What do you have to do for a green shot?

[xCoachDx]

An uncontested open shot from the elbow with an 82 mid-range rating. How is there no opportunity for a green light? Am I supposed to have a 90+ before that can happen? It’s painful grinding through modes like Court Battles when you can’t make anything other than a layup/dunk.

What gets me is that threes aren’t like this. I have a lower three point rating and have green opportunities. What’s going on here?

[The 24th Letter]

Re: What do you have to do for a green shot?

Was that shot considered 'contested' according to the feedback? Just curious.

[MeowingForVengeance]

Re: What do you have to do for a green shot?

Were you moving when you took the shot? If your shooting stats are still low, it's pretty much a necessity to stop and plant your feet before taking the shot.

[ILLSmak]

Re: What do you have to do for a green shot?

Were you moving when you took the shot? If your shooting stats are still low, it's pretty much a necessity to stop and plant your feet before taking the shot.

Yea or crossed. Top yellow is still wet anyway. It does get wetter as you get higher so if it blinks you still shot a good shot esp if you have a sizable bar. But you'd think to be in that position you'd have to be off the dribble. I dunno how a small would get a standing j from there.


I hit a top yellow 3 w my Hakeem haha. Dudes pass carried me past the line and I banged it. First ever. Don't worry about top yellows.



-Smak

[xCoachDx]

Re: What do you have to do for a green shot?

Was that shot considered 'contested' according to the feedback? Just curious.

I don’t really remember. He never jumped to contest so it better not have.

I had enough of that bs in 2K18.

[FullSail]

Re: What do you have to do for a green shot?

I don’t really remember. He never jumped to contest so it better not have.

I had enough of that bs in 2K18.

I'm not sure about other modes, but in franchise if you keep taking smart shots like that they'll become green. I was getting open like that with I Thomas but never got a green. I kept working for good shots and after a few games i couldn't miss. But again, that's in franchise.

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[Schwall]

Re: What do you have to do for a green shot?

Were you moving and at what speed? Was your guy gassed on stamina?

Only asking so it can be addressed or you can improve your knowledge of how to get greens. But a standing still, good short term stamina should be green here.

[FullSail]

Re: What do you have to do for a green shot?

Were you moving and at what speed? Was your guy gassed on stamina?

Only asking so it can be addressed or you can improve your knowledge of how to get greens. But a standing still, good short term stamina should be green here.

Not sure who this is directed at but when i use Isaiah (because he's so short) i used screens on the wing and turbo to the baseline.

Yes! You must stop. And if your defender recovers, DON'T TAKE THE SHOT!!! Just pass the ball and try again on another possession. It's like they penalize you over time for taking contested shots and reward you for taking only open shots. Eventually you start getting the benefit of the doubt and they turn green. I don't know if I'm explaining it well.

As far as spot up shooters, same thing. I pick one guy on my team that i only take the shot if wide open. Right now that guy is Chandler Parsons. At first i could only get one or two clean shots A GAME!!! But now thirty games in, the boy doesn't miss!

I've been using this tactic in 2K for years. Just have to be very disciplined.

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[xCoachDx]

Re: What do you have to do for a green shot?

Not sure who this is directed at but when i use Isaiah (because he's so short) i used screens on the wing and turbo to the baseline.

Yes! You must stop. And if your defender recovers, DON'T TAKE THE SHOT!!! Just pass the ball and try again on another possession. It's like they penalize you over time for taking contested shots and reward you for taking only open shots. Eventually you start getting the benefit of the doubt and they turn green. I don't know if I'm explaining it well.

As far as spot up shooters, same thing. I pick one guy on my team that i only take the shot if wide open. Right now that guy is Chandler Parsons. At first i could only get one or two clean shots A GAME!!! But now thirty games in, the boy doesn't miss!

I've been using this tactic in 2K for years. Just have to be very disciplined.

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This was considered a “Guarded” shot. How much more open can you expect to get against the AI who recovers on essentially everything?

[mrclutch]

Re: What do you have to do for a green shot?

AI perimeter D is the number one thing that needs addressed in the game.

[MeowingForVengeance]

Re: What do you have to do for a green shot?

AI perimeter D is the number one thing that needs addressed in the game.

It's certainly up there. If defenses played like this in real life Klay Thompson wouldn't have a job.

[Supersonic_BR]

Re: What do you have to do for a green shot?

AI perimeter D is the number one thing that needs addressed in the game.

I've said this time and time again, it makes calling plays essentially useless, as there is simply no separation on offball screens, and it deeply harms the spacing of the game.

[Poke]

Re: What do you have to do for a green shot?

Try changing your release

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[ILLSmak]

Re: What do you have to do for a green shot?

This was considered a “Guarded” shot. How much more open can you expect to get against the AI who recovers on essentially everything?

That's Def an anomaly. I've had allow open shot while I was right up against someone just a little to the side. It's true you don't get open js much but as I said shoot. That's how the gm is balanced. Like I said my dude put up 226 points on superstar abusing pick and pop mechanics. That's what happens when you get greens. Pull a shot. Pull it off the dribble. Know who you are, the gm is about more than making shots. Control pace. Break out. Post up. Pull a crazy shot when you know you got a man that can get the reb. Etc. Like I said I enjoy that in live I can play all out and not shoot over 60% as a team. I have gms where I get 40 or 50 on 22-32, and I have games where I get 20 on 6-22 haha.



I just ball. I take shots I feel I'd take. End up taking some shots I don't want to like pulling up when I'm trying to lay it in, or getting blocked but I try to get toward the rim or pull midranges. Get off the dribble w your superstar and when they start doubling then you're wide. A lot of shots that are open don't seen open and if this Pic is any proof same is true the other way. Just gotta adjust a bit. But you can get an open shot or a makeable shot by exploding out of a triple threat to the left and stopping around 17 feet, assuming your guy is someone who hits that shot in life like kd.


I'd worry about playing and doing what "feels right" sometimes you get a bad outcome but that's life. The worst thing in pvp or v cpu is being scared to shoot. Obviously if you get red arrowed you need to chill but the more you learn your players or your player (if u play the one like I do) the more you learn what shots they can make over what defense.



Help d could be better but weird help is also bad. Iso-ing works. Live seems to be an iso based game. Iso and quick plays. The cpu can stop you just cuz it decides its gonna do some ish. But nobody should really be able to stop you from getting to the rim or getting a j that will, over the course of games average out about 48-50%. Higher if you post obv or if you're using money plays like standing in a certain spot w a shooter n launching (dunno if they fixed that yet.)


My percentage would prol be better if I didn't take as many crazy shots too. But like I said, I like playing crazy. Some live 09 ish I'm pulling when I feel like pulling. Changes the whole dynamic of pvp when you can do that. I pulled up on the break in 3s for the w, playing w two skilled friends of mine. It was greenable and I just barely missed the green part. The ball arced like it was gonna swish thru and ended up just grazing the net as it sailed out of bounds. We were all like haha. Just have fun. Create chaos. That's always been what I do best on o. Cuz all things considered I'm not very good at getting good shots in any gm. But that's not nearly as big of a part of the gm as people think, like I said people not shooting cuz they can't get a green is really more of a losing strategy than pulling yellows all day.



-Smak