Holly McKenzie has just moved from New Zealand to Australia with her parents. Holly lives for basketball and looks forward to being one of the best players for the town's famed junior basketball team, the Rams.
Holly is keen to lift the team's standard. She dreams of making the Outlaws every bit as good as her old New Zealand team, the Waka. But what Holly considers an easy training session, the Outlaws call torture.
As the Rams' annual movie marathon looms, Nick's aggressiveness threatens his friendship with Holly, whilst Jacinta is annoyed at Joel's sudden interest in her best friend.
The Outlaws travel to Wombat Springs to play their first game with Max as their coach. Despite Ralph's forebodings about the Wombats' unfair advantages, like springy rings on their home court, Holly is optimistic.
The Outlaws nervously face their last pre-finals game, without Holly, while she faces detention with Nick, Sean Berger, and Trish, Joel and Scubi. Berger taunts Nick about his past, while on court things begin badly for the Outlaws.
As the Grand Final between the Outlaws and the Rams draws closer, tensions build. When Johnno's efforts to restore Ralph's self-confidence backfire, Ralph decides it's best if he doesn't play, but then something unexpected happens.
The Outlaws play a fierce match against the Waka, and Joel makes an overdue confession. Meanwhile, Franco is jealous when Jacinta challenges Anatoly, a good-looking Russian boy, to a chess match, not realising that he's a chess prodigy.
When the Waka arrive for their return match, Holly finds herself at a crossroad when she learns that she's under consideration to join the NZ Under-16 National Squad.
Trish and Holly attend an Intensive Training Camp, which could lead to a scholarship at the Australian Institute of Sport. Meanwhile the discovery of an old film prompts Max to tell Joel of his love for Lucy, Joel and Jacinta's grandma.