Despite this documentary being from the perspective of a mega-superfan, it was very informative and well worth watching. I particularly liked the airing of the many perspectives (from Stu Jackson, Steve Francis, Michael Heisley, etc) that provide one with a fuller picture of what happened. My one disappointment was the conspicuous absence of anything about the head coach, Brian Winters. Surely his role, including his strengths as well as his weaknesses, needed to be included in this story. Nevertheless, when coupled with the director's first documentary on the Grizzlies, Finding Big Country, which incidentally I liked even better than this one, The Grizzlie Truth (cute title, by the way) helped salve a festering wound I've had ever since the Vancouver abandonment.

In one of the ending scenes of this documentary, the director stages a scene where she pushes a stack of papers from her desk in frustration, then says "turns out the answer is a lot more complicated than I thought".

No, it's not. You just showed me an hour-plus film proving that it's not. The answer is: Vancouver lost the Grizzlies due to poor performance, bad draft picks, and financial naivety. The end.

The film is (at minimum) thirty minutes longer than needed, padded with nostalgia. It's best when sticking to the facts. Yes, Grizzlies had a bad GM, and prospective superstars didn't want the burden of salvaging a team with a 30% winning rate. That's a fact bigger than Steve Francis, who undeservingly becomes the scapegoat far too often in this story.

If you didn't already know all of this, you will learn a few things from this film and it's worth a skim. But otherwise it's a film distracted with its own insular bias. Not that it's bad to provide a local narrative and share us the cozy memories of fans, but come on... in the end, numbers talk. The NBA is a business and there's no conspiracy here.

I went into this film with low expectations. How could a 90 minute documentary about a "failed" Canadian NBA team be remotely interesting? Seems all pretty cut & dry.

But I'm so very glad I suspended my pretention and gave it a shot.

I wouldn't look at this as a sports documentary, but a documentary about people that share a mutual love and experience about a sport & sports team.

This film does a fantastic job at illustrating the relationship between people from all walks of life and cultures, sharing a mutually accessible passion. A passion that this film shows has not and cannot be taken away, despite the disheartening and blurry circumstances surrounding the departure of their much-beloved Vancouver Grizzlies.

Despite what I already knew about the demise of the Vancouver Grizzlies, there was so much suspense throughout this film.

Don't go into it expecting a silver bullet, or an answer to the "why".

The lessons woven in throughout this film, the continuity of those lessons in the differing perspectives. The way it's presented to us visually... The filmmaker has really, truly demonstrated their mastery of documentary filmmaking, and sincere, balanced storytelling.

Thanks for the creators and participants of this film for sharing your perspectives, your lessons, and your love in this rollercoaster. You really hit this non-sports fan hard.

The main lesson that hit home for me is that failure really is subjective.

And that Vancouver does deserve another shot at having an NBA team - and it doesn't have to be the Grizzlies.