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[The 24th Letter]

Quote: Originally Posted by olajuwon34

Iv seen your video 24th, and like i said, what you were doing was taking advantage of online users being out of position, and faking a bunch of times, and by the way you traveled on half of those moves, so already the post has nothing to stand on. Spoiler Watch this video and you'll see how Shaquille and Hakeem both score most they're points while in the post, with they're "money moves". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtmJHg0qDnk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqU5RY1fmg8 Its not like they faked a bunch of times to get the defender jumping, or did a magical drop step to activate some animation that froze they're defender so they could get an open shot off. They got the ball in they're dominant position in the post, and got they're shots off, hook shots, fadeaways, and most were contested, but thats how those shots work. Thats why you had to double team elite post scorers like this in real basketball. In nba 2k18 im pretty sure the cpu doesnt even double the post offline. Try and do back to the basket moves offline now, on anything all star and higher, hook shots will not drop unless you somehow get if off open, or get the good hook shot animation, which is pathetic. Get footage of you hitting Kareem Abdul-jabbars famous sky hook going into the lane while in the post. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiXqdbznb5E https://streamable.com/x3kwc What am i thinking trying to do hook shots though right? i should just do up and unders and travel everywhere or drop step a defender out of bounds or like hes a statue. 24th you guys have clearly learned the way that 2k wants the user to play in the post in this game, its just its no where near the realistic way of playing in the post.

Like I said, you had your mind made up from the jump...which is fine...I could have saved myself some time though...hopefully other's thay want to learn the post game can benefit from this thread.

Anyway, did some labbing with Keem on SS yesterday trying to get his hook timing down...they didn't double him until the 4th...anyone else seeing doubles earlier?

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x62s3ra

[Ragnar53]

I play on Hall of Fame. As soon as my big man has the fire symbol next to his name they send an immediate second defender. So you either have to pass out or get good position then go into your move immediately.

Also I should probably try out the up and under fade more if my initial fake didn't have the defender bite/jump. That seems like it would be really effective also.

[The 24th Letter]

Quote: Originally Posted by Ragnar53

Random annectdote. Doing a shoulder fake before going into a post hook gets you a relatively open look a majority of the time. Sometimes even wide open because the defender is now disengaged from your body. Aggressively backing down then going immediately into a hook works if you have a sizeable strength advantage (At least +10 more strength). It creates enough space to get a clean fade away or hook shot off. This does make it difficult to play like Lamarcus Aldridge in this game and his struggle buckets. The man shoots contested fadeaways over his right shoulder on the left block All The Time whenever he gets bullied out of good post position. And doing those sorts of fadeaways is a no go unless you literally spend a couple hours in scrimmage getting the timing for it perfect (there are some shots I hit with Anthony Davis I have no business hitting) when you're getting smothered by defense. Which brings me to my next point. You're just going to have to learn how to green shots out of the post if you're going for realism. Just like if you want to use Demar like he plays in real life you're gonna have to learn how to green contested mid ranges. Which goes into the whole mantra of good defense, better offense. You can't guard that, it was perfect.

I'm all about the hop fade or step back when I have LMA in the post....

Agree with your point about disengaging though...makes shots like KAJs hook a lot easier to pull off...I go into the hook as soon as I see the defenders body bounce back...only thing is its hard to tell when this happens on 2k cam....

https://streamable.com/t6tra

Quote: Originally Posted by three6latvia

What’s the safest way to pass to the post? Lob pass? .... Sent from my iPhone using Operation Sports

I prefer the bounce pass personally. Quick, harder to track and steal...



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[harryl]

Quote: Originally Posted by The 24th Letter

I'm all about the hop fade or step back when I have LMA in the post....

Has it ever been figured out what Rating(s) apply to hop fades and hop stepbacks? Is it Post Fade and/or Moving Mid? I know that, at least in 2K17, Difficult Shots would activate with post hop shots, so I assume it's Moving Mid...BUT one can't really take those shots with guys with really high Moving Mid but really low Post Fade, so...I just don't know.

[jeebs9]

Quote: Originally Posted by The 24th Letter

Like I said, you had your mind made up from the jump...which is fine...I could have saved myself some time though...hopefully other's thay want to learn the post game can benefit from this thread. Anyway, did some labbing with Keem on SS yesterday trying to get his hook timing down...they didn't double him until the 4th...anyone else seeing doubles earlier? https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x62s3ra

Keem and Shaq are my next players to play with. I have a Jokic and M Gasol video in the works.

But in regards to doubling the big. That is more first and biggest concern. Is waiting for the double team to come. I'm always aware of my outlets. Especially if you have cutters on offense. You can get a lot of off baller who doing cut. And are usually looking for the steal.

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[sudanmalkovich]

post moves in this game are hella slow to begin with.
nobody in NBA moves this slow in the post except boban marjanovic.

[The 24th Letter]

Nah....

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[jeebs9]

I've been meaning to ask if anyone has tried any high low passes with bigs feeding the post (while being fronted). I just had my first chance trying it out. It looked sweet. But definitely wasn't clean.




I'm having trouble figuring out how they could program it in. Look at this very clean High-Low pass in real life Davics and Webber.



It's pure sexyness.