NBA Lockout Content: Open Threads, Fake Recaps And More
by Mike Prada on Nov 2, 2011 12:16 PM EDT
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PrintTonight is supposed to be the night when the Washington Wizards would kick off their 2011 season with a home game against Deron Williams, Brook Lopez and the New Jersey Nets. It was a good opener for a young team against a club that also was pretty bad last year.
Of course, that came, along with many others, won't be happening because of this stupid thing called the NBA lockout. In light of this, I imagine you all might be wondering what's happening with the blog this year. Obviously, we're still going to be active, with lockout updates and other analysis pieces as we go along, but the biggest features of this site have always been the game threads and recaps.
Will those be going away? I'm here to tell you they won't. While there are no actual play, we'll still have these features in some capacity. Here's what's going to happen.
- Each night there is a game, we'll be posting a "fake" game thread. Below the jump, we'll remember a classic game between the two teams, but otherwise, pretty much anything goes in the thread. Talk about whatever and whenever.
- The next morning, we'll have a regular feature where we'll note five key "fake" storylines that could have developed in the game last night. The plan is for a combination of me, Jake, Sean, Rook and BNIE to handle these, but if anyone is interested in helping out, drop me a line (mikeprada AT sbnation DOT com).
Bottom line: the loss of games isn't going to stop up from being as business as usual as possible. Take that, owners and players!
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Bullets Forever wins again. Yet another brilliant idea
"I wear tinted visor not to trick other players, but so hot girls in stands don't see me looking at them" - Alex Ovechkin
Oh, Mike ... this makes me sad
It seems like getting showered and dressed up on a Saturday night as if you have a date, only to spend the night on the couch channel-surfing. (Not that I’ve ever done that.)
by disgrunted on Nov 2, 2011 12:50 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
A Rose for Aunt Emily
In the digital age! Faulkner lives!
In all seriousness, it’s possibly a season’s worth of Bullets history most of us wouldn’t see any other way. Nothing like knowing where we come from!
by Bullet Nation in Exile on Nov 2, 2011 5:13 PM EDT up reply actions
My wife came across our opening night ticket stubs against Philly last year
Really weird. It even had today’s date on it
opening night last year
That game was so much fun! Wall’s dance (and near triple double), Martin’s last second shot to force overtime. Awesome atmosphere in the phone booth.
sigh….
I shouted myself hoarse
Great time.
From the District of Columbia, home of the hyperbolic paraboloid transitional floating zone defense.
Bummed.
Appreciate the effort but I’m really bummed about no games.
Really.
I think I need some sort of stimulant to get me out of this mood.
Any suggestions?
I plan to play all the games that would have been
in a NBA 2k12 association I’m going to start up.
They have the real rookies now as gamers have hacked the cyberfaces. I might make a trade first and pretend it was on draftday lol: Kanter and Okur for Vesely, Mack and Seraphin but Im not sure if the Jazz will bite as Vesely is only a 64OVR, Kanter is 71OVR (better than McGee and same as Blatche..)
"My logic fails all the time...especially when talking to females" Rook6980
by Dutch Hoopfan on Nov 2, 2011 2:10 PM EDT up reply actions
yeah was thinking of doing something similar...
Just prbly playing nba Today every matchup the wiz have…
downloaded rosters too and in mine Vesely has a 70 rating,but he has black arms because of the cyberface bug…
and no need to trade for Kanter as in the Game Blatche is a BEAST! because there is no effort rating lol
Yeah the black arms suck
That’s why, for the white rookies and for the lighter black players like Derek Williams, I downloaded the created players from a dude called Hulyan, he’s got really good looking ones. You can download them via ‘player NBA’ in 2kshare. I just copied the attributes ratings from the real players with black arms to those.
Blatche is a beast indeed. Nick is really nice to play with as well. Its also funny how Lewis is great to spread the floor with while penetrating with Wall . My singleton is pretty useless in that area since he has a very low consistency rating.
BTW, not sure what settings you play on, but dude you should try ‘pro-default’. The game really has a robotic feel if on All-star/superstar/Hall of fame Especially in combination with the ‘sim’ sliders. On those higher levels the cpu doens’t even play better basketball, it just cheeses more. The game plays very fluid and natural on pro-default. I only adjusted the O-rebounds and all foul tendencies for human and cpu to (all to 60) and it’s a blast. If its to easy, just up the offensive and defensive awareness. Also, check out this dude’s video’s.
"My logic fails all the time...especially when talking to females" Rook6980
by Dutch Hoopfan on Nov 2, 2011 4:25 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
player NBA = player DNA (lol)
"My logic fails all the time...especially when talking to females" Rook6980
by Dutch Hoopfan on Nov 2, 2011 4:27 PM EDT up reply actions
thx for the videos!
I’m playing on 5min quarters All-Star Settings with custom Sliders i downloaded on 2kshare and it plays great! i just still have some probs with the 3 point efficiency i have it at 47 atm if i turn it to 50 too many contested 3’s are dropping! and at 47 solid 3pt shooters are missing wide open 3s! but besides that it plays great!
Try turning 'clutch factor' off and real fg% instead of shotstick (game settings)
It should help toning down the rediculous succes rate of the last second -hand-in-face 3 pointers (on both sides)
I had a lot of problems with 3pt shooting too at first. Also, the passing was enormously frustrating for me especially on a 3 on 2 or 2 on 1 fastbreak and I was seeing to much plays breaking down for the cpu controlled team, resulting in just standing around or freaking bigman isoing… In general the gameplay felt strange and methodical compared to 2k11.
Then I read a thread on operationsports.com suggesting to play on pro default and it was an eye opener! Fluid offensive execution, teams playing true to their coach’s profile and so forth. Play a game or two on pro default, you’ll see. Also, I learned there that you should lay off the sprint trigger when bursting out of a size-up to get into the lane. That was the best tip of all since I couldnt finish through contact with Wall on a realistic rate
"My logic fails all the time...especially when talking to females" Rook6980
by Dutch Hoopfan on Nov 2, 2011 6:58 PM EDT up reply actions
well thx for the tips
but when i’m playing on Pro/ Default isn’t it too easy to win against the CPU?
cause i was playing myplayer on Pro/ Default and i was averaging 14 pts with something like 70% FG playing less then 10mins per game as a 6’2’’ SG!
I was drafted by the Knicks and went 5-0 5 games into the season… then i switched to All-Star/ Sim and went on a 5 game losing Streak… with my FG% dropping to 38% which is much more realistic for a rookie…
and if you turn to real FG% instead of shotstick isn’t it so that much less skill is required to make a FG?
Not with fg% on because then the players shooting attributes determin the succes
Instead of making a player better than he is by being very good with the shotstick timing. I don’t play my player though, it has too much glitches and bugs from what I read.
The CPU plays the same basketball on pro as on all star or hall of fame. The difference is that on the higher difficulty, you get bumbed down and the cpu gets bumbed up. For example on shooting but also with on ball defense where all of a sudden you see players magically glide into position or the cpu playing the passing lane perfectly without the guy even looking at the ball and so on. The cpu doesnt play better, it just cheeses more, creating the illusion of a more difficult and challenging game. This forces you to mess with the sliders like you do with the 3pt shooting, but all to often you’ll end up fixing one thing while ‘breaking’ something else.
With pro-default players truelly play to their capacities and tendencies like I said above and with ‘real fg%’ instead of the shotstick players will get realistic fg% related to their atribute ratings. If it gets to easy you can simply increase the offensive and deffensive awareness and hustle sliders.
"My logic fails all the time...especially when talking to females" Rook6980
by Dutch Hoopfan on Nov 2, 2011 7:41 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Fake Fantasy?
Who is setting up the fake NBA fantasy league?
Man, this lock-out really, really sucks.
Maybe we can enjoy ourselves with re-drafting the entire league via poll-voting?
"My logic fails all the time...especially when talking to females" Rook6980
by Dutch Hoopfan on Nov 2, 2011 4:29 PM EDT up reply actions
Crazy idea about lockout
I know something like this would never happen, but I was wondering if this is possible/ could ever happen?
Say the next CBA lasts for say 10 years. During the course of that 10 years, players are required to give a small percentage of their salary to the union. The union will keep this money in some fund and let it gain interest for 10 years. Then, when it comes time to negotiate the next CBA, if there is another work stoppage, they will gradually dole out this money to the players (probably proportionally to what they put in). If there is no work stoppage, everyone gets back what they put in plus interest.
Essentially, force savings on the players. I know this is sorta treating the players like children, but the players not saving money is going to get them the raw end of this deal this time around. If there was enough money and the payments were planned properly, I think this would eliminate a lot of the leverage the owners have.
I realize there are a lot of logistical issues with this, (what about players that are going to retire, how much everyone gets back, how much everyone puts in, etc, etc), but could something like this work?
Yes the Euro option is at least real...
I am watching the closing seconds of a Prokom Gdynia v Olympia Ljubljana Euroleage game…
Despite a nice effort from Alonzo Gee, Ljubljana (led by Danny Green) prevailed 70-62
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