Luckily I've not yet mastered this game to the extent that even on HOF it bores the hell out of me. And although I do see and understand lots of room for improving the game play, I still have lots of fun and do believe the game plays a more realistic game of basketball that 2K15.
My biggest wish for improving this game mode would be that they go back to a story mode more like we saw with 2k15. This guy over here wrote an article about it exactly the way I feel:
http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/3/94...ode-basketball