rozewald:

Such a foolish act I cannot bear to watch. Letting your one and only advantage slip from your fingers. Back in middle school, after you arrived at your current style, I made you increase the variations of passes, but never let you acquire shooting or dribbling skills. Do you know why I did not? Because I knew that if I did, you would lose your lack of presence someday. Vanishing Drive, Phantom Shot… There is no way a player using such flashy moves would not be noticed, and the nail in the coffin was the buzzer-beater in the semifinals. By learning how to shine halfheartedly, you can no longer become the shadow. Now that you are no longer the phantom sixth man… you are already not even worth as much as a typical player. To think you’d not notice until now it’d end up like this…