That’s pretty cool to hear. I credit my own interest in basketball stemming from NBA 2K11 distilling the game into something I can understand and appreciate.
same for me with 2k12. i still have the full end of season celtics roster from 2012 memorized because i played that game so much lol
Hali thinks I’m a real hooper fr 😤😤
You know, I’m somewhat of a NBA player myself.
I forgot which big man said they learned block timing from playing 2K
But gamers deadass knew the value of spacing by like NBA2K8 years before the actual league
Simulation is a helpful tool in a lot of sectors like aviation and marine, so this shouldn’t be very surprising
The second part is pretty crucial. I remember the days where people complianed how hard and inefficient post ups were in Live and 2K series. Guess what, it was also inefficient in RL, just people noticed it a lot later.
Oh it’s hard if your opponent knows what they are doing. Do it to someone who doesn’t and as a certain doctor would say, they are barbecued chicken.
Bro I was 12 and in fantasy draft took all shooters and a couple massive dudes to get some boards so I could jack up more triples.
I always want to say this but feel like I’d be mocked lol.
It is just a game so it wasn’t realistic, but 5 out with heavy rotations on defense and aggressive help defense to force turnovers was always my jam in the 2000 2k days. It’s just that I found it unrealistic for them to do in real life until they did it. I’m not sure it was a talent thing as much of a coaching thing that teams didn’t go down this route faster.
Similarly playing 2k like Presti does.
I was ahead of the curve playing with Steve Nash in Live 2003. I basically had him doing Steph Curry’s career back then. He was way too good of a shooter not to just fire away.
The video game counterpart of that 02-03 Mavs team was a modern NBA dream. Dirk obviously goes without saying but Raef LaFrentz was a 3&D center and you legitimately could play 5-out with them. They had shooters everywhere on the wings too.
Those Nash Mavs teams were fun as hell to watch and I was sad as a young Canadian Nash fan when he left the Mavs (thought he was ruining his career lol).
NBA Live 2004 (or 2005 I forgot) is the first one for me. Peja is deadass deadly (ofc other than Shaq just dunking every game). Kings is the best team practically mainly due to Peja +White chocolate, it’s three for days. The 2nd option is to use smart trading technique to land Peja at Heat, Peja+Shaq is just deadly inside outside combo. Plus Heat should also has Rasual Butler with like 90 3pt also, sure his other stat is shit, but you really only need the 3pt stat anyway. That’s your core.
The Magic was starting to form and they were so fun. They were like a prototype for the 3 eccentric game. Even as a Lakers fan I still would occasionally play with the Magic because drive with Jameer kick to Rashard Lewis was deadly af. Then reset it all when Dwight got the board.
I remember starting Jameer, JJ, Hedo, Rashard and Dwight it was literally drive and kick none stop
Legit just shot 3’s as a kid in the mid 2000’s because for every two 3’s I made, they had to make 3 two’s
hali to his teammates be like he’s a hall of fame badge three point shooter, how you not gonna close him out?
kids who were jacking up 3’s in 2K and going for it on 4th and 2 in Madden are taking massive W’s now
I’m basically Tyrese Haliburton
I’ll take my 200mili now, please
Incoming rebrand of the major leagues to “in-person e-sports.” My kids’ favorite game is “Minecraft in real life” aka playing outside
he’s on fire
Kyler Murray pumping his fist in the air rn.
Just like me fr…
Chris Pauls favorite game is Madden…
Bro knows his knowledge from knowing video games.
They keep putting Hali content on this reddit and I’m just going to keeping saying the same thing because it doesn’t get talked about enough: James Wiseman #2 pick.
I practiced parallel parking in GTA San Andreas and then did it flawlessly during my driver’s test
I have been playing Basketball Games longer than this Kid is alive and all I ever do is High Screens and Iso.