“I said, ‘Well, how do we make it a slam dunk?’
Having boys at Westbrook will allow the show to highlight the inequalities between men’s and women’s sports.
Coach Korn will also have to face some of his own life choices inBig Shot’s second season.
“When Bob died, it rocked my world and still does.
It got me thinking, like, what’s my legacy, man?
When Bob died there was like this tsunami of love, as you saw,” he says.
“So I thought, what about Marvyn?
What is he leaving behind?
So we start [exploring] that towards the end of the season and it gets really powerful.
A friend of Marvyn’s dies and Marvyn goes, ‘What have I left behind?
I’m a failed basketball coach.’
It’s really very touching.”
Big Shotseason 2 premieres Wednesday, Oct. 12, on Disney+.
