FrenchMovieTheme said:
ditto. i know when you beat my ass earlier in the season i didn't feel like it was cheesy. you just flat out destroyed by hitting shots and i just wasn't hitting shots. but there have been times where i've just been so frustrated with the manner i was losing i wanted to throw the controller through the screen.
my games against ecnal are always like this. i'm honestly not blaming him, i'm blaming the game for allowing it to happen. he would drive to the bucket a lot and there is nothing i can do. come on man i have dirk and nene down there trying to block and they're getting dunked on like they were preschoolers. at LEAST initiate an animation for a foul and send him to the line. but no, they just get morphed through.
then on every rebound it would be like "welp, time to throw it up court!" and i would have guys there but the AI is so fucking stupid they allow people to just drift for an open 3. i admit i have done this a few times and now that i think of it, it was dirty of me to do it as well.
i don't disagree with you at all.
last season was interesting because i felt like i was actually running a basketball team: i made trades to improve weaknesses in my team, i ran plays for certain players, i would sub for basketball reasons, etc. however, after playing a handful of people, i realized this was the incorrect approach for playing 2K9. it was also obvious that STAR players in this game were a huge key to winning because i had a great team of role players (and a couple stars), but the game basically punished me for using role players as i should have (e.g.; korver going 1-13 every other game even though his shot selection would be unchanged). this was widely evident in my games with smokey, which almost lead me to not returning this season. kneemac dunking on snaq/boozer in the paint AND getting foul shots was mind boggling for me at the time, but, after taking a closer look at each player's categorical stats, i see how this works within the game logic.
which brings me to this season: selecting the hawks--not a statistically overall better team than the jazz, but definitely a better team when factoring in "star power" and individual categorical ratings. j-smoove is hilarious in this game, absolutely hilarious. 99 vert, 99 dunk, 99 standing dunk, and on defense he has like a 90 on-ball-d, high steal, 99(?) block, etc. he's basically dwight howard but he can handle the ball and blow by any defender and go into some retarded windmill/between the legs/statue of liberty dunk over 2-3 guys.
i intended to play this season as i did last season and use j-smoove as a retaliatory player in a sense--e.g.; if you go to something unstoppable i can easily match it. and i did this for a while (look at smith's stats up until my loss with smokey--everything after that is smith 2.0) and it was fairly effective because people would immediately back down and give up.
however, after playing a few more games versus unnamed players, i realized that i needed to change my game again because abusive styles of play were considered acceptable by admins--not explicitly, but implicitly by allowing it to continue.
this is where hawks 2.0 started--first game was vs the celtics. i'm now in a position where i consistently go to one of the following:
1. unstoppable set play that literally works 80-90% of the time
2. unstoppable post animations with either smith in the paint or mayo/manu further out
3. unstoppable driving animations where players almost always get a dunk or foul shots or both
4. unstoppable animations where it looks like the defender is contesting a shot, but he really isn't within the game logic
and these aren't some kind of delusional conclusions i've come to. look at my player's stats since i copied other league player's abuses (this is over the last 8 games):
smith: 31.5 ppg on 62% shooting
mayo: 32.25 ppg on 57% shooting
manu: his ppg isn't high, but he's shooting ~50% as well.
this is kind of a long and drawn out post which, ultimately, leads me to my real point in responding to you fmt. admins have done a horrible job in stopping and containing certain player tendencies within the league. it's basically like someone(s) this season opened up pandora's box, and now all hell has broken loose.
just my 2 cents on the current status of our league. :/
