NBA 2K13 Signature Skills Revealed For Derrick Rose, Blake Griffin and Michael Jordan

[J_Posse]

c+ handles for griffin and c- outside shooting? idk about all that

Have you seen Griffin play? He scores on Isolation plays a lot because of his quality handles. He has possibly the best spin move off-the-dribble amongst all bigmen in the Association.

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[RyanFitzmagic]

Re: NBA 2K13 Signature Skills Revealed For Derrick Rose, Blake Griffin and Michael Jo

So both of them are good at catching alleys and posterizing defenders. But Blake is more likely to do flashy dunk (windmill, 360, etc) on a open break situation that Dwight. I know we have dunk packages, but we could never choose what dunks they want to do in certain situations.

Are we sure that this is what Highlight Film means?

steve nash and chris paul should will most likely have high dribbling ratings right? but that Signature Skills seperates them because steve nash cannot break peoples ankle.

That would be made so by the fact that Chris Paul's speed and quickness would be much higher than Steve Nash's.

There's nothing ratings can't do that "Signature Skills" hopes to accomplish.

[tetoleetd]

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You forget that grades and certain attributes translate differently for each position.

If you were to make Griffin a SF or SG, those grades would become worse.

for shooting that is most certainly not the case. c- is a c- no matter what position you are.

as for the handles, if that was true then wouldnt the centers and pf's that have the best handles be graded in the A range if it goes on how good they are for the position?

it doesnt work like that.

[Paul Pierce_OS]

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Are we sure that this is what Highlight Film means?



That would be made so by the fact that Chris Paul's speed and quickness would be much higher than Steve Nash's.

There's nothing ratings can't do that "Signature Skills" hopes to accomplish.

Yes their is, A good example of it is the chase down rating. If you gave a player a high block rating you cannot differentiate what type of blocks that can be preformed. I wish they put it in signatures like crossovers.

[RyanFitzmagic]

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Yes their is, A good example of it is the chase down rating. If you gave a player a high block rating you cannot differentiate what type of blocks that can be preformed. I wish they put it in signatures like crossovers.

So what's stopping 2K from introducing a "Chasedown Block" rating?

Again:

There's nothing ratings can't do that "Signature Skills" hopes to accomplish.

[J_Posse]

Yes their is, A good example of it is the chase down rating. If you gave a player a high block rating you cannot differentiate what type of blocks that can be preformed. I wish they put it in signatures like crossovers.

Exactly, or Brick Wall is another example of a signature skill that can't be recreated by ratings. People really need to give this a chance before they continue to complain. The only issue we have to worry about is gameplay balance. I'm sure 2K has that thought as well.

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[Hyperballer21]

Re: NBA 2K13 Signature Skills Revealed For Derrick Rose, Blake Griffin and Michael Jo

Are we sure that this is what Highlight Film means?

Looking at who the skill was given to, what else could it mean? Especially if there is already a Posterizer skill.

There's nothing ratings can't do that "Signature Skills" hopes to accomplish.[/B]

I see your point, but why have detailed ratings for some things like "chase down block". Either a player is a specialist at it or not.

[RyanFitzmagic]

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I see your point, but why have detailed ratings for some things like "chase down block". Either a player is a specialist at it or not.

Isn't that more or less what "Abilities" were for? I don't see why Chasedown couldn't be broken down into "Poor, Average, Good, Great."

[DukeC]

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I have a feeling the "Ankle Breaker" skill is combined with a signature dribbling package for that specific player.

Now, if it lets us choose the dribbling packages associated with that....

Same goes for the Acrobat skill and if that ties into specific layup packages or just specific animations....

Edit: Hopefully the role players have more defensive skills than offensive skills.

[Hyperballer21]

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Isn't that more or less what "Abilities" were for? I don't see why Chasedown couldn't be broken down into "Poor, Average, Good, Great."

It could have been. But most of the league would be poor/average while a few exceptions would be good/great. All 2k did was use your logic, but used 2 values instead of 4. It works the same way. I look at it like this:

low block rating x no sig skill = poor chase down block
high block rating x no sig skill = average chase down block
low block rating x sig skill = good chase down block
high block skill x sig skill = great chase down block

[Hyperballer21]

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I have a feeling the "Ankle Breaker" skill is combined with a signature dribbling package for that specific player.

Now, if it lets us choose the dribbling packages associated with that....

Same goes for the Acrobat skill and if that ties into specific layup packages or just specific animations....

Edit: Hopefully the role players have more defensive skills than offensive skills.

If sig skills and player specific animations are tied into each other, we could some sweet looking visuals.

Michael Jordan's specific AIR JORDAN acrobat layups or Shawn Kemp's specific POSTERIZER dunks.

[RyanFitzmagic]

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It could have been. But most of the league would be poor/average while a few exceptions would be good/great. All 2k did was use your logic, but used 2 values instead of 4. It works the same way. I look at it like this:

low block rating x no sig skill = poor chase down block
high block rating x no sig skill = average chase down block
low block rating x sig skill = good chase down block
high block skill x sig skill = great chase down block

That's a fair enough point. This could work with things like Brick Wall and maybe Acrobat, since, as you said, it's such a rare trait. What worries me are things like Closer and Finisher. It seems like a waste, when we already had ratings pertaining to those things.

[Hyperballer21]

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That's a fair enough point. This could work with things like Brick Wall and maybe Acrobat, since, as you said, it's such a rare trait. What worries me are things like Closer and Finisher. It seems like a waste, when we already had ratings pertaining to those things.

With CLOSER skill, 2k did mentioned the removed the CLUTCH rating. I guess they wanted to just make it a factor instead of a scale. The jury is still out on this one.

As for FINISHER, to me it looks like they divided the SHOT IN TRAFFIC rating into 2 skills; DEAD EYES (jump shots) and FINISHER (attacking the rim). THESE two should have/be ratings. If we can only assign 5 skills to a player, why would they waste a skill slot on this. So I see your concern.

[RyanFitzmagic]

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I don't agree with any type of Clutch attribute or boost or Signature Skill whatsoever. But that's another story.

[cmebfresh]

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I hate reading people complain about the sigs when they ain't even play the damn game yet/
wait to the release people and see how it works out