Who are your most overrated/hated players in NBA 2k9?

[AuburnAlumni]

Everyone of us has either drafted a guy or played with a team who has a guy who LOOKS like he should be deadly and ends up being a dud.

So in your 2k9 playing experience, who are the biggest "bums" you have played with.


I have two that stand out above all others....

Hedo Turkoglu and Ben Gordon.


I drafted both of these guys, drooling over their stat lines...both look like they should be dropping 15-30 points for me on any given night from anywhere on the court.

However, I can't do ANYTHING with either of these guys in this game. Hedo's shot is impossible for me and Brick...err..Ben Gordon regularly goes 1-9, 0-7, 1-13 for me.

Anyone else have guys that drive them crazy like this?

[damien6663]

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i cant shoot for deans with quentin richardson, and it took me ages to get stephon marbury. but went 3-4 last game from downtown with him, finally got it me thinks.

[Buke14]

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Mo Pete from the Hornets, My typical shooting night with him is around 2/12 or so, I moved him to 6th man in my Hornet association and start Posey in hsi place.

[KingCashus]

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Only played against him, but RONDO. He's overated in real life: any player who doesn't even need to be guarded without any penalty for your defense, can NOT be rated almost 90 in NBA 2K9. That's just rediculous. I don't care how many steals he gets.

[FluffyTonka]

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Yeah Gordon is real hard. Especially when you edit his height to 6'2" like he really is. I think I went about 1-42 over 5 games with him at 6'2" before I traded him for Adam Morrison and a filler

[Hotobu]

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Only played against him, but RONDO. He's overated in real life: any player who doesn't even need to be guarded without any penalty for your defense, can NOT be rated almost 90 in NBA 2K9. That's just rediculous. I don't care how many steals he gets.

While I understand your point, the fact is that Rondo really IS that good. The problem is simply that his skills don't translate well into this game. First of all his offensive awareness is negated due to him being a PG thus you're probably controlling him most of the time anyway. Furthermore his ability to drive and score is screwed up because 2K sports doesn't know how to make an accurate paint scoring game. Lastly because CPU deffensive awareness is too good his ability to drive kick, and create is non existent as well.

As for the actual topic of the thread for me it's O.J. Mayo. He's so completely unreliable for me. I constantly have to take him out to put in J.R. Smith (not a bad second option at all). With J.R. my offense just flows. With O.J. I have to be conscious of how I get him the ball, and that's slightly annoying.

[naama]

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Hedo Turkoglu and Ben Gordon.

Hedo's a beast, nice and quick release, plus he's a tall guy -> can easily shoot over defenders. Especially from the midrange...

Gordon's just too short to play SG, because you have to be really open to get an uncontested shot up with him. But I've noticed shooting a fadeaway helps with Big (Small) Ben. Creates a nice little separation and he's also got a silky smooth set of fadeaway animations, so it looks and feels good to pull that off...

[KingCashus]

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While I understand your point, the fact is that Rondo really IS that good. The problem is simply that his skills don't translate well into this game. First of all his offensive awareness is negated due to him being a PG thus you're probably controlling him most of the time anyway. Furthermore his ability to drive and score is screwed up because 2K sports doesn't know how to make an accurate paint scoring game. Lastly because CPU deffensive awareness is too good his ability to drive kick, and create is non existent as well.

Rondo is not that good, in real life, or in 2K9, with all due respect. Just to clarify though, I don't just double team another player and Rondo just stands there. (for the record, i played on HoF levelfor over 2 seasons,164 games, not including playoffs.

I can sag off Rondo and help with another man or play passing lanes, because Rondo won't shoot. His tendency to shoot 3's is very low (i think a 5) in this game, because he doesn't shoot in real life. Which is good, and realistic.

But, for Rondo to shoot 18/40 three pointers in 190 games in his real life NBA career, and receive a 70 overall 3 point rating in NBA 2K9 is mind-boggling. It should at LEAST be in the 60's, 50's imo.

So he is overrated in that sense. He CAN'T shoot, that's why he DOESN'T shoot.

For comparison: Baron Davis is 89, Tony Parker is 90, Billups is 90. And they are all players that are better than Rajon Rondo. But the overall rating is pretty much the same. This should not be the case.

All ratings are from latest roster update btw.

[JBH3]

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Hedo's a beast, nice and quick release, plus he's a tall guy -> can easily shoot over defenders. Especially from the midrange...

Gordon's just too short to play SG, because you have to be really open to get an uncontested shot up with him. But I've noticed shooting a fadeaway helps with Big (Small) Ben. Creates a nice little separation and he's also got a silky smooth set of fadeaway animations, so it looks and feels good to pull that off...

I don't know what it was, but last year in 2K8 Ben Gordon's fade-away was magic for me. I signed him in the 1st offseason of 2K8, and used him as my starting SG on the Sixers.

I was scoring in buckets w/ him knocking down fade-away jumpers from beyond the arc like it was nothing.

I've yet to use him in NBA 2K9, but I would try fading away w/ him when shooting from mid/long-range. You should have GREAT success w/ him like I did once you get the timing down; which wasn't hard for me at all.

[jewelz1132]

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Dwight Howard

[Furq]

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Only played against him, but RONDO. He's overated in real life: any player who doesn't even need to be guarded without any penalty for your defense, can NOT be rated almost 90 in NBA 2K9. That's just rediculous. I don't care how many steals he gets.

I actually play very well with Rondo in the game, though he will have games occasionally where he only scores like 5 points or something

I play good defense with him and pick up a couple of steals usually, but on offense he is good at using speed in the open court. In the half court his handle is good enough to often get to the rim where he is good at drawing contact, or using his signature layup animation to get a shot off. Using sliders I often get to the rim with him. He isn't the best finisher around contact, and he obviously wouldn't be a focal point of my offense but I can get around 10 a game with him.

In the half court the best way to get to the rim for me is have him drive inside and then use the left-right or right-left quick crossover to get to the rim

[DubTrey1]

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I have to go with Luis Scola. I use the Rockets in my 'chise and he alone is one of the most horrible post players/shooters on my team. I watch quite a few games in real life and he is actually a very decent player - I just can't get him to perform like he does in 2k. Get's stuffed repeatedly on just about every J.

[NBA2k8 CHAMP]

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Only played against him, but RONDO. He's overated in real life: any player who doesn't even need to be guarded without any penalty for your defense, can NOT be rated almost 90 in NBA 2K9. That's just rediculous. I don't care how many steals he gets.

If I'm not mistaken Rondo averages 11,8,5,and 2 and is the best defender at the pg spot. He also shoots above 50%.

Rondo isn't a horrible shooter it's the fact that he doesn't shoot.He's also no a knockdown shooter it's not his game and never will be.

He's a PG not a SG.Rondo reminds me of Lawson for the Heels as he go they go and 10/10 that team wins because of great pg play.

[The Radness]

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I've noticed that with Ben Gordons shot, you really have to hold that button down until he is just about coming down. It used to drive me crazy becasue last year he was lights out, and this year I couldn't hit a wide open 3. I got the stroke down and now I'm doing alright.

[NBA2k8 CHAMP]

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I can't shoot wit Ben Gordon nor Ray Allen