Give me some NBA 2k15 tips, brehs

[Dog Based Gremlin]

Me and my friends meet up and locally play custom roster "quick games" on my boys PS4 yet i cant seem to get over the hump against my one friend. It gets ultra competitive and intense. Sometimes i win and sometimes they win but i want to be dominate and always win

They both got 2k on ps4 and xbox one and i only got the 360 so i cant practice and my shooting isnt consistent. I dominate in the paint

My one boy got a custom Bulls team made up of mainly...
PG: Kyrie Irving
SG: Kobe Bryant
SF: Kawhi Leonard
PF: Pau Gasol
C: Marc Gasol
And some misc secondary starters (who arent much of a threat)

My custom Pelicans team is...
PG: Brandon Jennings
SG: Victor Oladipo
SF: The Greek Freak (Giannis Antekempou)
PF: Anthony Davis
C: Demarcus Cousins

We had a classic "chess match" game yesterday and my boy mastered the 3pt shot and good ball movement. I try to trap in the corners and my boya always finds the open man for a quick three but i got to do this stuff cause he shyts on me one on one with kyrie. He beat me with a lucky Kyrie buzzer beater when Jrue Holiday looked lost.

My primary "point of emphasis" was

Offense: everything auto
Defense: auto, neutral defense agrgression, and protect the paint

Also, i played tight and deny on kyrie, kobe,kawhi. I played moderate off on Pau (he dont use him much)

Here was the team comparison from Bulls vs Pelicans

Im asking my Coli brehs for help because i be using real basketball strategy like using 3-2 motion and 4-1 spread offense and hitting my stretch 4 in the corner and freeing up my bigs in the paint and my friends are clueless and play it like a video game yet i still lose to the video game aspects i beat my one friend simply by sticking Durant at the PF spot and draggin slow ass tim duncan tl the perimeter for isos all day. Durant had 32pts

I need all the tips u guys can give me. Any little tricks out there u can give me like defense. IT feels like zone is broken and

 

[Illuminatos]

Busy right now but I made this post in another thread like this.

Here it is.

Spoiler

@APCJoey Honestly if you want to get better I suggest you play the HOF CPU offline.

Playing on cheesy ass HOF will discipline you better because the CPU will punish EVERY mistake you make.

Other tips though:

-Switch to Broadcast Cam. Yeah I know everyone plays on 2K cam but I prefer Broadcast Generic since I can see the entire court at all times. Makes seeing which player is open easier as well.

-Learn how to play in the post

-Learn how to use the pick and roll. That's where MyPlayer can help you get better since it's easiest play to run. It's important you wait for the screener to get his feet set so the screen can be effective. If you see a defender cheating off the pick and roll use a pick and slip to have you screener cut to the basket for an easy dunk.

-Mix it up and go try to go opposite of the pick and roll sometimes. A lot of players online like to cheat off the pick and roll. Have the screener come set the screen and use R2/RT and push the right stick to the direction of the screener so your player does the hesitation move. Once you do that the defender will get stuck in that going over the screen animation and the big man will be on the opposite side trying to hedge so you will have an open lane.

-Don't always turbo through the screen. Let go off RT sometimes.

-Practice your teams jumpshots. A player that has mastered someone's release is hard to stop.

-If you're not making 3s DON'T keep shooting.

-If you see someone playing offball defense, attack that defender.

-When you're playing on ball defense don't smother your opponent. Back off and give yourself space to anticipate his drive and cut him off. Don't go where he is, go where he's going to be and cut his lane off.

-Watch this:


-Turn defensive assist all the way to zero. Manually contest shots by pressing Y.

-Don't be afraid to throw a double team if your opponent is cheesing with one player. When you throw a double team try to rotate another defender to the open man the double teamer was previously guarding. Odds are your opponent will pass it to that guy.

-You want your opponent to shoot 3s all game. Focus on locking down the paint and don't get discouraged if you're getting killed from the in the 1st half, odds are those shots won't drop in the 2nd half.

-Use your timeouts. If you don't use them you automatically are left with 4 in the 4th quarter. Call one halfway through the 1st. Another one halfway through the 2nd. Two in the 3rd and leave the other 3 for the 4th quarter. Momentum is real as fukk in this game so if you're having trouble scoring or your opponent is on a run call one before the game gets out of hand.

-You don't need to know every play in the playbook. A lot of them are useless anyway. Have about 3 or 4 go to ones for when you need a quick score. Use freelance offenses as well. I'm unfortunately stuck on the last gen version but most of the basics are them same on both generations.

Fist plays are pick and roll plays
Horns plays are good for 3 pointers and can help kill 3-2 zone
Punch plays are post ups

-Watch these guys on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBpDHRjkOVFEEt0I9zJ5WYw
https://www.youtube.com/user/nk141/videos?spfreload=1


Keep at it and don't get discouraged when you lose as long as you know why you lost.

I sucked ass when I first started playing but now I'm a beast.

So make sure you keep at it breh. If I had a next gen console I'd play you but I don't so don't make me have written all of this for nothing.

I'll come back with some more tips later.

 

[Tunez]

PG: Brandon Jennings
SG: Victor Oladipo

 

[WhatsGoodTy]

Get better players

Move left right then shoot

 

[NatiboyB]

How did your friend get that good of a squad your squad isn't a good squad at all.

 

[JordanwiththeWiz]

Because his backcourt can hit threes, your backcourt can't

 

[Dog Based Gremlin]

PG: Brandon Jennings
SG: Victor Oladipo

Get better players

Move left right then shoot

How did your friend get that good of a squad your squad isn't a good squad at all.

Because his backcourt can hit threes, your backcourt can't

we did a fantasy draft with numerous teams. The stars are spread out. I got two all star bigs and he got only kobe and kyrie. i cooked pau gasol with davis

Look at my "points in the paint" and check out those "bench points"

I lost by one to a buzzer beater

 

[JordanwiththeWiz]

we did a fantasy draft with numerous teams. The stars are spread out. I got two all star bigs and he got only kobe and kyrie. i cooked pau gasol with davis

Look at my "points in the paint" and check out those "bench points"

I lost by one to a buzzer beater

He got Leonard too and the Gasol brothers
The only player I give you got better is Anthony Davis
I say Cousins and Marc Gasol about even
Your squad don't have no spacing because it's no real deep ball threat in your starting line up

 

[Dog Based Gremlin]

He got Leonard too and the Gasol brothers
The only player I give you got better is Anthony Davis
I say Cousins and Marc Gasol about even
Your squad don't have no spacing because it's no real deep ball threat in your starting line up

What im trying to say is my stick game in the paint (user wise) and isolating the bigs is better.

I do agree kawli locks nikkas down but he dont know how to use finesse post moves with either Pau or Marc.

Remember its the man behind the sticks, not the team

I thought the 2k pros knew this

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

PG: Brandon Jennings
SG: Victor Oladipo

i got oladipo on my season... money all day from 3 with the smooth shot.. will cross you up and dunk from anywhere too... and listed as a shutdown defender

sometimes you just gotta go off pure stats in this game... they'll have nobodies rated a 75, who play like michael jordan in the game

 

[ChemicalBk]

What im trying to say is my stick game in the paint (user wise) and isolating the bigs is better.

I do agree kawli locks nikkas down but he dont know how to use finesse post moves with either Pau or Marc.

Remember its the man behind the sticks, not the team

I thought the 2k pros knew this

YOU aint a 2k pro playin that fifth grade fantasy bull

 

[Dog Based Gremlin]

YOU aint a 2k pro playin that fifth grade fantasy bull

Yea trust me i dont fukks with it either much. I like using the real teams. Whats funny is we probably have been doing this since 5th grade

 

[Ohene]

how the hell yall making 66% of your shots? change the difficulty/ speed/sliders man
this is why i cant play humans with that arcade shyt. game gets too unrealistic. nikkas just throwing passes all over the place using 2K cam and shyt.

Broadcast cam or die you fakkits

 

[Dog Based Gremlin]

how the hell yall making 66% of your shots? change the difficulty/ speed/sliders man
this is why i cant play humans with that arcade shyt. game gets too unrealistic. nikkas just throwing passes all over the place using 2K cam and shyt.

Broadcast cam or die you fakkits

We play Superstar/simulation

They the type of nikkas who dont like to tamper or download sliders

I am though but im outnumbered

 

[Ohene]

We play Superstar/simulation

They the type of nikkas who dont like to tamper or download sliders

I am though but im outnumbered

cool. i havent tampered with sliders since like 2k7 or nba live era. But you gotta use hall of fame simulation at least man. Superstar --> hall of fame is a big jump.

I dont like to play people because I like emulating an actual game of basketball and it isnt conducive playing against people who dont run plays, who dont use post moves, who dont do subs etc etc. It's just a terrible experience playing humans in 2k sometimes. I cant stand that 2K/Baseline camera either. Broadcast is the only camera i use, i refuse anything else.