 I was honestly kinda nervous. I didn't know how long it was gonna take for me to learn and adapt to all the changes made to shooting this year in NBA 2K21, but turns out I did it pretty quick. Now, disclaimer off-ramp, I'm shooting with the square button. You know there's the new adjustments and the boosts you get shooting with the right stick. Mike Wang brought up a couple days ago you can use L2 to also time and aim your shot and get a boost. I haven't tested or tried those out yet. My thinking is we don't even know which jump shots are gonna work because that's one thing we're gonna get to later. A lot of jump shots look very different than they did last year. Jeez. Jeez. Azen has a missed a shot in three games. So my thinking is I'll find my jump shot, master the jump shot, then I'm gonna start using right stick and LT and all of that. Hey, first things first, if y'all new to the channel you haven't already, we're dropping daily 2K21 content. Be sure to subscribe. I got my second channel link in the description. Y'all can subscribe to that too if you guys wanna see stuff outside of 2K. It's late by the way. It's like 3AM. What time is it? 2AM right now? I just finished like playing a few games of my career and I was watching some NBA on the side so I'm feeling a little tired, alright? But I do wanna get this video out for you guys. So, first of all, this video, I'm gonna give you guys a jumper I've been using and break down how to shoot because I know y'all been putting up bricks. Do you know how I know? Because when you hop on the park or the pro-amp, everyone just sits and sags in the paint because they know you're not gonna make your shot. And then they come across me and they're like, how is this guy right here greening everything? Now, I wanna say this, offer it. The fact that people can just so add, man, y'all so adamantly disrespectful when it comes to me is wild. I remember in 2K17, everyone was like, oh agent, that's a my GM player. And man, it took me about two months to break that f***ing stereotype. Then I became the quote-unquote best sharpshooter. And then I quickly learned that it wasn't fun for me to try hard on 2K. It actually made me wanna break things. It made me significantly more angry of a person. So I just have to kick back and just do my usual funny type videos. But now everyone wants to walk around pretending I don't know how to play the game. So here I go, proven to everybody the first couple months of the launch NBA 2K21 that I could sauce just about anybody. Alright, man, first things first. You start the game off with no badges. You have to remember that. Don't even do no right stick nothing yet. Don't think about the right stick. If you're struggling with square, you are gonna have a miserable time trying to both time and aim your shot with the right stick. Don't even go there yet. The gameplay you guys are seeing is on day one of the game's launch. I had between one to three badges depending on which clip is being shown. So this is me with basically zero badges right now. And I'm consistently hitting shots open, catch and shoot corner. Right now I'm trying to maximize my chances. What I'm trying to do is get shooting badges. Alright, tip number one, first things first. And for some reason it's not common knowledge, although it should be because it was discovered like two 2Ks ago, is that even if you don't have a bronze, silver, gold or hall of fame corner specialist and catch and shoot, you still get a very slight boost to your percentages when you catch the ball and shoot in the corner. Getting the badges gives you a way bigger boost, but even without the badges, you still get a boost. You want to try and maximize your chances to just get your badges so you can start making more buckets? Shoot in the corner off catch and shoots. Babe. Let's go. Automatic with it in the corner, man. Don't overcomplicate things just yet, fellas. Wait, don't do the right stick stuff just yet. Use square to shoot the ball. I'm using square. I'll probably be using square for the first week of the game's launch and I'll try and transition a right stick after that. The third thing and for this I have to go into the jump shot creator. It is pretty late right now. I just let you guys know so I'm kind of just chill right now. It's 2am and I just finished playing hours of my career. So every 2K that drops, I get to testing jump shots and what I usually do is I try the stuff that worked in previous years to see what's changed. Now without having to go too far, you can just look at jump shot 11 and that looks nothing like the jump shot 11 everybody used in 2K18, 2K19, 2K20. Another popular jump shot people used was base 35. Base 35 doesn't look pretty similar, I'd say. I don't think there's been any changes to base 35 and probably the most popular jump shot of 2K20 was jump shot 98 and it doesn't look like it did last year. It just looks awfully different and the same goes with the Marcus Aldridge which has been like a staple since 2K17 or 2K18 whenever they introduced him. So I kind of bounced between a lot of these bases and then I came across the next tip is please use my jump shot. It's incredible. I decided to combine some of the all time greats in jump shot NBA 2K history. My base I use is Trey Burke. You could just pass it on. BAM! And I got you. You feel that? Reason I like to use Trey Burke is because it's fast. Not only is it fast but he gets high off the ground which means it's a little bit more challenging to contest but not only that the Trey Burke base has in previous years and 2K proven to have a really big green window. And you know until the tests are done by companies like NBA 2K lab we won't know the official details of how big these green windows are. So for now the safe assumption I can make is this base is solid. I tried it out. So now I have the Trey Burke base you get high off the ground a pretty quick jump shot. How would I pair that with? Now what I did in 2K18, 2K19, and 2K20 is I just paired everything with Kyrie and it always worked. But for some reason this year Kyrie does not look the same. It doesn't look anything like it used to look. So I'm not doing that. But you know what does work and has worked since 2K17 has been some of the most popular jump shots in the game's history? Rudy Gay. So once you put everything together I got Trey Burke base, Rudy Gay 1, Rudy Gay 2. I'm keeping the speed on quick. I'm not going very quick. And I know a lot of people are like why agent? Because everybody goes very quick now. But if you guys remember correctly in 2K17 I believe you had to be 6 foot 4 or was 6 foot 2 or under to get the very quick releases. So there was a series of 2Ks in a row that we played where unless you were a very short player you didn't have access to the very quick jump shots. And in those years both Trey Burke and Rudy Gay were very, very valid releases. I felt like you'd throw off the cue of the jump shot if I just made it very quick. So I keep mine on quick. You can make it very quick if you want but it might not feel the same. fishy man. Get these guys off the court man. Let's run up getting top 10 on this. Okay so this is where I get to the shooting aspect of it because the way that I do shooting is not how most people do shooting. I'd argue that most people that play 2K are rhythm shooters. They kind of just feel, they have a feel for it. Like this is how long I hold square. I do it like this every time. For me my brain doesn't operate like that. What I like to do is I like to create jump shots that give me an easy cue. So I know like when his head reaches the apex before he starts going back down on his jump release the ball. When his toes can hit together, release the ball. When his elbow goes 90 degrees, release the ball. Every jump shot for me has to have a cue. So that way I know regardless of what's going on as long as I'm making sure I'm paying attention to the cue in straight buckets. And depending on the combination you have for your jump shot it can be either very challenging or very easy to find a cue. For me, I know personally, due to my experience that Rudy gave cues usually the second he hits the apex of the jump shot. When he gets to the tip of the top, boom, release the ball. That's exactly when I let go every time. I'll say this though, Mike Wang has said and all the devs have said so far that the green window is smaller in NBA 2K21. It's more challenging to hit three-point shots. Man, I have myself bro just face to the monitor like less than a feet away from the monitor zoned in on my player fully focused. I swear I isn't possible to shoot in this game. Kick back casual with your feet up. It's not possible. I have to focus like this like I'm playing a competitive try-hard match for $100,000 man. That's how small the window is this year. But when you have a good jump shot and you have a good cue, it's snap right into place for you. Hey, excuse my brown shirt fellows. You know what I'm saying? I'll blow VC on a moments video but I don't do it for no reason. You feel me? I'm not trying to get dripped out for no reason, virtually dripped out. What's the point of that? Okay, there's a few things I want to show you in the my court because as a sharp shooter in the game or as a person who's not a playmaker is very, very difficult this year to find your shot for a couple reasons. One, a build like this in previous years would have access to pro dribble moves. This year it does not. So it's harder to find space. But on top of that, if I go to a shoot round real quick I want to show you guys some because this was the number one way sharp shooters created their own shot in like five, two Ks in a row. But this year they decided to change it. If you do a hesitation step back like this and immediately go up for a shot you're going up for a fade. That is no longer a standing shot. That is a moving shot now. So let me show you guys again. Do a step back, pull up for your shot and my character just faded. That means you have to do a quick stop before you go up for your jump shot this year or you're going to be fading on every shot. That makes it this much more challenging to create your shot. Just on a side note when you guys are working on your badges get corner specialists first. And if you can find a point guard that has dimer and floor general it'll make your life a lot easier. Man, trust me. The first four badges I upgraded on shooting were corner specialists and then I began to split them between both range extender and catch and shoot. Until you get Hall of Fame range extenders stay at the line every time stay at the line. If you're shooting with square after a few minutes of practice turn off your jump shot meter. Trust me with all the booster given out this year for the right stick and the LT R2 or whatever they call this right here. You're going to need the boost man. Turn off your shot meter. It'll give you the extra boost. Plus if you're following the rules here and you're using a cue to release the ball you don't need that garbage shot meter this year because you're looking at your player anyway. I like how they added a couple A. I'll say this man 2K actually added something new to the my court this year. They didn't make it bigger the way they needed to. There's probably going to be camera issues etc etc. They added a couple modes here. So there's that. I want to show you guys something in this ball machine because for some reason nobody ever thinks this through and for it always disrupts my shooting personally. Part of the reason why I prefer not to catch and shoot unless I absolutely have to. All right. I want you guys to pay attention to my shot and the way I catch the ball every time someone passes you the ball and NBA 2K 21 there's different catching animations and depending on the catching animation that you get it could potentially delay your shooting animation. Right it's all bang. See that's why I don't like catching shoots right there. My shot started delayed like it wouldn't let me start off for it. So if you're timing like if you're passing out of a shot and you catch it off like this your character has to bring it in before your animation begins that might throw your timing off. Remember that that's part of the reason why I don't like to rhythm shoot because if I just release it the same every time something as simple as a cat can shoot would throw me off just for the sake of grinding badges catch and shoot helps so I'll use it but if we're playing a regular game and I don't need to I'm not using catch and shoot again with this jump shot the second I reach the apex I let go the second I reach the apex I let go he gets to the top is literally the easiest cute as I f*** it up I'm talking as I f*** it up is the easiest cute imaginable guys you guys can't mess it up I think part of the frustration with shooting this year is because everyone has this tiny ass shot meter right and everyone is in the middle of the shot meter when you release the ball so in your head you're like man I released it perfectly why is it missing why am I going 3 for 22 in this park game even though I'm releasing these balls perfectly shooting is broken mm-mm the shot meter is tiny so you can't even really see your margin of error maybe you missed by a lot but because the shot meter is so goddamn small you couldn't tell but on top of that the shot meter is like a suggestion guys I don't think I've ever came across a really good shooter in the last couple years at NBA 2K that actively looked at his shot meter as he shot so if you can just get out the habit of doing that it's unnecessary it'll take a while for you to just look at your player and get the hang of what you should be looking for and it'll depend based on your jump shot but cut that shit out y'all that is not good for the consistency of your jump shot I'll say this I've never been a proponent for buying boost but if there was ever a time to buy boost it would be now you don't have badges on your player you need your shooting badges to shoot well but you can't shoot well without your shooting badges it's like getting an interview to a job but you need job experience to get the job but you can't get job experience without the goddamn job it's a cyclical pattern of doom so relax relax guys get yourself to plus five man it's not gonna hurt another thing I want to bring up because I feel like it's more prominent this year than it was in previous years and for some reason it's never really mentioned where my character is standing right now the long two anywhere from like 18 feet to 22 feet away from the basket you need range extender to hit those consistently range extender applies to long mid ranges and long three point shots as well so if you are a mid range shooter you're better off shooting 15 feet at the free throw line once you back up right here you're gonna see your shot meter get visibly smaller you will see your green window decrease dramatically if you don't have range of standard so if you have like a 60 mid range this shot right here is a horrible shot I want to bring this up because nobody seems to and you know I'm a gamer at heart so I play plenty of different games yeah when you're playing in your my court by yourself guys there's no latency there's no button delay right this is real time when you hop into the park or you play prime or you're in the break you're on my team you're online with your friends there is now going to be latency there's going to be delay now because you're playing online account for that delay because that delay will throw off your jump shot and for some reason I mean I see people sit here and practice in their my court and it's not going to do nothing for you you have to practice in the real games I keep trying to tell people like yo that practice not going to do nothing for you because in the real game is going to feel completely different like right now as I'm releasing these jump shots I'm not going to release them the same in the actual game I actually don't even know how to release them right now in the my court because I've never been my first time in the my court guys I know how to release them in my career because I've been doing that and I know how to release them in the prime in the park because I've been doing that and it's going to take repetition guys just hop into like a prime with your friends just on some chill stuff and put up shots you guys are going to miss that's how it's going to look and people are going to sit in the pain because they're going to try and bait you to shoot use that as an opportunity sit in the corner try it chew it a little bit of goddamn confidence man and I'm honestly kind of surprised 2k went in this direction because I could see them doing something like this for the prime but for the park where you kind of expect more of a casual chill vibe I'm perplexed but hey I'm not opposed to it I'm a guy that keeps asking for a skills gap man so they're trying to provide one here in shooting and I'm a try it hey you know what I'm saying but I'll say this though in the meanwhile as you're working on your shot put on the jump shot try the queue out and just practice time and get online but as you do that I'd recommend creating a build that is valuable in more ways than just shooting the lock sharp build I'm about to make in a week offense you could be doing flat out nothing but on defense at least you had the lockdown you could poke the ball those get some easy fast breaks right so that way you're not completely useless to your team because me this character right here is a pure sharpshooter if I'm not making my shots I am therefore completely useless to my team not only that I'm actually a liability so there's that so the pressure is kind of on when you have a sharp shooting build to hit your shots because that's the only thing people are expecting from you and in the beginning of the game is so much has changed and everyone's trying to adjust it can be difficult to do that try not to break too many controllers out there fellas it's not that complicated guys it's not like a million things that's different it's just a new system it's going to take you a few days you got to get your badges and then you practice some put on the goddamn jump shot and you'll be hitting threes in no time but for a moment just calm down has your shooting taken a huge dip in 2K 21? Yes but if you guys remember correctly same thing happened in 2K 20 everyone complained and it got changed I'm not saying people complain I actually kind of like the system so far what I'm saying is give yourself some time get your badges get some repetition put on the jump shot I gave you in this video and focus promise you when I'm playing these games I'm focused like this I'm not looking at the ball handler I'm not looking at nothing but my player so I know which catch animation I'm again and I know how to time it and I'm paying very close attention to the cue which for the jump shot I showed you is when he reaches the apex of his jump shot it's as simple as that it's actually incredibly simple don't overcomplicate it use square take off your jump shot meter once you get the hang of it in a few days I'm going to probably start trying out the right stick and trying to both time and aim the shot see how those boosts go Mike Wang also mentioned there's a boost for using LT L2 I don't exactly know how that works but I'm going to test that out as well and I'm probably going to drop a video experimenting with the different ways to shoot NBA 2K 21 if you guys want to see that video make sure to subscribe to the channel I'm going to leave you guys on that note though bro because I got to get back to this grind I'm hoping that by the third day I can have all my shooting badges unlocked I kind of have a good little system going on so far and I might drop a video on that too because it's going pretty smoothly but I'll catch you guys in the next one man don't hold y'all I know like that man subscribe to the channel videos on the screen as we speak I'm out peace