Basketball brings people together.

It incites madness during March.

It makes teenagers drop out of college after only one year to become millionaires.

And it can make for a really complicated father-son dynamic.

The new indie flick Wolves reminded us of just that. The movie follows the same age-old tale of a high school baller trying to get recruited to college while his father—this time played by demon-battling journeyman Michael Shannon—manages to gamble away the kid’s tuition money, turns to booze instead of fessing up and is otherwise a shitty paterfamilias. He’s not the first, nor will he be the last, in a long line of fathers in basketball movies who just can’t help but make their preternaturally gifted spawn’s life harder than it has to be.

But is he the worst of ’em? Let’s find out.