 Have y'all been paying attention? Y'all got your 50 wins? If you did, congratulations! Moved on to round two. So the NBA 2k league you complete a round one, you won your 50 games Now you're on to round two and they released a whole bunch of but not all of the and sometimes vague information that now We have to interpret. So I'm gonna break it all down There's some areas that I'm kind of concerned But then I'm like I don't really care that much because I'm not trying to be a player in the league But if I was I'd be concerned so I'm being concerned for other people's potential concern That's what I do. I do that a lot. I don't know why so one of the many changes is they will no longer be drafting 85 players But 102 so instead of every team drafting five players each now There's gonna be like a six man or a bench player the real question We can ask ourselves is the bench player gonna live with the team and if he does is he just watch and play because this They're playing Just five people on a court usually Cool, so it seems like they've taken the concerns of people saying well, you're just gonna draft YouTubers or you're gonna just draft What else do they say? I don't know they make a lot of excuses. Let's make sure it's fair So apparently it's fair you're gonna be playing with the randoms in round two So here's how it's gonna work February 2nd comes along you got your 51 just scroll down in your menu You're gonna see a game mode called NBA 2k League round two combine whatever it's called So you click on that game mode and you have to choose your position point guard shooting our small forward power forward center So once you actually choose your position 2k actually chooses preset archetypes for you So you can't use your own my players. There's a whole list of different my players You can look through them and decide which one you when you but before you do all that just know what I'm about to say They said that not all the badges are gonna be maxed out So for example, I'm a small forward slash your primary sharp shooter secondary So I don't know if that build is in there. It says it's in there So if you look at the list, you're gonna see the build that I use primarily But is it gonna be 610 probably not is it gonna be max weight probably not but more importantly than all of that Is it gonna have silver limit list? We don't know so for me off rip There's too many questions and if I was trying to maximize my chances I wouldn't use that bill the good thing about using that build for me though Is that I learned a lot of paint defense? I've had to go up against people way bigger than me and really learn how to adjust and defend the paint So let's say you choose your position say you're a center then you choose your archetype within that list You have to play a minimum of 40 games and you have to play those 40 games in different time windows So I believe they said there's gonna be 12 time windows For example, let's say on February 2nd from 7 p.m. Eastern to midnight Eastern is one time window So you have to complete your 40 games in 12 different time windows You're gonna be different times throughout the day I guess so if people have work here or there but regardless you might have to skip work or school a day or two Depending on how much you play 2k. I shouldn't say that but I Did it a lot when I was in high school. So It's not a good idea really so as you're playing your 40 games with the character that 2k made for you You can track your stats and you could actually see videos of your games recorded Which means that 2k is uploading your games in video format to a server for you to access Which immediately in my mind I was like that means the managers are gonna have access to your games, too If it's uploaded to a server and you have access to it why the managers wouldn't also be able to see your games, too So first everybody got to questions. Yo, what's happening with this? What's happening with that and the managers over the course of the day answered a whole lot of questions So I'm here to kind of just repeat what they said and answer some of the questions that you probably had So off rip what I'm thinking is this if they're only looking at stats Then I would never hedge I would never play any help defense because if the randoms I'm playing with don't make the proper rotation Which let's be honest. They will never make the proper rotation. Have you ever played walk-on? Have you ever met a guy where you're like, whoa, that was the perfect rotation? Never then you might be penalized So a lot of people were making jokes Adam Rubin manager of the piston said Advice number two don't get tilted because you have bad teammates continue to play smart Don't force up a bad shot because you haven't touched the ball in five possessions play D rotate properly Continue to help your team even if they're not helping you now. None of that stuff is gonna show up on the box course so That I think for me it was more evidence that he was gonna have access to watch your game So they'll be able to see if you're just goofing around and not helping your team, etc I take a look at this beautiful case of pick-and-roll defense now Bohai of the nearly ball handler. We know this de hoc actually used to play on that team I'm gonna drop this prime video a little bit later, right? So I say I'm gonna hedge but I won't switch unless it makes sense it officially made sense because he got ankle broke The only reason I was able to make that switch you're gonna watch I didn't even hesitate the second I saw the ankle breaker was because I had immediate trust that de hoc was gonna pick up my guy and we were gonna make proper rotation So now that there's a mismatch we make another switch so we return to our guys I get in good position and I make the stop There's no way to quantify in box scores What we just did as a team our other three players made sure that their guy had no shooting opportunities And me and de hoc just proved that we know how to rotate back and forth and effectively stop the pick-and-roll here It just doesn't show up in the box score And I feel like that the best players might be penalized because of that It's really all the small stuff on defense that ended up making the biggest impact That's just what I think there's no real evidence about it But hey, I can guess right a man can guess so you're gonna be playing with randoms A lot of people were saying that all the 2k league is so biased. What are we gonna do guys? They're gonna choose all of the youtubers draft is nowhere near like bro We haven't even got to round two. You're already making excuses for why you're not gonna make it first of all Oh my god, Jesus. Can you imagine already making excuses for a league that you know? You're not skilled and do you honestly believe you're the top whatever hundred I see so many people making excuses off rip Bro, how many youtubers are trying to make the league like G size hang the tank maybe annoying? How much who are these people are missing up? Jesus man at the end of the day time and time again the managers had to iterate that they're gonna have a fair and equal process Which is why we have to play with randoms believe me if they weren't about having a fair and equal process I will very much prefer to play with my team very much Because I I could trust my team to rotate properly will have better defensive possessions Which are gonna lead to easier offensive possession. Yo, I'm gonna start challenging somebody's guys who are apparently so phenomenal But then youtubers are gonna get drafted so they're not gonna make it somebody actually brought up a good point Somebody replied and said yo if you guys are actually super fair Maybe you guys should have signed people numbers so the managers can't see everybody's PSNs and have favoritism And I actually thought like bro That might not be a bad idea and then I think it was famous or somebody replied to it And he was like yo people just can go on Twitter and say yo, I'm number 1307 Yo, it's my number in case you were curious manager And so it would get out anyway, and it would just be a waste of everybody's time So you have to believe it or not for the sake of yourself and everybody on your team Get on the mic and work together with people you never met before now That is possible on rainbow six that could be possible on other team games Maybe counter strike but on 2k I have yet to hop in a pro-am game where there's not at least one Kobe Bryant trying to do it himself And because the one of the only requirements for round one was hitting 50 wins There's gonna be those Kobe Bryant's man You're gonna run you're gonna run up against them and they're not gonna be like Kobe But they're gonna try and imitate Kobe and they're gonna be nothing like him because Kobe's amazing these guys is ass Just pray for your own sake that he's not running point guard or maybe she I don't know So they also said you can test different my players in your position But the 40 games you get has to be with one locked player So for example if I want to be a center I could test everything and then decide to roll with the rim protector and play my 40 games on there You could play more than 40 games from my understanding, but the minimum is 40 Here's where it gets interesting I have come to the conclusion that it makes zero sense to use a sharp shooter in this combine based on the Information release we do not know if you can change your jump shot That is game set match done for being a sharp shooter if I can't use my a1 jump shots on the program on Combine there is no way I'm choosing a sharp shoot They said on a tweet during the combine the NBA 2k legal measure high-level statistics such as points rebounds assist as well As more in-depth statistics such as shot release time pass to assist and block efficiency So if you don't get to choose your jump shot and you're a sharp shooter You can assume you're gonna be heavily measured based on your ability to release the shot and depending on the latency of the day Depending on the type of player you have by the way They didn't they never declared height or anything like that yet if you can choose the jump shot for your sharp shooter match done You got to learn another archetype well you you could try my guy You know your teammate might appreciate it have appeared sharp on the floor But it's such a huge risk to go in there with a jump shot You don't know about so I'm hoping they allow us to at least change You know my heart is pounding man. I thought somebody I heard like something break I think it's the garbage truck outside or I'm getting robbed and I'm recording a video while I'm doing it One of the two is happening so you can assume if you're a sharp shooter that you're gonna be measured More than other archetypes based on your ability to release the ball and shoot efficiently from the three-point line Which again is another problem because as a sharp shooter You're relying on your team to help get you open with off ball screens, etc If you're playing with Randy's he sometimes they might not care if you if no one is helping you get open and you're a sharp shooter You're gonna struggle to get open against any type of good defense So not only are you relying on your team? But now you don't even know if you can get a consistent shot off is too much of a risk They actually have my bill slash your primary sharp shooting secondary and small forward on there I talked about but I will I won't use it There's no chance you'll catch me using that bill So you see like I was thinking and sitting here I might even have to stream just talk about my whole thought process But I've decided on the archetype that I'm gonna use and without a doubt It is gonna be a center rim protector as a rim protector. You're not really required to do too much offensively I'm gonna set the screen. I'm gonna get my buckets on the roll, right? You'll get your buckets inside because you're gonna be a taller player You're gonna have height advantage over folks. Of course take smart shots You don't want to chuck anything up But where you're gonna be measured is on the defensive end more than anything and on the defensive end They talked about a stat called a block efficiency. I don't know what that is. Those of you who don't play comp prior Let me let me break it down like this in program There is very rarely a situation in which it makes sense to jump You're giving up free throws if you do a mistime jump I had a debate about it on Twitter because if I'm closing out on a shooter And I'm not gonna reach there in time It makes sense to click triangle to jump because it adds to the contest So if I'm jumping to contest a shooter not necessarily to block it and I don't get a block on the shooter Does that count as bad block efficiency? So there's so many questions Well, they've only mentioned a few of the high level and in-depth statistics that they plan on focusing on On top of the fact that there's no real way to quantify how valuable a player is based on statistics There's gonna be players in trust me Rotor also getting Rotor finals There's always people who find a way to finesse the system But if I'm right about my prediction that the 2k league managers can see your games on VOD uploaded online to the cloud Then it's a GG because they'll be able to see how you're finessing the system I guess I don't know if there's any truth to it. It just makes sense for me That's what I would do if I was in 2k league. Unfortunately, there's no leaderboards, which would have been phenomenal Can you imagine seeing yourself like trying to get into the top thousand, but you're 1200 like oh, I got it You know, that'll be so dope man So you can play like 50 games and you don't really know how hot you're doing you can see your stats But what does that really mean and what's the algorithm that's gonna decide whether you make it to round three? There's rumors. This is I don't know how true this is but I heard you can't speed If you can't speed boost my guys, I don't even know why they would take that out Just stop blow by is happening so much anyway regardless if speed boosting is gone I just hope blow by is a snatch back. It's not that they're gone, but I hope they're reduced Also, a few of the managers have voiced their distaste for the five-out offense is boring to watch It takes almost no skill to do and so they only a few them I don't know what the others are thinking about but they're saying don't run five out Which by the way is probably gonna be impossible if you're running with randoms because I don't know if you've played Walk on before but those guys can't stand still if their life depended on they're always cutting They're running somewhere all the time messing up the spacing on the offense. Anyway, I don't want to hold up your time Yo people I'm not trying to get in the league as a player, but I'm a competitive guy So I'm gonna try I wish you guys luck if you're trying to make the league Please don't be that guy that just ruins everybody else's chances People dead-ass working day and night playing this game to try and make this league You're gonna be the one to ruin that my eye Yo, let them run their thing bro be a team player and for the sake of God Put on your mic. All right Geez imagine trying to communicate pick-and-roll defense with a guy who doesn't have a mic So anyway, I'm gonna catch you guys in the next one if you guys enjoyed this one drop a like subscribe if you guys are new And I'm out peace