nba2k16

On my 2nd season in my career right now.

6'3 PG 88 overall averaging 24/12/6 on 52% with the Miami Heat on HoF difficulty.

We played like shit to start the season, and picked it up right before all star break. We were barely a .500 team by all star break but caught fire after the all star game going 24-4 to end the season.

Ended the season as a third seed with 51 wins, and currently up 3-2 against the 43 win Bucks.

I'm on a new character, 6'4 SG 89ovr on OKC. We only lost 7 games in the regular season but Westbrooks out for the play offs with a torn ACL and Durants playing day to day with a rib injury. I averaged 38ppg 7apg. On one above the default difficulty.

2k still frustrates me because it has flaws you can exploit to get a bunch of points/assists but if you up the difficulty too much it starts to feel like it makes your team mates dumber so the opponent cheeses them, not so much it makes it harder on you but just makes it's harder to win because it makes your team worse.

Also don't like the skill/height caps this year, seems you can't make a stretch 4 unless he's like 6"8 because it caps your 3pt shot at like 65-70 if you are tall.

Made a PF hes at a 90 right now.
Played on all-star mode and dropped 112 points.
Team chemistry is at 100% with over 1 mil fans.
Dumb that you have to do 5 practices just to gain an attribute upgrade slot. Even if you play 6 min qtrs it's going to take forever.

[QUOTE=outbreak]I'm on a new character, 6'4 SG 89ovr on OKC. We only lost 7 games in the regular season but Westbrooks out for the play offs with a torn ACL and Durants playing day to day with a rib injury. I averaged 38ppg 7apg. On one above the default difficulty.

2k still frustrates me because it has flaws you can exploit to get a bunch of points/assists but if you up the difficulty too much it starts to feel like it makes your team mates dumber so the opponent cheeses them, not so much it makes it harder on you but just makes it's harder to win because it makes your team worse.

Also don't like the skill/height caps this year, seems you can't make a stretch 4 unless he's like 6"8 because it caps your 3pt shot at like 65-70 if you are tall.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, HoF really cheeses you sometimes. But I feel like I've gotten used to it, had a couple of games where I blew the HOF CPU out by the end of my season.

Plays yore are another story though, that's when my teammates started making dumb plays and I had to take over and score 40+ for us to even have a chance. Wade was averaging 21/5/4 for me in the regular season, and now he's playing like shit averaging 5 TOs per game. :facepalm

Lol some guy in park mode has 71541 pts and is 5519 - 621. Probably has never seen the sun shine in his life....

Ok so why won't this game let me upgrade my attributes anymore? i'm currently sitting at overall 89 and a little over 3/4 full on all bars???

[QUOTE=Marv_Albert]Ok so why won't this game let me upgrade my attributes anymore? i'm currently sitting at overall 89 and a little over 3/4 full on all bars???[/QUOTE]
Need to unlock more upgrades, it says on the attribute screen how many upgrades you have available. You can do this by doing training on your off days. It's retarded, you don't need to actually do the training session just join it then quit again and it'll count but you have to sit through the loading screens.

[QUOTE=outbreak]Need to unlock more upgrades, it says on the attribute screen how many upgrades you have available. You can do this by doing training on your off days. It's retarded, you don't need to actually do the training session just join it then quit again and it'll count but you have to sit through the loading screens.[/QUOTE]

So bad, I got a ton of money right now from playing online games and mypark. And once you have won a ring with your mycareer its boring after that dont play mycareer at all. just want to spend it all on making my player 99

[QUOTE=Marv_Albert]So bad, I got a ton of money right now from playing online games and mypark. And once you have won a ring with your mycareer its boring after that dont play mycareer at all. just want to spend it all on making my player 99[/QUOTE]
It's really silly. the load screens ruin it. if you could just click a button like the "hang out on airballon with oladipo" off day shit then it wouldn't be so bad. Plus if you could do it while also simming games because it makes you play them to use the training.

The game hates Westbrook and Durant playing together too, in the play offs in my game Westbrook just came back from injury and suddenly we've gone from sweeping everyone to bricking everything and turning it over like crazy. Game hates him.

Gotta vent for a minute. Started an online season with a friend a couple days ago and did a fantasy draft. Playing my third game of the season I'm playing the Hawks with Dirk on the team.

We get late in the game and I'm up 1. Dirk drives baseline and goes up and under..... except he comes through the backboard and lays it up. I'm furious at this point. Surprised I didn't get a tech through the kinnect.

I end up losing by like 5 because of intentional fouls and FTs, but I'm so pissed that layup went in. There were so many other things happening during that game that was telling me I was getting 2Ked. Missing open jumpers, open layups and whatnot. Pick and rolls kill me in this game, don't understand them.

Anyways, pretty much lost a game because of a late "through the backboard shot" by Dirk that should've been out. Damn this game can royally suck at times.

Decided to give MyTeam a try this week for the first time. Already had a couple of gold players like Klay, Wiggins and Bosh from doing connections, so I figured might as well give them a shot.

I opened up a Raptors starter pack to start my journey and got Terrence Ross along with Sim Bhullar + a bunch of bronze players.

You can only use 1 silver player + bronze players for the Qualifying round and 8th seed for Road To the Playoffs so I decided to play some Domination to fill my roster with better players before challenging going online. I’ve played around 10 games for domination and have yet to pull a Gold card lol… but I did pull some decent silvers like Noel, Nick Young, Jabari Parker, etc.

At this point I had around 25K MT points to play around with, and after shopping around a bit in the Auction House, I ended up with a roster of:
Pierre Jackson/Jordan Farmar
Mike Miller/Nik Stauskas/
Terrence Ross/Hedo Turkoglu
Jerami Grant/ Steve Novak/Scrub
Justin Hamilton/Sim Bhullar/Scrub

Bronze players suck too much ass, so you want to get as many specialists as possible. Either players that are really fast and can finish in the break, or players who can shoot the 3.

I’ve spent maybe 4-5K MT (sold back really easily) filling out this roster, and I had no problems with the qualifying seed and the 8th seed.

I’m at the 7th seed right now and currently sitting at 3-0 with a roster of:
Lillard/Rubio
Klay Thompson/Alec Burkes/Gerald Green
Terrence Ross/Jabari Parker/Giannis
Chris Bosh/Cody Zeller
Gobert/Noel

Looking to get rid of Rubio and Jabari Parker (and the rest of my 2nd unit lol) to add some more shooting for my bench. I’m looking at LMA as a replacement for Bosh if I can snipe him for below 5K MT, and maybe replace Lillard with Irving if I can snipe him at around 7-8K…

Anybody plays this mode frequently and can give me some pointers at making MT? Are pack openings worth it? Or should I just.... trying to snipe players from AH and make MT from that (haven't had too much luck with this).

Does anybody jam the play online now mode? and what rank are you at right now... trying to get to hall of fame I'm 1 win away from the NBA and it's great because every game goes down to the wire don't play any cheeseballs

Anyone know if with the myteam/gm modes you can do a season with less games? I used to play the old gm mode where you could set it to a 14 game season and that way I could just play every game without needing to sim anything and still get through the season quick. Can't find an option to shorten the season on this one

[QUOTE=outbreak]Anyone know if with the myteam/gm modes you can do a season with less games? I used to play the old gm mode where you could set it to a 14 game season and that way I could just play every game without needing to sim anything and still get through the season quick. Can't find an option to shorten the season on this one[/QUOTE]
I think they took it out.

I swear this game is designed to let you never see the light of day lose all your friends and become nocturnal or something.......

Sometimes, I think this game doesn't want me to win.

2K just released Diamond Kyrie Irving (97 overall), Diamond '11 Kevin Love (96 overall), Diamond Ty Lawson (96 overall), Diamond '09 Brandon Jennings (96 overall) and Diamond '10 Luis Scola (96 overall). :wtf: :wtf: :wtf:

Wtf?????

This makes no sense... none whatsoever.

First of all, Brandon Jennings wasn't even in the league in 2009 :lol .

Second, who the **** cares about Luis Scola, Brandon Jennings and Ty ****ing Lawson? I'd be pissed if I got one of these diamond cards instead of players that I actually give a shit about.

What about the cards that actually deserve to be Diamond? Shaq? Wilt? Bird? Magic?

Jesus, this is such BS.

Why do welfare nikkas play 2k pro mode? No one wants to see your poorly made character that isn't even a 60 get his ass handed to him. Stick to single player. Government buys them a video game system and they can't even do that right. :lol

started playing the mygm mode in this. 4 seasons in and won one ring my line up in orlando is now payton,hezonja,gordon hayward, ben simmons, porzingis. Biggest problem is they've put in a bunch of situations that are clearly there to make you spend VC. If you get good players on your bench they whine about starting non stop and keep dropping their morale low. it forces you to trade them or pay vc to cheer them up. right now i've got a regen fake small forward rated 75 in his second year who keeps complaining he can't start when I have hayward rated 85 at small forward, willie cauley stein keeps crying on the bench too because he can't start of porzingis who's rated 90 now. I'll have to trade them or spend vc t ocheer them up because they lower everyones stats

has anybody reached Greatest Of All Time of play now online mode?

Just got to the unrestricted seeds in My Team, going for that Amethyst Patrick Ewing!

For the 3 Gold player seeds I used:

Westbrook/Jrue Holiday
JJ Redick/Gerald Green/Danny Green
Carmelo/Ross/Iggy
LMA/Giannis
Gobert/Chandler

Westbrook could be replaced with Irving or Wall depending on your preferences.

Melo's shot is pretty pure in this game despite the ratings, but he could be replaced with PG13 or Kawhi if you prefer defense, I went with Melo because he's the cheapest out of the 3.

LMA is pure money in this game, dude is a beast from the post, midrange and even has a 84 standing 3 rating. Dude's also pretty beast around the rim often finishing contact lay ups and gets up pretty high on his dunks.

Gobert/Chandler are probably the best silver centers in the game.

I usually go big in the beginning, and then go small with Giannis at the 4. Dude's a beast defensively and dunks over everyone on the break.

I'm still testing lineups for unrestricted seeds playing around with Lebron at the 4 for small ball rotations. I'm not a big fan of his card in this game, his shot is too inconsistent for me to play him at the 3 over Durant, but he loses a lot of his defensive advantages on the perimeter if I play him at the 4....

Probably gonna roll with a lineup of:

Kidd/Irving
Klay/ROTY MJ/Tmac
Durant/LeBron/Melo
AD/LMA
Whiteside/DJ

Line up is relatively cheap, but effective IMO. I have enough MT for upgrades at the Center position if needed as well, so I should be set to go!

Just picked up this game recently. Haven't played 2k since 2k13. Who can give me good tips for playing good defense? I keep getting blown by even using LT

[QUOTE=GoRapz]Just picked up this game recently. Haven't played 2k since 2k13. Who can give me good tips for playing good defense? I keep getting blown by even using LT[/QUOTE]

You'll get used to man defense eventually. There isn't really a tip for playing good defense IMO, just try to keep in front of your man, and anticipate his moves (especially online). I try to stay at a distance where I won't get blown by and can still get a decent contest if my opponent fires a jumper.

One thing I'd practice on is defending the pick and roll.... That shit is broken as fk in this game.

[QUOTE=GoRapz]Just picked up this game recently. Haven't played 2k since 2k13. Who can give me good tips for playing good defense? I keep getting blown by even using LT[/QUOTE]
LT + RT & sometimes you just have to sprint when they blow by you. If you're defending the perimeter -- sag off & contest if they attempt to shoot.

I also suggest to switch to your front court when you defend since it's easier to anticipate what goes in the post (if you play the part in real life).

[QUOTE=Fire Colangelo]You'll get used to man defense eventually. There isn't really a tip for playing good defense IMO, just try to keep in front of your man, and anticipate his moves (especially online).[B] I try to stay at a distance where I won't get blown by and can still get a decent contest if my opponent fires a jumper. [/B]

One thing I'd practice on is defending the pick and roll.... That shit is broken as fk in this game.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, this.. lol

Thanks guys. What about defensive settings? Do you guys play around with those a lot or do you depend solely on your man to man skills?

Good game.

I played NBA live as a kid but it sucks now.

I MADE THE GOAT, ON PLAY NOW ONLINE, WHO WANTS A SHOT AT THE TITLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE :pimp:

Want a finesse/quick layup finish for your bigman?

Change it to one of these positions: SF, SG or PG (secondary position doesn't matter), then go back to signature & go to layup packages, & there you'll have all available layup packages, just switch your player's position back to its original after you're done selecting, just don't scroll through the packages again or it'll give you the regular packages such as Griffin, Timmy & big man.

I do this for quick bigmen like Randle who sorta lays it in like D. Rose with that wild hop-step finish, Lebron's new layup package looks like guys like Pau or Dirk can use some of it too.