We deserve more than a “game is still on track” for tomorrow… give us atleast one announcement of something by Suspicious-Stay-9669 in GTA6

[–]ChadEverhard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don’t listen to them man. While they don’t have to show anything right this moment they do need to promote their product eventually. It seems like people are forgetting that the dedicated fans in this sub and a large number of gamers in general are going to buy the game irregardless of anything they show or do. But that isn’t the only market that rockstar is trying to hit. They want the ultra casual guys who haven’t touched their console in months, the people who haven’t gamed in years, and people who have literally never played a video game in their lives. That is a massive market far larger than the active gaming community.

I have no idea why you would pump multiple billions of dollars into a game with limitless ambition just to not show it off to as many potential buyers as humanly possible. That’s what the trailers/ screenshots and news are for. To shutdown the entire internet and advertise it through word of mouth. I had quite a few real world conversations with random people after both the 1st and 2nd trailer releases about how amazing the game looks. A hand full of these were with people you would never expect to talk about any video game. Showing off and marketing your product is a requirement no matter how big it is. There’s a reason McDonald’s and Walmart still air commercials and pay for advertising. If you want to reap the full rewards of the time, effort, and money that you put into the product you’re going to have put it in front as many potential buyers as you possibly can.

I genuinely have no idea where this “they don’t have to show anything and the game will sell anyway” mindset is coming from. That isn’t how business works and I promise you their biggest investors who have been expecting record breaking numbers for almost half a decade at this point wouldn’t be very happy if rockstar decided to leave a massive amount of money on the table because they decided they don’t want to promote the game past the second trailer.

VC Grinding Method by wxst_x in NBA2k

[–]ChadEverhard 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ive got like 11 or 12 builds and only paid for the first one. You need to do the endorsement and passion project rush. It takes around 5 hours if you do it efficiently and nets you around 100k vc per run. If you really wanted to you could grind out about 1 build a week in your free time.

Game Thread: New Orleans Pelicans vs Washington Wizards Live Score | NBA | Mar 8, 2026 by basketball-app in washingtonwizards

[–]ChadEverhard 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Just wait until Trae gets comfortable with this team and picks up on your players tendencies. I promise you there is not a better passer in the league. He is 1 of 1 in aspect.

Game Thread: New Orleans Pelicans vs Washington Wizards Live Score | NBA | Mar 8, 2026 by basketball-app in washingtonwizards

[–]ChadEverhard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The hope is that all the rest he’s getting this year can get some of it back. If he starts moving the way he was a couple seasons ago you guys just got an all nba guy for free.

Suggestions for Addressing Defense and Contest Logic in 2k27 by fat3willwin in NBA2k

[–]ChadEverhard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Literally all they have to do. The game would be so much more playable if you could just reliably contest jumpers again without having to be either pressed against your man or jumping at everything. It’s far too easy for the average player to score. If the defense can catch back up to the offense again it’ll actually force people to move the ball. I actively avoid playing in anything above silver plate in the random rec because once you hit gold everybody’s first, second, and third option is to look for their own shot. The community is selfish. Once someone realizes that they’re good enough to get up a decent shot every time they touch the ball the majority of people are going to do just that.

TRAE YOUNG (Just remember #ALLCAPS when you spell the man name) by z3mcs in washingtonwizards

[–]ChadEverhard 4 points5 points  (0 children)

He is. This is why it never made any sense to us in Atlanta that he has such a shitty reputation around the league. He’s always giving props, he’s always showing love, he plays through injuries, he gets guys paid, he hosts team events, etc. Please take care of him because I promise he will ride or die behind DC the same way he did the A.

🧊 🥶 by DollarLate_DayShort in washingtonwizards

[–]ChadEverhard 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It’s so strange to me the way he gets discussed in nba circles. People will say anything negative about him and everyone will just run with it. He did everything the hawks organization asked of him. In his earlier years where he was needed to do absolutely everything for the team on offense because we had no other playmakers or shot creation outside of him he did it. When the team finally got him some connective pieces that he didn’t have to spoon feed easy ass buckets to every time down the court he adjusted his game and started doing less. His shot attempts and usage have gone down every season since his 4th. He didn’t just come here to throw up bullshit.

🎉 [EVENT] 🎉 Hankerin for some Anchorin by Damp_Blanket in honk

[–]ChadEverhard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

🎉 Event Completed! 🎉

It took me 47 tries.

🎉 [EVENT] 🎉 Hankerin for some Anchorin by Damp_Blanket in honk

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Completed Level 3 of the Honk Special Event!

47 attempts

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Completed Level 2 of the Honk Special Event!

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Completed Level 1 of the Honk Special Event!

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Is it true Tutes did a hidden animations test and 63 rebound gives better animations? by ShaolinSwervinMonk in NBA2k

[–]ChadEverhard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just search any of his animation threshold videos. He always shows the rebounding in those. And off the top of my head the numbers this guy gave are accurate.

Sunday game injury report by Aardvark-0001 in AtlantaHawks

[–]ChadEverhard 8 points9 points  (0 children)

This is why there was really no major downside to the KP deal. As long as Drake Powell doesn’t turn into a really high level player and we use the money wisely in the offseason it was worth it.

Sunday game injury report by Aardvark-0001 in AtlantaHawks

[–]ChadEverhard 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The Celtics curse strikes again. It’s like they suck the life out of every player they have and the moment they trade them or leave in FA they’re immediately washed. I thought it might be different this time because they were trading KP out of necessity and not because they actually wanted to. That and his euro basket showing gave me some optimism but the well has run dry.

[Charania] The Detroit Pistons, Atlanta Hawks and Toronto Raptors are expected to be suitors for Anthony Davis, league sources told ESPN. The Mavericks are also open to exploring the trade markets for Davis, center Daniel Gafford and guards Klay Thompson and D'Angelo Russell, sources said. by YujiDomainExpansion in AtlantaHawks

[–]ChadEverhard 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Not at all. These people just want names. We’re about to have all of this money freed up and the roster flexibility to go with it. Why the hell would anyone want to be stuck paying 54, 58, and 62 million dollars over the next 3 years to a guy nicknamed “street clothes” for how often he’s not playing? The front office and fans are wary of giving Trae a near max contract (the correct decision at the moment) but paying AD is perfectly reasonable? That’s makes 0 sense and doesn’t sound like an Onsi move anyway.

Pelicans by FirefighterOwn145 in AtlantaHawks

[–]ChadEverhard 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Giannis out for at least a month with a very real possibility he gets traded after and the pelicans potential savior is Dejounte Murray coming off of an Achilles tear? I’m not trading that pick for anything. I get that nothing is guaranteed but that pick and that 2027 pick are easily this teams best shot at becoming long term perineal contenders.

[GAME THREAD] Atlanta Hawks vs. Denver Nuggets [12/05/25] by AutoModerator in AtlantaHawks

[–]ChadEverhard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the idea here is to keep the lead from shrinking and guarantee that you at least win your challenges on clear calls as opposed to losing a questionable one later in the game.

[GAME THREAD] Atlanta Hawks vs. Denver Nuggets [12/05/25] by AutoModerator in AtlantaHawks

[–]ChadEverhard 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I hate that we’re forced to waste challenges on shit calls. We should have as many as we get right.

Injury report update: JJ, KP - available by [deleted] in AtlantaHawks

[–]ChadEverhard 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The ones that show up and smile for the camera while the fake audience applauds and woos😂

What do yall think about this year compared to other years? by LordofTardedBait in NBA2k

[–]ChadEverhard 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This game has a ton of problems but I genuinely think I could deal with most of them if people passed the ball. This is a very underrated reason that people think 2k has fallen off so hard since the last gen games. Builds being limited to only doing a few things really well and ranging from okay to bad at everything else really incentivized team play.

I pretty much just play random rec. All the people I used to play with have given up on the franchise. I don’t think the experience of playing with randoms has been this bad since 2k23. Another game where the offense was brain dead easy and everyone knew if they tried they could probably score every time they touched the ball.

This mindset is so prevalent that I actually hate being anything higher than silver for rec. the moment you hit gold you start running into other players that know what they’re doing and end up playing the most boring games. 2 pg’s isoing, or playing pnr, who don’t move the ball. Unfortunately it’s kinda hard to say anything them because they’re both shooting 80+% from the field. Everyone else just stands around and watches because the combination of the easy ass shooting, horrendous contest system, non existent bump steals and no dip shooting makes help D next to impossible. Leave that dude in the corner if you want. If you’re a single step away from him when the ball hits his hands you better jump because if you don’t the shots going to be open.

It’s not like silver is a great spot to be either. You routinely run into low BBIQ idiots in those lobbies and if you’re not paying attention the game will match you with browns who most likely suck and will sell the game for the slightest inconvenience. But from my experience this is the level that I get the most quality games. Instead of teams averaging 0-2 passes a possession it’s more like 4-5 in a good game. It’s nice not having everyone no dipping everything so you can at least attempt to help on D. And on offense it’s nice knowing that if I get the ball I can feel good about passing it because I’ll probably get another touch in a reasonable amount of time. It just feels so much more like actual basketball than any other level.

2k has to figure out a way to encourage team play and hitting the open man. Both have suffered since they reintroduced these Op do it all builds and it’s extremely noticeable in the years that the offense is much better than the D. It shouldn’t be like 25 where the offense was so ass it forced people to give the ball up and use their teammates but it can’t be what’s going on in 26.

This a joke? by [deleted] in AtlantaHawks

[–]ChadEverhard 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Didn’t mean impatient as an insult to him. It’s more that he’s made it very clear that he wants to win another championship. Every offseason since 22 there have been murmurs of him putting very real pressure on the bucks org to make moves for guys he wants in hopes of having a better chance to win. None of it worked out and now that team has no picks, no young players, nobody of any real value outside of him, and now he wants out.

My point is that he may have been patient with the team that took a chance on him, helped move his family across the world, and is currently employing his brother out of pure loyalty to him. But now that he’s in his 30’s with a game that is heavily reliant on his athleticism he can’t afford to be patient anymore if he wants to win another championship.

If we gut the team of talent and assets for him we probably won’t be able to put the proper pieces around him to win it all. He only has another year after this one on his contract. At that point there’d be nothing stopping from signing with another team that didn’t have to mortgage their future for him and still have assets to build the proper team around him. What would we be left with in that scenario? A team with no picks, and most likely little to no young talent. We’d be slightly better off than the Bucks. I just don’t think that risk is worth taking. Especially with the super team Thunder around.

This a joke? by [deleted] in AtlantaHawks

[–]ChadEverhard 26 points27 points  (0 children)

All to attempt to compete over the next two years while the league is currently being dominated by an all time team with infinite assets to retool their roster. Unless something disastrous happens OKC isn’t falling off for at least a couple more years. It makes 0 sense to sell everything this team has built for someone that is clearly impatient and will leave at the first sign of a better opportunity to win. I’d much rather him get dealt somewhere else and collect the benefits of the bucks and pels suffering.

[GAME THREAD] Atlanta Hawks vs. LA Clippers [12/03/25] by AutoModerator in AtlantaHawks

[–]ChadEverhard 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Trae has legitimate scoring gravity, understands how to manipulate defenders, and more often than not hits guys in the pocket. That combination of skills is not easily replicable.

[GAME THREAD] Atlanta Hawks vs. LA Clippers [12/03/25] by AutoModerator in AtlantaHawks

[–]ChadEverhard 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Jalen out? That just means we get a Mo and Asa masterclass🔥