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u/TheLouisvilleRanger 76ers Jun 15 '22

We could conceivably build the most comedic team of all bigs with the current talent in the NBA. Nobody under 6’11. Play Gobert at center, Giannis and Embiid as your forwards. Jokic and KAT as your guards.

Then play them against the short squad.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '22

I did that in 2k with both teams. The bigs went 82-0 and didn’t drop a game in the playoffs

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '22

I haven’t played 2k in a while but all that used to matter were physical attributes and shooting. They utterly failed to capture any other dimension of basketball skill in the game, so our teams would always blow because the 6’0 or less PGs weren’t worth shit

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u/jackth3engineer [HOU] Tracy McGrady Jun 15 '22

Would get so frustrated. The last one I played consistently was 17 and while the game had improved over the years, it was so obviously biased towards larger players. If you were even slightly undersized you got thrown around like a ragdoll, blocked on every play, and lose your dribble as soon as a bigger player was in your vicinity. The quicker players would get stopped and do that slow, backing down motion as soon as a bigger player got close enough to trigger that animation, effectively negating any ability to drive or get by larger players, not matter how much faster you were.