The top mistakes in Above the Rim http://www.moviemistakes.com/film5940 en Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:55:27 +0000 108620 During the final basketball game, when Shep makes a finger roll for a layup, his jersey and 15 are backwards. 108621 When Sheppard is playing against the birdmen, at one point he does a layup around a defensive player. In the following scenes, he does exactly the same layup from a reverse angle, and you can see that the defensive player's number is also backwards.