All I Really Want Is To Play Basketball

Chapter 4: Others Purchase Top-Ups, I Purchase…

Translator: Atlas Studios

Editor: Atlas Studios

I just struck the lottery!

After taking a pizza home, Su Feng took huge bites while he looked at the virtual image in front of him. He was extremely excited.

“Current Brick Shot Points: 379,055. You are able to upgrade the system to the next level, do you want to proceed?”

370,000 Brick Shot Points. Initially, Su Feng thought that obtaining 15,000 Brick Shot Points was an impossible task. Yet now, Su Feng believed that as long as he was able to befriend Kobe, the NBA was within his reach!

“Upgrade!”

Su Feng did not care anymore. He wanted to upgrade and check the system out. After all, he still had a lot to learn about the system.

“Upgrading… 7%, 11%, 15%… 97%… Upgrade complete!”

When the upgrade completed, Su Feng realized that the page of the system changed from white to gray.

“Master: Su Feng. Nationality: Chinese. Age: 16. Height: 188 cm. Weight: 71 kg.

“Current proficiency (Elite High School Level), Shooting: 22 [48]+; Passing: 10 [18] +; Jumping: 22 [36]+; Power: 13 [33]+.

“Master’s installed shooting action: None; Master’s installed special techniques: None; Master’s current Brick Shot Points: 364,055; Brick Shot Points required to unlock the next level: 100,000.”

“Hold on, why did my scores drop after upgrading?”

Su Feng was confused. He only understood why his scores had fallen after seeing the introduction of the new interface.

In the past, the system graded his scores based on the American High School Level. After upgrading, the scores were based on an American Elite High School Level player.

For example, even if McGrady had a jumping score of 90 when he entered the NBA, he could not calmly make a dunk in a game.

Because of many restrictions, although McGrady was able to leap and fly, it was useless. He was not able to do whatever he could do in high school.

In the future, after winning many matches in the magic team, McGrady’s hook shots increased. That was because after getting used to the NBA, his skill level met NBA standards.

“This means that after that transformation, my scores are only as such amongst the elite High School players? Hmm… That’s quite pathetic,” said Su Feng to himself.

Besides that, in the new system interface, Su Feng realized that every score had another score appended. This additional score was the potential score the system had deduced. That meant that Su Feng would be able to achieve that maximum score if he trained.

“This means that no matter how much I train, the maximum score of my shooting is 48…”

Indeed, although Su Feng’s basketball skills were decent amongst the non-professional basketball players, he was well below professionals. If not, Su Feng would not only have scored once after dozens of rounds with Kobe…

Meanwhile, behind these maximum scores, Su Feng realized that there was a “+” sign. After pressing on these signs, there was a pop up. “Would you like to spend 500 Brick Shot Points to upgrade to the maximum score of shooting?”

After Su Feng pressed “yes”, the initial “48” became “49”, and the “+” sign was still there. Therefore, he began to continue pressing the “+” sign until it disappeared after his maximum score became 67.

“It seems that this system has to undergo continuous upgrades. Thankfully, I have enough Brick Shot Points.” Su Feng thought that under the current system, his potential had an upper limit. Therefore, he had to continuously upgrade the system to increase that upper limit.

Therefore, after hitting all the maximum scores, he pressed the “upgrade system” button again.

“Upgrade complete!”

It felt extremely good because he felt that he had so many Brick Shot Points that he could not use them all!

After the completion of the next upgrade, the system interface turned green.

“Current proficiency (University Level), Mid-range Shooting: 15 [60]+, Three-pointer Shooting: 12 [48]+; Passing: 3 [31]+; Ball Control: 14 [28]+; Jumping: 15 [50]+; Power: 6 [41]+; Backboard Rebounds: 7 [21]+.

“Master’s current installed shooting action: None; Master’s current installed special techniques: None; Master’s current Brick Shot Points: 228055; Score required to unlock the next level: 500,000.”

“Eh, after the upgrade, three-pointer shooting, backboard rebounds, and control in the proficiency scores were added?

“That means that I have understood it wrongly. The system does not only have the basic skills. To unlock different skills, I have to continuously upgrade the system. Or else, even if my proficiency increases, I will not be able to see them… I see!”

After upgrading the system to version 3.0, Su Feng realized that his proficiency was terrible. That was because his proficiency had transformed accordingly to the American University Level.

Besides that, the potential points he had added earlier on had undergone their corresponding transformation too.

Su Feng realized that the transformation difference was about seven points.

Therefore, like before, Su Feng added his points to the maximum.

After all, with potential, Su Feng would then be able to continue to improve in his subsequent trainints.

However, in version 3.0, the cost of upgrading his potential had increased to 2,000…

It was really expensive. If not for Kobe, how long would Su Feng have to train for to obtain those points?

Therefore, after adding his potential points, Su Feng’s potential became: Mid-range Shooting [68]; Three-pointer Shooting: [68]; Passing: [36]; Ball Control: [35]; Jumping: [58]; Power: [44]; Backboard Rebounds: [23].

After that, Su Feng made a conclusion: the potential points in the system did not increase linearly. For example, he could upgrade three-pointer shooting 20 times, but power only three times.

Looking at his relatively skinny arms, Su Feng guessed that some of the proficiency could only increase along with his real-life training and improvement.

“However, why are the points for my ball control only 35? I definitely deserve more than that!” Su Feng was displeased.

As though it had read Su Feng’s mind, the system interface suddenly displayed the collage of the errors made by Su Feng during his games with Kobe…

He had been intercepted from the front, from the side, and from the back extremely easily… After watching those, Su Feng blushed in shame.

“Is my control of the ball really that bad?” said Su Feng softly.

After being embarrassed by the system, Su Feng had more or less figured out how version 3.0 worked. After upgrading to the maximum for his potential points, he only had 122,055 Brick Shot Points left.

Yet the next system upgrade required 500,000 Brick Shot Points. Therefore, since he could not proceed onto the upgrade, Su Feng’s attention was attracted by the new spin wheel feature in the system…

“Want to prove that you are the king? Come and try your luck. It’s not 999,998, it’s not 99,998, it’s only 9,998 points, and you can get a mystery gift…”

Emmm, the explanation in the system was not so childish, but Su Feng felt that this feature was similar to the lucky draw he had played before in his mobile phone games.

“Tsk, that’s all!” Now, with a lot of Missed Shots Points remaining, Su Feng decided to give it a shot. He wanted to see what could this feature bring to him…

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