Pro-Am Players in REC

[ksuttonjr76]

For real? For real?

Played against my first Pro-Am squad in REC and got stomped by 60+ points. I could tell in the first 2 minutes, because their level of defense was NOTHING that I ever encountered before. They played the passing lanes and 2-3 zone to perfection. My defender was somehow was able to stonewall my player while I was dribbling. I could BARELY get any type of separation from him at all which killed my ability to collapse the zone. One player shot, I swear, like 8 green releases in a row on teammate. They were using dribbling animations that I have never seen before. Like this team was from a whole different planet. I was so livid, because I knew they were playing to pad their stats. First time that I ever played scared while making passes, because it felt like they were snatching everything out of the air. We had like 30 turnovers to their 3 maybe 4. The crap was unreal.

[Mintsa]

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It’s like someone getting 200 PNO wins and staying in freshmen the entire time........

Smufing.........

[ksuttonjr76]

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It’s like someone getting 200 PNO wins and staying in freshmen the entire time........

Smufing.........

LMAO...now I know what's it like to be on the receiving end.

[Marvlus91]

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as soon as i see the lineup i already know there a pro am team, usually 3 guards , a SF running the four and a glass cleaning lock at 5....idk why they decide to just come in the REC to destroy people in there lol, they literally get every steal, like you said green every single shot with an inch of space, bone crushing picks, cherry pick the whole nine smh i usually quit within the first 3 minutes because, why not lol

[Mintsa]

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LMAO...now I know what's it like to be on the receiving end.

Hahahahaha !!

Us smurfs have no mercy bro. We don’t care, it’s just on to the next W.

[ksuttonjr76]

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as soon as i see the lineup i already know there a pro am team, usually 3 guards , a SF running the four and a glass cleaning lock at 5....idk why they decide to just come in the REC to destroy people in there lol, they literally get every steal, like you said green every single shot with an inch of space, bone crushing picks, cherry pick the whole nine smh i usually quit within the first 3 minutes because, why not lol

I wanted to quit so bad myself when the score was 6 to 32. Pride is one hell of a drug, lol. I didn't want to give them satisfaction of making the entire team quit. Another dude hung with me until the end.

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[Housh123]

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Hahahahaha !!



Us smurfs have no mercy bro. We don’t care, it’s just on to the next W.

are you new to 2020? This is the norm now. Tenured teams running rec so they don’t get pro am losses


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[howardphillips214]

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Bro I've been saying this for months.

Gotta say, been running with the normal squad the last 2 nights. It makes a huge difference when you know all your teammates tendencies. We played some pretty stiff competition the last couple nights as well. When we play, we have all our 96 and up characters so it's guaranteed we're getting a full 5. Last game of the night went to OT. We won by 5. Had to win at least 3 in the 4th quarter. We played a good 10 games or so and haven't lost either.

Everyone plays the passing lanes when we're on the court. The difference is that we have a great PG. He's not dropping 30ppg every night either. Consistently getting 15 plus assists every game tho.

I played the first few on my shooter, but ran the rest of the night on my 6'9 paint beast at the 5. Got matched up on quite a few 7'3s as well. Gotta get my shooting badges up tho. It's tough.

[kirkangil]

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The developers are on this forum hopefully next year they have 2 doors one for solo rec players and another for squad rec players. To balance competition more.

[MrWrestling3]

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are you new to 2020? This is the norm now. Tenured teams running rec so they don’t get pro am losses


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I will never understand the reasoning behind this. It's like a MLB team playing a U12 Boys Little League team so they don't "hurt their record" by playing other MLB teams on their level.

Ducking competition to pad stats is not in any way impressive,nor will it in any way make people better players.It is pretty much just straight up insecure people that need their egos stroked because they can't handle even the possibility of a losing a game.

All the more reason there needs to be a better lobby/matchmaking system than now.If guys want to do this then make them play in unranked Pro Am lobbies where the games don't count towards anyones precious "record".

[Housh123]

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I will never understand the reasoning behind this. It's like a MLB team playing a U12 Boys Little League team so they don't "hurt their record" by playing other MLB teams on their level.



Ducking competition to pad stats is not in any way impressive,nor will it in any way make people better players.It is pretty much just straight up insecure people that need their egos stroked because they can't handle even the possibility of a losing a game.



All the more reason there needs to be a better lobby/matchmaking system than now.If guys want to do this then make them play in unranked Pro Am lobbies where the games don't count towards anyones precious "record".

I’d recommend a user vs cpu mode and better matchmaking


I know a lot of guys run on teams and simply don’t want to play 50 comp games in a row VS try hardship so they’ll dip into rec here and there. I say instead of that make a game mode that’s like real NBA stars vs our pro am team and it’s in a difficulty that’s HOF or above and make it 2x rep. That should get some of these pro am guys out the rec. just give these guys something to do but lurk in rec beating up on randoms


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[ksuttonjr76]

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Bro I've been saying this for months.

Gotta say, been running with the normal squad the last 2 nights. It makes a huge difference when you know all your teammates tendencies. We played some pretty stiff competition the last couple nights as well. When we play, we have all our 96 and up characters so it's guaranteed we're getting a full 5. Last game of the night went to OT. We won by 5. Had to win at least 3 in the 4th quarter. We played a good 10 games or so and haven't lost either.

Everyone plays the passing lanes when we're on the court. The difference is that we have a great PG. He's not dropping 30ppg every night either. Consistently getting 15 plus assists every game tho.

I played the first few on my shooter, but ran the rest of the night on my 6'9 paint beast at the 5. Got matched up on quite a few 7'3s as well. Gotta get my shooting badges up tho. It's tough.

Man!

They got into us so bad with the passing lane steals, I almost went to the other thread to apologize to you, lol. I'll say this...with the right team, passing lane steals can be a SERIOUS problem. Lord knows that I was trying to pick apart the defense, but every time I looked up to pass someone was ALWAYS one arm's length from stealing the pass out of the air. The BIG difference was that this team was more disciplined and they didn't overplay the lanes. Randoms tend to get greedy and anxious about steals, so they'll tend to move out of position for me to make an easy pass. This team? Hell naw! It didn't help that I couldn't take my man off the dribble either.

However, this was a team of "pros" against some average joes. Everything they do should seem OP.

[ksuttonjr76]

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I’d recommend a user vs cpu mode and better matchmaking


I know a lot of guys run on teams and simply don’t want to play 50 comp games in a row VS try hardship so they’ll dip into rec here and there. I say instead of that make a game mode that’s like real NBA stars vs our pro am team and it’s in a difficulty that’s HOF or above and make it 2x rep. That should get some of these pro am guys out the rec. just give these guys something to do but lurk in rec beating up on randoms


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What's crazy. I really do understand now wanting to play comp games all the time. At that level, I'm pretty sure that the games tend to be intense all the time. That would start to work on my nerves and blood pressure.

However, I do agree. They need their own unranked lobby or something. Beating up on randoms is not competition either. I can't remember the last time I got a grade lower than B+. I got a D in this game.

[loso_34]

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I will never understand the reasoning behind this. It's like a MLB team playing a U12 Boys Little League team so they don't "hurt their record" by playing other MLB teams on their level.

Ducking competition to pad stats is not in any way impressive,nor will it in any way make people better players.It is pretty much just straight up insecure people that need their egos stroked because they can't handle even the possibility of a losing a game.

All the more reason there needs to be a better lobby/matchmaking system than now.If guys want to do this then make them play in unranked Pro Am lobbies where the games don't count towards anyones precious "record".

happens irl on the aau circuit or tournaments. teams of 16 year olds beating up on 13-14 year olds so they can “win”.

these guys dont care to improve or play their peers they want to win at all costs and get max rep.

[loso_34]

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The developers are on this forum hopefully next year they have 2 doors one for solo rec players and another for squad rec players. To balance competition more.

they knew this an issue last year and all they did was give these guys more incentive to do it(rep).