I Really Am Playing Basketball

A superstar plus four All-Stars couldn't beat Hakeem Olajuwon, who was at the tail end of his prime, and Clyde Drexler, who had fallen from his peak. The worst part was that their opponents were the detestable Rockets. If you had written about losing from the beginning, you could have just glossed over it in 10,000 words. Instead, you used so many chapters. Isn't that a waste of your time?

Winning two games and then losing three in a row is something that happens very rarely in NBA history. This became a disgrace that the protagonist could never wash away for the rest of his life. This is the first time I've ever seen a basketball novel like this.

There's a reason this book is updating so slowly now; I guess there aren't many readers left. There haven't been any exciting moments from beginning to end, or at least they weren't intense enough. I'm even considering dropping it now that it's ranked second overall.

I consider myself a point guard, but I don't add any passing or offense. Sigh, I just play around, focus on rebounds and blocks, and I just want to lose. I'm just playing around.

A single pick-and-roll can go from 2-0 to 2-3. If pick-and-rolls are that amazing, does Malone want 12 championships?

It's becoming more and more of a blue-collar game, and increasingly uninteresting. You're a team's core player, not adding offense but focusing on shot-blocking; a point guard who's a mismatch against everyone is being played power forward. I don't know what the author was thinking.

Having read up to chapter 68, the protagonist only gets a little over 10,000 blood points in a single Summer League match. Even with numerous NBA games, a million blood points is considered a lot, right? At most, there are only a hundred or so games a year, so getting a couple hundred million blood points is the absolute maximum. But the protagonist's abilities increase by 90-99%, and each point costs a billion! Is the developers not planning to let the protagonist level up?

All that fancy stuff, and you can't even beat Hakeem Olajuwon at the end of his career? Are you thinking of going up against Jordan? Knowing the team still needs him for mid-range and long-range shots, why bother with post-up moves? I'm not adding them, I'm just playing around. Keep calling yourself a point guard. Is that all?

Holy crap, that's brutal. His calf was broken. This is the most brutal thing I've ever seen in an NBA novel.

I don't understand. Why choose Kobe over Garnett? 🤔 Does he want to become a ball-handling guard? 😂 Or does he want Kobe to replace him as the leader and push him out of the Warriors' starting position when he's older? 😂 Just because you like Kobe doesn't mean you can mess around. With Kobe's personality, once he matures, he definitely won't want to play off-ball and always be second fiddle.