Re: So how long will 2K continue to deny 3rd quarter momentum shifts?
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I will break this down play-by-play
0:45 - Bass is wide open in paint. Catches pass in paint but it's not clean due to passer's double team. Cousins rotates and blocks the dunk. This play will create defensive momentum.
44-32
0:55 - Gay pulls up for uncontested three as the user never locks up. This play will create offensive momentum.
44-35
1:15 - Ray McCallum fouls out on a double team.
1:30 - Turner catches open in the corner, and drives into a triple team. Passes it to Olynyk who takes a wild shot over Cousins, who has now stopped two consecutive plays.
2:00 - Cousins dribbles it out of bounds trying to navigate the three point line.
TIMEOUT
3:10 - Brandan Bass hits standing mid-range shot (84 rating) with space.
46-35
3:20 - Bad user defense (let's say due to camera angle) gives Gay a clear path to the hoop where he draws foul. Hits two FTs (yay more offensive momentum)
46-37
4:00 - Celtics user hits Olynyk inside with a pass that would have never made it through in real life. Video game animations still king.
48-37
4:35 - Kings user tried to force a drive, then took a bad contested jumper with Gay on the kickout with 6 seconds still left on the clock. This was the first play that made me realize this was head to head. Kings user has been playing so clean I thought it was the CPU this whole time.
TIMEOUT
4:50 - Double-team cheese while the Celtics stuck in play-call screen.
5:05 - Bad double off the jump ball gives Zeller a wide open dunk.
50-37
5:15 - Gay jump passes out of shot, McLemore bobbles the catch. User JUMPS instead of staying at home. This was not a situation (bobbled pass) where the opponent was looking to pull up, and instead McLemore gets a clear path to the basket for a layup. That is a bad basketball decision leading to opponent gaining some momentum. That McLemore is a so-so shooter (80 S.3PT) and a great finisher should have informed that decision point. Worth noting that Gay gets an assist on this play (more momentum).
50-39
5:40 - Bad pass gets intercepted. One reason I personally don't run plays everytime down is you can get caught in the trap of following the play even when the defense has it read completely.
5:45 - Gay finishes an And-1 dunk on the ensuing fastbreak. This probably has the user pissed off. The factors:
88 Dunk Rating (20 points higher than the average SF)
GOLD Posterizer
SILVER Transition Finisher
Defended by Evan Turner (who was already playing poorly before this)
Rudy Gay has been walking cheese since he entered the league and these are exactly the video game plays he has been finishing for years.
50-42
6:20 - User is rattled and does not make a decision when his called play doesn't formulate (i.e. gets defended well by the opponent). Ends up swinging the ball to take a jumper with a so-so shooter with the clock running down.
6:25 - After the rebound the User does not pick up Gay in transition. You can actually see the user run his player into the stands. Gay never gets picked up until it's too late, and Gay throws down a fastbreak dunk.
50-44
Let's summarize Gay's 4th quarter now.
3PT, Layup, Miss, Assist, Dunk, Dunk. He's made 5 good plays in 6 possessions, including two highlight plays.
6:50 - User is rattled again, ends up posting w/ Evan Turner, realizes too late this isn't a great idea, kicks it cross court to Bradley for a jumper as the clock expires (80 S.Med but probably a rush animation).
Conversely let's summarize the Celtics offensive quarter right now
Olynyk: 1-2 FG
Zeller: 1-1 FG
Bass: 1-2 FG
Bradley: 0-1 FG
Turner: 0-1 FG
Smart: 1 TO
Nobody is playing well, and certainly nobody here has the takeover potential of Rudy Gay, both IRL or video game.
7:00 - Kings get another fastbreak off the missed jumper, McLemore draws a foul.
50-46
Worth noting that Isaiah Thomas has been on the bench this entire time and checks in with 40 seconds left in the game.
7:40 - User hesitates with Thomas. The defense is out of position and he can either pull up or drive, but instead swings it to Bass, who isn't as open as he appears (Landry rotates) and misses another jumper with the clock expiring. The shot clock cheese clearly isn't a thing nowadays. Zeller grabs the ORB but Landry pokes it away (though difficult to see with all the bodies in the way).
7:55 - Gay is open and pulls for a three. The fade is because he was moving when he caught it and hit the shot button. The shot goes in because he's on fire (and 82 M.3PT). Sure, he might have had time to set w/o the defense rotating, but I'm not sure why it would matter, this just sounds like salt.
50-49
8:05 - Intentional foul x2. User hits two FTs w/ Bradley (79 rating, Slightly Early releases)
52-49
TIMEOUT
9:05 - Are you kidding me. HOW COULD YOU LEAVE HIM THAT OPEN!
52-52
9:30 - User hits the luck chuck of the century at the buzzer, then heads to OS to complain about the game.
54-52
You played this quarter very poorly and did not deserve to win this game.
Momentum was on the opponent's side because he flat-out played you from a basketball and stick standpoint.
You gave him clear paths to the basket and multiple wide open threes with subpar defense. He defended you well on many possessions, and you also made it easy for him with indecisiveness and forced turnovers. You took many jumpers late in the clock and you only forced that upon him once the entire quarter.
You gift-wrapped you opponent's momentum, silver platter included, and he made you work for everything. All I saw was a player who should have gotten waxed by 10 in the quarter, regardless of whether it was the 1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th.
TLDR: Gay goes nova due to poor User play, then blames the game.
If this is scathing and you're mad, good. Instead of uploading the video as an example of "woe is me 2K RAGGEEEEEE" you should instead re-watch it as a scouting video of how/where you messed up, and analyze what you could have done differently at various decision points. That, is after-all, what NBA players and teams do (not to mention any professional level gamer, which is why competitive games like Starcraft, League of Legends, Street Fighter, etc have the option to save replays).
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I will break this down play-by-play
0:45 - Bass is wide open in paint. Catches pass in paint but it's not clean due to passer's double team. Cousins rotates and blocks the dunk. This play will create defensive momentum.
44-32
0:55 - Gay pulls up for uncontested three as the user never locks up. This play will create offensive momentum.
44-35
1:15 - Ray McCallum fouls out on a double team.
1:30 - Turner catches open in the corner, and drives into a triple team. Passes it to Olynyk who takes a wild shot over Cousins, who has now stopped two consecutive plays.
2:00 - Cousins dribbles it out of bounds trying to navigate the three point line.
TIMEOUT
3:10 - Brandan Bass hits standing mid-range shot (84 rating) with space.
46-35
3:20 - Bad user defense (let's say due to camera angle) gives Gay a clear path to the hoop where he draws foul. Hits two FTs (yay more offensive momentum)
46-37
4:00 - Celtics user hits Olynyk inside with a pass that would have never made it through in real life. Video game animations still king.
48-37
4:35 - Kings user tried to force a drive, then took a bad contested jumper with Gay on the kickout with 6 seconds still left on the clock. This was the first play that made me realize this was head to head. Kings user has been playing so clean I thought it was the CPU this whole time.
TIMEOUT
4:50 - Double-team cheese while the Celtics stuck in play-call screen.
5:05 - Bad double off the jump ball gives Zeller a wide open dunk.
50-37
5:15 - Gay jump passes out of shot, McLemore bobbles the catch. User JUMPS instead of staying at home. This was not a situation (bobbled pass) where the opponent was looking to pull up, and instead McLemore gets a clear path to the basket for a layup. That is a bad basketball decision leading to opponent gaining some momentum. That McLemore is a so-so shooter (80 S.3PT) and a great finisher should have informed that decision point. Worth noting that Gay gets an assist on this play (more momentum).
50-39
5:40 - Bad pass gets intercepted. One reason I personally don't run plays everytime down is you can get caught in the trap of following the play even when the defense has it read completely.
5:45 - Gay finishes an And-1 dunk on the ensuing fastbreak. This probably has the user pissed off. The factors:
88 Dunk Rating (20 points higher than the average SF)
GOLD Posterizer
SILVER Transition Finisher
Defended by Evan Turner (who was already playing poorly before this)
Rudy Gay has been walking cheese since he entered the league and these are exactly the video game plays he has been finishing for years.
50-42
6:20 - User is rattled and does not make a decision when his called play doesn't formulate (i.e. gets defended well by the opponent). Ends up swinging the ball to take a jumper with a so-so shooter with the clock running down.
6:25 - After the rebound the User does not pick up Gay in transition. You can actually see the user run his player into the stands. Gay never gets picked up until it's too late, and Gay throws down a fastbreak dunk.
50-44
Let's summarize Gay's 4th quarter now.
3PT, Layup, Miss, Assist, Dunk, Dunk. He's made 5 good plays in 6 possessions, including two highlight plays.
6:50 - User is rattled again, ends up posting w/ Evan Turner, realizes too late this isn't a great idea, kicks it cross court to Bradley for a jumper as the clock expires (80 S.Med but probably a rush animation).
Conversely let's summarize the Celtics offensive quarter right now
Olynyk: 1-2 FG
Zeller: 1-1 FG
Bass: 1-2 FG
Bradley: 0-1 FG
Turner: 0-1 FG
Smart: 1 TO
Nobody is playing well, and certainly nobody here has the takeover potential of Rudy Gay, both IRL or video game.
7:00 - Kings get another fastbreak off the missed jumper, McLemore draws a foul.
50-46
Worth noting that Isaiah Thomas has been on the bench this entire time and checks in with 40 seconds left in the game.
7:40 - User hesitates with Thomas. The defense is out of position and he can either pull up or drive, but instead swings it to Bass, who isn't as open as he appears (Landry rotates) and misses another jumper with the clock expiring. The shot clock cheese clearly isn't a thing nowadays. Zeller grabs the ORB but Landry pokes it away (though difficult to see with all the bodies in the way).
7:55 - Gay is open and pulls for a three. The fade is because he was moving when he caught it and hit the shot button. The shot goes in because he's on fire (and 82 M.3PT). Sure, he might have had time to set w/o the defense rotating, but I'm not sure why it would matter, this just sounds like salt.
50-49
8:05 - Intentional foul x2. User hits two FTs w/ Bradley (79 rating, Slightly Early releases)
52-49
TIMEOUT
9:05 - Are you kidding me. HOW COULD YOU LEAVE HIM THAT OPEN!
52-52
9:30 - User hits the luck chuck of the century at the buzzer, then heads to OS to complain about the game.
54-52
You played this quarter very poorly and did not deserve to win this game.
Momentum was on the opponent's side because he flat-out played you from a basketball and stick standpoint.
You gave him clear paths to the basket and multiple wide open threes with subpar defense. He defended you well on many possessions, and you also made it easy for him with indecisiveness and forced turnovers. You took many jumpers late in the clock and you only forced that upon him once the entire quarter.
You gift-wrapped you opponent's momentum, silver platter included, and he made you work for everything. All I saw was a player who should have gotten waxed by 10 in the quarter, regardless of whether it was the 1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th.
TLDR: Gay goes nova due to poor User play, then blames the game.
If this is scathing and you're mad, good. Instead of uploading the video as an example of "woe is me 2K RAGGEEEEEE" you should instead re-watch it as a scouting video of how/where you messed up, and analyze what you could have done differently at various decision points. That, is after-all, what NBA players and teams do (not to mention any professional level gamer, which is why competitive games like Starcraft, League of Legends, Street Fighter, etc have the option to save replays).
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