NBA 2K24 MyPlayer Thread

[illwill10]

Quote: Originally Posted by howardphillips214

That's what I was saying about the year 2 trades. I can almost always get Steven Adams for Dwight Powell every time. Steven had 30 rebounds for me a couple times. He's great at offensive rebounds also. Plus no one shoves him around. He doesn't get a lot of blocks but hes a solid defender around the rim. I wish you could get a Mitchell Robinson, but he's like untouchable. I've also had it where the Mavs draft a shot blocker. But I definitely understand. I'm still in my first 25 games. Kyrie, Williams, and Hardy are all injured. I'm having to give Exum and Curry more minutes. Now that you have OCC you could start Exum at the 2 and just assign his matchup to Luka's man. I started him one game, he almost had a triple double. I just love having Seth out there with Luka. Seth's jumper is butter. Plus he has pretty good vision. I play the SF so my teams are always top 5 in OPP FG%. I don't average a bunch of blocks but I'm about 1 and 1 for both

Is there a there a certain requirement to unlock the trade influencer in year 2? With AI Teammates now being reliable, there's guys that I'm already pre-targeting. Guys like Delon Wright(who locked up Luka in a recent loss we had), someone Iike Steven Adams or Drummond, maybe one of the 2Kgenerated rookies who seems like they have a high ceiling.

Once I max some of my offensive badges, I just playing key games. I'm almost done maxing SWB. My SWB cap is 62, but it has been a drastic difference from 25 to 58. Next, I will focus on Mid Range. I think my cap for that is 72 to get Bronze Middy Magician. I just want to be able to have a less one dimensional offense

[howardphillips214]

72 middie is Silver.

You have to win the championship your first year in order to get trades. On top of that, I feel like you may have to play a certain amount of games also. I've rushed my rookie season before. Specifically, I think you have to play 50 games in a season in order for the GM to trust you. I've had it where my second season, I couldn't get a single trade.

[illwill10]

Quote: Originally Posted by howardphillips214

72 middie is Silver. You have to win the championship your first year in order to get trades. On top of that, I feel like you may have to play a certain amount of games also. I've rushed my rookie season before. Specifically, I think you have to play 50 games in a season in order for the GM to trust you. I've had it where my second season, I couldn't get a single trade.

Silver Middy Magician would be ideal paired with other shooting badges like Catch and Shoot, Open Looks, Claymore would make that a consistent shot especially coming from a Dimer PG


The 50 games part, I can do. Might need to switch my self back to starting center, so I'll play less minutes. The championship part might be the harder part

I just had my favorite game so far. This is my second game with Kyrie as the 6th man. We had a game against Clippers. With me nearly maxing my important defensive badges, I'm starting to feel like the lockdown defender I want to be. Through 3 quarters I locked Kawhi to 4-15 shooting. We were down 12 when I got subbed back in. After a few buckets(including 2 back to back 3's by me), we got it down to a 4 point deficit. Then Luka got hot and got takeover. I literally kept spamming Quick Iso when Luka got the ball. With him on takeover and Harden guarding, he scored 10 straight points. I even got double takeover, and still kept passing Luka the ball. He finished with 34 points. We went on a 32-10 run to finish the game. Kyrie had an efficient 15 points off the bench. I like Lively back in the lineup because he does offer offensive rebounding and gets the occasional blockm.
We just need more perimeter defense. I like Josh Green, but I rather him come off the bench.

[howardphillips214]

Do you run Luka post ups? Luka is pretty nasty in the post.

My favorite plays are when someone dumps to Luka and the D collapses. I'm usually wide and don't typically have to call for the ball. You being the 4 I would imagine you get 5-10 screens called for you. After you set a screen (I know you prolly won't roll) but you can try and get the open look or catch, tell Luka to Cut if he's not already or post up with L1 then Luka's icon, then X for post.

I get a TON of mismatches that way.

[illwill10]

I just turned on 2k Smart Play. I like the play it calls compared to the normal feature. It does calls a lot of Luka Post ups. I like Kyrie coming off the bench. He has been a consistent 25 point guy against bench guys and Luka gets more touches. We just had a game against Wisards where Delon Wright shut Luka down for 0-7 in the first quarter. Then Kyrie came in for last 4 minutes of 1st and scored a quick 12. Then after the first, Luka went 10-14 for 26 points and Kyrie had 35 points. That's a game where I want someone like Delon Wright as a teammate. He has 91 Perimeter D and good enough badges where he will make a star work for there points. I moved Grant Williams back to the bench and moved Hardaway to starter. He's definitely a chucker, but he is someone that can get buckets.


I nearly maxed my defensive badges. All I have that is important is getting 94 feet and Workhorse from Gold to HOF and work on Ankle Braces from Silver to HOF. I want to work on Interceptor, but I can't even trigger the intercept animation. Even in drills, I can't trigger it. I need to work on shooting badges. The issue now is that my drill requirements got harder nd I can't get better than 1 star in drills. As far as my rookie season, I'm just focusing on playing 50 games. It seems harder to get your teammate grade to A- or better. In the past, it was so easy to A+ grades just by doing the dirty work. I think I'm about 25+ games in. I maxed my off Reb from 45-70, it gives me Post Playmaker which comes in handy. I'm at 91, but just have Driving Layup and dunk and Medium left from minimum rating. They just released the Season 3 Trendsetter rewards which includes 10K VC, 10 game skill boosts for all skills, and the 1 hour double XP, that should help.

[howardphillips214]

How do you get the trendsetter?

[illwill10]

Quote: Originally Posted by howardphillips214

How do you get the trendsetter?

Just by going to MyTeam and opening the Trendsetter Rewards Pack. There were packs for the first 2 seasons and I want to say Season 3 is the last one with the Trendsetter rewards pack. It came in handy saving up before I started and the 10k VC will get me to the next upgrade once I unlock it.

[howardphillips214]

I have never willingly launched my team. Lol

I summed about 10 games to get everyone healthy. THJ averaged 8ppg for that whole stretch. Weird how the guy can drop 30 in a quarter when I play with him, but sim stats are so different.

Just held POR scoreless for the first 5 minutes. We're up 15 to start the 2nd. I always have good team D regardless of our individual numbers.

You may want to slide up to the 3 if you want your defensive badges. Matter of fact, you could slide you to SF and switch your matchup with Luka so you guard the ball. That'll help get all your perimeter badges. 94 won't trigger unless you get a hipride animation passed the hash. So around halfcourt or just straight off the inbound will help. Ankle braces was tough to get Silver and that was on a PG build I had.

Pick dodger should also fire a lot more when you're guarding the ball. Derek Jones Jr should be fun to watch in the starting lineup. He'll grab a few boards and can jump out of the gym.

Luka
Green
You
Jones Jr
Lively

That's a ton of lobs for Luka.