 Yo, we got to talk about the 2k league. Listen this right here is video first of all drop the like subscribe if you're new But this is my opinion. This is my unlicensed, but very incredibly professional opinion If you guys missed at the tip-off tournament dropped off bro when I have some things to say a hundred thousand dollars on the line Well, it was fun to watch especially in the fourth quarter were Exponentially increased and fun when the games were close at least if you're the Grizzlies none of your games were close except one Because you've drafted a pretty horrible team. It seems like it seems like that It seems like you might figure something out if you're the Grizzlies But right now the Grizzlies are getting battered in the league and it's hilarious to watch The league has some incredibly serious problems over the course of this team They're pulling anywhere from like 3000 to 8000 viewers depending on the time who was playing when dimes first overall Pick was on especially when he went up against fab the second overall pick They were pulling like nine at 1.10,000 which was impressive, but the draft pulled 20k So my mind is based off anchoring. I was hoping it was a little bit more But let's just move on from that the number one thing people were saying in the chat was So let me just explain to you what's going on if you play pro-am on NBA 2k You're playing an entirely different game from these guys if you play the combine That's basically what these guys are playing with combine sliders, which means even if they release the ball perfectly There is a chance especially if they're not shooting catch-and-shoot from the corner with corner specialists that they might miss an all-white release Even though they released it perfectly. They cannot customize their dribble moves They can't even customize their dunks and lifts which is a serious issue because some of the big man Don't have proper standing dunks and it makes them unusable There was one play I saw where a player was driving baseline and he wanted to go for a reverse layup Like any competitive player would do but his player didn't have one equipped So he went up for a regular layup on the baseline and got stuffed and I heard the commentator say Oh, that was a bad decision in my mind. I'm thinking no He did the correct thing He just didn't have the animation equipped because he wasn't allowed to customize that so a lot of the Customization and things you would think require skill were reduced in the name of balance and also in the name of realism See this is problem number one in my opinion ESPN put this out. What are we doing here? They're comparing the Cavaliers first overall pick hood to LeBron James and they're saying how about NBA 2k LeBron James verse Real-life LeBron James a fun quirky comparison that does no harm except it does I think 2k should be trying to disassociate themselves from realism It's not fun to watch 2k players miss 60% of their shots But in reality even the best three-point shooters are shoot like 42% I think that's part of the reason why the 2k league is reducing shooting to try and make it seem more realistic with this usually results in is Every single time players just throwing it down into the paint one pump fake Hoping the player jumps doing a drop step or pushing them out And it just the gameplay is too simplistic and I get it part of the reason why they're doing this also Is they don't want five-out offense to ruin the league if you guys play pro I'm competitively on NBA 2k 18 You know you will run across all kinds of teams just running Exclusively five-out where everybody stands the three-point line and watches the point guard dribble the entire game. It's boring and Occasionally we saw teams run it, but it wasn't anything like the how we see people run it regularly in pro am on 2k How about FIFA for example if you watch the FIFA pro league by the way, I was watching one of their streams They had 80,000 people in there. I was like goddamn. I'm pretty sure they were using some sort of incentives They're giving away FIFA ultimate team cars to get people in there, which is clever And I'm sure the 2k league will at some point try and do but more than that as I was watching the games Teams are scoring like every 10 minutes on the court right on the court on the field agent You listen I don't watch a lot of football soccer whatever you want to call it But I do know is teams in real life aren't scoring three four goals minimum a game But that's what you would see a lot of in the league still we didn't see a lot of comparison with oh wow Why does everybody scorn so much in FIFA people are just used to it on 2k for whatever reason? We have this obsessive idea that it has to be exactly like real life and any time it strays from that What are we gonna do guys? It's not realistic in the pursuit of realism and balance. They're reducing the skills gap I think bro if I ever shot a all-white release for the win and I missed I would lose my mind I heard from a 2k league player that apparently the sliders they're playing on are more difficult than Hall of Fame This presents the next problem because the viewers don't know what I'm talking about if you're a casual viewer And you're like the 2k league Let's just pop in and see what this is about and you see them missing shots. You're thinking to yourself, bro I make those in 2k all the time. I'm not watching guys. I'm better than I got myself a bronze corner Three as a shot creator slash slasher 88 I can make 70% of my corner threes These guys can't make threes for shit and then you'll see people leave the oh so popular comment Are these the best one or two? There's plenty of ways other e-sports help solve this issue For example, you'll see a lot on Carlos duty. There's open bracket team So me you and a couple of my other buddies can get together put out a team and fight our way to pro events And usually at those pro events the open bracket team get Destroyed occasionally they'll make it out of pool play and they'll be the Cinderella performance But most of the time is super clear to the people watching open bracket teams and the people that aren't playing professionally There's tears to this and those professional players are at the top for a reason 2k I think is at the very beginning of helping establish that and I think they need to do more of course a primary Complaints a lot of people were having where yo, why aren't we watching this in 2k camp? Who watches on broadcasts? The only logical solution to that I think is that the broadcast camera is the you'll get the best view for Advertisements because it's looking directly at the sideline Scores table where they show them. That's the only possible reason to be played on broadcast I can't think of another way and it kind of sucks But I understand the league has to be profitable ads are important I get it but here's something that the NHL and the MLB are realizing and I hope the 2k league does to offense is Exciting so I'm a sport management student We talked about a lot of this stuff over the course of university a lot Leagues are trying to find ways to speed up the pace to make things more exciting to introduce new offense if you guys remember in the late 90s early 2000s the NBA was contemplating removing hand-checking and they eventually did the main reason they did is they realized Before any other league that offense is exciting to watch nobody wants to see an entirely defensive affair now Occasionally it could be fun when the can be with tumble was snatched blocking individuals But watching curry hit it from limitless range or watching LeBron destroy my Raptors at the high post fade from 20 feet away It's the stuff you talk about you write articles about you tweet about you text your friends about almost in an entirely opposite perspective Instead of worrying about making a league exciting and fun the 2k league is worried about making it realistic and almost bland I get that it can be ridiculous Competitive players especially in these games. They'll be games where a point guard might go 19 for 21, right? And it's insane percentage when you think about it and I'm not saying it needs to be that crazy But a player that releases the ball perfectly or doesn't dribble move perfectly shouldn't be punished in any way whatsoever is what I believe increase the shooting a little bit and it'll space the floor all that paint ball There'll be a new meta a lot of and this happens right eSports a lot of the time They change things make adjustments They ban this thing or allow this thing because they try to make the meta in the game more fun to watch for the viewers If you just date back really quickly and go to NBA 2k 17s event role to the all-star game now The event wasn't as polished. There was a lot of hiccups and bugs in 2k 17 that I don't see a hint of in 2k 18 It's literally the production is fantastic on the league the gameplay was so much more fun to watch Keep in mind I didn't like that you could just momentum cross momentum cross momentum cross brick wall screen and then you fly on the Floor and then now your whole team is scrambling to rotate properly, but still the offense in 17 Just compare it to 18 was so much faster things were moving when a player released the ball perfectly It was hitting green and you hit off the bank and it made the game exciting and fun to watch fast-paced And it took me going back to watch and compare differences is slow and almost you can use the word strategic I kind of miss that fast-paced offense and last but not least is the casters The casters don't really know 2k. I Literally do not think I've heard one mention of like a limitless range badge or pick-and-roll maestro coming off the screen Bro, Google keeps interrupting me and I'm not even calling her name I honestly thought that having casters in the 2k league that didn't they know 2k, but they don't really know 2k I thought that might kill it for me weirdly enough the guys have good chemistry They're fun to listen to and it doesn't seem like they're afraid to pick jabs at players when they're playing bad You know sometimes they'll like beat around the bush when you're watching an NBA game Like just say he's performing horribly like part of the reason why I love to watch teens here ESPN Like Jeff Van Gunny will get on there and he'll just criticize the referee or he'll criticize a coach for making the wrong decision Or he'll even criticize the league itself that's paying him for making a like one and done that's stupid and like Whatever the conversation goes from there like we saw a serious criticism come in for the Grizzlies team Because I think their hands down the worst team in the league and they deserve the criticism Like you shouldn't be holding people's hands and it makes it fun to watch they do a good job of getting the chatting gauge So there's that shout out to my guy Dirk although. He's not casting the games He's casting all the stuff in between the games and so that's kind of just where I'm at I feel like the league is just started off and I'm hoping it could do better of course Nobody would want it to do bad. You're part of the community. You want to see it succeed. Honestly, I'm not like a professional I don't sit like I just I'm a viewer. I'm a consumer of eSports So I really don't know what they have to do. This is just as a 2k player things I think would help make a positive impact difference. Yo, if you guys watch the tip-off tournament go in the comment section Let me know how you felt about it Or if there's anything you'd like to see improve every time 2k comes out with a major project, right? It's always serious issues. Don't even let me remind you literally every single game launch There's a major issue park after dark who remembers that anytime. There's double rap Double XP the games are crashing latency is out of control people are lagging out. It's horrible Oh my don't even get me started on all of that the Paul George glitch Do we remember that or how about in 2k 18 where East Coast teams couldn't play with West Coast teams for the first few months of The game's launch so weirdly enough for the first time I think in years 2k took on a big project And it looks incredibly polished. I'm gonna leave it on that if you guys enjoyed the video Make sure to drop a like subscribe if you guys knew I don't know how much 2k Well depends on how much how interested you guys are if you guys don't care about the lead Then there's no real point of me continuing to make these kinds of videos So let me know where you guys are sitting that I'm a cat you guys in the next one shout out to my Actors I don't care if they're down in the series always got a support stop with the memes and the trolling. I'm out peace