Does 2K Even Care About Making the Game Realistic Anymore?

[JerzeyReign]

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Yea I know but I've never seen him dunk ON someone before...especially not shot blockers.

Drive by comment but Budinger actually has a few posters floating out in this streets haha. I'm sure the tube has a video of him catching one off the rim with his head over it

[TheRealHST]

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2K needs to get rid of the zone defense COMPLETELY! Just take it out!

But zone defense actually exists in the NBA.

[TheRealHST]

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1-3-1 and double teams may be frowned upon but they are legal. You just have to beat it.

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[fufaso]

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But zone defense actually exists in the NBA.

1-3-1 and double teams may be frowned upon but they are legal. You just have to beat it.

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Just to re-iterate the thread title:
"Does 2K Even Care About Making the Game Realistic Anymore?"

If you could, let me know when you have ever seen a 1-3-1 zone implemented in an NBA game.

I think the discussion is meant to be less about what's "legal in the nba" and more about playing the game in a way that actually replicates NBA ball - 1-3-1 blitzing double team on every ball handler is FAR from real nba ball - would you agree?

[VDusen04]

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Just to re-iterate the thread title:
"Does 2K Even Care About Making the Game Realistic Anymore?"

If you could, let me know when you have ever seen a 1-3-1 zone implemented in an NBA game.

I think the discussion is meant to be less about what's "legal in the nba" and more about playing the game in a way that actually replicates NBA ball - 1-3-1 blitzing double team on every ball handler is FAR from real nba ball - would you agree?

The 1-3-1's presence is an interesting topic to ponder. I am not incredibly knowledgeable of what teams have and have not employed defensively in real life. Have NBA teams ever tried out a 1-3-1? Is it possible that a team may give such an alignment a shot at some point?

If the answer to either of those questions is "yes", I think the 1-3-1 should stay. However, its inclusion aside, I think the bigger issue is the surrounding aspects of NBA 2K that allow such a defense to be successful in ways that, in real life, would never work on a similar scale. If the 1-3-1 has any sort of real life NBA presence at any point, I think it belongs in 2K (and if it doesn't, then not). However, I still believe tackling the larger issues would be most crucial - defensive recovery, ball movement speed, teammate logic, foot planting, no-look deflections, a lack of offensive counteractions to junk zones, etc.

Basically, if 2K provided the options that'd allow gamers to use real life basketball strategy and logic to render game-long 1-3-1's useless, I think everything else would fall into place.

[UnbelievablyRAW]

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The zones wouldn't be effective if player movement followed the laws of momentum. In 2k you're allowed to sprint towards a shooter and stop on a dime and prevent him from shooting or driving, which is why the zones are so effective

If they made it that after running out at full speed you could easily get blown by, people would stop using zones because its just a waste of player's energy to have them scrabbling all over the court and allowing drives to the basket


Also, the passing, and pass speed need to be fixed

So many times I've pressed pass to an open man, and the game makes me go through a 2 second animation before I actually do so, which results in a steal or a pass to someone being guarded. Its also annoying having the sg in MyPlayer pass the ball to me from 5 feet away (we're lateral to each other at the top of the 3pt line) and have a CPU guard run up and steal the ball from the paint/ft line because of how slow passing is

[svit]

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Just to bring this topic back on top.

I really hope 2K watched video footage from King of Court Challenge and address the issues which plagues gameplay in NG and CG. Right now 2k14 is not basketball simulation anymore. It becomes something else (dunk Fest, NBA Jam...) and for this year edition I will definitely look for NBA Live 15 first and then maybe (big maybe) for 2k15.

Disgrace!