Love and Basketball… and the Black Gender Wars

16:14 omg! Baby Kayla Pratt. I forgot she was in this.

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This the video I needed because I will always love this movie idc😂

I didn't know you'd made this video before today. Ironically I was talking to another content creator about Q and Monica's relationship and how it wasn't actually one sided it was just time predominantly from her perspective, but it showed that Q was invested equally in their relationship.

First off great vid I always like to hear emotionally mature mens views and I never heard a guy actually talk about Quincys family in deep dive from his emotional stand point.

I dont think it was a cop out that she stopped playing basketball because of him I think in that era with women in sports even today, she couldnt balance the two because she might have been rejected or asked about her sexuality.

She is a dominate personality she might have had stigmas that she could only be vulnerable with Quincy when dating and vice versa which is why he also fell out love for ball because he knew she is the one that would be ok with him not playing and she lead the relationship anyway but he only dated women that fell in line with how he was raised. They balanced each other out.

Basketball bonded them emotionally and they never seperated life outside of basketball until college with their emotional baggage and trauma but not in a constructive way.

Now I do think she should have explored more with her life before going back to him. I'm pretty sure she came across plenty of fine men during her playing days.

Forgive me I just found your channel so I am going back in time to watch some videos. The part when you discussed Monica choosing basketball (remember Quincy's exclamation "You would never have to!"). I don't think there was anything in the movie that convinced us this is true. Allowing women to see your excitement about their romantic advances toward you (in front of your girl no less) would always breed a disrespectful environment for Monica. That is a mark against Quincy in convincing me he'd jump out the window (or quit basketball) for Monica. Taking that hoe to Burger King was also blatantly disrespectful. I do agree he is not F boy, but certainly a bad boyfriend.

Bro, I like your videos but you split hairs sometimes 😂 it could all just be in your mind

Blah, blah, blah!!! I love this movie, because in my opinion it shows how in the end they both were willing to give up their good life for the sake of their love for one other.
Love has its ups and downs, and they clearly still had feelings for one another; her more than him.

Barack Obama 😂

I love this movie so much 💚
I'm so glad you made this break down

I always thought of L&B as a sad/bittersweet story. 🤷🏾‍♂️

What is this woke boy even talking about😂

this is interesting, your analysis was always my takeway from this movie. I had no idea that there was all this commentary online about it lol. I think its because I'm not on the gender wars side of the internet lol

1 million bucks clay travis give the wnba champion when they win against a highschoolteam

Err wait you mean 16 year old boys DON'T chase girls? Umm thirsty girls don't chase athletes? umm OK…y'all are really OVER analyzing this.

You brought up something that has never dawned on me and that at the end of the movie they were only 24 25 years old and it makes that make a lot more sense now at 30 where they were in life makes that movie much less serious

I almost died when you called that actor Barack Obama. You are a fool lol

The internet is overrated. I bin on youtube for 10 years and what I see here isn't what I see in real life. So that means 90% of the black women on youtube are capping. They are still dating black men. But when I get on youtube you would think that black women don't even date black men anymore. What I'm saying is don't believe the hype. Because the hype isn't reality. If it was I would agree. The truth is 5 % of black men are bashing black women on the internet. So what are the other 95 % doing? The truth is 5 % of black women are bashing black men on the internet. So what are the other 95 % doing? I watched Ohprah Lie to black women on tv and she set the ball rolling by telling black women they would never get married. And we know how powerful Oprah was at that time. Now we know she was working with the higher-ups the whole time. But black women still took the bate. Because there is a much bigger plan in play. And if were not smart enough to stop this fire of Illusion. The illusion will one day become a reality. And black love will be lost forever. And you know America would love to see that happen.

Barack Obama took me out

Omar Epps's mother was the principal of my Elementary school

I always identified with Quincy… empathized with the pressure to follow in his Father’s footsteps… trophy wife shit over compatibility… seems like he was trying to figure it out, like the rest of us. 🤷🏾‍♂️

I actually hated this movie for a very long time and you’ve made me realize I was being WAAAAYYYY too harsh on it.

Meanwhile, I'm pretty sure the manosphere vids are how I found you. 😂