Marvyn regresses back to his old ways while defending Louise from an opposing team’s harassment. Holly gets a shot at the limelight.
Carlsbad week, as the team prepares to face their big rival the school. However, the team is hit with more adversity following the news of Louise’s (Nell Verlaque) father’s arrest during one of Miss Grint’s (Toks Olagundoye) class Kelsey proposes that Westbrook remove the Gruzinsky name from the school gym. Of course, the team disagrees with this but after the girls are made aware that Destiny (Tiana Le) signed the petition, Kelsey (Maddy Caddell) needs to mess with Lousie. A rift between Louise and Destiny’s relationship beings to form, because during practice Louise refuses to pass her the ball even though she wide open. Even though Destiny is right to have her opinion on the situation some of the girls see this as a betrayal and it easy to see the Louise has lost trust in her.
To make matters worst Carlbad’s Head Coach McCarthy (Camryn Manheim) see it as the perfect time to play mind games, interrupting their practice by belittling Samantha (Cricket Wampler) giving her a backhanded compliment congratulating her on finding a team she could play for instead of riding the bench as Sit-mantha, Sarcasticly reassumes Louise that her father is innocent until proven guilty, She asks Coach Korn if she could have the remain tickets to the game to release to Carlsbad fans after informing him that the Westbrook student protests the game until the Gruzinsky is removed.
The pressure put on Korn (John Stamos) to win by Principle Thomas (Yvette Nicole Brown) to avoid kissing the pig for a seventh consecutive time, he has to deal with the fact his player will be effect by their classmates protesting. To make the playing field even Korn convinces Principle Thomas to close the game to the public and only allow coaches, players, and officials. This was a crazy parallel to the real world as most sporting events were held without the presence of fans. Also, the fact that Westbrook will be playing the team that landed Savannah Gibbson (Deja Mattox) will definitely bring the College recruits out so Coach Korn sees this as an opportunity to pitch Louise as a player to watch out for. 
In Coach Korn’s personal life he is hesitant to open a box of his late Fathers belongings due to what it may contain. However, after open the box, Korn is surprised to see that his father had a photo taken with the statue put up following Korn’s third National Championship. In this photo, it almost appears that his father seemed proud of him.
Now Moving back into the Games against Carlsbad all the outside noise was visibly affecting their performance as going into halftime the lady Siren were down by 22 points, and before halftime, Coach Korn was ejected from the game when “Protesters” that were chanting “Free Gruzinsky,” managed to enter the gym to protect Louise he threw them out of the gym. Now it is Coach Holly’s(Jessalyn Gilsig) turn to prove that she was more than capable of being the Head Coach of this team. She gives an inspirational speech, moving Louise to Shoot Guard to take advantage of matchups, (A move Korn disagreed with feeling it would mess with team chemistry) and the comeback win was on coming down to a one-possession game Holly and Samatha were well aware of McCarthy’s go-to inbound play. So Holly leaned on Samantha to make the key steal and score the deciding basket to win the game.
Following the game’s end Korn was made aware of his teams win and the key adjustment of moving Louise to
Shooting Guard, something he took partial credit for, it is made very apparent to Coach Holly that Korn has a difficult time giving credit where credit is due but this and a conversation with McCarthy lit a fire underneath Holly to prove more than ever she is deserving of a Head Coaching position.
The end of this episode was a moment that Louise decided to remove her family name from the gym due to her father’s past transgressions, rebuild her legacy, and leave the shadow of her fathers expectation of what type of star basketball player she should be. This was a full-circle moment from our first encounter with Louise giving off a sense of entitlement having her name on the scoreboard, looking to score every point for the team to lead them to victory and now she is more of a team player and seems to be more humble.
The Next episode of Disney Plus original series Big Shot is scheduled for May 28, 2021.
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