Calling out all Post Scorers

[MrWrestling3]

Quote: Originally Posted by jyoung

2K Lab tested post fades with their modded controller, and this year, you can't consistently make (much less green) all of your post fades, even if your timing is perfect and your post fade rating is 99. Meanwhile, pure sharpshooters can make and green 100% of their threes with only an 86 three point rating. 2K19 just did a bad job of balancing the ease of making threes vs. the ease of making twos, as floaters and layups don't go in consistently either with maxed out badges/ratings, just like all of the post shots. It's sad that threes and dunks have become the only shots worth taking in 2K19, because every other shot type is going to be a dice roll, even if your timing is perfect.

Unfortunately, as this shows, 2K has decided to market itself increasingly towards the casual NBA fan that wants lots of entertaining EPSN style highlight plays (i.e. Crazy threes and insane dunks/posters) than towards fans of the game of basketball itself.Now I'm not saying there isn't any room at all in 2K for that style of play, I'd just like it more if it was the alternative, and not the default.

[Krucialist]

Quote: Originally Posted by jyoung

2K Lab tested post fades with their modded controller, and this year, you can't consistently make (much less green) all of your post fades, even if your timing is perfect and your post fade rating is 99. Meanwhile, pure sharpshooters can make and green 100% of their threes with only an 86 three point rating.

I saw that chart. As a post scorer every year, I cried inside when I saw those percentages.

I feel equally confident at hitting a corner three with my slashing playmaker PG, as I do a lightly contested fade with my pure post scorer.

Combine that with the fact that by your very position and location in the low post, you generally are never going to get fully open on a post shot. Also the lack of any post shot badge, except for difficult shots, which was clearly just an afterthought thrown to the bigs, as the very drill for the badge was clearly never intended for us.

If you’re going the post scorer route, you gotta accept that you’re at a structural disadvantage out the gate. Athletic finishers and glass cleaners are better natural scorers in the paint

[xxxOpie24xxx]

I can't recall ever hitting a green with my post scorer. With that being said, I rarely get many opportunities and IF I do get the ball in the post, 80% of the time a teammate decides he needs to come hold my hand lol

The struggle of playing the post online is real!

[Krucialist]

Quote: Originally Posted by xxxOpie24xxx

I can't recall ever hitting a green with my post scorer. With that being said, I rarely get many opportunities and IF I do get the ball in the post, 80% of the time a teammate decides he needs to come hold my hand lol The struggle of playing the post online is real!

Don’t worry low post player, one of your guards is coming to set you a nice screen. Clearly you operate on the same rules as sharps, just much closer to the hoop...