kids who were jacking up 3’s in 2K and going for it on 4th and 2 in Madden are taking massive W’s now
TatersTot
Jaren Jackson Jr: “I feel like I get my [shot block] timing from 2K and I’m being serious,” Jackson said. “When I was first in the league, I was swiping a lot… they get by you in 2K, you figure out the timing when you gonna block shots.”
Gamers deadass knew the value of spacing by like NBA2K8 years before the actual league (honestly more a talent/personnel issue in the 00s)
Ferran_Torres7890
hali to his teammates be like he’s a hall of fame badge three point shooter, how you not gonna close him out?
One of the best sports tools ever is designing your own plays/animated playbooks. You can really go to a coach’s playbook and watch their plays executed over n over, it’s genius.
juicewar01
My man. One of us
kokukojuto33
Spam pick and roll
siphillis
That’s pretty cool to hear. I credit my own interest in basketball stemming from NBA 2K11 distilling the game into something I can understand and appreciate.
agk927
2k has taught me a lot about basketball and also team building.
IntrnetHteMchne
> “We tried desperately to move up to get him,” says Carlisle, whose team held the 18th pick. “Our analytics people thought that he was the best player in the draft, and we just couldn’t manage to do it.”
a *lot* of teams to make fun of for not taking hali (imagine if the bulls pistons wizards took him. imagine if the suns didnt utterly waste a #10 pick), but i think the warriors are the most hilarious for trotting out the ridiculous excuse that they knew he was good but couldnt take him so high
mesnupps
Jesus Christ don’t say that out loud
myinitialsarekms69
Imagine if the game was actually good too
DharmaBaller
Thats one reason I play fantasy….without 2k it’s the closest vibe to crafting a team
Proper_Hurry_362
Someone strap a controller to Scoots hands
BodegaDaddy
i play 2k super efficient like SGA
MoooonRiverrrr
I’m something of a point guard myself
neurotido
There’s some pretty cool concepts you can learn from gaming like faster decision-making and being able to get reps in and fail that surely cross over to sports, however pure athleticism not so much
647_416
I’m sure many of us learned the key points of driving from video games
dy_over_dsex
Me too, but I mostly learned from NBA Street Vol. 2 and nobody at my pickup runs is a true hooper who knows that the Slip’n’Slide ain’t a travel and a kick pass off the heezay is a legitimate basketball move that opens up space. I think they’re all just salty that they’re getting cooked by the maestro.
WayTooLazyOmg
I was 14 years old. Hated basketball with a passion. Knew hardly anything about it. Football & baseball was my shit. Anyway, picked up nba 2k9 (I think?) on a whim. Got home, started a my player as a point guard. Set the camera to follow my player from a 3rd person perspective & the rest is history. It taught me basically everything I know about basketball. Court vision, who to look for, what would be open… PLUS you add in the fact that the game would GRADE YOU for plays you did good/bad on. Once I stepped on to the court that freshman year, it was a wrap. Went on to play D2 basketball.
WiktorVembanyama
I dont play sports games since like ncaa 2005 so Im sure they can do more but at the very least every coach should run late game scenarios. There should ZERO confusion about when to foul, when to call a timeout, doing off/def subs etc. Its more of an issue in football but nba players and coaches seem to blow late game decision making too.
This aspect of basketball isnt physical so it can be simulated reliably and its a tool interested parties should use.
aoifhasoifha
People really underestimate the value of video games in terms of how many *reps* they allow for, even if they’re obviously not as high quality as a 5v5 practice. If you’re really working on it, you could go through thousands of reps of the PnR in 2k- again, obviously not the same as the real thing, but definitely enough to get a better understanding of the possible configurations and spacing of variations of the play against different types of defense.
Compare the difficulty of sitting down to play 2k at any given time, compared to finding 10 competent players, a basketball court, and someone to coordinate them all. It’s the difference between playing Baldur’s Gate 3 and finding a good D&D group.
toxicdick
Player gets coached 8 hours a week, goes home, plays 2k 15 hours a week. Learns more from video game. shocking development.
Wildpinkhairuke
HES JUST LIKE ME!
Altruistic-Drawing25
YOU HEAR THAT YOU BUM ASS BITCHES I KNOW BASKETBALL
Middle-Welder3931
They keep putting Hali content on this reddit and I’m just going to keeping saying the same thing because it doesn’t get talked about enough: James Wiseman #2 pick.
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he’s on fire
Hali thinks I’m a real hooper fr 😤😤
I’m basically Tyrese Haliburton
I’ll take my 200mili now, please
Just like me fr…
Chris Pauls favorite game is Madden…
Bro knows his knowledge from knowing video games.
You know, I’m somewhat of a NBA player myself.
kids who were jacking up 3’s in 2K and going for it on 4th and 2 in Madden are taking massive W’s now
Jaren Jackson Jr: “I feel like I get my [shot block] timing from 2K and I’m being serious,” Jackson said. “When I was first in the league, I was swiping a lot… they get by you in 2K, you figure out the timing when you gonna block shots.”
Gamers deadass knew the value of spacing by like NBA2K8 years before the actual league (honestly more a talent/personnel issue in the 00s)
hali to his teammates be like he’s a hall of fame badge three point shooter, how you not gonna close him out?
What is this site? Here’s the actual ringer article: https://www.theringer.com/nba/2023/11/13/23958254/tyrese-haliburton-indiana-pacers
One of the best sports tools ever is designing your own plays/animated playbooks. You can really go to a coach’s playbook and watch their plays executed over n over, it’s genius.
My man. One of us
Spam pick and roll
That’s pretty cool to hear. I credit my own interest in basketball stemming from NBA 2K11 distilling the game into something I can understand and appreciate.
2k has taught me a lot about basketball and also team building.
> “We tried desperately to move up to get him,” says Carlisle, whose team held the 18th pick. “Our analytics people thought that he was the best player in the draft, and we just couldn’t manage to do it.”
a *lot* of teams to make fun of for not taking hali (imagine if the bulls pistons wizards took him. imagine if the suns didnt utterly waste a #10 pick), but i think the warriors are the most hilarious for trotting out the ridiculous excuse that they knew he was good but couldnt take him so high
Jesus Christ don’t say that out loud
Imagine if the game was actually good too
Thats one reason I play fantasy….without 2k it’s the closest vibe to crafting a team
Someone strap a controller to Scoots hands
i play 2k super efficient like SGA
I’m something of a point guard myself
There’s some pretty cool concepts you can learn from gaming like faster decision-making and being able to get reps in and fail that surely cross over to sports, however pure athleticism not so much
I’m sure many of us learned the key points of driving from video games
Me too, but I mostly learned from NBA Street Vol. 2 and nobody at my pickup runs is a true hooper who knows that the Slip’n’Slide ain’t a travel and a kick pass off the heezay is a legitimate basketball move that opens up space. I think they’re all just salty that they’re getting cooked by the maestro.
I was 14 years old. Hated basketball with a passion. Knew hardly anything about it. Football & baseball was my shit. Anyway, picked up nba 2k9 (I think?) on a whim. Got home, started a my player as a point guard. Set the camera to follow my player from a 3rd person perspective & the rest is history. It taught me basically everything I know about basketball. Court vision, who to look for, what would be open… PLUS you add in the fact that the game would GRADE YOU for plays you did good/bad on. Once I stepped on to the court that freshman year, it was a wrap. Went on to play D2 basketball.
I dont play sports games since like ncaa 2005 so Im sure they can do more but at the very least every coach should run late game scenarios. There should ZERO confusion about when to foul, when to call a timeout, doing off/def subs etc. Its more of an issue in football but nba players and coaches seem to blow late game decision making too.
This aspect of basketball isnt physical so it can be simulated reliably and its a tool interested parties should use.
People really underestimate the value of video games in terms of how many *reps* they allow for, even if they’re obviously not as high quality as a 5v5 practice. If you’re really working on it, you could go through thousands of reps of the PnR in 2k- again, obviously not the same as the real thing, but definitely enough to get a better understanding of the possible configurations and spacing of variations of the play against different types of defense.
Compare the difficulty of sitting down to play 2k at any given time, compared to finding 10 competent players, a basketball court, and someone to coordinate them all. It’s the difference between playing Baldur’s Gate 3 and finding a good D&D group.
Player gets coached 8 hours a week, goes home, plays 2k 15 hours a week. Learns more from video game. shocking development.
HES JUST LIKE ME!
YOU HEAR THAT YOU BUM ASS BITCHES I KNOW BASKETBALL
They keep putting Hali content on this reddit and I’m just going to keeping saying the same thing because it doesn’t get talked about enough: James Wiseman #2 pick.