NBA 2K17 Pro-Am Discussion Thread

[kdurantmvp]

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How do yall tell your friend that they absolutely suck? My friend is a Sharpshooter who didnt put any vc into mid range because "I dont take mid range shots" and thinks he should run the offense even though Im a point foward who got HOF Dimer and better Passing abilities?

[jyoung]

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I see a lot of people complaining about playing with randoms, so if you're on Xbox One, just send a friend request to the gamertag jyoung OS. Depending on how many friends are online, I'm either on Pro Am or Park most evenings starting around 6 PM to 7 PM eastern time, and I've created enough characters to play every position except center.

[Ray Vibes]

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I see a lot of people complaining about playing with randoms, so if you're on Xbox One, just send a friend request to the gamertag jyoung OS. Depending on how many friends are online, I'm either on Pro Am or Park most evenings starting around 6 PM to 7 PM eastern time, and I've created enough characters to play every position except center.

I recently added you.

[Mike2001]

Re: NBA 2K17 Pro-Am Discussion Thread

How do yall tell your friend that they absolutely suck? My friend is a Sharpshooter who didnt put any vc into mid range because "I dont take mid range shots" and thinks he should run the offense even though Im a point foward who got HOF Dimer and better Passing abilities?

Just tell him dont sugarcoat its a game nothing serious

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[DakkoN]

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I see a lot of people complaining about playing with randoms, so if you're on Xbox One, just send a friend request to the gamertag jyoung OS. Depending on how many friends are online, I'm either on Pro Am or Park most evenings starting around 6 PM to 7 PM eastern time, and I've created enough characters to play every position except center.

I used to play Madden (and maybe NCAA with you), you need to play on PS4!

[KoolAidNoSugar]

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How do yall tell your friend that they absolutely suck? My friend is a Sharpshooter who didnt put any vc into mid range because "I dont take mid range shots" and thinks he should run the offense even though Im a point foward who got HOF Dimer and better Passing abilities?

Tell him he trash. I call my friends garbage all the time

[P234thetruth]

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Oh man been having so much fun with my 6'8 LDD and my boys 6'10 PP. We've been running a small ball lineup at the 4 and 5 respectively. Straight death lineup. We've beaten some really good teams too a few Elite 2, were such a mismatch and nightmare to gaurd. We can switch on pick and rolls, hedge and get back and in transition forget about it.

We destroyed these guys that were 84-4 they had no answer. I have a glass cleaner, stretch big and playmaker and I think my LDD is my most favorite to play with.

[Inzombniac]

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Oh man been having so much fun with my 6'8 LDD and my boys 6'10 PP. We've been running a small ball lineup at the 4 and 5 respectively. Straight death lineup. We've beaten some really good teams too a few Elite 2, were such a mismatch and nightmare to gaurd. We can switch on pick and rolls, hedge and get back and in transition forget about it.

We destroyed these guys that were 84-4 they had no answer. I have a glass cleaner, stretch big and playmaker and I think my LDD is my most favorite to play with.

I've been grinding a 6'11" paint protector C since I've been playing more 4 lately but I've been cautious about taking him into the Pro-Am since even with a 7'0" glass cleaner I can struggle against bigger players defending or on the boards. Your post makes me optimistic because at the 4, the paint protector would be nearly 10 points faster in speed and obviously have the defensive badges to defend.

How would you say the spacing is with this duo? That's the main concern because the other C I run with is a 7'3" glass cleaner and I'm barely going to have a competent mid range (it's at 53 right now, I'm unlocking upgrades to try and get it to at least a 60). Would you think this is workable with what you've seen?

[P234thetruth]

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I've been grinding a 6'11" paint protector C since I've been playing more 4 lately but I've been cautious about taking him into the Pro-Am since even with a 7'0" glass cleaner I can struggle against bigger players defending or on the boards. Your post makes me optimistic because at the 4, the paint protector would be nearly 10 points faster in speed and obviously have the defensive badges to defend.

How would you say the spacing is with this duo? That's the main concern because the other C I run with is a 7'3" glass cleaner and I'm barely going to have a competent mid range (it's at 53 right now, I'm unlocking upgrades to try and get it to at least a 60). Would you think this is workable with what you've seen?

You just have to be smart when undersized don't bite on fakes, fight for position with the right stick and beat your matchup to his spot, if he drop steps rip him as he exposes the ball. I went up against a few glass cleaners before and never really struggled if anything they struggle to defend me I do have a midrange shot though.

[jyoung]

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In tonight's edition of "Let's see if we can get into a walk on game", we tried 6 times and all 6 times someone either crashed or we didn't get taken into the warm up court.

Our party just went 0 for 5 tonight in getting our entire squad into a game on Xbox One. We tried once on each person's MyCourt and the most we were able to get into a game was 3 of our 5 squad members.



4 months and 7 patches after launch and walk on mode is still broke.

[redsfan4life]

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The thing about walk on is even when your team gets into the mode you start out with a 10-2 lead and the entire team you're playing quits in the 1st quarter. Not fun.

[NoLeafClover]

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The teammate AI when you get a CPU in Pro Am is SO bad, they seriously couldn't make it worse if they tried. They literally do NOTHING right, sagging completely off shooters, letting bigs just turbo cut to the paint, taking idiotic contested shots...

It's like this year's entire failed defense summed up in a single character every time we play with one, sigh.

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[awg811]

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The teammate AI when you get a CPU in Pro Am is SO bad, they seriously couldn't make it worse if they tried. They literally do NOTHING right, sagging completely off shooters, letting bigs just turbo cut to the paint, taking idiotic contested shots...

It's like this year's entire failed defense summed up in a single character every time we play with one, sigh.

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You forgot fouling on almost every shot contest in the paint. Most times bail out fouls from good contests by human players.

[ph33]

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The teammate AI when you get a CPU in Pro Am is SO bad, they seriously couldn't make it worse if they tried. They literally do NOTHING right, sagging completely off shooters, letting bigs just turbo cut to the paint, taking idiotic contested shots...

It's like this year's entire failed defense summed up in a single character every time we play with one, sigh.

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You forgot to add the famous step back jumper they always attempt in favor of an open standing shot!

[mb625]

Re: NBA 2K17 Pro-Am Discussion Thread

The teammate AI when you get a CPU in Pro Am is SO bad, they seriously couldn't make it worse if they tried. They literally do NOTHING right, sagging completely off shooters, letting bigs just turbo cut to the paint, taking idiotic contested shots...

It's like this year's entire failed defense summed up in a single character every time we play with one, sigh.

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The AI is just turrable most of the time. Though last night, I was running a walk on game and the opposing user center was a total jackwagon, so I ended the game with 10 assists, 5 or 6 to the center who was wide open in the paint.

It's just as bad, if not worse in Team-Up. So frustrating to give the ball to Shaq down low when, in lieu of posting up, he turns around and fires an 8-footer in the opponent's face.