The team is still in 1st place, but Westhead finds new ways to look weak and totally out of his element in front of the men he’s supposed to lead. Six weeks after Jack McKinney’s bike accident led to assistant coach Paul Westhead helming the team, everything has gone off the rails. Maybe that’s the reason for the cold open: If someone is talking to you, it’s rude to fall asleep. It doesn’t, which is unfortunate given the high drama of episode 7: Magic’s first professional match-up with the Boston Celtics’ Larry Bird and broadcaster-turned-assistant coach Pat Riley unofficially taking the reins from bewildered coach Paul Westhead. Jerry Buss talking (directly to the camera, of course) about Monopoly being a metaphor for life, you hope as a viewer that it would subvert this ancient TV trope where a tabletop game and its player stand-in for an overarching message. Like its main character Jerry Buss, Winning Time is not a show that is interested in subtlety.
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