Taylor gives documentary thumbs up

Kansas guard Tyshawn Taylor soars in for a bucket around California forward Jamal Boykin during the first half, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2009 at Allen Fieldhouse.

Kansas University sophomore basketball guard Tyshawn Taylor, who is featured in the documentary film, “The Street Stops Here,” was able to view an advance copy of the 90-minute movie.

“I liked it,” Taylor said of the piece on his alma mater — St. Anthony High School of Jersey City, N.J.

It will air at 9 p.m. Wednesday on PBS.

“I think they did a good job of showing coach (Bob) Hurley and who he really is. I think it did a good job showing our struggles and things we go through at that school. I think it was good, and I hope they can make lots of money off it (through DVD sales),” Taylor added.

“The Street Stops Here,” is billed by Team Works Media “as a portrait of one of the country’s best high school basketball coaches, Bob Hurley, Sr., and his career-long struggle to inspire and motivate those around him in order to keep open the doors of a poor, inner-city Catholic school.”

The film chronicles the 2008 season in which Taylor and five other future Div. I players competed for St. Anthony — which went 32-0 and won USA Today’s mythical national championship.

“This is a story about teenagers fighting their way out of the ‘hood, armed with little more than a basketball and the hard wisdom of a fierce, demanding coach,” Team Works Media added in its promo.

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