NBA2K12

**X-Factor** · 01-12-2012, 03:02 PM

Originally Posted by MSOADE54

Lets play a game once you get it...

According to the mail tracker, it's in my city, but not in my mailbox

**clonetrooper264** · 01-12-2012, 03:04 PM

Originally Posted by X-Factor

According to the mail tracker, it's in my city, but not in my mailbox

Maybe it will be there by the end of the day?

**clonetrooper264** · 01-12-2012, 03:11 PM

Dropped 49 points, 4 rebounds, 7 assists, and 3 steals in a 20 point blowout of the Heat. Kevin Harlan said in the next game that I had a "solid" outing against the Heat. Apparently I'm not doing well enough for him.

That Heat game was full of cheese though. I pretty much scored every point in the first quarter and had 41 points at the half. Why only 8 points after the half? I was focusing on assists and I played SG for the vast majority of the 2nd half...and that means DRose doesn't pass me the ball in a position where I can do anything (ie 2 seconds left on the shot clock). Heat were shooting up near 70% whenever I was in the game and my teammates in contrast were throwing up enough bricks to make a large mansion. 2K seems to be that way...your team absolutely sucks all the time when you're in the game and you have to do everything to keep your team in the game...

**X-Factor** · 01-12-2012, 03:17 PM

Originally Posted by clonetrooper264

Maybe it will be there by the end of the day?

nah...it would've already been here. But I think I'mma call the PO in a few and see if the package is there. I'll just go pick it up. Looks like it's gonna be a long, cold, snowy weekend...might as well sit on the couch and enjoy it

**Dementia** · 01-12-2012, 06:17 PM

Guys how does 2K12 compare to 2K11. I haven't bothered picking it up yet and will probably just wait for 2K13 if it's really only a roster update.

**X-Factor** · 01-12-2012, 06:26 PM

Got to the post office about 5 minutes late. grrr. gonna ball alllllll dayyyyyyyy this wknd tho

**X-Factor** · 01-13-2012, 06:49 PM

Awww yeahhh son! Opened it up earlier today. Just figuring out the controls and what not on the fly of My Player. I'm 1st guy off the bench, drafted 16th or so by the 76ers. 6'5 SG, 208 lbs or so...athletic build. asl?

**nwfisch** · 01-13-2012, 07:17 PM

Originally Posted by X-Factor

Awww yeahhh son! Opened it up earlier today. Just figuring out the controls and what not on the fly of My Player. I'm 1st guy off the bench, drafted 16th or so by the 76ers. 6'5 SG, 208 lbs or so...athletic build. asl?

Pro tip-To easily increase your teammate score, set good screens.

**bbaker** · 01-13-2012, 10:18 PM

Originally Posted by Dementia

Guys how does 2K12 compare to 2K11. I haven't bothered picking it up yet and will probably just wait for 2K13 if it's really only a roster update.

It might be just me, but I think 2k12 blows 2k11 out of the water. The presentation is amazing, My Player is more in-depth, graphics are solid. Only thing that's really the same is Association mode but you have the updated rosters.

**X-Factor** · 01-13-2012, 10:26 PM

Originally Posted by nwfisch

Pro tip-To easily increase your teammate score, set good screens.

Picked up on that in 2k11...I'm the SG, so I try to set a screen for the PG at the top of every possession.

**MSOADE54** · 01-13-2012, 11:34 PM

Originally Posted by X-Factor

Awww yeahhh son! Opened it up earlier today. Just figuring out the controls and what not on the fly of My Player. I'm 1st guy off the bench, drafted 16th or so by the 76ers. 6'5 SG, 208 lbs or so...athletic build. asl?

lets play a head to head game!

**clonetrooper264** · 01-13-2012, 11:40 PM

Originally Posted by nwfisch

Pro tip-To easily increase your teammate score, set good screens.

You can also just score all the time.

**X-Factor** · 01-14-2012, 12:54 AM

Originally Posted by MSOADE54

lets play a head to head game!

haha, I will soon, but you'll kill me. I still need to run through a lot of the tutorials to figure out the finer points. My My Player is so-so at best right now, and it's gonna take me a cpl days to really figure the game out.

**clonetrooper264** · 01-14-2012, 12:19 PM

I swear this game is so full of BS sometimes. Losing by double digits to both the Bucks and the Cavs? What is this crap? I shoot about 70% from the field and the rest of the team shoots like 20%.

**CODE_BLUE56** · 01-14-2012, 12:26 PM

made it to the finals...maybe its because i finally figured out this game..but my team steamrolled the WC..hell i had a terrible shooting game and 7 TOs last game and we still won vs the lakers

the game before i pwnd though 27 points 6 rebounds 13 assists

**nwfisch** · 01-14-2012, 12:39 PM

I got 85 points

**CODE_BLUE56** · 01-14-2012, 01:00 PM

Originally Posted by nwfisch

I got 85 points

**clonetrooper264** · 01-14-2012, 01:05 PM

Lost to the Cavs (I ragequit the other one where I was down like 15) by 1. Everyone choked. Rose has been playing like crap the past few games. The team as a whole is probably shooting a collective 30% when you take me out of the equation. Idk if the game is just demanding that I lose (Boozer had a chance to win the game when I fed him a wide open layup that he blew) or what, but the past few games have brought forth some serious rage...

**CODE_BLUE56** · 01-14-2012, 01:37 PM

try getting guys to the cut behind the defense to the basket among other things..they have a 2 second window where they're in front of everyone in the post you pass it...done..

run ahead of the defense after a missed shot...demand the ball..then look for fastbreaks...

try doing some movement without the ball to get you or others open...

try driving and kicking or getting a double team by driving to pass it to the open man(who often cuts to the post)

give other players screens to work around for their own shot...

go to the post....make the D collapse pass to a post man..then he kicks it out usually to the guy outside who is open because of the collapsed D

just some offensive suggestions

also when the clock gets down to around 6 or 5 on defense..DOUBLE TEAM...they dont pass the ball when the clock gets down that low..they look to make their own shot on basically an iso

**clonetrooper264** · 01-14-2012, 02:03 PM

I usually do all that. The difference in the past couple games is that I played SG exclusively due to an injury, so I couldn't control the offense like usual. The best I could do was demand the ball and take it to the post. However I guess my defenders were a lot longer since they were bigger SGs so I got blocked a lot more than usual. That and Varejao came out of nowhere like 5 or 6 times to block my shot...

Usually I can stop my guy on the iso with 5 seconds left. It's when it's early in the shot clock and they start doing 50 different moves that I have trouble. Idk if it's me, or the way the player movement system works, but sometimes I find myself like 10 ft out of position on defense. Or it could be that there's a switch on defense that the game doesn't make clear (you know those times where you have like 3 different arrows that say you're supposed to guard that player). I've gotten a lot of the "allow man to score" things that way. As if it was my fault that that guy was across the court and the game just told me to switch as the guy caught the ball. Idk how it determines between "good shot defense" and "allow man to score" sometimes either...I could be all up in his face and press the block button and everything and still get "allow man to score" sometimes. I guess it's a minor thing really since I still win most of the time. It's just when we lose it's because of all this garbage that goes on that doesn't go on in the games I win.

And for the record...if my teammates could have teammate grades as well, they'd probably all have D's or F's. Missing free throws, allowing their guy to score, and all that. If only our teammates could play as well as the opposition eh? xD

**CODE_BLUE56** · 01-14-2012, 02:13 PM

Originally Posted by clonetrooper264

I usually do all that. The difference in the past couple games is that I played SG exclusively due to an injury, so I couldn't control the offense like usual. The best I could do was demand the ball and take it to the post. However I guess my defenders were a lot longer since they were bigger SGs so I got blocked a lot more than usual. That and Varejao came out of nowhere like 5 or 6 times to block my shot...

Usually I can stop my guy on the iso with 5 seconds left. It's when it's early in the shot clock and they start doing 50 different moves that I have trouble. Idk if it's me, or the way the player movement system works, but sometimes I find myself like 10 ft out of position on defense. Or it could be that there's a switch on defense that the game doesn't make clear (you know those times where you have like 3 different arrows that say you're supposed to guard that player). I've gotten a lot of the "allow man to score" things that way. As if it was my fault that that guy was across the court and the game just told me to switch as the guy caught the ball. Idk how it determines between "good shot defense" and "allow man to score" sometimes either...I could be all up in his face and press the block button and everything and still get "allow man to score" sometimes. I guess it's a minor thing really since I still win most of the time. It's just when we lose it's because of all this garbage that goes on that doesn't go on in the games I win.

And for the record...if my teammates could have teammate grades as well, they'd probably all have D's or F's. Missing free throws, allowing their guy to score, and all that. If only our teammates could play as well as the opposition eh? xD

ya the defense makes you switch off alot you gotta stay with your man on that..you have to make the players work for a while to get the clock down..

you can still get guys open down low and do screens as a SG...trust i play SG quite a bit and i still get plenty of assists

what do you play on? pro?

**clonetrooper264** · 01-14-2012, 02:29 PM

Originally Posted by CODE_BLUE56

ya the defense makes you switch off alot you gotta stay with your man on that..you have to make the players work for a while to get the clock down..

you can still get guys open down low and do screens as a SG...trust i play SG quite a bit and i still get plenty of assists

what do you play on? pro?

Yeah I had the run plays option on for awhile and it always made me do screens in the middle of the paint, which NEVER works. It's impossible to even try to walk through the paint for me. Always bumping into my defender, even if I'm pushing the control stick in the opposite direction. I'll try to set more screens now that I have autoplays off. The only assists I've gotten playing SG are fastbreak passes or passes out of a double team. But I rarely get a strong double team before I shoot.

Do you mean stick with the original guy even though the game tells you to switch (which is what I do whenever I get multiple arrows...seems to work) or go the the guy that they tell you to go to?

I think I play on All-Star or something. I moved up from pro awhile ago, but I forget what I set it to.

**MSOADE54** · 01-14-2012, 07:05 PM

Originally Posted by X-Factor

haha, I will soon, but you'll kill me. I still need to run through a lot of the tutorials to figure out the finer points. My My Player is so-so at best right now, and it's gonna take me a cpl days to really figure the game out.

I am some what good, don't want to sound cocky so that is all I will say!

but you should try that training camp thing, it helped me out big time.

**CODE_BLUE56** · 01-14-2012, 07:14 PM

Originally Posted by clonetrooper264

Yeah I had the run plays option on for awhile and it always made me do screens in the middle of the paint, which NEVER works. It's impossible to even try to walk through the paint for me. Always bumping into my defender, even if I'm pushing the control stick in the opposite direction. I'll try to set more screens now that I have autoplays off. The only assists I've gotten playing SG are fastbreak passes or passes out of a double team. But I rarely get a strong double team before I shoot.

Do you mean stick with the original guy even though the game tells you to switch (which is what I do whenever I get multiple arrows...seems to work) or go the the guy that they tell you to go to?

I think I play on All-Star or something. I moved up from pro awhile ago, but I forget what I set it to.

depends on the situation..i think you can tell guys to switch off using X on the PS3

i'm still on pro..i might go up once my guy gets a little better...he's still only 72...i'm up 2-0 in the finals vs. orlando lol

**clonetrooper264** · 01-14-2012, 09:02 PM

Originally Posted by CODE_BLUE56

depends on the situation..i think you can tell guys to switch off using X on the PS3

i'm still on pro..i might go up once my guy gets a little better...he's still only 72...i'm up 2-0 in the finals vs. orlando lol

Hmm...I'll have to try that. I'm a 74 overall about 50 games into the season. I assume you're key gaming it though?