Low IQ players smh

[splashmountain]

Re: Low IQ players smh

We'll have to agree to disagree. The game has never passed it to Player X when I selected Player B while using icon passing. The only problem that I may have occasionally is when I press the icon for a particular player, and game doesn't respond to my button press. In my mind, I'm already making the next move with the player (in PNO), or I cut to an open area (REC) not realizing that I still have the damn ball. It is what it is.

As far as the ball taking unnatural paths for fake steals...it what it is. That will happen regardless of the game mode or if you're icon, directional, or regular passing. That's been in the game for several 2Ks now. I hate it just a much as the next man.

Lastly, I would NEVER get the bail-out badge simply on the basic basketball fundamental of "Don't leave your feet unless you already know what you're going to do with the ball.". The fact that jump passes is an "important piece of strategy" for REC sounds ludacris to me. Then, why would I even ATTEMPT to throw a pass "through" bodies??? Think about what you just wrote. People believe that's what it takes to win, so they do it. If just play the game the "right way", you can still win with a lot less frustration.

playing the game the right way will have you around .500 ball. assuming you have at least 3 other guys doing the same. you can kind of make the lets say ...dumb players smarter if you have 3 guys playing smart. eventually the randoms will start to realize "ohhh, so you're not just trying to get yours...so we're trying to actually win the game? oooh cool." because we all have to realize there's lots of people that dont have a solid crew of 2k friends playing rec. some do and some dont. those that dont get stuck with randoms so often they end up just trying to do badge work while playing because their chances of winning are so slim playing with hot dogs are two randoms that are friends playing buddy ball passing back and forth to each other while ignoring everyone else.

but anything above .500 is hard as hell to pull off unless your guy and your team is high rated with badges on gold and HOF in the right places.

this game is so heavy on overall and badges its not even funny.
in my humble opinion, you could be a .600 winner if you just have a slightly below average Bball IQ, but you have all your necessary high badges and are rated 95+, with a team full of guys just like you.

you can tell guys are not that good even though they are getting all of the love due to the above ratings and badges and you're still hanging in there based on IQ alone almost. lol.

But i know why 2k does it. i hate it, and i will continue to cry about it as long as i pay my good money for the game. They do it to make it easier for kids to play the game which is a HUUUUGE demographic of their customers. They know the era that they are in. where you have to give people stuff just for participating to keep them happy and playing. you have to reward them for just grinding on these badges and on the rep. to keep them playing.

[splashmountain]

Re: Low IQ players smh

The problem is most people don't know how to create proper passing angles. Just because a defender left his man doesn't mean YOU'RE the one that's supposed to pass to him.

If the help is cutting off the swing pass then pass to the next man that can get the open man the ball. This a 5v5 sport. Not 1v5 or 2v5. Just because you see a guy open doesn't mean that YOU'RE the one that should get the assist.

You have to learn to play with other people no matter their skill level. Noone forced you to enter a random pool, YOU chose to. So either sacrifice your pride and your stats to get optimal results or accept the poor experience that you're contributing to.

Most people that play this game don't have actual basketball experience. Expecting them to play according to your playstyle is unrealistic. So if you have more "IQ" than them use it to make the whole team better in a way they can comprehend.

DISCLAIMER: I'm speaking in generalities. Not targeting anyone specifically.

^^sounds great in theory. until you run into that team where they wont give you the ball half the time even if you've proven that you're the best man to have the ball in his hands. even if you made it easier for them to score. they will still sabotage the game by going for self. and then call you trash to boot. lol.

[tru11]

Re: Low IQ players smh

^^sounds great in theory. until you run into that team where they wont give you the ball half the time even if you've proven that you're the best man to have the ball in his hands. even if you made it easier for them to score. they will still sabotage the game by going for self. and then call you trash to boot. lol.

its usually the people that think that they are the best man to have the ball in their hand and think they have proven that , which makes you loose the game.
which is pretty much 99% of everyone in JRC.

[splashmountain]

Re: Low IQ players smh

its usually the people that think that they are the best man to have the ball in their hand and think they have proven that , which makes you loose the game.
which is pretty much 99% of everyone in JRC.

so you just basically had no response to what i said so this is what you came up with tru? lol.

I'm telling you. we're down early 15 to 2. guys playing buddy ball, passing it back and forth and air balling jumpers that never should've been taken with 2 guys drapped over you, or guys over dribbling, spamming size up moves trying to speed boost. its 2 seconds left and then you pass it to the guy in the post. he fumbles it... you hear the noise, shot clock violation. wash, rinse, repeat.

I get a rebound(since they refuse to give me the ball at all.) and i have to go all the way down court even with my big man(pathetic, i should be able to trust one of the perimeter guys to actually...you know..****n point but they are hot dogs are buddy ballers). But me playing smart basketball, i have my opposing big defender out of the paint guarding me because he's not sure what i'm about to do. i hesistate as if i'm going to the rack. he backs up. i do it again. he backs up. Got him. 3 seconds on defense violation. got him stuck in the paint trying to set up camp and cook smores in there. I get another rebound and have to go down the court again for the same reasons as above. they wont give me the ball no matter where i am and they are just chucking bad shot after bad shot.

I get the big to come out and fully commit. uh oh, one of the not so smart guys actually cuts back door. Lob pass. DUNK a defender came over late so he gets the And 1.

they give it to me now. I pass fake it and go to the rack. i get jumped of course since everyone hates to see a big dunk...lol. Pitch it out to the 3. wide open 3 for the chucker guy. Splash...green light 3 corner pocket.

i do this 2 more times. I'm the center or pf. sitting on 4 assists, 0 shot attempts. and we're now only down 4 pts before the half.

the 2nd half starts. and they go back to buddy ball. we lose by 20.

now you tell me, who was best on the ball?

i've played with guys(randoms) where i realized early...ok.. this dude really knows how to pass that ball and hit guys in the right spots. and its not always a perimeter player, sometimes its a big man in the halfcourt set that has great court vision and timing. I give the ball to that guy over and over and over again and let him run point or at least let him be the 2ndary playmaker. why? because I'll rather win then spam sizeup moves and brick shots all game long. where's the fun in that?

[ksuttonjr76]

Re: Low IQ players smh

its usually the people that think that they are the best man to have the ball in their hand and think they have proven that , which makes you loose the game.
which is pretty much 99% of everyone in JRC.

I was thinking the same thing...

Everyone thinks that they're the best man to have the ball in their hands. No one wants to be a role player.

[splashmountain]

Re: Low IQ players smh

I was thinking the same thing...

Everyone thinks that they're the best man to have the ball in their hands. No one wants to be a role player.

some guys role is just that. be the guy that gets everyone involved. every PG or ball handler in the nba in real life is not a superstar. but 2k randoms just dont understand that. I also think there's an issue with guys coming into the rec trying to badge up. nope, take that ......back to your mycareer. i know my career can get boring at times. but dont come up in the rec trying to work on badges at the expense of everyone else losing and also probably not getting any badge work thanks to you.

[ksuttonjr76]

Re: Low IQ players smh

some guys role is just that. be the guy that gets everyone involved. every PG or ball handler in the nba in real life is not a superstar. but 2k randoms just dont understand that. I also think there's an issue with guys coming into the rec trying to badge up. nope, take that ......back to your mycareer. i know my career can get boring at times. but dont come up in the rec trying to work on badges at the expense of everyone else losing and also probably not getting any badge work thanks to you.

Unless I'm doing something wrong, I felt like trying to badge up in REC or Park is entirely too slow. It's not worth "ruining" everyone's fun for my selfish needs. MyCareer and Player Nation is really the only places where you can get descent gains on your badges.

[Iasounis]

Re: Low IQ players smh

some guys role is just that. be the guy that gets everyone involved. every PG or ball handler in the nba in real life is not a superstar. but 2k randoms just dont understand that. I also think there's an issue with guys coming into the rec trying to badge up. nope, take that ......back to your mycareer. i know my career can get boring at times. but dont come up in the rec trying to work on badges at the expense of everyone else losing and also probably not getting any badge work thanks to you.

Why I was against badging up online from the start. Granted, the way points are achieved this year is an improvement over the last couple of games.

[tru11]

Re: Low IQ players smh

so you just basically had no response to what i said so this is what you came up with tru? lol.

I'm telling you. we're down early 15 to 2. guys playing buddy ball, passing it back and forth and air balling jumpers that never should've been taken with 2 guys drapped over you, or guys over dribbling, spamming size up moves trying to speed boost. its 2 seconds left and then you pass it to the guy in the post. he fumbles it... you hear the noise, shot clock violation. wash, rinse, repeat.

I get a rebound(since they refuse to give me the ball at all.) and i have to go all the way down court even with my big man(pathetic, i should be able to trust one of the perimeter guys to actually...you know..****n point but they are hot dogs are buddy ballers). But me playing smart basketball, i have my opposing big defender out of the paint guarding me because he's not sure what i'm about to do. i hesistate as if i'm going to the rack. he backs up. i do it again. he backs up. Got him. 3 seconds on defense violation. got him stuck in the paint trying to set up camp and cook smores in there. I get another rebound and have to go down the court again for the same reasons as above. they wont give me the ball no matter where i am and they are just chucking bad shot after bad shot.

I get the big to come out and fully commit. uh oh, one of the not so smart guys actually cuts back door. Lob pass. DUNK a defender came over late so he gets the And 1.

they give it to me now. I pass fake it and go to the rack. i get jumped of course since everyone hates to see a big dunk...lol. Pitch it out to the 3. wide open 3 for the chucker guy. Splash...green light 3 corner pocket.

i do this 2 more times. I'm the center or pf. sitting on 4 assists, 0 shot attempts. and we're now only down 4 pts before the half.

the 2nd half starts. and they go back to buddy ball. we lose by 20.

now you tell me, who was best on the ball?

i've played with guys(randoms) where i realized early...ok.. this dude really knows how to pass that ball and hit guys in the right spots. and its not always a perimeter player, sometimes its a big man in the halfcourt set that has great court vision and timing. I give the ball to that guy over and over and over again and let him run point or at least let him be the 2ndary playmaker. why? because I'll rather win then spam sizeup moves and brick shots all game long. where's the fun in that?

i find it intresting that your posts are either you bragging about yourself or you crying about badges, animations or whatever that does not work in your favor in this game.

your post is nothing more but your perception of how things played out and what your role was in the whole.

it actually proves my point even more quite frankly.

JRC is full of people who think they are the reason the team has any chance of winning and its their teammates fault or 2k fault they are losing.

They where probably thinking about how they where doing the right things and you and others where screwing up which i why they went back to buddy ball in the 2nd half as you described.

the truth most likely lies somewhere in the middle.

[TheFgGoatLikesHawks]

Re: Low IQ players smh

I've played Rec for a few years now.

Legit...

75% don't even know the controls and are legally mentally disabled

15% are avg (they know a couple moves) but low iq

5% are decent with decent iq

5% I would even consider adding to my friends list (I don't waste time with low iq players 'cause I know eventually I'm gonna be pulling my hair out).

It's really a handful of players who actually have the combo of skills + iq.

[Iasounis]

Re: Low IQ players smh

Just got out of the REC...

Whole team played well and we blowing them out in the 4th. Greed takes over and dudes start ball hoggin amd calling timeouts on each other. Still won, but when they asked me to 'run it back' passed because now, with their heads inflated, don't wanna go through 4 quarters of that.

Lesson: When playing REC, win or lose (but especially in blow outs) keep your teammates involved and don't start that petty stuff.