 Alright, I wanted to hop on and talk about an issue that I've been having as a sharpshooter. I tweeted it out and people were like, Agent, how dare you complain, sharpshooters are so overpowered. First of all, I want to tell y'all... Was I right again? Didn't I tell y'all at launch? Well, guys, you're gonna want to make a sharpshooter. Because as long as you're the best 3-point shooter in a video game that has something to do with basketball, stretching the floor is gonna be a huge positive. That's just what I knew. So anyway, you guys are right. Sharpshooters are one of the, if not the best build in the game so far. So people found it almost offensive that I was gonna come on a video and talk about a problem I was having. I was like, y'all can't be that selfish, man. Because last year, even though there were things like screens that benefited me the most of any build, I still talked about it. Because I'm not in the business of just trying to buff my character and nerf everybody else. Regardless of what 2K does, I'm gonna find a way to be effective with all of my builds. I have two builds. I have a playmaker primary, sharpshooter secondary, and I have a peer sharpshooter. I'm about to make a peer slasher. I'm gonna have a sharp crane primary, sharpshooter secondary. I didn't forget about that build. I'm gonna have a bunch of different builds, but I found a bunch of people literally getting angry that I was about to sit here and talk about a real issue that isn't even specific to sharpshooters. Regardless of who you are, if you're shooting a ball, this affects you. And so I was like, bro, do I need to make a video talking about how to guard sharpshooters? Because if it's that much of a problem, I'm a sharpshooter. And when I'm guarding other peer sharpshooters, it's the easiest defensive assignment I have because I make some adjustments. Because keep in mind, if you don't make adjustments and you're leaving him open, what do you expect? That's his core competency. So I'm not gonna complain about the fact that sharpshooters almost 100% of the time get blown by by slasher, sharpshooter, playmakers. I get it. Two kids try to find a balance. That's what they did. I'm not gonna tell you about the fact that unless you're a 6'5 or under, you're not gonna have pro animations. And even if you do, you're moving incredibly slow. It's fairly easy to defend. Even if you're spamming screens, all you have to do is switch. That's how they're trying to find balance, that's your understanding. But what I was talking about on Twitter was catching shoots. I was saying, why do I, when I'm dribbling at the weights before I pull up for a shot? Because otherwise I'm gonna lean and on those leaning shots, completely different release. A lot of the times, a lot slower and the percentages drop. And so I'm saying, yo, 2K, we have holofam catch and shoot, right? This should be our core, if anything we're good at, we should be good at this. Watching Clay Thompson do it right now on the screen. This is what it looks like. Boom, bop, boom, bop. Every time you don't have to dip, you don't have to do all that extra stuff. It's just getting your shot off as fast as possible. That's what sharpshooters do. That's what I was gonna be talking about. And just before I get into the whole hodogar sharpshooters thing, if you guys are dealing with the same issue, do what I do. I found the fix, at least temporarily. Do a behind-the-back move before you go out for your shot. Because if you, instead of waiting the whole time, if you're dribbling, you do a behind-the-back move, it'll let you go up immediately without leaning. Now, this is easier if you have elite animations because you'll have the fastest behind-the-back moves, but you can also do this if you have pro animations. And I was doing this while I didn't have either. So I'm just letting you all know that this is an option. If you're dealing with leaning shots, you're trying to dribble, pull up immediately, behind-the-back and immediately into your shot. It will save you that extra fraction of a second. That'll make a difference because as a sharpshooter, everyone on the court is trying to close you out, right? So you're trying to get your shot off before everybody realizes you're open. Because once they do, they will collapse on you regardless of whether it's off the screen or a fast break. But let me get into this whole hodogar sharpshooters thing. Now, it's a fairly simple process. The reason I enjoy guarding other pure sharpshooters is because it's a simple thing for the most part. And I'm gonna break it down like this. And I wish I recorded these games because I was playing a few comp games. And some people, you know, try and drop me off. They see my username as AgentZero. Let me try and drop them off. When I'm playing comp games, I'm not handling the ball. In fact, most of the game, I'm not touching the ball. In fact, there was games where two games straight where I scored a zero point, took zero or one shot the entire game. Because as a sharpshooter, I know regardless of whether I shoot the ball or not, I'm gonna be an effective player on the team. All I have to do is sit in the corner or sit on the hash on limitless range and literally just wait there. Because the second they start to play help off of me, I'm gonna bang a shot. So just by being able to spread the floor and allow my other two teammates when I'm running threes to do a pick and roll, I'm helping the team out. So that's step number one in no circumstance ever in any situation regardless of whether your teammate over there has 18 points on his head and it's about to be game point. You do not leave the sharpshooter open. Some of y'all are playing too much health defense and it's killing you. I'm telling you there is no justifiable reason to leave anybody with a primary sharpshooter wide open for three. If you're playing against trash opponents, if someone's primary, playmaker, secondary, sharpshooter, you can get away with leaving them open because they have to release the ball well to hit it. But when you're guarding a sharpshooter, there is zero reason why you should ever do that. You should always be a hand length away. Now most of you know this but still your habit is to help on defense when your teammate is having issues. When you recognize you're playing a pure sharpshooter, snap out of that habit because there is no circumstance unless you're running zone while they should not be somebody sticking on him no matter what. And when you're playing against comp opponents who know what they're doing, this is more than pure sharpshooters. This is any build. I was running with the pure slasher on proam the other day who was hitting so consistently from three. I'm like damn. So this game isn't really much different when it comes to the sliders from 2K17. If you know what you're doing and you know how to release the ball, you have a good release, you're gonna be able to hit shots. Now if you guys missed my jump shot video, I'm gonna link it with a card above because I dropped my proam and my park jump shot. If you're having trouble finding a jump shot, that will help you. Alright, so let's say you're no longer playing help defense. The next thing people are about to say is agent off of screens. And you're right. Especially if you're guarding a brick wall screen it's gonna be very difficult to fight over the screen. Whether you're going over, you're never gonna go under on a sharpshooter, right? The second you go under on a screen, sharpshooter is gonna shoot the ball from limitless range. You can kinda get away with it now that the game's kind of new but the second you start to do this a month, two months into launch when everybody's gonna have their badges especially from limitless range, you're literally asking to get torched. So you don't wanna hedge for the most part, that's dangerous. If you're on the park or you're on proam and you're playing man on man which most of the time you are. Unless you're playing comp opponents on proam in which you're running zone where this doesn't apply, you always wanna switch on screens. Now, I know you guys think it's the agent I'm playing with randoms, alright? Sometimes I'm playing with randoms and I can't switch on screens. I'm gonna teach y'all what I do on proam cause every time I play walk on proam aside from like maybe five or six times it's been by myself on my grind. This is what I do to get teammates to listen to me. Now, let me get in character. Yo, pass me the f***ing ball when I'm open! I'm the best sharp shooter in the game! Hit the open teammates! Stop trying to dribble so much! I can't exaggerate, that's literally what I do. And you'd be surprised to know and maybe it's because I have a high overall and it's not because they know who I am, my username because I was doing this before I even dropped a video where you guys saw my PSN. When you yell at your teammates even if you don't know what you're talking about if you pretend to know what you're talking about and you're playing with scrubs they're gonna be like, oh, that guy knows what he's talking about. Let's start hitting the open teammates. And sometimes it also means that other players are gonna start turning their mics on. So they stop playing so selfishly. I do this almost every game I walk on. Like you just have to get mad. I don't know what it is but it works for me. So I don't know if that's gonna work for y'all but you should try it if you're playing with a teammate of bums. Occasionally you can get a teammate that's still regardless of shooting up straight breaks on poor attempts. If your teammate is not gonna help switch over because you're playing with randoms then you just have to hedge hard over the screen. You have to see the screen coming so you can adjust and you have to break out of L2. You don't wanna be holding L2. You have to sprint through the screen because if you're not sprinting through the screen you're gonna get stuck especially if you're guarding brick wall and you're leaving a sharpshooter wide open. So the screens is a difficult procedure because sharpshooters only don't have good jump moves. A screen has an opportunity to get you open regardless and you wanna nerf that as much as possible because if you even leave a sharpshooter open for a split second and I'm talking about a split second there's a new shot feedback system in the game. Contests don't mean the same thing they meant last year. Last year if it looked like a contest chances are it was a contest. This year there's a chance you can jump towards a guy and you showed up late to the contest but because you have a large wingspan or you're a tall player it looks like it should have been contested but on the sharpshooter screen it'll say wide open. Now the best way to find out what this looks like for you is to hop on my career because a lot of the time the AI will show up late especially if you watched my badge tutorial video where I showed you the best way to get the sharpshooter badges I was showing you a way to abuse the AI to get limitless range quickly because it doesn't count as a shot contest. The system is different this year over time you guys will learn what counts and what doesn't count as a shot contest but too many times have people been telling me agent that was contested how did you make that but on the screen it said wide open or lightly contested and lightly contested for a sharpshooter basically means non-existent if you have a 99 contested shot 3 you have all your badges and you shot a good release on a very good jump shot and it's lightly contested is gonna hit so you have to no matter what when I'm speaking hands length you always have to be ready to smother the sharpshooter that's how close you have to be. This year there's no glitch animation where you can run this way set a screen to glitch back this way and boost back faster so even off of like when you're doing a check ball in the park it's difficult without screens for a sharpshooter to get open so let's do this if a sharpshooter is getting open without a screen on you it just means you need things to work on defensively because in no circumstance should that happen unless you're just like a casual player on the game and you're trying to learn the game and we understand even with those screens switch if you can't switch you need your teammate to hedge if you can get him to unless you're playing with randoms and they don't know how to hedge but you wanna fight over the screen you never wanna go under and it's just that simple for me I have a blast guarding sharpshooters because most of the time I'm just standing there because sharpshooters have a difficult time getting open this year all I have to do is make sure I keep an eye on him I'm not ball watching I'm watching my assignment more than I'm watching the possession because I trust my teammates can play defense over there and take care of their own situation occasionally they'll get beat but in no circumstance is it okay for me to leave my assignment that's gonna hit a wide open three almost 100% of the time and play defense on some other man who's gonna drop it too of course some other obvious defensive things if you're gonna play help for whatever reason then make sure your team rotates if you don't know how to rotate defensively and even comp players don't get this right so it's difficult to rotate in the game if you're playing help and someone calls switch whatever the case is you wanna make sure another player is running to guard that player because he's gonna be the most important player to defend because you don't wanna drop a three you'd rather give up a two so that's it man it's not complicated I didn't say anything groundbreaking in this video but I just said stuff that if you do you should no longer have this problem not you should you will no longer have this problem because for me the most difficult positions to defend are the ones that can get themselves open because people can just blow by me any time they want it's very difficult for me to play proper defense as a sharpshooter they just get by you and so when I'm playing when I see a pure sharpshooter he's not gonna blow by me I'm ecstatic in fact sometimes like a pure sharpshooter will be matched up against a big on the other team and I'm like yo can we switch because I much rather have that assignment than to have somebody who can dribble and get themselves open because for me that's a way more difficult assignment so it's just a matter of playing to your pros and cons right if you're having this much of a trouble with it and you just can't find a way agent I'm doing everything you said then you have to find a lockdown defender to play with because I know some of y'all refuse to acknowledge it but lockdown defenders are really good builds this year I have yet to see a pure lockdown on the park though I've occasionally seen them on pro-am but I'm telling you if it's this much of an issue for you the most offensive oriented archetype you can counter it with the most defensive oriented archetype any time of the day because y'all seem to forget that there's a lot of playmakers, shockwaters, slashers and even other sharpshooters talking about some oh agent I can't believe the shock contest didn't work and you know occasionally I'll complain about that too when it's a heavy shock contest on a contested layout but shockwaters took but shockwaters have difficult shots so I understand but y'all forgetting that lockdowns exist I haven't been seeing many lockdowns on the game in general I've seen some big man like two-way defenders some rebounding defenders but I've yet to see a lockdown guard so if you're a lockdown guard and you're hearing all of this about sharpshooters you're thinking agent I know I've been deeing up sharpshooters because that's what I do and because you have a high shock contest stat because you're a lockdown your contest means more so you can get away with lightly contesting sharpshooters and they'll still be missing those shots on top of the fact that if you have defensive stopper they won't be shooting with Hall of Fame limitless range for me as a sharp or with any of my builds the second I see a lockdown guarding me it's a lockdown guarding me y'all damn it because you can't be pulling from limitless like you used to you can't be shooting through contests with good releases good jump shot like you used to your whole game plan goes out the window because in this game dual archetypes this year you have to be able to adjust when you see players on the other team adjust the reason I say it's easy for me to guard sharpshooters is not because I guard them the same way I guard everybody else it's because I adjust guard them differently and it's a pretty simple process you don't have to chase them around the floor because they're slow so I mean sometimes regarding a 6-3 sharp and they might have done the animation glitch and that's a whole another situation right if they have elite animations then what could you do now that's a situation in which I would be okay with people complaining if if a build that shouldn't have elite animations has elite animations oh agent I have to guard a sharp shooter through screens and he's using elite animations understandable right but for the most part I haven't seen that yet I haven't came across I came across a couple guys that did the contact animation glitch I seen but not as many as I would have thought so anyway if you guys enjoyed I'm trying to be helpful all right because it's not difficult to guard sharps this year although they are effective so it's a balance you just have to know what you're doing and you'll DM up nice if you enjoyed drop a like subscribe 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