NBA 2K18 Teach Me How To Thread : Tips,Plays,Defense

[parky_17]

Re: NBA 2K18 Teach Me How To Thread : Tips,Plays,Defense

Is there a way to do a bounce pass using the icon passing?

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[Antonioshellz]

Re: NBA 2K18 Teach Me How To Thread : Tips,Plays,Defense

Is there a way to do a bounce pass using the icon passing?

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Yes. In the controller settings you can switch the icon passing to Pass Type Control.

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[jeebs9]

Re: NBA 2K18 Teach Me How To Thread : Tips,Plays,Defense

Is there a way to do a bounce pass using the icon passing?

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No, You can't. The only way through that method is if the passer do a flashy pass. Beside that you can't.

Tip: So my cousin and I was playing the other day. And we messing with Alley Oops. And we found you can throw alley to players. But you need to keep these simple rules.

-Make sure your not pressing speed while passing
-Make sure your receiver isn't being touched by the defense.
-Make sure the offense player is looking the ball.*

*By far the most important

[parky_17]

Re: NBA 2K18 Teach Me How To Thread : Tips,Plays,Defense

No, You can't. The only way through that method is if the passer do a flashy pass. Beside that you can't.

Tip: So my cousin and I was playing the other day. And we messing with Alley Oops. And we found you can throw alley to players. But you need to keep these simple rules.

-Make sure your not pressing speed while passing
-Make sure your receiver isn't being touched by the defense.
-Make sure the offense player is looking the ball.*

*By far the most important

I actually found a way you can... If you change the icon pass setting to what the guy above said and you can double tap the corresponding button to bounce pass to your teammate

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[jeebs9]

Re: NBA 2K18 Teach Me How To Thread : Tips,Plays,Defense

I actually found a way you can... If you change the icon pass setting to what the guy above said and you can double tap the corresponding button to bounce pass to your teammate

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Oh really? I'll have to try it out then.

Thanks

[zpq12]

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How do I do a straight ahead jump stop? I can do the step back about half the time. Are these that hard for anyone else?

[BigL32]

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How do I do a straight ahead jump stop? I can do the step back about half the time. Are these that hard for anyone else?

If I understand your question correctly. You can do it in the paint by just tapping the square lightly. If you wanna do it in the backcourt you jump really stop (at least haven't seen it). The stop and pop is easy. Just let go of the left analog and pull up.

[JarvisC]

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Does anyone have some handoff plays they like a lot?

[aussie_pride]

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Hi everyone,
I was just wondering what coaching settings everyone is using? In particular, I was wondering what settings everyone uses for System Proficiency in MyLeague? Also, just out of curiosity what defensive settings does everyone prefer as they seem to vary from person to person. If it helps, I often play as the Boston Celtics.

Finally, forgive my my ignorance but is freelance offense? Obviously I have seen it in the game but is that where you can create your own offensive sets?

[zpq12]

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If I understand your question correctly. You can do it in the paint by just tapping the square lightly. If you wanna do it in the backcourt you jump really stop (at least haven't seen it). The stop and pop is easy. Just let go of the left analog and pull up.

Ok. This seems to be what I've figured out. Regarding step-backs(which I can only pull off very inconsistently), How do I shoot out of that? I drive, push the left stick away from my path and tap X....but then my player goes back to dribbling. Do I need to press X again right away to shoot? I can't seem to make it work. It always ends up being step-back, dribble once or twice, shot. Is there a way to make it go directly into a shot? I can hold X, but then the animation doesn't actually seem to do the step back, its just a stop and pop, which is entirely ineffective.

[zpq12]

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An additional and different question - calling plays. How do I even start this? I can press the D-pad, but that seems to bring up sets. I press LB, as the controls all say, but then it has me select players and call plays based on them? I'm very confused - and that doesn't even take into account going into the strategy menu to set up plays, which are apparently based on directions on the D-pad?

Am I completely dense? Is there a good tutorial out there or explanation? I've recently got really into playing this game, but I'm really struggling with this.

[NYCDaFuture]

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I’ll get to answering some of these questions in this thread this weekend!

[AllStarDaDon]

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I'm playing MyLeague as my Celtics. I want to run the offense through Horford and get him lots of assists. The Celtics freelance has a lot of high post action with cuts which is great, but the offense itself takes forever to trigger and there aren't that many branches.

Are there any good freelance sets where I can dump the ball to Al and have lots of off ball movement off him?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Best advice for that is when running the freelance don't just stand there with Horford. Do jab steps, pass fakes, pump fakes, enter the post while the rest of the action is developing. So as you wait for the rest of play to develop, go into the post with Horford. The defense will think you're attacking with Big Al, which will help open up teammates. Use him as bait.

Any body has had success with the fake pass layup? Its not as good looking as it was like 2k11-2k16. Now it's like a complete jumpstop, into a layup. In older 2K it was tough to time correctly, but if you got it looked nice and felt rewarding.

Any tips?

[jeebs9]

Re: NBA 2K18 Teach Me How To Thread : Tips,Plays,Defense

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Here a tip.... pass the freaking ball

[AllStarDaDon]

Re: NBA 2K18 Teach Me How To Thread : Tips,Plays,Defense

There's no comeback code in my opinion just NBA basketball. Now 2K will screw you out of a play or 2 just because it is a video game. Example lag online, ball morphing through a body on defense which makes you give up a unrealistic layup, player catching the ball out of bounds(debatable happens in real life), and exaggerating animation that makes you go back court or out of bounds on the base line.

Now that we got that out of way.

Guys just aren't creative man, me and EC Worldwide been saying this for years. Guys games are basic, no creativity or sauce. You need to have sauce in this game to win consistently, make come backs and close out 4th quarters. And you have to be able to get a stop.

I was watching Da Czar video the other day and he also said this game has a ebb and flow system. Guys try to force up shots with stars just because there stars when there obviously cold. Czar said when a star is cold, someone on your bench has it going that night just like real life. Call timeout, drink some water, take a breather. Use that 60 seconds as a mental break then go back to war. Slow down, I realized when you pace yourself and slow down you play more efficient. Don't worry about fastbreaks, you will naturally get chances to run because it's basketball. And your intuition and basketball IQ will tell you when it's smart to run. Don't give it to your PG, pass it up to your wing players for fastbreaks!! If you're playing HOF CPU you messed up already. Czar already said that HOF CPU is straight up cheese. If you're playing CPU play on Superstar, if you're playing against another user play on HOF

In my honest opinion guys don't watch enough film man. Go on YouTube and study who you are using!!! The reason you can't sustain big leads, and close out games is because you lack creativity. Go on YouTube, 2K allows you to recreate 7.5-8 out of 10 moves you see in real life. Watch footage and apply those moves in games, it works wonders. That's why if you play me, I have to many style hence why I named myself IsomotionKing. Be creative and oh yeah shoot alot of fadeaways and leaners off the dribble with your scorers, it works wonders. NBA scorers use alot of fadeaways, when most users don't. Study the CPU when you play, CPU shoots one dribble fadeaways, 2 dribble leaners from mid range and 3, emulate that that's NBA basketball. Users are scared to death to take those shots. Most sim players try to look for the "perfect shot" when there is no perfect shot, take what the defense gives and try the crazy unexpected **** it works.

Play defense. Give something up, prefferably the long contested mid range. If a guy hits a contested mid range shot, falling off one leg spinning, has his tounge out like Mike, jersey in his mouth like Kobe, thinking about what he's buying his daughter for Christmas, while farting In the air and he still hits it congratulate him. In real life guys hit unexpected tough shots all the time, these are professional shot creators they only need a inch of space. Sorry for the long post just tired of guys crying comeback code and script. And call timeouts to neutralize momentum. 2K is a momentum based game as is basketball�� most users are to stubborn, and feel like since it's a video game they don't have to call timeout.

This is my post from the comeback code thread. I figured I would repost it here because it applies for this thread too and there's some great info in there