Doin' It in the Park: Pick-Up Basketball, NYC

Paced by Eddie Palmieri’s up-tempo, percussive score, “Doin’ It” bounces like a crossover dribble, gliding swiftly and surely through interviews, videos and history lessons, then transitioning to today’s dedicated ballers and playground culture.

Daunting though it may be for the aspiring pick-up entrant, this is a fun and worthwhile ode to one of New York’s greatest summer pastimes.

Mostly, however, Doin’ It In The Park thrives simply via its myriad sights of nobodies juking and dunking their way past opponents, exuding an authentic for-love-of-the-game competitiveness that’s as infectious as it is intense.

Might not boast stylistic expertise, but it should please aficionados while providing an entertaining primer for the uninitiated.

Perhaps the first important film about street hoops, even if the overall product struggles from a lack of focus.