones against each other.
00:56The Balls Light panel will handpick the top four to go up against the masked bosses and
01:00the big guard himself.
01:01On day two, our panel will also suit up with the masked bosses for the five-on-five series.
01:06On the last day, the bosses and Duke will draft from the eight participants for the
01:10three-on-three series to end it all.
01:13Welcome to Hoop Dreams.
01:22I play Berk and my boy RJ.
01:24Two very solid matchups.
01:25I learned a lot about my game, about their game.
01:28I was up by a good amount both games.
01:30It was just the fatigue got to me when I started playing out of my element, playing out of
01:34my, doing uncharacteristic stuff that affected me and it ended up costing me two games.
01:38I felt rushed at times.
01:39I was rushing myself, rushing my game.
01:41That's not usually how I play, so I'll be just playing with more pace, be more patient
01:45on offense.
01:46I think I showed a lot of flash in my game, got a lot of tough buckets and what people
01:51want to see, so I feel like that's what got me to the next round.
01:55I wasn't nervous.
01:56I honestly wasn't familiar with who I was playing.
01:57NASCAR!
01:58NASCAR!
01:59NASCAR!
02:00NASCAR!
02:01NASCAR!
02:02NASCAR!
02:03NASCAR!
02:04NASCAR!
02:05Yes, sir.
02:06Yes, sir.
02:07What's up, y'all man?
02:08It's your boy, 1NASCAR.
02:09Y'all know me, man.
02:10I'm kind of new to the scene.
02:11I'm from Wilmington, Delaware.
02:12And yeah, 1NASCAR, aka 2C.
02:13Let's get it.
02:14Yeah, I think I got a very versatile approach for my game.
02:22You know, like I'm kinda, I'm shifty.
02:25I'm quick.
02:26I can shoot the lights out of the ball.
02:28I'm tough.
02:29I'm a competitor.
02:30It's like, kinda like if you had like Chris Paul, Kyrie, and Steph, and just whoosh, you'll
02:38get this.
02:39To get here, honestly, I just really had to have faith, you know, really just faith, grind,
02:45you know.
02:46So like, there've been times where like I wasn't getting calls and stuff like that,
02:49you feel me?
02:50So I had to have the determination and faith to just keep grinding and working and just
02:55trusting the process and just believing that something would happen out of that.
02:58And you know, fortunately for me, something did happen.
03:01And I was prepared when the time came.
03:03And the rest was history.
03:04Balls like this is crazy.
03:06Like, just from like, just from being young and just watching the YouTube videos and stuff
03:11like that, I used to see people like Kale Carr, Trey Jefferson, Marcus LeVette, like
03:15all them people used to really have me tuned into saying, ball is life, baby.
03:21And now it's like, I'm in kind of like a situation where I can say ball is life because
03:25I'm out here playing for it.
03:26So I just like, I still be taking it all in sometimes, you feel me?
03:30Just still adjusting to it.
03:31But it's definitely like a dope experience, honestly.
03:34And like, to be in a balls level is crazy because the first time I came out here, I
03:38actually, I did something with balls like I was a contestant, you know.
03:43So just to see that, the work that I put in and getting like recognized and stuff like
03:46that, to be able to be a boss at the ball level was just, it just made me want to keep
03:50working and getting better.
03:52And it's crazy because my first time playing in front of balls like, I wasn't able to
03:56like, all right, so we had a game, we flew on the same day, you feel me?
03:59It was my first time playing the same day flying.
04:02I lost to somebody I had no business losing to.
04:05Same day, but end up beating a person that beat him 15-0.
04:08It was crazy.
04:09It was crazy.
04:10I realized that coming into this content world and the whole YouTube hoops and all that,
04:16it's adversity from start to finish.
04:18Like, you gotta have, you got fans, you got your opponent going talk crazy to you.
04:23You got like, your people at home that just got these big expectations of you.
04:27So it's like, you fight adversity through everything.
04:30So when I lost down there, I'm like, that wasn't me.
04:33You feel me?
04:34I ain't never losing confidence in myself and my game and my jump shot, my nothing.
04:38I'm never losing confidence in myself because I put in a lot of work, you feel me?
04:41So it was just like, one of those you got to take it on the chin and if you got an
04:45opportunity to play a game, you feel me, I'm gonna do it.
04:47And I did it.
04:48And see how that went.
04:50If you didn't, you can go watch that on YouTube, too.
04:57You gonna let the rookie pick?
04:59We both rookies.
05:00I'm a rookie, too.
05:01Oh, you're a rookie, too?
05:02We gotta go.
05:03I'm just talking.
05:04Cool.
05:05Head.
05:08Head.
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08:13ENTER CASE IN COUNT!!
08:20I'm straight.
08:21I'm just trying to stay in it.
08:23Stay focused.
08:24Don't get comfortable.
08:25Get the win.
08:26I didn't come out here for nothin'.
08:30You have to keep him left.
08:31I've only seen one from arust Romania, so keep him left.
08:37Once you're too far back, you're dead, once you're too far up, you're dead.
08:44You gotta plan out a good middle and you gotta keep him left.
08:46Keep him left and then live with a quick pull-up.
08:48Once you let him get back right, you're dead.
08:50Think about him like this.
08:51They're both really good when they're right.
08:53And then when they get left, it's a jumper, or they get downhill, it's a pump fake, then it's a layup.
08:57So you just gotta play it solid.
08:58Play it solid, keep it flexing.
08:59See how it go.
09:00Let's go, J-O.
09:03Watch him at the top, y'all.
09:06Oh, ****.
09:07Oh, ****.
09:09Man, man, man.
09:11Oh, man.
09:13We're in the key.
09:14What are we doing?
09:15Yo, Wisdom.
09:17Wisdom.
09:18Oh, ****.
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10:46Hey, hey.
10:48Oh, ****.
10:55No, you go!
10:56No you go!
10:57No you go!
10:58Now, that was one.
11:00I get busy, bro.
11:01One more, one more, one more.
11:05Oh, ****.
11:08Oh, ****.
11:09No!
11:10I get busy.
11:11He must take his days officially.
11:13He get' busy.
11:14He get' busy.
11:15I'm here to get some business man, I'm the youngest to do it, I'm taking over.
11:23Yeah, that was game 3 y'all, that was game 3.
11:26Let's go, did what he do.
11:29Came out here, jailed you all hard.
11:32Man, I just want to say, you can shoot too, you feel me?
11:37Just stay humble, keep grinding, you feel me?
11:38One loss don't determine nothing.
11:39Keep working, might see you again.
11:41Good work.
11:43That guy's about to get up into the 5 on 5 now, that's when it's really about to get real.
11:48Frank Nitti coming, so now y'all really nervous, huh?
11:51Y'all really nervous now, ragged?
11:54No.
11:55The Riches, huh?
11:56No.
11:57The real J Lu said he had Frank Nitti, so we gonna see about that.
12:00We gonna see about that, we gonna see about that.
12:03Frank done entered the chat.
12:05We gonna see.
12:06What you gonna do to him?
12:07This is my popcorn.
12:12J Lu.
12:19Leo.
12:20Leo.