Is Kurko that good, brehs? Does it stay true to basketball?
True to basketball? Nope...but if you're an anime fan and a basketball fan you'll like this anime. It just takes the traditional things you find in anime and applies them to the sport. So you'll have your characters that are elite in someway, there will be a "coming of age" character arch, exaggerated action applied to otherwise mundane things, a concept of the trainee eventually surpassing the trainer.... You get the idea.
Its worth a watch