Lineup Roll call...what your squads looking like?!!?!

[tt500]

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Managed to get the d-wade. Sot it seems they were pretty generous, got him on my second attempt. I gotta say it's crazy you can get him for a lockercode and he pretty much knocked PD Isiah out my lineup and he's also better than PD Baylor when it comes to animations and speed.

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Played a game just now against someone with Wade also. He was dunking on Diamond Howard, Mikan and even Jimmy Butler. D-wade animations are amazing, it's like getting a free Jordan for a typing contest and I gotta say it's lame to get a card this way.

[GrimaceZ7]

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I think you've said that you shoot from outside solidly with Magic. I definitely don't, and I only take totally wide open threes with him, if I shoot outside with him.

I feel like Magic being off-ball is allowing the opponent to use his defender to roam off-ball to some extent. But I shoot terribly with Magic. Even open midrange.

Ah, I see what you're saying now. I was thinking "getting my offense through" as the guy scoring the points. I try to use Magic the way he played in real life. He scores his fair share of points, but his main role is as my playmaker. I always imagine people who are successful with Harden are scoring all their points with him, not using him how the Rockets do in real life.

But yeah, I don't hesitate to shoot threes with Magic. I know it's common sense, but I had a couple games where I couldn't shoot with him, so I loaded up Freestyle and put it on HOF and went to work. If you get confident in his shot, he's even more of a unicorn, so I highly suggest it.

[tt500]

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What's yall secret? Damn it looks like a bunch of people were able to snag him. I tried but messed up I put the code without slashes, got 2 invalid code messages, by the time I tried with slashes I was late. I didn't know know it was going to start with dwade-whatever meh prob won't try ever again. Lol

My phone notifies live tweets quicker than tweetdeck, so I just refresh their twitter on a laptop and input the code. This code was pretty chill, was just sitting here watching some WWE until my phone rings.

A lot of people also use blutooth keyboards or android emulators on pc.

[K_Aug]

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Forced a rage quit in my first game with Dwade. He drew a lot of fouls and has some nice layup packages especially with contact but I missed about 3-4 of them due to him not being fully badged. I wish his free throw was a little bit higher but he's got microwave so if you get him hot he'll be pretty much automatic from there. I forgot he has a weird hitch at the end of his jumper too so that threw me off when I was shooting from midrange and beyond the arc. Overall though the card is great and he's definitely solidified my SG position until Diamond Kobe comes out.

[Nickstank]

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After playing a handful of games with PD Elgin Baylor, I'm loving him. I've read in some places that people weren't digging his various animations, but I don't know what they're talking about. He's got Magic's double cross through the legs to speed burst that's virtually unstoppable (Baylor needs a cheap BC shoe for this), Durant's stepback escape (so quick and creates a ton of separation for an open jumper) a smooth and quick jump shot, and the same post fade animations as Anthony Davis, which I think are among the best in the game. I can't recommend him enough.

[thormessiah]

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LMAO did anybody cash in on the glitch this morning?? Got MJ, Kristaps, and am about to complete the collection for Scottie with 500k mt!

[P234thetruth]

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After playing a handful of games with PD Elgin Baylor, I'm loving him. I've read in some places that people weren't digging his various animations, but I don't know what they're talking about. He's got Magic's double cross through the legs to speed burst that's virtually unstoppable (Baylor needs a cheap BC shoe for this), Durant's stepback escape (so quick and creates a ton of separation for an open jumper) a smooth and quick jump shot, and the same post fade animations as Anthony Davis, which I think are among the best in the game. I can't recommend him enough.

I don't understand it either don't forget his moving mid with purple difficult shots it's usually a green

[Lord Bonium]

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Just got vince, antonio and kobe for my last 3 games after selling most of my small collection. In the amethyst league now, overall record 26-6 or something. It was fun up until the last 5 games or so where i somehow got matched up with all diamond teams and a couple of pink diamonds as well. The usual BS where my overpowered opponent keeps making heavily contested layups/jumpers while i'm bricking open shots, throw 10 foot passes out of bounds without a defender in sight, etc...

Anyway, highly disappointed in vince. Bricking all kinds of open looks, getting his dunks blocked, missing layups if there's a defender anywhere nearby. I want to make it work since he's my favorite player but really there's not much i can do about those issues. I can use corey in a similar fashion and he's at least twice as effective for me.

Pretty much the same with kobe. He's a little more consistent but he's not really an upgrade over the ruby jamal crawford that i used before as my go to bench scorer.

Chapman is ok albeit a bit inconsistent from deep, despite his 92 open 3, 95 off consistency and hot zones all around the arc. I keep switching between him and the ruby game breakers jason richardson and doug christie.

Really like antonio. Great post game, solid 15 footer, very athletic. Can't complain about my three sapphires though i might go back to sapphire lance stephenson instead of MRR.

Davis and matt are solid as well, definitely outplay their ratings.

All in all i do enjoy this lineup, it just blows that i get matched up with these all diamond squads. So much for the matchmaking that 2k promised. Maybe i'll try downgrading my team again... which i would prefer anyway, to me this lineup is already overpowered since in past 2k's i always like to use more realistic lineups. If that doesn't work i think i'm done with the game for this year. Thanks 2k.

[harryl]

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I've been told by someone trying to figure out the thresholds on PS4 that he'd get matched with god squads if he had an 89 OVR lineup. I think possibly even an 86 OVR, thought that might have been safe. Think he said 84 OVR was safe.

[Nickstank]

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I played against Diamond GP for the first time last night and he's a beast. He gave Oscar trouble, even in the post. He was good enough that I'm considering picking him up. I'm locked in with Diamond Oscar and Amy Magic as my point guards on the first and second units. Do you guys think playing Payton at SG on offense and PG on defense (next to Oscar on the starting unit) could work? My probable lineups before and after are below.

Current: http://2kmtcentral.com/17/lineups/285183/current-squad

With Payton: http://2kmtcentral.com/17/lineups/586560/with-gp

[harryl]

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I think I would rather take West off the lineup, put Magic on the deep bench, and run GP as a bench PG.

Maybe run GP and Oscar together for defensive possessions.

[Nickstank]

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I think I would rather take West off the lineup, put Magic on the deep bench, and run GP as a bench PG.

Maybe run GP and Oscar together for defensive possessions.

Gotcha. If I did run them together on a unit or even just in crunch time, do you think GP is a viable off ball option/secondary ball handler or is he gonna get swallowed up by bigger defenders at the 2?

[P234thetruth]

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Here is my most recent lineup still winning most of my games. I pretty much bottomed out and sold everything aside from who you see in my lineup. I have one or two pairs of shoes I need to get demoted and pick up in mto and that's pretty much it. Sitting on over 1mil mt going to pick up Dr J/LBJ for sure also wanna try out Oscar and MJ eventually.

[harryl]

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Gotcha. If I did run them together on a unit or even just in crunch time, do you think GP is a viable off ball option/secondary ball handler or is he gonna get swallowed up by bigger defenders at the 2?

Keep in mind, if you really want to run GP and Oscar together, let's say for defensive reasons, there's no particular reason why GP can't play 1, and Oscar 2.

T-Mac isn't a preferred defender to face versus one's GP, but I don't think it's a dealbreaker. But keep in mind that GP is not necessarily the preferred defender to deal with someone else's T-Mac.

There's too many variables, including the playing styles and abilities of both players.

Just give it a shot. And try to be very conscious about how different lineups work against varying opposing lineups. In the end, what works for you, works for you.

[Nickstank]

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Keep in mind, if you really want to run GP and Oscar together, let's say for defensive reasons, there's no particular reason why GP can't play 1, and Oscar 2.

T-Mac isn't a preferred defender to face versus one's GP, but I don't think it's a dealbreaker. But keep in mind that GP is not necessarily the preferred defender to deal with someone else's T-Mac.

There's too many variables, including the playing styles and abilities of both players.

Just give it a shot. And try to be very conscious about how different lineups work against varying opposing lineups. In the end, what works for you, works for you.

There's something that feels strange to me about playing two true point guards side by side, but these two are so good I feel like it's worth a shot.

The only reason I'm thinking of running Oscar at the 1 on offense and cross-matching on D is because a vast majority of the time I try to immediately get the ball to my point guard off a defensive rebound. When I (almost instinctively at this point) hit R1 and then X to pass it to the point guard, I want that to be Oscar because of his destructive fast break abilities and the HOF badge that goes with it. Otherwise I would just run GP at the 1.

I think I'm going to wait to bid on GP until the TBT packs drop tomorrow. If there's an insane Diamond John Wall and everybody and their mother goes after him, it's possible Payton's price will fall because of decreased interest.