The story was fine and even set up for another season if they wanted one, but was fine with just the one as well. The characters had growth, although there was a little drama at the beginning that did not get a decent enough explanation, which i docked points for. But overall, the story did what it needed to do fort he plot points they used.
The art and sounds were great! They did that little click-power up sound effect that i like a lot and that definitely added to the effects during the climax of the show. They didn't execute It the cut scenes as well as I'd have liked to see, but they did a decent enough job with the time they had considering it was only one season, so i don't feel like it was really lacking as opposed to wishing it was a little longer.
I think they did what they set out to do for the character development in this story and did it well enough. They explored facets of two particular character tropes and i didn't feel like they were missing anything. They did do a lot of BL baiting though (if you know you know). I'm not really mad at that as a queer person, but some ppl take offense when characters are set up to have some kind of ambiguous more-than-friends feelings and the audience is left hanging with ambiguity.
As a lover of sports anime, this was enjoyable overall for what it was meant to do and convey, and i think it earned its 7 fair and square.
