NBA 2K14 Player Ratings Released So Far

[ksuttonjr76]

Re: NBA 2K14 Player Ratings - LeBron James, Roy Hibbert & Victor Oladipo

Kevin Love broke his hand twice. He played 18 games. You should look at 2011-12 when judging his ratings. Horrible defender? He had a DWS of 2.3 in 11-12. He is at worst an average defender. He had a TS% of 56.8 in 11-12. Which is above average. You say Hibbert's stats were skewed because of his injury (even though he played 79 matches). Well that doesn't mean you can give higher than an 80 until he proves it in the regular season. And he hasn't done that yet. If he builds on his postseason and has a great season, i'm sure he will justify upwards of an 85 rating. But he hasn't proved it yet. You can only go on what he has done so far, which is fairly an 80 at best.

This isn't the 11-12 season though. What more does Hibbert have to prove? Indiana is a low scoring offense TEAM, who's focus is DEFENSE first. If you're expecting Hibbert to score 20 PPG while grabbing 10 RPG, then you're going to be waiting a long time. Indiana is solid defensively and offensively at ALL positions. Indiana could be the only team in the league that could have 6 players in double digit scoring this season with PG being the highest at maybe 17 PPG.

[Blackhail92]

Re: NBA 2K14 Player Ratings - LeBron James, Roy Hibbert & Victor Oladipo

Everyone always have an excuse for why Hibbert should be lower. He was playing good in the second half of the season, and raised his game to another level in the playoffs. Everyone keeps forgetting that Indiana is NOT an high offensive team.

What's your excuse for Atlanta and New York?

Cant speak for Atlanta as I am a knicks fan but Hibbert abused chandler and an under sized heat team. I had watched chandler play hibbert all season and clearly something was wrong because hibbert was a NON factor in any of the knicks and pacers games in normal season. He was supposedly sick. but Hibbert did go off in the playoffs. Based off of playoffs alone he should have received a greater bump than Paul George did in my opinion. But seeing how pacers did well in the playoffs im pretty sure 2k will give them their just sig skills and stats to make their defense nice. and in 2k offense is what you make it in some aspects and with 2 people over an 80. your offense should be fine.

[Melbournelad]

Re: NBA 2K14 Player Ratings - LeBron James, Roy Hibbert & Victor Oladipo

This isn't the 11-12 season though. What more does Hibbert have to prove? Indiana is a low scoring offense TEAM, who's focus is DEFENSE first. If you're expecting Hibbert to score 20 PPG while grabbing 10 RPG, then you're going to be waiting a long time. Indiana is solid defensively and offensively at ALL positions. Indiana could be the only team in the league that could have 6 players in double digit scoring this season with PG being the highest at maybe 17 PPG.

The last time Love played a significant amount of game and was healthy was 11-12. And he justified his rating that season (And in 10-11). Love was a poor analogy to choose.

Being a lowscoring team doesn't mean Hibbert deserves more than an 80 rating when he scores 11.9 points on 44.8% shooting. 44.8% as a center. If he plays better during the season, don't worry, his rating will quickly improve. But we haven't seen that in the regular season from him yet.

[Gramps91]

I do think 88 is a bit high for Paul George but it isn't that bad. I'm fine with the rest of the ratings.

[ksuttonjr76]

Re: NBA 2K14 Player Ratings - LeBron James, Roy Hibbert & Victor Oladipo

Cant speak for Atlanta as I am a knicks fan but Hibbert abused chandler and an under sized heat team. I had watched chandler play hibbert all season and clearly something was wrong because hibbert was a NON factor in any of the knicks and pacers games in normal season. He was supposedly sick. but Hibbert did go off in the playoffs. Based off of playoffs alone he should have received a greater bump than Paul George did in my opinion. But seeing how pacers did well in the playoffs im pretty sure 2k will give them their just sig skills and stats to make their defense nice. and in 2k offense is what you make it in some aspects and with 2 people over an 80. your offense should be fine.

Not from the lack of trying. Indiana is one of those teams where anyone in the Starting 5 can light you up, and the Vogel usually just goes with the hot players when he calls plays. It's rare that he keeps calling plays for players who are having low impact games. Plus, Indiana tends to play in matter where they try to exploit mismatches first. That's why Indiana was able to eliminate New York so easily. It's Melo or bust for them with the occasional role player showing up.

[thedream2k13]

Re: NBA 2K14 Player Ratings - LeBron James, Roy Hibbert & Victor Oladipo

Same thing year after year grown men fighting over irrelevant overall ratings. Sutton just make sure you get the new xbox so Dwight and hibbert can go to war

[Melbournelad]

Re: NBA 2K14 Player Ratings - LeBron James, Roy Hibbert & Victor Oladipo

Same thing year after year grown men fighting over irrelevant overall ratings

Haha yeah overall ratings are redudant, but when people are complaining that Roy Hibbert doesn't have a high enough overall i have to point out that we just haven't seen enough evidence to support a raise.

[ksuttonjr76]

Re: NBA 2K14 Player Ratings - Paul George, Cody Zeller & Brook Lopez

You know, i hear alot of criticism about pg's offensive game. But really his numbers are limited because idianna's system doesn't require a dominant scorer. notice there 3 leading scorers all averaged around the same amount of points per game. His offense isn't good enough to rely upon, and he does turnover the ball alot, but his offense is underrated at times, mainly due to indiannas system of more or less feed the hot hand, or whoever has the best matchup offensively that night.

I said the same exact in the thread about Hibbert's rating! However, I would love to see the individual ratings for PG. Even I have to admit that 88 seems high for an elite defender with slightly above average offense.

[Guapo516]

Man, I don't understand some of these comments. If anything Paul George got slightly lower than he deserves. Dude was unbelievable in the playoffs. My other beef is Brooke Lopez's rating dude is at least a 83-85. Especially if hibbert is a 81 Brooke's alil better than Roy.

[Seidowskyy]

Re: NBA 2K14 Player Ratings - Paul George, Cody Zeller & Brook Lopez

lol as long as gerald green not on indiana in 2k14 im good!

[Rockie_Fresh88]

Re: NBA 2K14 Player Ratings - Paul George, Cody Zeller & Brook Lopez

He'll live up to that 88

[stillfeelme]

Re: NBA 2K14 Player Ratings - Paul George, Cody Zeller & Brook Lopez

I said the same exact in the thread about Hibbert's rating! However, I would love to see the individual ratings for PG. Even I have to admit that 88 seems high for an elite defender with slightly above average offense.

Maybe a roster maker can chime in but there could be something under the hood that determines a boost to the overall maybe role. I know position plays a role to overall rating in 2K13. If 2K rated him based off the regular season PG will be somewhere in the low to mid 80's. If they used the playoffs maybe a slight raise but still minor but it will be awareness and consistency please 2K don't overrate his mid range game.

[KingKongBundyIsFat]

Re: NBA 2K14 Player Ratings - Paul George, Cody Zeller & Brook Lopez

I'm a huge PG fan, and I think that an 88 rating is about right for him. But that 88 should be predicated primarily on defense and athleticism.

I have no idea where this idea that he's an excellent shooter is coming from. He shot like 37% from 3 just last season, and his career hasn't even had an upward trend. If Gerald Henderson, who shot almost the exact same percentage last season, is going to get another 3-point rating in the high 50s (meaning he basically can't shoot threes at all) then there's no way PG should be any higher than a 75-77. Half the problem with 3-point shooting in this series has always been how overrated everyone is.

[Optik]

Re: NBA 2K14 Player Ratings - Paul George, Cody Zeller & Brook Lopez

Maybe a roster maker can chime in but there could be something under the hood that determines a boost to the overall maybe role. I know position plays a role to overall rating in 2K13. If 2K rated him based off the regular season PG will be somewhere in the low to mid 80's. If they used the playoffs maybe a slight raise but still minor but it will be awareness and consistency please 2K don't overrate his mid range game.

They should keep that message in mind for every perimeter player. Too many of them are good at it off the dribble that it stretches the defence unrealistically far.

Also, I get the impression that consistency is just judged subjectively like offensive and defensive awareness. I'm guessing that's why the stat number is always in multiples of five. But don't 2K know that there is already a completely objective way to calculate consistency? You just take their average FG% over the whole season and calculate the mean standard deviation (MSD). The bigger the standard deviation (away from the mean), the lower the consistency. They could even make it more accurate by adding consistency stats based on the MSD for every single shot, including shots like layup, post fade, post hook etc.

[stillfeelme]

Re: NBA 2K14 Player Ratings - Paul George, Cody Zeller & Brook Lopez

Optik I agree 100%. I hope something like that will be in for next gen especially for shooting. So a player's consistency should change his play independently on areas so seperate consistency ratings. So someone can be a consistent FT shooter but streaky mid range shooter. Consistency and awareness can swing the overall a good bit.