在这部季后赛剧情片中,Max Stoller (Danny Houston) kehrt nach 30 Jahren wieder in sein Heimatland Israel. Hier schlägt er ein Trainingslager mit der als schwach geltenden deutschen Basketballnationalmannschaft auf, um sie als ihr Trainer auf internationales Niveau zu bringen und stärker zu machen.
Diese Entscheidung löst wiederum viele Konflikte aus, sei es im familiären Bereich in Israel, sei es in der Mannschaft und sei es im Umstand, dass er sein altes Kinderviertel entdeckt und schmerzliche Erfahrungen verarbeiten muss.
Playoff tells the story of legendary Israeli basketball coach Ralph Klein. He became a national hero, when he made Maccabi Tel Aviv into European Champions in the late Seventies, one of Israel's first great international sporting successes. But Max became a national traitor equally fast, when he then accepted the against-all-odds job of turning the totally hopeless West-German basketball team - of all people! - into European winners. Max always maintains that Germany - where he was born before the war - means nothing to him, and that training their national team is just another job on his path to NBA glory. But things aren't as simple as he refuses to speak German to the young players. The only person he seems to be able to relate to is a Turkish immigrant woman Deniz, and her cheeky teenage daughter Sema. Max just about falls in love with Deniz - and does succeed in reinventing the Germans as European champions. When he discovers what happened to his own family in the 1940s - it is ...
