Diving for the basketball

[Hilrey]

Which button(s) do you press on the ps4 to dive for a loose ball, I try to dive for a lose ball when it's close to going out of bounce, but it will not let me dive for some reason. Trying to get scrapper badge

[CaseIH]

Re: Diving for the basketball

On PS4 its L2 and square.

[nry20]

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On PS4 its L2 and square.

you can double tap triangle or square too.

[CaseIH]

Re: Diving for the basketball

you can double tap triangle or square too.

Didn't know that, I have always just hit square and L2 to do it, thanks for the info on that, didn't realize their was more than 1 way.

[Damien7]

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you can double tap triangle or square too.

Speaking of diving and loose balls, did you guys ever succeed saving a ball that is going out of bounds? I don't mean when the ball rolls on the floor, I'm talking about the loose balls that are out of bounds in the air and could be saved by throwing them back on the court.

When a player is close to the ball, there's always an animation where one of the players try to save the ball before it bounces out of bounds, even if I don't press anything. But it NEVER works. The animation is kind of ridiculous add that. It always end up in an out of bounds call, sometimes the player even dive for the ball and land horizontally out of bounds with the ball in his hands, SMH. I have never seen, and it was the same in 2K14, a player succeeding in saving the ball in that case. What's this animation for then?

[BellSKA]

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Speaking of diving and loose balls, did you guys ever succeed saving a ball that is going out of bounds? I don't mean when the ball rolls on the floor, I'm talking about the loose balls that are out of bounds in the air and could be saved by throwing them back on the court.

When a player is close to the ball, there's always an animation where one of the players try to save the ball before it bounces out of bounds, even if I don't press anything. But it NEVER works. The animation is kind of ridiculous add that. It always end up in an out of bounds call, sometimes the player even dive for the ball and land horizontally out of bounds with the ball in his hands, SMH. I have never seen, and it was the same in 2K14, a player succeeding in saving the ball in that case. What's this animation for then?

This is what the OP is talking about. It's called the "Scrapper" badge. I've found that Turbo and Y (jump) work best for saving the ball from out of bounds. But I use both. Most of the time I just hold onto Turbo and steal. I never heard of double tapping either jump or steal. I'll give it a try.

For best results, go for the steal at half court when the opposing team is bringing the ball up the court. Usually you can get the dive animation on the opposite end baseline.

[flo182]

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Does this also work for loose balls that roll around the floor? The AI gets all those balls when I play it and my players dont even make an effort to grab the ball.

[tbentley]

Re: Diving for the basketball

To get a loose ball save it takes a couple things:

Animation: you can't be in an unfavorable animation going for a loose ball save because 2k make it impossible to get the loose ball animation.

Right Steal Animation: If you want to create the loose ball save your self you have only have 3 - 4 animation that can lead you into loose ball save animation. Can't really explain how the animation looks but any steal animation that knocks the ball far away is difficult to get a loose ball save. I have gotten one loose ball save that way and it was pure luck.

Low Ball Movement Teams: If you don't play PG, this allows you to help off your man and try ripping the PG for the Loose Ball save.

3-2 defense: Ive gotten a couple this way it works for SF because you will be on the left wing and you can't bait the offensive player.

LUCK: You have to be lucky to get the animation as well. I've done all the above and sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn't. I counted it up yesterday I got 46 dive for ball animations and only 4 were loose ball saves playing 5 games.


If you have a specific question PM me or if you have PS4 i can probably show you some more tips.

[tbentley]

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Does this also work for loose balls that roll around the floor? The AI gets all those balls when I play it and my players dont even make an effort to grab the ball.

If you are trying to get it off the steals and you are double teaming you need to be closer to out of bounds than team because they will take the opportunity from you.

[Jrocc23]

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Yeah, I've double tapped X (Steal button) since I've been playing 2K to dive that I can remember.

I am sure I held turbo as well to dive for balls that was rolling and I was trying to dive before the opponent.

[Damien7]

Re: Diving for the basketball

This is what the OP is talking about. It's called the "Scrapper" badge. I've found that Turbo and Y (jump) work best for saving the ball from out of bounds. But I use both. Most of the time I just hold onto Turbo and steal. I never heard of double tapping either jump or steal. I'll give it a try.

Ok my bad, I thought OP was talking about loose balls rolling on the floor. Anyway, thank you for the tip.