NBA 2K20 Teach Me How to Thread: Tips, Mechanics, Defense, + Plays

[Smirkin Dirk]

Re: NBA 2K20 Teach Me How to Thread: Tips, Mechanics, Defense, + Plays

Why did they get rid of the side step 3? You can still do it but only after doing a ball fake first.

[Nwordbelike]

Re: NBA 2K20 Teach Me How to Thread: Tips, Mechanics, Defense, + Plays

How do i do the half spin move? Everytime I do the half spin it make me go all the way back The stick is too sensitive or am I doing something wrong ?

[jeebs9]

Re: NBA 2K20 Teach Me How to Thread: Tips, Mechanics, Defense, + Plays

How do i do the half spin move? Everytime I do the half spin it make me go all the way back The stick is too sensitive or am I doing something wrong ?

Imagine the right stick like a clock. When you do a full spin. You're spinning toward the bottom half of the clock. But with a fake or half spin. You're actually going upward (on the ball hand side).

[jeebs9]

Re: NBA 2K20 Teach Me How to Thread: Tips, Mechanics, Defense, + Plays

Sorry if this question has been answered before or is a bit of a "silly" question, but can you still individually post guys up? Like bring up their icons and make them post up?

Yes, you still can. But it's an extra button tap. And the player has to have in their playbook (I think). If you tap L1, R1 and then the player you want to post up. You'll see the set up for "player name" And then floppy, low post, and etc.

[jeebs9]

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Agree mbless, I think in my opinion it would help if you could do it quicker. To me there's no difference between tapping L1 and having to tap L1, R1 quickly, but you actually have to wait that extra moment for the first screen to appear. This may not seem like a huge difference but if I do it too quickly the game doesn't recognize the R1 input and I have to hit it again.

Exactly!! You roll out something this fresh and have bugs. People don't like change first of all. But if it's "broken". It's harder to roll out.

It's rough because before, you could call a play, run it and if it wasn't working out, switch to another. With having to wait that extra second on each step of calling the play, you're pretty limited to one play per possession unless you get an offensive rebound. And even then, because there's no hurry up option, your team takes forever to set up and you really don't have time to call another play and run more than one action. Super frustrating.

Totally agree

Right. They should have just had it L1+R1 brings up postional players. If they're not going to invest in testers, they really need to release a BETA and listen to feedback about changes and intended improvements.

I love this idea!!!!!

[Nwordbelike]

Re: NBA 2K20 Teach Me How to Thread: Tips, Mechanics, Defense, + Plays

Imagine the right stick like a clock. When you do a full spin. You're spinning toward the bottom half of the clock. But with a fake or half spin. You're actually going upward (on the ball hand side).

It is very helpful, I finally figured out how to make it work. Thanks a lot!

[theman824]

Re: NBA 2K20 Teach Me How to Thread: Tips, Mechanics, Defense, + Plays

I need help finishing driving layups please

The new gather system doesn't seem to respond to the old inputs

eg. reverse layups pushing opposite way of left stick direction often leads to weird leaning off the glass layups on near side. I've only triggered them by pressing down now but its inconsistent and sometime I go for floaters at the really wrong time.

Sometimes I'll tap square for a hop step gather and he'll just hop step into a very early shot that misses horribly - on 2k19 I would often hop step with square and then make the read on the layup or dish - so this is often ruinous for me.

I can be crossing the basket from the left to the right just past the charge zone, holding up right (1/2 o'clock) and I will do a left handed layup at times... if I press right he does a hop step and I can get blocked.

Also for driving dunks: they don't always trigger even if I have a completely clear lane (defender on other side of the basket or trailing), and I can get blocked - my driving dunk is 87 and I have gold contact finisher

has anyone got any tips please?

Things I've figured out:

using square seems to be more effective

pressing square closer to the rim leads to better shot selections - even if it makes more sense to just quickly lay it in from further back (smh)

letting go of sprint once you have the shoulder allows you to make more layups (still inconsistent levels of contesting - even after the patch today)

getting acrobat on silver sometimes I can just double tap square and make the layup but it feels cheesy and devoid of the skill I like to employ when getting to the hoop.

standing layups are best when stood almost directly under the basket now

I'm having problems doing reverse layups or reverse dunks as well.
They don't trigger consistently for me, even if no defender is there (practicing on MyCourt).


I have to admit, i didn't really play 2k19, I'm coming straight off of playing two years of 2k18. So a lot of things feel very different.

Can someone share some insight? Especially on: Where on the court do you start the move? What exactly are you inputting?


Edit after patch 1.05 came out:
"Reverse dunks" not triggering correctly was addressed in the patch. Haven't done testing though.

[Oba]

Re: NBA 2K20 Teach Me How to Thread: Tips, Mechanics, Defense, + Plays

Does anyone have any tips for finishing at the rim?

Sick of getting blocked time and time again.

[UnbelievablyRAW]

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Can't play defense to save my life. I've tried the Sam Pham methods but once you play guys that have badges and are fast you automatically get blown by. Big men in this game are slow as hell when trying to play help defense, feels like guys will score before I even get to have my centre turn around.


All I'm seeing now when I play online 5v5 is the 2k18 meta of 5 out and iso with the pg because of how easy it is to get driving layups and I can't do anything other than try to play offball

[UnbelievablyRAW]

Re: NBA 2K20 Teach Me How to Thread: Tips, Mechanics, Defense, + Plays

Can't play defense to save my life. I've tried the Sam Pham methods but once you play guys that have badges and are fast you automatically get blown by. Big men in this game are slow as hell when trying to play help defense, feels like guys will score before I even get to have my centre turn around.


All I'm seeing now when I play online 5v5 is the 2k18 meta of 5 out and iso with the pg because of how easy it is to get driving layups and I can't do anything other than try to play offball

Figured it out. Unlike previous years, you literally have to be pressing both L2 + R2 the entire time you’re guarding someone in order to have any sort of lateral movement. For some reason just using L2 and the Left and right sticks causes guys to turn around when moving or move in slow motion. Been night and day since I started just holding down R2 and L2 TGH entire time I’m playing on ball D

[BobbyColtrane]

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I never play MyCareer mode but my son wants to and we are having some trouble getting started.

We can use the builder but there is no option to actually start a career.

Do we have to test the build before we can start? HALP.

[b1g]

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Does anyone have any tips for finishing at the rim?

Sick of getting blocked time and time again.

It’s best to have an open lane and a pretty good dunker. I don’t think they’re going to let you nba jam every time with even the best dunkers. There are a lot of bad scripted animations in the paint I wish they’d fix but I play on HOF offline and can’t really speak on other modes

[hoopsfan]

Re: NBA 2K20 Teach Me How to Thread: Tips, Mechanics, Defense, + Plays

Why did they get rid of the side step 3? You can still do it but only after doing a ball fake first.

Interesting to know.

In fact, I saw the CPU, Anthony Davis perform one of those yesterday...he got hit with a travel violation, taking side steps after the pump fake lol.

[jeebs9]

Re: NBA 2K20 Teach Me How to Thread: Tips, Mechanics, Defense, + Plays

Does anyone have any tips for finishing at the rim?

Sick of getting blocked time and time again.

When driving to the rim. You want to mix up the timing of the defender. You can do that a few ways. hop steps really are powerful this year. Obviously euro steps. What you can also do is just manually
stopping lol

You can also switch hands before going up. And then pausing and switching and holding the ball while in air. You can get a lot of and1 this way with certain players.

[vetmin]

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Have any of you all figured out how to get the favorite plays to stick from game to game? I don't want to have to take up a minute of pause time every game just to set those up.

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Bumping this. Anyone figure it out yet?