One for the Equalizer isn't real crowd.

[Hustle Westbrook]

Quote: Originally Posted by Scramz718

That also happens with balanced teams or for the player with the worst team. Most importantly it happens in other modes. Can't take that as evidence to support the equalizer theory.

Yeah, that's happened to me a million times in Play Now Online.

[GrimaceZ7]

Quote: Originally Posted by Hustle Westbrook

It's lag.

Yeah, because lag is such a huge problem in offline games.

[GrimaceZ7]

Quote: Originally Posted by Scramz718

That also happens with balanced teams or for the player with the worst team. Most importantly it happens in other modes. Can't take that as evidence to support the equalizer theory.

I have never seen it happen for the worse team. I have never seen it happen to the trailing team in a game regardless of which of them has the stronger lineup. The fact that it's seen in other game modes is completely meaningless. I don't think anyone is making the argument that the Equalizer is only an MTO thing. People in Park complain about it all the time too. I see it in offline games all the time.

[Hustle Westbrook]

Quote: Originally Posted by GrimaceZ7

Yeah, because lag is such a huge problem in offline games.

Quote: Originally Posted by Beluba

We use the same technique to launch the ball offline so I could see it happening there as well. Should be extremely rare though and probably only on very late releases.

Straight out of the devs mouth. The game isn't changing shots mid-air because your being "equalized" lol.

[landman2069]

Quote: Originally Posted by Hustle Westbrook

Straight out of the devs mouth. The game isn't changing shots mid-air because your being "equalized" lol.

It is if you believe in it. Just like the people who believe in Bigfoot or any other of the things that no one can ever prove exist but people swear it is real.


I'm almost as sick of hearing about equalizer in every other thread as I am facing 5out turbo steal spamming cheesers online. Can't we give this a rest and stop with all of it. If you believe in it great, but quit posting about it to justify the results of gameplay.

[Fakename22]

Its not real. Its just people who arent as good as yall think yall are. Just because you have god squads shouldnt gurantee you a win.

[isdatyt]

Quote: Originally Posted by Fakename22

Its not real. Its just people who arent as good as yall think yall are. Just because you have god squads shouldnt gurantee you a win.

It's so weird that y'all either cannot read or decide what you're going to say before you get here. I don't complain about losses. I literally started this thread saying that I should have lost worse than I did. I'm literally talking about how I'm not good enough to lose by 2 points with an all bronze lineup. I'm the beneficiary here and I don't enjoy it. Nothing about this game felt good. I was constantly able to make plays I shouldn't have been able to make while my opponent couldn't buy a bucket with way better players and literally no defense at times. I felt dirty the whole game. I've never been on the opposite side of equalizer, my team isn't that good. but I know I'd be raging if I was. If I couldn't make a wide open shot with the front runner for MVP while I got toasted on the other end by Marquise Chriss who isn't even good enough to start on one of the worst teams in the league, I'd feel cheated. Nobody is saying that the game should be pay to win but you should be getting accurate value out of your cards. James Harden would have a career night if Brian Roberts tried to guard him. Rudy Gobert was getting outrebounded by one of the worst centers in the game. Things like this shouldn't be happening.

[harryl]

Quote: Originally Posted by isdatyt

They were literally WIDE OPEN. Like Harden would come down the court and Roberts would be in the crowd. Or his free lance would get somebody completely free and they'd still miss. It was crazy.

He might have taken some shots poorly. And if he gets cold and never gets off that cold streak, then shooting even open threes isn't necessarily shooting an ideal shot.

On the surface, this all sounds like compelling "proof" of an equalizer effect, but it's actually not super compelling.

He took over 50% of his shots from outside, and still shot 38%. Which isn't good, but isn't bad, in real-life terms, for that kind of volume.

4-13 with Harden is stupid, considering he was 5-7 from inside the arc with Harden.

It's not like you were getting a lot of gifts, shooting 3-10 from outside yourself.

And you turned the ball over 3 more times than he did. But still scored 1 more point off turnovers.

He had 5 more Steals, and 3 more Blocks.

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And even if he was a scrub, certain things aren't in human control. My rebounding advantage

You only got +1 Offensive Rebounds. The Defensive Rebounding advantage you had is a natural byproduct of him shooting 42% from the field.

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the crazy shots I was making.

Maybe you hit some crazy shots, but 54% FG% and 30% 3P% is lackluster.

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He couldn't get any calls.

The one thing you got was a big differential in foul calls/FTA. But you also had almost twice the Points in the Paint, so it doesn't look like he was getting in position to get calls, generally speaking.

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I was getting steals with Hibbert.

You got 1. And, again, he had 10 total steals, whereas you had 5.

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These are things that just shouldn't happen. It's not fair to people who work for their teams to make their players suck for no reason other than to appease somebody who can't get better players. The next game I played, the guy had all Amy & Diamonds in his starting lineup. I got up by 14 and he quit in the second. Same exact thing, I wish I could have screenshot it.

Maybe it was equalizer, but from what you've shown, your opponent also looks like he's a bad player.