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I like the plot of this anime quite a bit, what's what makes it such a shame. The beginning is quite good with a classic art style to top it off, there are some gags which are decent as well. The MC is someone you want to root for despite his at times annoying personality.

All of this is unfortunately only at the beginning, as soon as the story moves towards nothing but matches they play out in exactly the same way, starting off with nothing but episodes with gags, this is 20% of the whole match, then we have 40% half gag and half flashbacks ... and then we end it all with 40% half gag and half serious basketball. Especially in later matches where the MC is basically playing for the opposite team, doing more harm to his own team than good, which in turn just makes for more "hilarious" gags.

In truth the gags are reused again and again until they're just annoying and you'd wish you could just see an anime with some cool basketball, but here it's lacking too, most of the play is just one guy vs a guy on the opposing team, no real team play and strategy, it's amateurish to say the least, no one's moving unless they have the ball and the coaches are basically cheerleaders.

TL:DR: Overrated.

First off I would like to say that this is my first review and that it might contain light spoilers. Also, english isn't my first language, so I apologize in advance for any inconvenience this might cause you as the reader.

The reason behind me writing this review is purely based on the bashing it seems to be getting by people who seem incompetent of understand the overall premise of this show. Even though I feel that the aforementioned premise makes it hard to judge this show until we see the story in its entireness.

The core premise of this anime is: Saitama can beat anyone with ... one punch, hence the name of the show.
People call it both predictable and repetitive, but that's because they aren't seeing the underlining plot. It's supposed to be both predictable and repetitive in some regards, because of the premise of the story, but as soon as you look deeper you find something more, a story about how extraordinary people struggle with their existence. Sure, there's a lot of comedy mixed in and some cool fighting scenes, which is great.

Saitama started out as your average guy, but he was tired of his job and his life in general, so he became a hero, for fun, but is he having fun? Not really.
This is where I find it hard to review this anime before being given the conclusion of the story, how does this internal struggle continue and is he able to find what he's missing?

What I just said is even mentioned in the synopsis! And of course there's always going to be a few people who just want to hate this show because it's mainstream, but truthfully, it's worth a watch.