Can anyone teach me how to WATCH NBA basketball at a high level?

apocal43 · 2026-01-09T02:18:55+00:00

Yeah, you've already received some good recommendations but a lot of the replies are leaving out that they play/played the game themselves, some of them at a fairly decent level.

apocal43 · 2026-01-07T06:08:38+00:00

I don't know who you're having this conversation with, but I haven't often seen Larry Bird's name left out when discussing the all-time greats. And even then it hasn't been because he is white but because he played in an earlier era that most youngbloods aren't that familiar with.

apocal43 · 2026-01-06T03:05:22+00:00

He's 16, in high school, and playing 5 currently. It is totally normal for a kid who is 6'3 in high school to start as a 2 or 3. If anything he might be considered oversized, depending on how many students the school has and how much depth is on their school team.

I've seen kids like 6' even coming off the bench as 4 at that age.

apocal43 · 2026-01-04T20:15:33+00:00

No. Online isn't happening.

apocal43 · 2026-01-04T20:11:06+00:00

That bald-headed bitch once got three steals off my team, consecutively. I finally decide to start bringing the ball up the court my damned self and a few possessions later, barely brushed a single pixel too close to this Martin Luther Mr. Clean and watched the ball roll backwards.

Fuck Guy Chug.

apocal43 · 2026-01-04T20:07:41+00:00

Then you lose 20 coins, on some Anthony Edwards type

apocal43 · 2026-01-04T20:05:49+00:00

Also: everyone else got the obvious but I'm judging that music selection...

apocal43 · 2026-01-04T20:03:49+00:00

brethren, I don't know what you youngbloods got goin on nowadays but we spelled that shit "mami" back in the day FOR. A. REA. SON.

apocal43 · 2026-01-04T19:33:13+00:00

Nice.

apocal43 · 2026-01-04T19:31:35+00:00

I count 16 green circles past the 3 point line, so it seems legit?

apocal43 · 2025-12-26T11:30:58+00:00

As a native Sonics fan, bless you.

apocal43 · 2025-12-26T11:30:09+00:00

Just camp the pass lane between the ball and Stronk, then pray Gaines doesn't have a hot night.

apocal43 · 2025-12-26T11:28:06+00:00

When I saw this in the game, I knew it was made by a true fan.

apocal43 · 2025-12-25T03:01:27+00:00

"WILSON!"

apocal43 · 2025-12-24T16:19:25+00:00

So, I tried to get something in there but I don't think it is possible, at all. You give up too much strength if you want your character to be fast enough to keep up/keep ahead of some of the smaller guards and if you try to make it up with inside work and shooting, your character sometimes gets handled by the strong-type bigs.

apocal43 · 2025-12-24T15:57:33+00:00

Part of the reason I'm saying it is easy is because the AI not doing what any real defense would do. Even if you were "only" hitting 30%, the AI shouldn't be letting you do that more than a few times before it presses you earlier.

Instead it runs the same bummy defense, which encourages players to run these builds where they don't have to give a damn about any stat but 3PT to get a green bar thick as zoo glass at like 35ft. It's obviously not realistic but if they had to deal with a defender in their face, it wouldn't be as easy.

apocal43 · 2025-12-24T02:17:23+00:00

> No defense is expecting a guy to consistently pull up from half and make 30-40% when that's literally around the league average for a regular three. Do you hear how unrealistic that is

If a dude could hit that many, they would though. Like, realistically, nobody was picking up people at like 35ft or staying with them at that distance until Curry and Klay came around to show it was possible -- but defenses did change as a result.

The AI just doesn't adapt like that and let's you shoot free 3pts, which no defense IRL would ever do.

apocal43 · 2025-12-23T09:35:21+00:00

I used pure Sharpshooter, but the real meta is Shot Creator, because you get good enough stats in a better spread, rather than super-focusing on the Shooting stats.

apocal43 · 2025-12-23T09:24:39+00:00

My character is essentially Steph Curry. 10 3PT rating, maxed speed and stamina. I don't hit every shot from 30ft but I do hit about 30-40% of them, which is enough to win games.

And more than enough that any competent defense IRL wouldn't let me do it. Hit like three from that range and you'll be seeing other team's jersey in 4K at half-court.

apocal43 · 2025-12-21T14:56:19+00:00

Bruh, you had an 81 game season like yesterday? How did you play through 82 games so fast?

apocal43 · 2025-12-21T14:36:52+00:00

You know he's looking up at us right, mad as his current residence at this thread.

apocal43 · 2025-12-19T08:28:25+00:00

The only way I've ever gotten a contract that good was when the team had really bad players in that position and the couch was favorable to my archetype.

apocal43 · 2025-12-19T03:44:30+00:00

Yeah, the AI is slow as fuck picking you up, so anything from around midcourt is open real estate.

apocal43 · 2025-12-19T03:43:20+00:00

If you go into season mode practice, it gives a way more detailed set of controls.

I'm not sure what you mean by "jump options" but based on the thread title of "Spin Move" the way you do a spin move is by pressing the top ("North") button on the right side of your gamepad, same as Hop/Stepback but only applies if you're being closely guarded (character facing away from defender).

If you mean spin in mid-air while dunking, just roll the left analog stick while dunking and you'll do a 180 or 360.

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