nobody has said yet so I will
the game is actually perfect... when you see the fastbreaks being broken and the from behind blocks by bigs
its actually the badges... they have it so close to great... they are using the badges as a bridge between stats and gameplay
but the chasedown and intimidator (whatever its now called menace or some shyt) is just not balanced right... so the bigs snap to you with the badge
you can see how intricate they got when you have badges for how far you gather from layups and dunks etc
the defense was overwhelming at first but without buying VC I'm sitting at 80 now
you can easily shake most defenders with a quick 1,2 and drive. It all depends on badges too, quick first step etc, tight handles.
I'm not even that great at 2k... I'm like average to above average as a player. Usually I play good D and I'm a 2 man... I'll spot up in the corner and do the garbage work. I cant dribble all crazy and shyt
if you want to see how good the game is choose brooklyn and just iso with harden... you'll see how easy it is for him to rock people to sleep. If you rock and boost out of the rock...it freezes the defender for a second and you can put him on your hip and finish
it makes sense for the game to be like this, you cant blow by random NBA players every single time like other games. You gotta rock them to sleep and then commit to a drive... its the badges now that give you that extra boost you need to do shyt
you cant even dribble fast unless you got quick chain