I agree with you that solid fundamental basketball goes largely unrewarded, bad basketball all too often is rewarded, and changes are much needed.
2k (my career and badges) are 99.5% responsible for the terrible basketball and basketball IQ that this game and the community suffer from.
The other .5% is the lack of basketball knowledge and understanding of the sport by the average player.
2k teaches and encourages you, or the average player at least, to play bad basketball.
Think of what mycareer is, a button spamming (pick pocket, rim protector, ...), score as much and as fast as you can taking terrible shots (deadeye, limitless range, tireless scorer...), hold down the turbo button, put it on rookie, and change game speed to 100.
There's no basketball knowledge or fundamentals taught what-so-ever!
Not to mention that the stamina system was supposedly going to prevent dribble spamming and turbo spamming by making dribble moves and shooting less effective when tired.
But with the added tireless scorer badge, pick and roll maestro badge, limitless range badge, deep range deadeye badge, and attribute boosts, the stamina system only negatively affects the defender that looses all their stamina at a much faster rate for playing solid defense.
Badges, imo, are a huge part of the problems with this game.
If you are good at something you don't need a badge to increase your chances of being good at that thing!
Badges aren't for skilled advanced players, they are for unskilled average players and help eliminate whatever skill gap there should be.
They also encourage and reward unskilled average players to do dumb things because they have badges.
By teaching people to spam steals and dribble moves, take bad and contested shots, chase the ball and not play sound defense, and basically anything that mycareer teaches people, 2k has created a bad community of misinformed users.
I'm sorry if that seems off topic, I will attempt to bring it back now.
With the teaching that mycareer does to the average player and the rewards that they get for doing so, combined with the flawed teammate grade system, we as a community get what we've got.
Which is, a pg that will spam dribble moves behind two screens for 15 seconds, then pass the ball to a well defended teammate getting a positive boost to their teammate grade for a "good pass", "good ball movement", and maybe an assist from a bad well contested shot that goes in because of the boost they get for the deadeye badge combined with the hall of fame dimer badge and shot clock cheese.
Said pg with holding the ball, spamming dribble moves, terrible shooting, 6 turnovers, bad defense, and a loss, can still end up with a B teammate grade despite being the reason that their team lost.
I've seen it happen on many occasions.
Imo, 2k needs to fix the many flaws that they have intentionally put in the game before they can ever hope to have a good teammate grading system.
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