Official NBA 2K12 My Player Thread

[illwill10]

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It is still there unfortunately.

It makes me not want to play for certain teams. Especially if you want to be on a rebuilding team like Suns or Wiz, they will never be able to get the talent like 76ers gets every year. Heck even MIA got a good center at #10 spot. It seems like if you are not on a team who is in top-15, you cant rely on team to get talent through draft.

[bkrich83]

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It is good to know what you are going to improve ahead of time. I bae it off how I play and what my weakness are.
Unless you play with "Run Plays" on, it is good to move around to get open looks. Moving around meaning trying to get your oppenent to get bumped and freeing you up. Dont just stand at the 3pt line. Thats what I am trying to stop doing. Because once you get a high teammate grade they will pass you the ball ALOT, even when they have a good look. since you(and I) cant create shots fir yourself, do most of the work before you get the ball.
I am not sure, but I think Stamina MIGHT play a factor in shooting. I never touched it and I usually get tired quickly. So, I might improve it.
I am getting 41 minutes because I have a high BBall IQ. I think stamina might improve it.
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I do have plays turned on. My team has set me up on some great open looks off screens.

I think you're right about stamina. Mine is 85.. I am getting about 25 minutes a night, so it's not a huge factor, but I would bet it has an impact.

What does basketball IQ affect?

[illwill10]

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I do have plays turned on. My team has set me up on some great open looks off screens.

I think you're right about stamina. Mine is 85.. I am getting about 25 minutes a night, so it's not a huge factor, but I would bet it has an impact.

What does basketball IQ affect?

Off/Def Awareness/BBall IQ effects overall and defensive/offensive grades to a degree. Mainly help getting out of double teams, even though I never got doubled.
I might start boosting Stamina after I am done with Quickness. I get 41 mins, so I get tired after the 1st 5 mins.

[bkrich83]

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Off/Def Awareness/BBall IQ effects overall and defensive/offensive grades to a degree. Mainly help getting out of double teams, even though I never got doubled.
I might start boosting Stamina after I am done with Quickness. I get 41 mins, so I get tired after the 1st 5 mins.

Yup Stamina sounds like the most logical move to me.

I threw the orginal Jordan's on my player, (I wore them in HS when they first came out). I love them on my player. Ahh the nostalgia.

[illwill10]

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Yup Stamina sounds like the most logical move to me.

I threw the orginal Jordan's on my player, (I wore them in HS when they first came out). I love them on my player. Ahh the nostalgia.

I think it might effect shooting too. I guess when you player has full enegry he is more likely too make more shots(depending on ratings) than when he is tired.

[illwill10]

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Our starting lineup(including our 6th man) averages 85.7 points a game. Our starting lineup avgs 5.9 steals a game. But our starting lineup averages 12.5 TOs a game. Our starting Lineup avgs 33.2 rebounds.
Out of the last 7 key games in our season, only 1 team(who we face twice) score more than us as a starting lineup. We dont have to rely on 1 or 2 guys to provide the bulk of the scoring. We can spread the ball around and score from multiple areas from the court.
face great SGs. So the ball will be in their hands alot. I have to do a better job at Off-Ball Defense. I have to play tighter and deny the ball instead of sagging off and trying to get a steal. I give up easy shots because I try to steal and get stuck in a animation. I REALLY NEED to work on preventing athletic SGs from driving to the rim. 4 of my last 7 key games are against Wade and Ellis. My next 2 are against Ellis. So, I have to quickly find a way to stop him from driving because I dont have the athleticism to stop him. I am currently boosting Quickness so I hope that helps.

[MachineGunLotto]

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Made the HoF after 7 seasons of only key games. Now im thinking of starting a franchise with a cap of me and a few friends. We all uploaded our caps to 2kshare. We all agreed to be a 75 ovr rookie with 95 potential. Only thing I havent decided is to do fantasy draft or regular rosters.

Anyway Back on topic of myplayer, im considering making a pg now but dont know if id be into it the same way cause id be starting all.over

[JJFurr29]

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Well we finished out Milwaukee in Game 5 down in Orlando thanks to my 49 point output.. Now we move on the Eastern Conference Semis vs the 5 seed Knicks.. After game 1 we go up 1-0 in a dominant performance and my 39 points.. Next game is in Orlando before we head up to NYC for games 3&4..
Notable.. The Bobcats beat the Bulls in the 3v6 matchup to advance to play Miami who won game 1.. Memphis is up 1-0 on the West 1 seed OKC.. And the 7 seed Lakers are up 1-0 on the Mavs

[illwill10]

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Just lost to GS by 30+. I actually shot well and had 5 steals. BUT, our TWENTY-ONE turnovers is the reason why we lose. I had 8 TOs. I actually had a good defensive game against Ellis. The TOs really hurted us. I hate playing GS, we(any team I play with) always give up MAD turnovers. My next key game is against the GS again. Have to keep that WAY DOWN. I started the game off with 2 quick TOs and the blowout began there.
I got Quickness to 70. My Overall got to 80. I will stop boosting Quickness at 80-85. After that I will boost Stamina. I basically play the ENTIRE game so I need to stay energize the bulk of it

[illwill10]

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I think I am done doing the shooting drill for my SG. It is too the point where I cant miss shots if I want gold. Plus this year I am facing a good shooter, so it pisses me off when he makes a last sec shot to stop me from gold. I was doing that drill so I can lower 3pt to 98 and get it back to 99 using the drill. I use the skill points to boost ratings. But I am too the point where I dont have ratings that cost too much. I will get Shot Med to 95-99, then just to dribble course.
I got Quickness to 74.

[illwill10]

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i hate when I call Timeouts and the coach calls another right after the timeout is done. It is wasting valuable timeouts

[illwill10]

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We got blown out again by GS, by 40. We kept the TOs down, but we couldnt shoot and they could. Curry had 25 in the 1st half.
We only 6 key games left in season. I got Quickness to 76 and Shot Med to 96.

[illwill10]

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Just lost a game we shouldve won. It was COMPLETELY my fault. We had the lead near the end of regulation, but Chalmers stole the ball away from me and tied it up. In OT, none of my Teammates could score. We needed to win that game.

[nbanoname]

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End of my T-Wolves Dynasty soon?

Just finished 5th season in MP (2nd season with Wolves)

Really enjoy playing with this team. Rubio Rate 83, Me Rate 99, Lebron rate 99, Love Rate 84 and Randolph Rate 85 (He got star status). I also have Beseley Rate 87(down to 80 for low morale) as my 6th man.


Here the starting lineup and our notable stats:




Yep, I know I scored too much but this is the way I play. I also average 5.6 APG (3rd behind lebron and Rubio)

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Things that always concern me is our team cap is $-23m. It is because the team signed me and Lebron with a very huge contract at the same year while they already paid Love, Randolph and Beasley more than $10m a year.

At the start of the 6th season (my 3rd with Wolves), Rubio (Rate up from 83 to 86 and got "star" status) signed with Blazers for around $14-$17m/ year multi years contract. I was left with our back up PG/SG name Willie Warren rate 75. That's OK but I doubt what gonna happen after this year.

My team cap is still -$23m somehow. (Even if we lost Rubio who made $7m last year) This year we don't have money to sign other FA pg such as Westbrook (Rate 92), DJ Augustine (rate 81), Generated Player PG from Boncats (rate 86-87) or Jay Bayless (rate 81). All of them (besides Generated PG who sign 1 year contract woth $5-6m with Bobcats) got contracts worth than $10m/year.

We payed too high for Beasley as our 6th man. ($13-14m/year) This is gonna be his last year with us and I don't think he gonna resign. Minus his expiring contract, my team is still have terrible cap room anyway (-$10m+). He was rumored to be trade since last 2 years but no team take him.


Now Lebron is already 32, although his rate is still 99. (I think it will start to be lower next season since Wade's rating was lower when he turned 33)

Love is on last year of his contract too (15m/year) I positively think he will resign. He's just 28 so his contract gonna be huge. I'm stilp not sure my team can resign him with our cap space situation.

Randolph has 1 year+1player option left (making around $10M+ a year) I hope he gonna exercise his player option so at least we can keep him for one more year. The problem is his rate is 89 right now and the game may treated him as a superstar who always demand a lot more money (he may choose not to exercise his option and testing FA which I think he will get $15m+). I hope we can keep him for a long term.

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Well and my team always get draft#27 due to draft glitch. I quite lost patient with this glitch since 76ers's rating is at 95 right now. Their team full with former first overall draft picks rating 85+. Even their bench have a former top draft picks rate 75+or 80+. Bobcats (2nd pick overall every year) and Bucks (3rd pick overall every year) also have this trend. They always got top spots in regular season and deep playoff run due to the glicth. There is no way you gonna find a steal on late draft pick since late draft pick will always be scrubs. The top draft picks will not be a bust. (Even the 2nd draft overall PG who didn't have a playing time in Bobcats at all, turn to be 86-87 rating PG after his 3rd season)

Oh and my GM at T-Wolves may be so stupid with PG-mania, like in real life. 2nd year in a row, he drafted 2 pg with 27th overall in both 1st and 2nd round. My team's bench now has 1 6'1" SG/PG rating 60 and 4 other PGs rating 52-54 with height around 5'10"-6'1 (The team use the last 4 draft rights to draft all of them) WTH? That's really terrible bench. Why draft all scrub PGs (lack of height and low rating) 4 times in a row. Really nice that my team has 6'1" SG/PG and 4 scrub PG on the bench. They will always get 4-9 minutes a game, no matter how bad they are. I played with them and they can't him jump shot or even missed wide-open lay up due to their terrible rating.

If this trend continue, my team gonna continue lack depth in our bench. (My team has one generated C rating 65-68, SF rate 66 and Beasley as our notable benches right now other than those scrubs short SG and 4PGs) It will be getting worse and worse.

I have 3 years contract left with Wolves. Right now if I request a trade to any team. Those teams gonna trade their no1 super star+some fillers for me so I will have to play with mediocre teammates (Unless I requested a trade to 76ers, Bobcats or a few other teams who always get top draft picks due to draft glitch)

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Maybe, it may come to the time to stop playing my MP at 6th season due to the draft glitch and lack of depth in my team. I already won everything and achieved all HOF requirements. Anyway, all of my abilities still didn't max out yet. I lack around 2-3 abilities which are still "good," not "great." If I buy more cap boosts, I will have more attributes to boost with my skill points although all my attributes are already maxed out at this point. Due to my curiousity, I think I will continue play (maybe another 1-2 seasons. see what gonna happen next with my team.

[illwill10]

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That lose against Heat and GS tells me that even at 85 Hands, Ball Security and Off-Hand Dribbling, I still need to continue boosting them to about 90. But it probably wont be any time soon. I am boosting Quickness, then Stamina, Strength. I have Quickness at 79. I am starting to notice that I am doing better in defense by doing so. I will stop at 85. I got Shot Med to 98(using shooting drills). But I am using the 5+ shoes. So once I max it, I will take the shoes off and use drills to max it again. I will use the 5+ Quickness shoes. I am 6 days away from my next payday/drills and I have 2 key games within those 6 days and a while until next key game. I should have Quickness to about 83-85 after the 2nd key game. So, I should have Quickness to about 88-90 after that. That should definitely help my defense. After I max Shot Med, I will start doing dribble course. Beside Ball Security, I wont have any expensive ratings left.
After a string of good simulated games, I am avging over 20+ ppg. I am the team with pts. We are 28-23(6th in conference). If we can somehow beat the 2nd best team in the league and NJ loses against CHI, we can move up to #5.
We play better when I take lesser/higher % shots, spread the ball around and put players in good position to score, and do well on defense, and keep TOs down. Some ways to keep my TOs down is staying away from good stealers(we lost that Heat game because of that), get away from my teammates when I pass them the ball( i hate getting TOs because I pass my teammate the ball with under 3 secs and he passes it right back), stop throwing lazy passes.