6. Your Rating Is Awful. The Game Insists You're Amazing
As frustrating as the irrelevance of your actual on-court play is, you'd imagine things change as soon as you set foot in the NBA, right? Not quite... You enter the league as one of the worst players in the game, which is admittedly an understandable and smart move. It forces you to play the game the right way, sharing the ball and running plays. No one-on-five hero ball; no dropping 35 points in your NBA debut. It's realistic and fair. However, a major contradiction soon begins to rear its head. Despite starting out as little more than a benchwarmer, "Freq" is hailed as the next big thing by agents, analysts, coaches and owners. You secure a signature shoe deal (with Jordan, no less) after a few games. Again, your actual in-game performance has no bearing on this. You could spend every game hurling alley-oop passes into the sixth row, and the commentators would still talk you up as the next LeBron James. In the many simulated games of your rookie season - more on those later - your numbers aren't particularly special at all; it's clear that you're a very limited player on the court, but somehow a future Hall of Famer off it.
