NBA 2K9: A Cheeser's worst nightmare

[2kjunkie]

These past days I have been mostly playing offline or 5 on 5 online but last night I decided to play some online head to head games.

When I did manage to connect to a host, the three times I did I just so happen to get connected to a cheeser but I am absolutely loving it. I love seeing a cheeser not being able to effectively have their way in this game and I think it will force a lot of them to learn some actual basketball strategy.

The first game I played was against someone using the Rockets, my favourite team happens to be the Lakers but I didn't want to be mistaken for a cheeser when I was selecting my team so I went with the Blazers.

This guy played full court defense the moment I won the tip-off and make me wonder if his steal button was stuck because it seems he didn't stop pressing it. At first it was very annoying but I just stuck to the way how I know how to play and that is as sim like as possible.

I ended up winning this game by 1 point after hitting a game winner with Bayless. I can just imagine his face when the shot went in.

The second game I played was more of the same but by this time I was a little more practiced for online play, knowing when to release the shot as opposed to offline play, so at the end of the 2nd quarter I was up by 15, guess what happened next...... message displayed Waiting for host (34), lol guy pulled the plug, usually I get upset when someone does this but I just laughed and decided to start another game, this time I led 22 - 11 at the end of the first quarter and again Waiting for host (34), another cheeser too embarassed to finish.

All in all, I am optimistic about the prospects of online gaming, pretty soon the cheesers will get so frustrated they won't have a choice but to play basketball or return the game.

[DC]

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Man I have heard from some folks that cheesers are having their way this year

[-DaVe-]

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Man I have heard from some folks that cheesers are having their way this year

Cheesers don't have the luxury of playing who ever they want anymore...
So you won't see 1000 game ranked win streaks

[2kjunkie]

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Man I have heard from some folks that cheesers are having their way this year

Based on my experiences thus far then I disagree. I think when playing a cheeser you just have to tighten up on some things more. Try to find what they believe is their strength and take it away, for instance, the second guy I played was using the Nets and seemed to take the Half man, half amazing concept a little too seriously, this basically just in bounded the ball to Carter, dribble the ball up with him as if Carter is his point guard, attempt to drive to the hoop for a layup or dunk, etc. I simply just took my best defender and assigned that player on Carter while I control my big man guarding his worst big man who I know couldn't hurt me if left alone

[DC]

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Did the Vince dude quit? I think I will just sag off of most folks if I decide to go online and play randoms

[2kjunkie]

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Did the Vince dude quit? I think I will just sag off of most folks if I decide to go online and play randoms

Most certainly did.

I think I need to adopt a new approach so that I can finish these games with the cheesers. Let the cheeser lead you while keeping it close and late in the game try to win it.

Seems whenever you have too big of a lead, they will quit

[younggrease]

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Based on my experiences thus far then I disagree. I think when playing a cheeser you just have to tighten up on some things more. Try to find what they believe is their strength and take it away, for instance, the second guy I played was using the Nets and seemed to take the Half man, half amazing concept a little too seriously, this basically just in bounded the ball to Carter, dribble the ball up with him as if Carter is his point guard, attempt to drive to the hoop for a layup or dunk, etc. I simply just took my best defender and assigned that player on Carter while I control my big man guarding his worst big man who I know couldn't hurt me if left alone

thats not skill...imo thats a bum move that only bums do.

[TheShizNo1]

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I agree w/ the OP. My friend's favorite team is the Celtics b/c his favorite player is Ray Allen. He's borderline cheese. Tries to do all kinds of iso in the paint w/ Garnett. Tries to steal everything.

Ended up beating him by 20 w/ t he Pistons. He had fould galore and Garnett was ineffective.

[2kjunkie]

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thats not skill...imo thats a bum move that only bums do.

With all due respect, please tell me how this is a bum move. I agree that it is not necessarily skill but how is it a bum move.

Isn't this how the NBA is played? Doesn't the Spurs always assign Bowen on Kobe, didn't the Nuggets assign Martin on Kobe during their playoff matches basically daring the other players to hurt them.

In my opinion you know nothing about basketball, this is not a game of checkers it is a game of chess.

What would have been more appropriate, my star player against his star player showing who is more 'skilled'?

If chess is what bums plays then I will gladly continue living on the streets. Please spare me some coins the next time you pass me by but save your 'skills' for another bum.

[SXL]

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I don't play online, but playing my lil bro offline is very entertaining for me. He is all cheese and im sim.

Our first game he is atlanta im portland. His stratgy is to take his best slasher and try to force his way to the basket. Josh smith ended the game with 54pts, but I won by 12 with brandon roy leading the way with 24 and 6 assit followed by webster who caught fire in the 3rd he had 22. The only other scorer he had in double figures was joe johnson with 17.

He full court presses with who ever scores his last bucket. Leaving me with easy mismatches to exploit and he is constantly reaching or jumping for the block so I spent a lot of time at the line. I tell him to be more stratigic but he played live until last year and his mind is stuck in cheese mode lol.

[younggrease]

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With all due respect, please tell me how this is a bum move. I agree that it is not skill but how is it a bum move.

Isn't this how the NBA is played? Doesn't the Spurs always assign Bowen on Kobe, didn't the Nuggets assign Martin on Kobe during their playoff matches sacrificing daring the other players to hurt them.

In my opinion you know nothing about basketball, this is not a game of checkers it is a game of chess.

What would have been more appropriate, my star player against his star player showing who is more 'skilled'?

Im gonna go on probabilities and say I know at least as much about bball as you or anyone on this board. Letting the cpu play defense for you is not skillful and is a bum videogame move. It has nothing to do with switching your best defender on Carter, it has to do with you not being good enough to guard him yourself and letting the computer do it for you.

What would have been more appropriate is you guarding Carter yourself, but your not good enough to do that. So you have to resort to letting the cpu play almost 50% of the game for you.

I love how when people disagree they try to act like you dont know ball. Your whole thread is just wrong because this game is actually the cheesiest 2k in a while and you just havent run in a decent cheeser.

You call a simple switch of a player chess? you obviously have no idea about x's and o's. Thats a simple a switch that anyone with common sense would make. And your trying to turn it into some masterful move...lol.

[foofighter2455]

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I've never hated playing randoms online as much as I do this year, I could D them up in 2k8, not the case in 2k9. They can just dribble around with tmac and throw up a crazy layup that goes in. I haven't seen one shot chart where one of these clowns took a midrange shot. I can't enjoy these games with one of my favorite teams because if I don't use a team like the rockets or lakers, I get blown out by some jerkoff scoring 50 with kobe and tmac/yao.

[2kjunkie]

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Im gonna go on probabilities and say I know at least as much about bball as you or anyone on this board. Letting the cpu play defense for you is not skillful and is a bum videogame move. It has nothing to do with switching your best defender on Carter, it has to do with you not being good enough to guard him yourself and letting the computer do it for you.

What would have been more appropriate is you guarding Carter yourself, but your not good enough to do that. So you have to resort to letting the cpu play almost 50% of the game for you.

I love how when people disagree they try to act like you dont know ball. Your whole thread is just wrong because this game is actually the cheesiest 2k in a while and you just havent run in a decent cheeser.

I don't want to get into an argument over this but did I come here professing to be the best 2K gamer around? If you are skilled enough to be able to man up to cheese then kudos to you, you earn that prize of being better than me at defending cheese man up, does that however make you a better or more skilled player?

I have played in several leagues which forced you to play man 2 man defense (and I assume you have as well) so it is not that I don't know how to play on the ball defense but in this case, why should I? Do I have something to prove to that cheeser or to prove to people like you who look for the slightest things to make your e-penis appear bigger; I am Jamaican, my e-penis is large by birth.

Anyway, let us just end on the note that you are a skilled player and I am a bum.

[RogueTheory]

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Im gonna go on probabilities and say I know at least as much about bball as you or anyone on this board. Letting the cpu play defense for you is not skillful and is a bum videogame move. It has nothing to do with switching your best defender on Carter, it has to do with you not being good enough to guard him yourself and letting the computer do it for you.

What would have been more appropriate is you guarding Carter yourself, but your not good enough to do that. So you have to resort to letting the cpu play almost 50% of the game for you.

I love how when people disagree they try to act like you dont know ball. Your whole thread is just wrong because this game is actually the cheesiest 2k in a while and you just havent run in a decent cheeser.

You call a simple switch of a player chess? you obviously have no idea about x's and o's. Thats a simple a switch that anyone with common sense would make. And your trying to turn it into some masterful move...lol.

Your post makes you sound like a tool.

[younggrease]

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Your post makes you sound like a tool.

Sorry but I dont give a damn about how I come off on an internet forum.