Dribbling in traffic: There's a serious problem.

[Pappy Knuckles]

I might as well get another issue off my chest now that I'm thinking about this game. There is a serious problem when it comes to dribbling in traffic. Far too often players are able to keep control of the ball in inappropriate situations. Even when they do manage to lose the ball, they often just recover it right back anyway. It feels pointless to play defense a lot of times.

I love that you can dribble in tight spaces, but it has to make sense. You just can't sprint into two defenders chest and continue to Hot Sauce with no penalty. It's silly.

Here's an example of the game we played last night. The point and shooting guard played like this the whole game and somehow only ended up with 3 turnovers between them.

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[jeebs9]

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As usually I'm the fence here. Because yes, this was a steal the last 2 year. Especially the spin move with the defender standing there. It was cookies every time. But they opened it up a little this season. Players were losing the ball too much. I'm just as pissed as you. But this year I get steals when users don't protect the ball while I' standing right in front of it. And again I'm not saying it's right. But the dribble system wasn't great for beginner the last 2 years (with all the body bumping). This is the first year (last 2) where my friends actually have a better time dribbling the ball. I hate seeing my cousin do the shot spin (double tap square). Spin into my defender and not lose the ball. Now they just make them miss everything. Which I think is the middle ground. There is also when a player gets bumped animation after the double spin.

But I think these body steal balance it out to a point. Yea man... I'm on the fence. I got nothing for this one. Below it's my cousin's playing each other. And that was on both of them right there.

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[Rockie_Fresh88]

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Man I am so glad you recorded this. I get so tired of the ball never coming loose.

[aakaido]

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Nah man that's absolutely ridiculous. I relentlessly complained about 2K16 and how you could not move an inch without the ball coming loose, but this isn't the answer or fix I was hoping to see implemented. Honestly, I've never seen a human controlled player be able to move like that and not lose the ball. It was almost as if you were playing the computer.

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[aakaido]

Re: Dribbling in traffic: There's a serious problem.

Also, you mind if I share this video on another thread? It's about lack of IQ and online players being beyond selfish. This would be a great example.

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[Pappy Knuckles]

Re: Dribbling in traffic: There's a serious problem.

Also, you mind if I share this video on another thread? It's about lack of IQ and online players being beyond selfish. This would be a great example.

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No prob.

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[nyk_fatboy]

Re: Dribbling in traffic: There's a serious problem.

in the paint trying to move in traffic is realistic but anywhere on the perimeter its bad

diving for the ball needs more work too.

[32MJ32]

Re: Dribbling in traffic: There's a serious problem.

Embarrassed to admit this but nearly lost to a dude who played Porzingis at the 1 and just dribbled in for dunks and free throws because I couldn't take the ball off him. I think he had like 38 and at the most, 3-4 turnovers. Didn't sub him out once, either. He literally dribbled around for almost the entire 20 minutes, with a 7'3" center, and lost the ball 4 times max.

I was doubling, hounding him with 3 dudes, the whole works. I essentially just focused on trying to take the ball off him, regardless of leaving 2 dudes open on every play, and still couldn't do it.

I deduced that a) I suck at stealing the ball and b) it is too damn easy to dribble around this year

[Piopi_starJR]

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Idk I only have a 60 steal and it doesn't surprise me when I got 4+ steals. Just like previous years, there's ideal times to steal the ball and tricks you can do


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[VAWereWolf65]

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Idk man. I think dribbling in traffic is too unforgiving at times. Even J.R. Smith thinks so lol


This is coming from a guy who knows a thing or two when it comes to NBA basketball

[ILLSmak]

Re: Dribbling in traffic: There's a serious problem.

Idk man. I think dribbling in traffic is too unforgiving at times. Even J.R. Smith thinks so lol


This is coming from a guy who knows a thing or two when it comes to NBA basketball

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNG8tvXJEMc

that's mad funny. JR Smith is the one dude in the NBA who plays like these park bums tho be real haha.

-Smak

[MrBallaBoy21]

Re: Dribbling in traffic: There's a serious problem.

They should increase the ball physics in online modes only imo.

My CPU teammates in MyCareer are too stupid to handle the ball being tangible. They lose the ball way too much and it always leads to an easy fastbreak score.

[UnbelievablyRAW]

Re: Dribbling in traffic: There's a serious problem.

This only applies mostly in Pro-Am and MyTeam because the game modes are on Pro and Allstar respectively. If you look at the Pro sliders, ball security is at like 50, whereas ball security on Superstar is at like 30. When you play Play Now Online, you'll see ball security be way more realistic.

Idk why 2k won't make online difficulty be uniform across all modes (superstar)

[Rockie_Fresh88]

Re: Dribbling in traffic: There's a serious problem.

Idk I only have a 60 steal and it doesn't surprise me when I got 4+ steals. Just like previous years, there's ideal times to steal the ball and tricks you can do


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You don’t t have a problem with the video ?

[Piopi_starJR]

Re: Dribbling in traffic: There's a serious problem.

You don’t t have a problem with the video ?

I can see the flaw, but I feel like the clamps could've been executed better. I'm always biased because I feel like people can adapt to video games to execute them. If you're playing pitfall or flappy bird I'm sure no one is good right from the start, takes some practice


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