Plot - The show starts with Ken Reeves playing basketball for the Chicago Bulls and for the first five minutes we only see action with music in the background. Reeves is injured, rehabs, and then sits on the bench. After one game an old college friend joins him in the empty arena and convinces him to become a high school basketball coach at Carver High in Los Angeles.
The rest of the show consists of cursorily meeting the other characters in the show; school administrators, students that play basketball, and family.
The main plot is how Coach Reeves helps a talented player named Hayward to not quit school despite their initial differences and Hayward's family issues. The team loses their first game but wins the second. As the show closes, Reeves tells the players he has their back and will watch over them, to which Thorpe responds, "like a white shadow". Hence the name of the show.
Observations-
The pilot likely had the biggest budget and highest production value.
The drive-thru at Jack in the Box had a jack in the box.
Everyone is relatively thin.
70s soundtrack music permeates the show.
Reeves roughs up Hayward at one point but dismisses it as no big deal with the assistant principal and the issue is dropped.
Currently the 'elite' media seems to have grown tired of the white savior concept as evidenced by their criticism of Avatar last year. In effect, Reeves plays this role, but it is subtle and seems genuine and wholesome in the show.
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