So fucking perfect man 100/10. The added scenes were great and the animation was fucking awesome. The anime is still probably better overall but this was still so good. Really hoping they do the Four Devas arc next
Imagine this is how Paolo Banchero's story ends.
NBA Finals. Magic vs. Thunder.
Orlando down 2. :06 left.
Paolo takes the inbound from the elbow.
Nothing is open.
He pump fakes and drives.
At the restricted area, he gets HIT.
Two Thunder defenders wrap him up. Another comes crashing down on top.
Paolo flicks the shot up, but he’s fouled.
Three points away.
And for a second, it looks like this is really how it ends.
Then the ball hits the rim.
Franz Wagner joins him.
Jalen Suggs.
Anthony Black.
The entire Magic team comes crashing for a rebound, the ball rolling around the rim.
The ball rolls again.
And again.
And suddenly it feels like ball wasn't shot by just Paolo.
It’s Gary Harris shooting.
Cole Anthony.
Markelle Fultz.
Bol Bol.
Mo Bamba.
Jett Howard.
Caleb Houstan.
Joe Ingles.
Every teammate who stood beside him through those 5/22 nights. Every man who told him the midrange was a good shot after each brick.
They’re all shooting.
Another trip around the hoop.
Paolo is still looking on from the floor.
And now it feels like Aaron Affalo is pushing too.
Ryan Anderson.
Elfrid Payton.
The generation before him that came so close but never got its ending.
It's almost halfway in.
The entire history of the last 30 years of Magic heartbreak is behind No. 5.
Rolling.
The ball sinks through the hoop.
The clock hits 00:00.
The official blows his whistle…
then points at the line.
AND-ONE.
For his entire career, Paolo Banchero carried the weight of the Orlando Magic on his back.
On the final shot of his story, when he couldn’t carry them any farther…
they carried him.
Through the contact and into the hoop.
Into history.
Paolo Banchero is an NBA champion.
I could not be an animator man imagine putting your heart and soul into something only for an unfinished version of it to leak and see people act like it’s the final version and call it ass