Tips for a myteam newbie?

[Andreas85]

1. Are plays worth running in MyTeam and if so which playbook u recommend?

2. What are some cheap bronze/silver beasts to start off with?

3. Are packs worth buying if so which packs are best? or should i just save up until i can get the players i want from the AH?

4. Whats the best defense and offense settings to start off with?

5. Whats the best games to start with, the road to the playoffs, or that domination thingy?

[MikeGSW]

Re: Tips for a myteam newbie?

1. Some are. Use the domination mode as a practice arena, run the plays from the playbook and get to know the ones you like. Best to go with ones that unfold pretty quickly, nothing with a lot of "moving pieces" to it, they take too long to play out and you'll just get double teamed and end up breaking up the play. I like floppy plays and some of the pick and roll stuff, using the Hawks playbook right now.

2. LaVine is absolute cheese, if you just want to dismiss sim ball entirely and cheese your way to victory he's your best option early on. Caldwell-Pope, Evan Fournier, PJ Hairston, Anthony Morrow, Alex Len and Shved are all solid bronze guys. I can't recommend Anthony Morrow enough, his shot is money. Great floor spreader.

3. Honestly I think this is a preference thing. I opened two of the mid-level packs. Then I saved up and just played some domination etc.

4. Do you mean the points of emphasis? This depends entirely on your preferred play style and personnel/roster. Difficult to answer.

5. I suggest domination as you'll get some packs with items you can sell on the AH or maybe even a decent bronze or silver player to strengthen your roster. You won't get far with an all bronze line up though.

[Heatcheck3s]

Re: Tips for a myteam newbie?

1. Depends, go through each of the playbooks and see which ones has the most plays(like cutters, pick and roll, etc.) according to your playstyle.

2. I ran Ray McCallum-Goran Dragic-Darius Miller-Pero Antic-Rudy Gobert through the early seeds. My bench guys were Morrow, Troy Daniels, Nazr Mohammed, Ekpe Udoh, Austin Rivers. Just be wary that some of those players above cost a decent amount as a bronze.

3. MT has more value than VC because MT guarantees you players. If you want to use MT on packs, use it to a moderate extent. With how crappy packs are for everybody, it's not worth it to spend a crazy amount of MT in hopes of getting a high cost player.

4. They're called 'Points of Emphasis' in game. Again, it depends on how you play on offense and defense, adjust accordingly.

5. Play a few domination games and offline games if you want to familiarize yourself with how your team plays. If you don't care about finetuning and you feel you're already a decent player, jump into RTTP right away. It's your call. Although I would recommend finishing Domination once you hit the seeds that allows you to use golds, as the aforementioned mode can give you a solid foundation of gold players to start off. Most people get players in the range of Lebron/Durant/CP3/Duncan/Melo/Paul George when they finish RTTP, so there's the incentive to grind through RTTP.

My lasting advice would be to stay patient throughout the time you spend on myteam, there's gonna be times when you get a great pull from a pack, and then there are times when you disconnect from a RTTP game after being up 20. I don't want to sound like I'm pushing you away from dedicating time on RTTP, but hear me out, imho, 2k's myteam mode is the most frustrating virtual card game out of all the popular virtual cards sports games(like Madden, FIFA) out there. Just a warning before hand, sometimes there's bs you have to deal such as glitches in the auction house, the 'unfairness' of locker codes, 3 point chuckers, random disconnects and error messages that can really deter the experience.

[TDale5]

Re: Tips for a myteam newbie?

My advice on the packs is to get the 2k app that gives free VC. Use that VC on packs. Save the all your MT for the AH. Packs are just terrible. However if you're looking to fill out collections you'll get a player, and two other cards that could help with that. But if you're looking for a good player it's extremely unlikely in packs no matter what you open.

[MikeGSW]

Re: Tips for a myteam newbie?

3 point chuckers, random disconnects and error messages that can really deter the experience.

Don't forget Lebron, MJ and Durant cheesers. Or LaVine cheese. Or guys with Jordan, Shaq, Malone, Pippen and Kobe on their bench.

There's a lot of cheesy crap in this game.

[jm2054]

Re: Tips for a myteam newbie?

Don't forget Lebron, MJ and Durant cheesers. Or LaVine cheese. Or guys with Jordan, Shaq, Malone, Pippen and Kobe on their bench.

There's a lot of cheesy crap in this game.

I hate people who complain about stacked teams. Stop them it's really not hard. Dunks and 3's are what most cheesers do and it is easy to stop. The hardest is playing people who actually play right because you get so used to defending cheesers

[Andreas85]

Re: Tips for a myteam newbie?

Tried making a heavy shooting squad, pg, sg, sf with high 3s mid 2s, and pf + c with high reb, cant really get anything going, since i only have one playstyle it kinda makes it easy for my opponent to defend. And also met some dude who just kept making contested shots with *** players. I guess contesting shots with players who suck at defending pretty much doesn't do anything? Anyone got any suggestions? I guess u can't really focus on one thing, u gotta kinda do everything to succed right?

[MikeGSW]

Re: Tips for a myteam newbie?

I hate people who complain about stacked teams. Stop them it's really not hard. Dunks and 3's are what most cheesers do and it is easy to stop. The hardest is playing people who actually play right because you get so used to defending cheesers

Nah, sorry. But some of those guys are way overpowered. Benches should be restricted imo.

It's not even having a team stacked, I wouldn't care if it was guys like Stockton, Malone, Al Jefferson, Duncan, Payton, etc.

But it's always the cheesiest of players. Jordan, Lebron, LaVine(wtf?), Shaq etc etc...

sorry but if the only way you can win is by stacking your team with cheesy players, you're clearly not very good at the game. And I will take great pleasure in embarrassing you with my bronze and silver bench unit. But hey, every now and then, when you do cheese your way to victory with alley oops, poster dunks and 30ft three point shots while being double teamed... savour it.

[Webbie2K]

Re: Tips for a myteam newbie?

But it's called MyTeam, not YourTeam

[jm2054]

Re: Tips for a myteam newbie?

Nah, sorry. But some of those guys are way overpowered. Benches should be restricted imo.

It's not even having a team stacked, I wouldn't care if it was guys like Stockton, Malone, Al Jefferson, Duncan, Payton, etc.

But it's always the cheesiest of players. Jordan, Lebron, LaVine(wtf?), Shaq etc etc...

sorry but if the only way you can win is by stacking your team with cheesy players, you're clearly not very good at the game. And I will take great pleasure in embarrassing you with my bronze and silver bench unit. But hey, every now and then, when you do cheese your way to victory with alley oops, poster dunks and 30ft three point shots while being double teamed... savour it.

I don't like playing those same teams all the time either but my thought is it is normally a easy win. Those guys normally aren't the best at the game. I would like more ways to play my team so a separate rttp ladder with different rewards would be great. I really don't see why 2k doesn't do seasons like MUt

[Lord Bonium]

Re: Tips for a myteam newbie?

I hate people who complain about stacked teams. Stop them it's really not hard. Dunks and 3's are what most cheesers do and it is easy to stop. The hardest is playing people who actually play right because you get so used to defending cheesers

I'm sure it's easy to stop them when you're abusing off ball defense with a stacked team consisting of players with 90+ def iq etc. However those of us with normal teams, especially playing on ball defense, simply get dunked on and watch contested shots from any distance go in constantly.

If it's one or two of those players, fine (not really fine because players like onyx kobe/lebron and ruby kobe/jordan are complete bs with ratings generated in lala-land). Still, that way i'd be able to focus on stopping one or two players. Obviously if every player on the opposing team is unstoppable then there's not much you can do to stop them.

[Crimson Twins]

Re: Tips for a myteam newbie?

I'm sure it's easy to stop them when you're abusing off ball defense with a stacked team consisting of players with 90+ def iq etc. However those of us with normal teams, especially playing on ball defense, simply get dunked on and watch contested shots from any distance go in constantly.

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I have grown tired of off ball defense getting frowned upon. Why do people hate it? Because it works? So, naturally if it works to your opponents benefit, it must be cheese. On defense, I usually play my center. He is my last resort at keeping the ball out of the basket, and I don't want to have to rely on input lag not being that bad when I try to switch over to him to get the block. I'm not cheesing, or abusing anything. I'm playing smart defense. It also allows me to have my best rebounder in position to grab the board in the event of a miss. Another plus. I find playing most people with on ball defense, 9 times out of 10 it turns into an And 1 Mix Tape with your opponent going into an ISO play and trying to do his best Iverson impression to cross you with 5 cross overs in a row and then ends up with a clean path to the basket because I couldn't switch to my center in time.

[MikeGSW]

Re: Tips for a myteam newbie?

I have grown tired of off ball defense getting frowned upon. Why do people hate it? Because it works?

Because it's a cop out, you're scared to defend someone simply because you can't so you bail yourself out by letting the CPU do it for you.

I kind of understand doing it on the perimeter pre-patch because it was heavily favoured for the offensive player. But post-patch there's not really any excuse other than you're incapable of playing defense. In which case why should you be bailed out? If I'm not good at shooting should I be able to set it to automatic and let the CPU cheese 3 pointers for me? smh.


Fortunately I've found an easy way to destroy off ball defenders, switch to a 4-1 with floor spacing, feed it into the post and just destroy the CPU, the AI for post defense is weak. They bite on every fake. Then inevitably they send a double team across, at which point you simply kick it out to one of the 4 guys on the perimeter and splash the open three.

[jm2054]

Re: Tips for a myteam newbie?

Because it's a cop out, you're scared to defend someone simply because you can't so you bail yourself out by letting the CPU do it for you.

I kind of understand doing it on the perimeter pre-patch because it was heavily favoured for the offensive player. But post-patch there's not really any excuse other than you're incapable of playing defense. In which case why should you be bailed out? If I'm not good at shooting should I be able to set it to automatic and let the CPU cheese 3 pointers for me? smh.


Fortunately I've found an easy way to destroy off ball defenders, switch to a 4-1 with floor spacing, feed it into the post and just destroy the CPU, the AI for post defense is weak. They bite on every fake. Then inevitably they send a double team across, at which point you simply kick it out to one of the 4 guys on the perimeter and splash the open three.

So you can stop off ball but not a stacked team lol. I've stopped super teams with no more then 3 golds or better. As I said it isnt hard.

As far as off ball Defense goes I use a mix depending on the play style of my opponent. If you spam 3s I play on ball and cram your shooter if you spam dunks I control the center or PF and stop you.

Honestly it sounds like you call anything that works against you cheese.
Guy played off ball and won cheese
Guy shoots lots of 3s cheese
Dude dunks on me all day cheese
Guy made all his free throws cheese

Some of you complain about everything unless it's in your favor and I found most who complain abuse certain things themselves like spamming the steal button or dunks etc.

[MikeGSW]

Re: Tips for a myteam newbie?

So you can stop off ball but not a stacked team lol. I've stopped super teams with no more then 3 golds or better. As I said it isnt hard.

As far as off ball Defense goes I use a mix depending on the play style of my opponent. If you spam 3s I play on ball and cram your shooter if you spam dunks I control the center or PF and stop you.

Honestly it sounds like you call anything that works against you cheese.
Guy played off ball and won cheese
Guy shoots lots of 3s cheese
Dude dunks on me all day cheese
Guy made all his free throws cheese

Some of you complain about everything unless it's in your favor and I found most who complain abuse certain things themselves like spamming the steal button or dunks etc.

Lol I already said I've beaten stacked teams. But that's because everyone who uses teams stacked with overpowered players tend to be casual fans who don't actually know how to play basketball.

And I stated it's not stacked teams that are the issue. It's cheesy players.

Playing off ball all game, spamming three pointers and spamming dunks IS cheese. Ask any non-cheeser.

Don't get so defensive because you're being outed as a cheeser who probably knows nothing about the game. Play it however you want, that's on you. Just know that you're cheesing and probably couldn't win without it.


On top of all that it's just boring seeing the same teams all the time. People lack imagination.