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NBA 2K10
superdemongob
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I did a quick search for this and found no threads addressing help for this game.
My problem is twofold.
1. First, the basic problem, is there any way to know which skills you should buy except for the look at prices and buy the cheap stuff?
I'm a Shooting Guard with a focus on Scoring and i can't seem to pinpoint which skills would help me most. (barring the obvious Shooting skills).
2. I sucked initially, went to the D-League got drafted by an NBA team, and now my agents keeps saying teams are interested in me and i should consider whether i'm happy with the suns before deciding. Where can i actually choose if i want to be traded to a different team? Cus in the season i'm in, i don't want to be in the suns, even if i get reduced playing time... So how do i get traded to the teams that are interested in me?
My problem is twofold.
1. First, the basic problem, is there any way to know which skills you should buy except for the look at prices and buy the cheap stuff?
I'm a Shooting Guard with a focus on Scoring and i can't seem to pinpoint which skills would help me most. (barring the obvious Shooting skills).
2. I sucked initially, went to the D-League got drafted by an NBA team, and now my agents keeps saying teams are interested in me and i should consider whether i'm happy with the suns before deciding. Where can i actually choose if i want to be traded to a different team? Cus in the season i'm in, i don't want to be in the suns, even if i get reduced playing time... So how do i get traded to the teams that are interested in me?
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1) It depends on what you want to do.. and the game actually helps you with that. See if you are defensive specialist then your defense will be cheaper, if you are an athletic mode then your physical attribute (jumps, speed, stamina) cost less.
The Long answer is depending on what you want to do. It's kinda hard being a shooting guard because basically you need everything to be Kobe Mode. I first made a center who's 7'1 defensive specialist and the choices are simple: Man Defense, Rebound, and Passing first to not suck on offense, and then work my way to whatever else that helps me (blocks, dunking, layup) . I personally find that Defense/Offensive awareness not to be that useful because it's a computer stimulation stat, and having a high stat in that won't help you get to the right place at the right time. You yourself needs to do that.
I also tried playing a 6 foot Asian shooting guard, (I'm 5'8 Asian, and maybe playing myself on NBA2k10 will help me with my game in real life) and I generally find that for shooting guards, it's always the person controlling that makes a huge difference. A high rating will not help you to free yourself up using screens so you can have an open shot (and no matter how high your rating is, you are not going to make a contested 3-point shot), no matter how high your layup is, a 50 rating guy doing an open layup will always score more often then a 95 rating guy doing a contested layup. So this game actually tests your own basketball intelligence (for a shooting guard anyways) and the game controller himself will have to find ways to score more easily...
I'm still trying to get the magic formula right... While there's grades to consider, you also get bonus points for performing well in a game, and that means you need to produce stats. Assist is a pretty easy stat to rack up and all you need is a half decent passing to get assist so its a relative light investment. Just play smart, make the easy pass leading to scoring to cut down on turnovers, and if you are playing with stars just pass them the ball to get point A la Jose Calderon...the ultimate assist padder.
Rebound gets you a lot of points in the game too if you are a shooting guard for some strange reason, but you shouldn't have to invest a lot in rebounding. Height makes a lot of difference in rebounding anyways.
If you are in the athletic mode SG, then invest in steals, speed, and stamina. You get a breakaway AND you get extra points for dunking, which an athletic SG always end up doing when he gets to the basket. More points if you managed to steal or block the opponent to get the breakaway dunk. However because I'm a short Asian kid in that game I don't get a lot of chances into doing that.
If you are trying to be a pure shooter, I'll recommend learning the timing of when you release the shoot button to be a good shooter, need to understand the few plays the game runs, where you need to be to receive the ball and spread the floor, and also learn how to use screens effectively. Those will help you a lot more then any early points you point into shooting anyways.
For example, i've got to a point where my shoot in traffic is 80+. Now, every time i drive to the basket and someone come from the side to guard, i get an And One. With a good free throw rating, you can get a large number of points for Convert And One.
I'm Asian too, only i'm a bit taller than 5'8", i weigh in at about 6'2" so my player is what i want to be, a 6'4" shooting guard. the problem is exactly what you said, its the fact that everything needs to be Kobe Style.
I love the MyPlayer mode on this game but they haven't exactly thought it through.
I had a game against the Bobcats, rating A.
A game against the Nets, Rating A.
then i had one against the lakers.... Rating C- just barely.
I kept losing on Allow Man to Score and stuff but its impossibly hard to guard Kobe with a guy who's overall rating is 47... so i got no points for that game (none i could use. i think i finished with 142 points.) and the same keeps happening everytime i play a team with an All Star SG. As a result, i can only upgrade my player from about 5 games out of 10 which means it takes absolutely ages to get anywhere.
But i guess thats just part of the game..
A lot of it depends on what you want to do. There's a lot of ways you can play an SG: Complete Iso and beating your man with crazy crossover and spin moves (Kobe), The playing off ball shooter (Ray Allen, Reggie Miller), the Athletic Freak (AI, Iggy), the SG size post up game (J-Rich), to defensive lockdown specialist with a spot up Jumper (Bowen, Anthony Parker) So there's really not one correct way to place your stats, or a dump stat where it'll favor you in every situation.
Shoot in traffic helps you finish when you get fouled? That's something I never knew before.
As for guarding Super Star SG... I usually find that prevents him from getting the ball helps a lot. You got to do your work early, play the passing lane (but don't over play it), don't take plays off on defense, and prevents him from getting the ball in the first place. You still would lose to well rounded team like the Lakers because other players on the opposing team will make up for the scoring but at least your grade doesn't suffer.
As for Grades, you can do a lot of the little things to offset the damage your opposing SG is doing to you. Stuff like boxing out, challenging shots, making the right pass, taking a good shot, drawing fouls, deflecting pass, and filling the lanes can increase your grades even when you aren't doing too good in the stats department. It's quite possible to have a good game even thou your man got off way more points then you, it's even possible to win those games when he's scoring 30 points, but his shooting is like 13/37.
You are in the Suns right? Steve Nash is an amazing point guard and you'll have no trouble scoring. You won't get any help from him on defense thou. They do a lot of Run and gun, so try to run ahead of the play and you'll get a lot of easy scoring opportunities.