Head to Head, NBA teams.
I'm not one to exaggerate...but it is UGLY right now.
Mike Conley can't contain Ben Simmons, which is cool. 2x DPOY Rudy Gobert rotates over. (This is the best case scenario, if the 76ers ran an iso, Rudy wouldn't have rotated at all unless I did it manually)
https://streamable.com/g8hpeu
I know great players are capable of doing this on occasion, but this is essentially the standard when playing against an elite finisher that can trigger contact dunk animations. It could be 3-4 guys down there and more often or not they will latch on to one of them for a poster or foul animation.
Here is Al Horford with a Shaq style standing dunk over two Jazz players after a rebound.
https://streamable.com/qbjahl
Its not limited to Al either. Jokic, Nurkic can power dunk at will. Imagine the elite guys.
add this to what? the 5th straight year of transition issues? Gobert casually jogging back so slow he can't catch Al Horford. We buffed football passes because peoplw complained about them but not even a thought was given to how the defense could deal with them.
https://streamable.com/qpnqu8
but that could be a thread by itself.
2K18 had the excessive blow-bys, but at least you had to acknowledge if people rotated over. Hell, they could kick it out to damn near anyone for a 3, but you had to at least acknowledge there was an actual person in front of you.
That's what sucks, on the NBA side shooting is on a better place than it has been....but with paint defense at its current state...it doesn't really matter.
This was in the gameplay blog
Was this just in the Park/Pro Am modes? because as far as the NBA side goes, defense is at its worst. (The out of box ball tangibility had its annual nerf BTW, so the hop step is fully back, along with dribbling safely in the crowded paint holding LT)