This game owns my soul.

[Suntan Superman]

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I love forcing tempo on people, I use the Wisconsin swing offense(an all custom play, custom playbook), and generally shoot when there is five seconds left on the shot clock. It's so fun when I play a big school and I can keep it close. Yesterday playing Texas Arlington at Texas, I ended up winning on a clutch three from a freshman SF, Eric Didlake, final score in 16 minute halves was 45-43. I recruit guys who are good at defense, work on defensive training for two years, then offensive training the next two. I'm almost always #1 in defensive efficiency in the nation and somewhere in the top 50 for offensive efficiency. This is the playbook and style I used throughout my last legacy which lasted nearly 50 years.

[Deflo_]

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I have logged more hours in this game than all other games in the past 5 years combined.

[Colts18]

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Someone needs to make a REDITOR for this game like they have for 2K11

[Gamzilla]

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Someone needs to make a REDITOR for this game like they have for 2K11

Is that possible? I thought they could only do that for PC games?

[OGKing]

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It's not possible.

I got lucky a month ago and went to gamestop to trade in madden for in store credit. Power up card gave me the freedom of picking 4 extra games, i got college hoops.

This game is good, the atmosphere is amazing. I picked it up for ah, 2.50$

[dxdude2004]

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So I kind of screwed up my Purdue legacy (simmed too much haha). I started a new closed legacy with the St. Francis Terriers. I finally have nice coaching strategies, and they are working pretty well. Things were sketchy at the start of the year as we found a way to beat Hartford 75-70. Next, we got smoked by St. Johns 74-61 (simmed that game, wasn't happy with the strategy at the point yet).

Eventually, I found the strategy I was comfortable with (a mix of what mistershadez is doing and my own findings, but my strategy doesn't seem to work the same as mistershadez's in regular cpu vs cpu), and the team played great against Maine winning 87-62. Next, we beat Hofstra 84-54. Manhattan got lucky against us winning 67-55, but the Terriers receovered beating Fairfield 88-60 and Ohio 83-55.

Let me just remind everyone, this team isn't good. My highest rated player is 68 overall Akeem Johnson. He's not too great at offense, but he's a guy to be afraid of on defense.

Overall, the team is looking pretty good as we get ready to start conference play with some non-conference games sprinkled in.

(Heh, don't worry, I won't spam this with my legacy, just occasional small updates, you know, big news stuff).

[mistershadez]

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Yeah, I read your other post. I just don't want to change ratings haha. I find them shooting a good enough number of 3's for me at least right now. I mean, I don't care if each drive we hit a 3-pointer. As long as we are scoring on as many drives as possible and scoring more than the other team, I'm fine really haha. I guess the only issue I am having is that I don't have quite enough guys that can drain 3's at a consistent rate as I'm only in my second year.

EDIT: Also, the highest we've scored now is 92 in another tournament blowout game against Eastern Illinois. I'll think about changing up their tendencies though. I can imagine it would help a lot. It also gets interesting when the other team starts trying to trap my team, as if they're catching on to the fast break offense.

I can understand trying to build up your team with shooters. It took me 4-5 years to get my roster the way I wanted. I guess we differ on the editing tendencies. I don't consider those ratings at all. If I coach my guards/sf/pf to shoot the 3's as much I can, then editing 3pt tendencies to 99 is my answer. But don't get me wrong, I like my guys to drive to the hoop too.

[dxdude2004]

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I can understand trying to build up your team with shooters. It took me 4-5 years to get my roster the way I wanted. I guess we differ on the editing tendencies. I don't consider those ratings at all. If I coach my guards/sf/pf to shoot the 3's as much I can, then editing 3pt tendencies to 99 is my answer. But don't get me wrong, I like my guys to drive to the hoop too.

Yeah, I mean I don't care how they score, haha. I do end up boosting the tendency for the players with the 3-point ability sign now. It's just a matter now of getting more good shooters of any kind. Plus, I don't go into coach mode, I go to play, move the controller to the middle, and watch it all go. Having a good year so far with St. Francis. I'm not getting insane LMU scores, but getting high scores like we've gotten is just as good to me.

[dxdude2004]

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Is anybody else madly in love with the 6th man meter? It's like have the thing that MM used to have with their toughest arenas, except that meter wasn't in dynasty modes which was just so uncool. It just seemed like tough places like Duke, Purdue (don't deny us until you've been to a game, eh?), and the other popular ones didn't make a difference. Without that meter in dynasty, you didn't feel the true pressure of playing in the loud houses.

With the 6th man meter, however, that thing is deadly. If the home team gets that meter building in their favor, it could lead to a possible blowout or a major comeback or something. I also love the fact that for neutral games, 2K went above and beyond in putting TWO meters in (that's not a glitch, right?). At first I thought it may be a glitch. But then I realized that in neutral games, they left one will work based on the away team, and the right one will work based on the home team. The atmosphere means a lot to me (I know not just me haha), and 2K really captured the atmosphere well in this game.

[illwill10]

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I really like this game. I had it for months, but didnt play until yesterday. It took time to get use to controls after being use to NBA 2k. It plays smooth.

[l3ulvl]

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I can understand trying to build up your team with shooters. It took me 4-5 years to get my roster the way I wanted. I guess we differ on the editing tendencies. I don't consider those ratings at all. If I coach my guards/sf/pf to shoot the 3's as much I can, then editing 3pt tendencies to 99 is my answer. But don't get me wrong, I like my guys to drive to the hoop too.

I love editing the tendencies. I find myself simming a lot of games and it bugs me if I have a low post player with 95 on close shot but a close tendency of 62. I feel like setting the tendencies to work with the ratings is good coaching, but I've heard some that think of it as cheese. I don't really understand it, because you specifically recruit the guy as a 3 point bomber or a low post weapon, so you should adjust the tendencies to match.

[illwill10]

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it will take me a long time to build my team because I dont know what type of offense I want. I want to be a Half-Court offensive team with a good defense with size. I want a couple of 3 point shooters and Low Post guys and a fast PG with good ball-handle. I have a Legacy with Brown U. I havent touched tendencies but I might mess around with it. I have a good FR SF that is a low post machine but is not good from 3, but he is always stationed at 3 and I dont even run plays. I might add new plays later.
What is a good quick shot for a good shooter. I have a SG with 83 3 pt, but never make shots

[dxdude2004]

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I love editing the tendencies. I find myself simming a lot of games and it bugs me if I have a low post player with 95 on close shot but a close tendency of 62. I feel like setting the tendencies to work with the ratings is good coaching, but I've heard some that think of it as cheese. I don't really understand it, because you specifically recruit the guy as a 3 point bomber or a low post weapon, so you should adjust the tendencies to match.

Yeah, I didn't really find it as cheesing as much as I thought it would be time-consuming. But then when I decided to just edit the three point tendency of players with the three point ability icon next to them, I found it not very time-consuming at all. I agree, it's really just like telling the player how you want them to play.

I'm having a blast with St. Francis (NY). we have a 15-4 record and we sit at #12 in the mid-major polls. I didn't have a lot of luck recruiting (I'm not good really haha, especially with a crappy team and in-season recruiting when other teams are doubting us as a good team), but hopefully we can continue our success, get to the tournament, and make some noise.

Also, I have a question. I use Jukeman's cpu vs cpu sliders, and he has game speed at 100 with player speed at 0. I really like the feeling of it, but pressing is an annoyance. If I press, they just try and run through it. If I trap, they easily pass out of it. Anybody else using Jukeman's sliders and having success pressing/trapping in cpu vs cpu? I would love to switch back over to trapping if I can figure something out...

[dxdude2004]

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It's quite amazing what a 23-5 record as a crappy team does to your home arena, on senior night especially! I haven't seen my team's arena this packed at all this year!!! Seriously, our small arena turned into one crazy noise-box!

I'll have to check the attendence level.....

My goodness.... our arena only holds 1,250 people and the noise level was that of Duke, UNC, Purdue, others!

[mistershadez]

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I love editing the tendencies. I find myself simming a lot of games and it bugs me if I have a low post player with 95 on close shot but a close tendency of 62. I feel like setting the tendencies to work with the ratings is good coaching, but I've heard some that think of it as cheese. I don't really understand it, because you specifically recruit the guy as a 3 point bomber or a low post weapon, so you should adjust the tendencies to match.

Amen brother...

Also, I have a question. I use Jukeman's cpu vs cpu sliders, and he has game speed at 100 with player speed at 0. I really like the feeling of it, but pressing is an annoyance. If I press, they just try and run through it. If I trap, they easily pass out of it. Anybody else using Jukeman's sliders and having success pressing/trapping in cpu vs cpu? I would love to switch back over to trapping if I can figure something out...

I use Juke's alternate 75/25 speed and have great/realistic results with pressing and trapping.