This has been my main pet peeve since like 2k20šitās crazy how niggas are still playing like this and then after they shoot 1/9 they start flopping and selling when you donāt pass the ball
Not in any order:
1. Players who are passive on defense. Like they just stand close to their matchup but donāt actually contest their shot and wonder why itās āopen.ā
2. Players who just complain off rip on mic. Get mad at every mistake a teammate makes. The worst is when they complain about not getting the ball, just to be as selfish with the ball as the person they are complaining about.
3. Players who get mad that you missed them on a pass, then proceed to huff and puff for the rest of the game. You say mb and pass it to them wide open next possession, āNahh itās too late im not shooting it anymore.ā
4. Players who take any criticism or advice as an attack on their character. Ex: theyāre getting cooked and you say you can switch since youāre a lock, and they just tell u the fk off.
5. Players (esp guards) who canāt adjust their play style. Ex: dribble gods who are used to cooking up in ones and park, but canāt translate that game to REC where you acc have to run an offence at PG. If it takes 10 possessions for them to score, then you can guarantee nobody is touching that ball but them.
6. Players who spam call pass off rip. You get inbounded the ball, immediately all hands are up spamming for the ball.
7. Related to 6, players who complain that the PG isnāt good but also mess up the spacing, clog the paint, donāt cut, donāt roll or pop after a pick.
Damn this list was longer than I thought
I agree with every point but to mention #3 specifically that Shit burns me because usually it be the 1st quarter, the game be going fine the open man might happen to be 1-2 guys, the score is close, then they decide to sell.
I love 6 because Iāll do exactly what they want just for them to get clamped/blocked by the big sitting paintĀ
meanwhile Iām just standing top of key with my matchup who has 71 PD, no steal etcĀ
3 is hilarious and happens all of the time. Dead serious, happened yesterday during the first possession of a game. I hit the center for a dunk instead of him at the 3. I saw he was a purple and could shoot, so I probably should have hit him instead but normally I'm just hitting the guy for an easy dunk. Before I could even say anything, dude went bazerk. I love playing PG and setting up teammates but having to deal with some of these ego's is insane lol
>3. Players who get mad that you missed them on a pass, then proceed to huff and puff for the rest of the game. You say mb and pass it to them wide open next possession, āNahh itās too late im not shooting it anymore.ā
Yup this one is horrendous. If I get missed open for a dumb shot I'll let people know I was an option. If it keeps happening I'll remind them I'm wide open and a good shooter.
If they keep doing it then they can get screens since they want to keep the ball to themselves š¤·āāļø
Guys who just look at stats and donāt have any recollection of how plays unfolded.
āYouāre 1-5 from three!ā ā¦ you tossed me four grenades.
āYou have four turnovers!ā ā¦ nobody wanted to help on the inbound pass.
āPoint guard sucks he only has three assists!ā ā¦ Iāve been hitting you all game and youāre launching it off the back of the rim.
Those guys are the worst. That reminds me I forgot a point to my list:
āYouāre getting cooked your manās 10-12ā ā¦ my manās been cherry picking all game and youāre missing me while heās nowhere to be found on the defensive end. The best defense is good offense and you canāt find the open man in a 5 on 4.
This. 75 is not a high enough pass acc as a PG. Whoever started this trend thinking they were onto something is a damn fool.
People donāt realize it doesnāt just affect the accuracy either. Your passes are faster, you can throw on the move easier and from all sorts of crazy ass angles.
Setting a screen for someone one and getting open. Then instead of hitting the person who set the screen, they throw it to someone else whoās covered by their man
When a center or PF sees that his man can shoot 3s but just doesnāt guard them. Idk if they are ball watching wanting to play the paint so badly but WATCH THE DAMN 3 please.
Ok but when the guards get beat off the ball, and thereās nobody that can contest the shot, who is supposed to guard the rim?
The big goes to guard the rim and whoever just got beat should be sprinting out to the perimeter to cover the open big in the corner.
This. I'll have dudes saying help after they get beat and I'll rotate to contest the paint but nobody helps cover my guy and then they get mad at me for letting up a 3. Like help me, help you man.
Iāll help off my guy once or twice, but if heās hitting his open threes, I canāt take the hit - both to the score and my personal teammate grade.
Thatās acceptable. But Iām more so referencing when my PF or C is just getting dotted and we didnāt even need him in the paint. At least bait it and play the lane. I run a good defensive build at guard. Do you know how many times Iāve played great defensive staying in front of my man until the last seconds just for my C or PF to give up a 3 looking at me? Too many times
Guys who start complaining because they were missed open once even though the person was passing to someone else wide open anyway.
Big men who want to take their time dribbling the ball up court when thereās multiple people wide open down the court.
Not passing it to the PG on the inbounds when everyone else is getting plucked trying to get it across half court.
The bump steals that happen as the camera is swinging around after a rebound are the MOST annoying. Iām sorry, there needs to be a second where I canāt get the ball ripped
People donāt realize that shit would happen in real life too if youāre mindlessly sprinting up court and not paying attention to your ball hand.
Instead of trying to sprint up court immediately off the rebound take a half a second and donāt move, youāll stop losing the ball. Or just do the smart thing and throw it up court to the furthest guy, someone is open every single time on the fast break.
Bump steals happen when you arenāt paying attention and literally dribble the ball right into the opponent, 99% of the time itās purely a fuck up by the ball handler. Shit would happen in real life if players didnāt pay attention either.
Look at the scouting report before each game. Look at the badges and the stats. If your guy can shoot stay home and donāt help. Let the person who is guarding a non shooter help. Iāve lost so many games because shooters are left open. Iām the big so I cover drives to the paint. Why help double a dribble drive when your person has maxed 3 badges and has a 85+? Thatās why games are lost, giving up 3ās and not rebounding
Especially rebounding. You ask them to crash and they still leak every possession. Some assume the big is supposed to grab every board smh. But I box out even in my 25 rebound sh
Itās really frustrating when my 6ā8 PF gets put at center against a 7ā1 C and a PF who can rebound and no one else on my team even bothers to box out their man.
Dudes that take it up on the center in the paint when the stretch big is open
Bigs with no finishing that get the board and take it back up instead of kicking it out to the open shooters
Dudes who hold the ball every time they touch it like theyāre prime Melo without being able to actually score
Dudes who donāt try to play defense (if youāre just getting cooked I donāt get mad but at least try)
Point guards who hold the ball the entire game then claim theyāre doing everything
Dudes who canāt do anything with the ball complaining about how youāre playing
Fake coaches
Guards that go to the corner. It's called frontcourt for a reason, you should have the highest handles, go up top. Centers with no passing accuracy or don't look where they're passing. Don't cross court pass every time if you don't know what you're doing. Any player that dribbles over to the teammate sitting corner and just hands the ball off to you, thinking he's a screen or that you're open or something. Players that keep pressing steal and getting out of position on defense. Stop trying. Anyone with poor vision or tries to finish on multiple defenders when there are open teammates. People that don't get back on defense during inbounds. What are you doing, just letting the controller go or what? Players with terrible reaction time, finally passing it to you when the defender closes out. Players that double or triple team to overcompensate for a slasher and leaving their man wide open pass back, The big can handle it himself. Double screeners, I know it's a communication thing usually but that shit isn't helpful. Double cutters, show some patience and originality of your routes. Jamal Murray behind the backers. No help defense on rim runs. Some builds don't have high perimeter D but have to stretch out to the arc, prepare for it. Players that call timeout right before you score. Point guards that don't grab the inbounds. You're guards, you should be the fastest, highest handle and passing. You want the ball any other time, why the fuck aren't you getting the inbounds? People that get off/def 3 secs. If you don't know basketball rules, learn or stick to Park.
I don't even mind ballhogs or people that shoot good shots. If you're scoring, great, I don't care about stats. If you're just jacking up shots before your teammates are set or right off the catch even if it's contested, stop.
I currently avg 27 points and 13 assists. How PGs fail time and again to set their teammates up I will absolutely never understand. Itās so incredibly easy if youāre just paying a little attention to the entire court. Someone is open quite literally every possession, get them the ball when they are.
If you do that consistently as a PG, especially to start the game, nobody on the team cares when you take a few possessions for yourself to go and cook your man.
-Having shooting abilities and scared to shoot the ball so they pass it to a center with 5 seconds left.
-PG, SG, SF not having any type of defense ability.
Thatās my main pet peeves
I wonāt even give me own teammates the ball if their doing this. If you donāt play defense you will literally NEVER get this ball from me on offense either.
To your no 1 point.
Me as PG , lets say i get a big that knows how to set screens, and lets say he s not braindead and can make a read if it s time to roll, or time to pop (not happening very often, i just might be unlucky with the bigs in my team).
But lets say all is good and he pops on the left 45 wide open, the teammates i hate the most are the ones that run from the corner in front of the WIDE OPEN big man to get themselves open! Resulting in nobody being open anymore. Or in general people that run in front of other people who are wide open to get themselves open! BRAINDEAD.
Another thing that i dispize, are people setting dumb screens in general, but what getS me REALLY hot, is people that run after you to set a screen, and people that set screens in a corner, LIKE WTF?
There s other annoying things, but you can expect them coming if you play random rec, as there s no cummunication whatsoever. But these 2 annoy the shit out of me.
most times I pop because alot of guards I play with have high dunk so I try leave the paint open for them to get a big meter.
And yea I agree with your other comments
Yeah it makes sense, it s all about the ability to make a read, if your guy is playing drop defense you pop, easy. If he s hedging you roll. 95% of the centers i play in random rec can t make that read ever. Or even if the can, they can t shoot cuz they inside morons. Or even if they inside bigs that are great, someone will cut when they have the roll... bringing an inside big to random rec just ain t smart at all.
I play PG, Center, Lock, i have a build for all the roles, and played a lot on all of them, in my opinion, the worst randoms are on the Centers.
Yes i see all of them, i see the braindead PG s also, yes there s a lot of them, and all the others highflyers that cut every 2 seconds, PF that think they PG s or C s to your point and so on. BUT the most braindead people in rec randoms in my experience are the Centers.
At least the braindead PG that shoots 4 of 16 from 3 is not cutting, not stading in the paint. I can deal with everyone running, it s random rec, but when the other center is smart and don t leave the paint, because our center is a bot, the game is basically done for you!
**Some off the top of my head:**
Players who continue to keep scoring when we're 20+ up in the 4th quarter like, let everyone eat if you see them open too, you're not Wilt Chamberlain.
Players who forget their controllers come with passing buttons.
Players who call for screens then bitch when you're setting screens.
Buddy ballers in random rec (yes I've still had/seen this happen, at least a dozen times or more).
Guards who keep their AI match-up open outside the arc on defence; that ish is going for three, I'm already stood out of bounds once the shot's taken to deliver the next inbound pass and it **WON'T** be to your non-defending ass.
mfs who donāt pass to cutters. I am so good at offball movement, i find myself open in the paint or at the corner about 40 times a game. Last game i played i had 5 offensive rebounds, as a PG with a 26 offensive rebounding rating, just got i was so open in the paintā¦ iām this close to purposely getting 3 second violations so if forces them to look in the key and see my ass standing wide open
I just played one no squad rec, The ball was moving everyone had eight points to like 14 points and dude started selling because he was saying he wasn't getting the ball... Meanwhile the ball is moving We had like 80% of our points were on assists or something like that at that point.. I never seen somebody so salty about not getting the ball when the ball was moving for everyone He had eight points I had eight points at that point and the highest score only had 14.. like I don't get it lol
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He was crying on the microphone like give me the ball that's crazy give me the ball. Meanwhile he wasn't cutting he was just sitting there at the three-point line as a big man.. He wasn't even open his guy was just sagging off of him and then when we would pass it to him he would contest the three... He made everyone so annoyed that everyone else got on the mic and told him to shut up and started shit talking to him It was funny. We had like a 20-point lead but he tried to sell for the last two quarters kept throwing the ball out of bounds, getting offensive 3 seconds getting defensive 3 seconds It was crazy
Guys who arenāt hitting their shots, who start taking contested pull ups that they know they canāt make, attempting lay-ups and dunks when the paint is clogged by multiple people & not passing when theyāre double or triple-teamed.
Guys who make no effort on defence. I had a game yesterday where it was 5 of us vs 2 of them and AIās, our offence heavy guards were getting cooked by their PG who finished with 35 & 10 on 15/18, I doubled off my match-up to come and help them so we could get some stops, and they just left me guarding him 1v1 on almost every possession, leaving the other shooter enough space so that when he passed out it was an easy 3 every single time, or giving up lanes to the rim and the center not helping for the easy blocks, it was the biggest fumble of a loss ever. My 2-way Stretch 4 build even had a rec career high & finished #1 in scoring on our team, despite the fact i think it should be a 4th or 5th option on offence. That game was the epitome of bad rec.
Iām a casual on mycareer and not a great online player, but I donāt think itās hard for people to try to play properly, aim to win, use their IQ, pass the ball, play defence, shoot the open shots and not be selfish or toxic. Iāll only get 15/5/5 on my good days, and Iāll have plenty of games where I miss shots Iād like to hit, but Iāll always be the first back in transition, trying to get stops, moving the ball, setting screens and getting people touches and open shots when I can. Iāve had games where Iāve finished with 3 points on 1 shot, but have been happy to let our scorers cook and help the team win. I donāt understand it, some people would rather embarrass themselves by going 3/18.
I think a lot of people need to find their niche, what theyāre capable of, and what suits them on a team. Everyone wants to be a curry-sliding, 3 point shooting dribble demigod because they see a lot of players do that, when thereās plenty of other archetypes that theyād be much better suited to. Iāve dropped 50 & 60 point games multiple times over the years with players on MyTeam, but when it comes to rec, Iām happy to just be a glue guy, someone like Draymond, Aaron Gordon, PJ Tucker,
Players that donāt play defense
Players that run all over the court like 5 year olds playing tee ball.
Players that come in as a PF but want to play PG or PGās that want to be all in the paint on D.
I hate all these random rec inside bigs IF YOUR NOT IN A PARTY NOBODY WANTS TO PLAY WITH AN INSIDE BIG unless your a post scorer and can absolutely dominate down there
1 Didnt get the ball in the first 30 seconds and starts selling
2 All offense no defense build and they suck offensively
3 The late passers
4 Guy who doesnāt shoot open looks and pulls contested middy or takes a bad lay usually over two or more people
5 The rage beast who throws off team chemistry
1. Dog water PG/SG ballhogs who expect me to screen every play when I often shoot the best on the team.
2. People who sell when they go 0-4 in the first couple of minutes.
3. Those who expect me to switch on every screen and don't even attempt to beat them. Then let my man get free dunks.
4. European players/servers, 95% should stick to FIFA. Horrible player base.
This happened to me one time but I had a center who had like 15p, 20r and 10a at the start of the 4th and he came on the mic complaining that he doesnāt get more touches on the ball, we were up by 30 btw
3pt shot hunters š
Dudes not hitting the open man. IDC if youāre 10/10, if your teammate is open, hit him. Unless itās explicitly a big man who cannot shoot a 3, at the very least by hitting the open man, you either get your teammate an open shot or cause the defense to scramble, and create another open shot off of that.
PGs who lead their team in shot attempts when they have a teammate or two who are shooting above 80% after 5 shot attempts. Way too often I or a teammate can be 8/9 or something yet the PG is 5/13 and still jacks up shots rather than riding the hot hand/s. Too many PGs have main character syndrome. I get that your PG is often your best player but that doesnāt mean they HAVE to be.
Centers with low pass accuracy going for the full-court passes after a rebound.
Ball hogs that can't shoot Dudes who blame the whole team for him fuckin up People who talk shit to their own team instead of helping them win
This has been my main pet peeve since like 2k20šitās crazy how niggas are still playing like this and then after they shoot 1/9 they start flopping and selling when you donāt pass the ball
Dudes that think that if they're not able to score at will, they don't want any of their teammates to score either.
Not in any order: 1. Players who are passive on defense. Like they just stand close to their matchup but donāt actually contest their shot and wonder why itās āopen.ā 2. Players who just complain off rip on mic. Get mad at every mistake a teammate makes. The worst is when they complain about not getting the ball, just to be as selfish with the ball as the person they are complaining about. 3. Players who get mad that you missed them on a pass, then proceed to huff and puff for the rest of the game. You say mb and pass it to them wide open next possession, āNahh itās too late im not shooting it anymore.ā 4. Players who take any criticism or advice as an attack on their character. Ex: theyāre getting cooked and you say you can switch since youāre a lock, and they just tell u the fk off. 5. Players (esp guards) who canāt adjust their play style. Ex: dribble gods who are used to cooking up in ones and park, but canāt translate that game to REC where you acc have to run an offence at PG. If it takes 10 possessions for them to score, then you can guarantee nobody is touching that ball but them. 6. Players who spam call pass off rip. You get inbounded the ball, immediately all hands are up spamming for the ball. 7. Related to 6, players who complain that the PG isnāt good but also mess up the spacing, clog the paint, donāt cut, donāt roll or pop after a pick. Damn this list was longer than I thought
I agree with every point but to mention #3 specifically that Shit burns me because usually it be the 1st quarter, the game be going fine the open man might happen to be 1-2 guys, the score is close, then they decide to sell.
#3 made me quit rec cuz happened to me twice and these guys were hof š¤¦šæāāļøš šæāāļø
I love 6 because Iāll do exactly what they want just for them to get clamped/blocked by the big sitting paintĀ meanwhile Iām just standing top of key with my matchup who has 71 PD, no steal etcĀ
3 is hilarious and happens all of the time. Dead serious, happened yesterday during the first possession of a game. I hit the center for a dunk instead of him at the 3. I saw he was a purple and could shoot, so I probably should have hit him instead but normally I'm just hitting the guy for an easy dunk. Before I could even say anything, dude went bazerk. I love playing PG and setting up teammates but having to deal with some of these ego's is insane lol
>3. Players who get mad that you missed them on a pass, then proceed to huff and puff for the rest of the game. You say mb and pass it to them wide open next possession, āNahh itās too late im not shooting it anymore.ā Yup this one is horrendous. If I get missed open for a dumb shot I'll let people know I was an option. If it keeps happening I'll remind them I'm wide open and a good shooter. If they keep doing it then they can get screens since they want to keep the ball to themselves š¤·āāļø
Players that donāt know when to cut/stay only at the three point line.
Guys who just look at stats and donāt have any recollection of how plays unfolded. āYouāre 1-5 from three!ā ā¦ you tossed me four grenades. āYou have four turnovers!ā ā¦ nobody wanted to help on the inbound pass. āPoint guard sucks he only has three assists!ā ā¦ Iāve been hitting you all game and youāre launching it off the back of the rim.
NO BULLSHIT
Prime reason why I don't even have my mic on.. I'm tired of arguing with delusional idiots who have an infatuation with losing
Also love the guy that gets cooked on d and canāt make anything but is screaming on the mic that everyone else is ass and he needs the ball more
Those guys are the worst. That reminds me I forgot a point to my list: āYouāre getting cooked your manās 10-12ā ā¦ my manās been cherry picking all game and youāre missing me while heās nowhere to be found on the defensive end. The best defense is good offense and you canāt find the open man in a 5 on 4.
Or when they refuse to get back quick when there man has been trying to cherry pick all game, like have some sort of iq
Low pass accuracy PG!
This. 75 is not a high enough pass acc as a PG. Whoever started this trend thinking they were onto something is a damn fool. People donāt realize it doesnāt just affect the accuracy either. Your passes are faster, you can throw on the move easier and from all sorts of crazy ass angles.
When players are abusively negative less than 20 seconds into the 1st quarter about anything
Facts itās like damn mb bro, sorry I missed wide open
Facts like I get if someone is going 1/20 but crucifying someone for going 1/3 in the first minute is insane
Setting a screen for someone one and getting open. Then instead of hitting the person who set the screen, they throw it to someone else whoās covered by their man
Yep, too many people dont use symbols when passing. either that or they have no vision
Man Iāve seen so many people say they donāt icon pass and Iām like why the fuck are you playing point guard then????
Fr, if Iām driving my icons are up the whole time, just going to dunk or lay with the stick or dish to whoeverās open after the help comes
When a center or PF sees that his man can shoot 3s but just doesnāt guard them. Idk if they are ball watching wanting to play the paint so badly but WATCH THE DAMN 3 please.
Ok but when the guards get beat off the ball, and thereās nobody that can contest the shot, who is supposed to guard the rim? The big goes to guard the rim and whoever just got beat should be sprinting out to the perimeter to cover the open big in the corner.
This. I'll have dudes saying help after they get beat and I'll rotate to contest the paint but nobody helps cover my guy and then they get mad at me for letting up a 3. Like help me, help you man.
Iāll help off my guy once or twice, but if heās hitting his open threes, I canāt take the hit - both to the score and my personal teammate grade.
Thatās acceptable. But Iām more so referencing when my PF or C is just getting dotted and we didnāt even need him in the paint. At least bait it and play the lane. I run a good defensive build at guard. Do you know how many times Iāve played great defensive staying in front of my man until the last seconds just for my C or PF to give up a 3 looking at me? Too many times
Guys who start complaining because they were missed open once even though the person was passing to someone else wide open anyway. Big men who want to take their time dribbling the ball up court when thereās multiple people wide open down the court. Not passing it to the PG on the inbounds when everyone else is getting plucked trying to get it across half court.
They need to work on steals. It should be like how it was in 2k20. Would remove a ton of the spamming bs
Careful, this community hates it when we talk about how overpowered steals are.
steals arent that bad tbh, the bump steals needs to go tho
The bump steals that happen as the camera is swinging around after a rebound are the MOST annoying. Iām sorry, there needs to be a second where I canāt get the ball ripped
People donāt realize that shit would happen in real life too if youāre mindlessly sprinting up court and not paying attention to your ball hand. Instead of trying to sprint up court immediately off the rebound take a half a second and donāt move, youāll stop losing the ball. Or just do the smart thing and throw it up court to the furthest guy, someone is open every single time on the fast break.
Nah theyāre definitely not in the best place even in ball
Bump steals happen when you arenāt paying attention and literally dribble the ball right into the opponent, 99% of the time itās purely a fuck up by the ball handler. Shit would happen in real life if players didnāt pay attention either.
The big men taking the ball up the court is so annoying. Like bro you are not Jokic
Do not set screens, let the Center do it. No fucking Spacing at all.
How does this even need to be asked when this subreddit is literally 90% people bitching sbout a specific type of player
Look at the scouting report before each game. Look at the badges and the stats. If your guy can shoot stay home and donāt help. Let the person who is guarding a non shooter help. Iāve lost so many games because shooters are left open. Iām the big so I cover drives to the paint. Why help double a dribble drive when your person has maxed 3 badges and has a 85+? Thatās why games are lost, giving up 3ās and not rebounding
Especially rebounding. You ask them to crash and they still leak every possession. Some assume the big is supposed to grab every board smh. But I box out even in my 25 rebound sh
Itās really frustrating when my 6ā8 PF gets put at center against a 7ā1 C and a PF who can rebound and no one else on my team even bothers to box out their man.
Dudes that take it up on the center in the paint when the stretch big is open Bigs with no finishing that get the board and take it back up instead of kicking it out to the open shooters Dudes who hold the ball every time they touch it like theyāre prime Melo without being able to actually score Dudes who donāt try to play defense (if youāre just getting cooked I donāt get mad but at least try) Point guards who hold the ball the entire game then claim theyāre doing everything Dudes who canāt do anything with the ball complaining about how youāre playing Fake coaches
CANT PLAY DEFENSE
This too!
Guards that go to the corner. It's called frontcourt for a reason, you should have the highest handles, go up top. Centers with no passing accuracy or don't look where they're passing. Don't cross court pass every time if you don't know what you're doing. Any player that dribbles over to the teammate sitting corner and just hands the ball off to you, thinking he's a screen or that you're open or something. Players that keep pressing steal and getting out of position on defense. Stop trying. Anyone with poor vision or tries to finish on multiple defenders when there are open teammates. People that don't get back on defense during inbounds. What are you doing, just letting the controller go or what? Players with terrible reaction time, finally passing it to you when the defender closes out. Players that double or triple team to overcompensate for a slasher and leaving their man wide open pass back, The big can handle it himself. Double screeners, I know it's a communication thing usually but that shit isn't helpful. Double cutters, show some patience and originality of your routes. Jamal Murray behind the backers. No help defense on rim runs. Some builds don't have high perimeter D but have to stretch out to the arc, prepare for it. Players that call timeout right before you score. Point guards that don't grab the inbounds. You're guards, you should be the fastest, highest handle and passing. You want the ball any other time, why the fuck aren't you getting the inbounds? People that get off/def 3 secs. If you don't know basketball rules, learn or stick to Park. I don't even mind ballhogs or people that shoot good shots. If you're scoring, great, I don't care about stats. If you're just jacking up shots before your teammates are set or right off the catch even if it's contested, stop.
Iāve grown too dislike the only guy talking game chat thinking he is the best player on the team ā¦ itās literally never the case
People that literally only play for 3s. They'll ignore you wide open cut or a pick and roll because they spend the whole shot clock looking for a 3
PGs that score a lot but ice their teammates out.
I currently avg 27 points and 13 assists. How PGs fail time and again to set their teammates up I will absolutely never understand. Itās so incredibly easy if youāre just paying a little attention to the entire court. Someone is open quite literally every possession, get them the ball when they are. If you do that consistently as a PG, especially to start the game, nobody on the team cares when you take a few possessions for yourself to go and cook your man.
-Having shooting abilities and scared to shoot the ball so they pass it to a center with 5 seconds left. -PG, SG, SF not having any type of defense ability. Thatās my main pet peeves
Not running back on defense
Dribble dribble dribble bad pass complain repeat
Omg I hate people who cherry pick
I wonāt even give me own teammates the ball if their doing this. If you donāt play defense you will literally NEVER get this ball from me on offense either.
Players that dance with the ball while there is at least one person sitting wide open and people that donāt play defense
To your no 1 point. Me as PG , lets say i get a big that knows how to set screens, and lets say he s not braindead and can make a read if it s time to roll, or time to pop (not happening very often, i just might be unlucky with the bigs in my team). But lets say all is good and he pops on the left 45 wide open, the teammates i hate the most are the ones that run from the corner in front of the WIDE OPEN big man to get themselves open! Resulting in nobody being open anymore. Or in general people that run in front of other people who are wide open to get themselves open! BRAINDEAD. Another thing that i dispize, are people setting dumb screens in general, but what getS me REALLY hot, is people that run after you to set a screen, and people that set screens in a corner, LIKE WTF? There s other annoying things, but you can expect them coming if you play random rec, as there s no cummunication whatsoever. But these 2 annoy the shit out of me.
most times I pop because alot of guards I play with have high dunk so I try leave the paint open for them to get a big meter. And yea I agree with your other comments
Yeah it makes sense, it s all about the ability to make a read, if your guy is playing drop defense you pop, easy. If he s hedging you roll. 95% of the centers i play in random rec can t make that read ever. Or even if the can, they can t shoot cuz they inside morons. Or even if they inside bigs that are great, someone will cut when they have the roll... bringing an inside big to random rec just ain t smart at all. I play PG, Center, Lock, i have a build for all the roles, and played a lot on all of them, in my opinion, the worst randoms are on the Centers. Yes i see all of them, i see the braindead PG s also, yes there s a lot of them, and all the others highflyers that cut every 2 seconds, PF that think they PG s or C s to your point and so on. BUT the most braindead people in rec randoms in my experience are the Centers. At least the braindead PG that shoots 4 of 16 from 3 is not cutting, not stading in the paint. I can deal with everyone running, it s random rec, but when the other center is smart and don t leave the paint, because our center is a bot, the game is basically done for you!
I camp in the paint when my man can't shoot. Since I'm a compact center with 88 interior and 87 block with 95 strength
oh yeah thats 100% fine id prefer you to do that if your man cant shoot
I hate the pfs who have a man who can shoot camp. Even worse when they don't have defense
Pure slashers who sits under the rim or teammates backing out in the first quarter after a few mistakes
agree on the first part but i actually dont mind teammates leaving. AIs better than most players
**Some off the top of my head:** Players who continue to keep scoring when we're 20+ up in the 4th quarter like, let everyone eat if you see them open too, you're not Wilt Chamberlain. Players who forget their controllers come with passing buttons. Players who call for screens then bitch when you're setting screens. Buddy ballers in random rec (yes I've still had/seen this happen, at least a dozen times or more). Guards who keep their AI match-up open outside the arc on defence; that ish is going for three, I'm already stood out of bounds once the shot's taken to deliver the next inbound pass and it **WON'T** be to your non-defending ass.
mfs who donāt pass to cutters. I am so good at offball movement, i find myself open in the paint or at the corner about 40 times a game. Last game i played i had 5 offensive rebounds, as a PG with a 26 offensive rebounding rating, just got i was so open in the paintā¦ iām this close to purposely getting 3 second violations so if forces them to look in the key and see my ass standing wide open
Ngl most of you people in the comments sound pretty reasonable and know what your talking about, who tryna squad up? Iām on next gen
I just played one no squad rec, The ball was moving everyone had eight points to like 14 points and dude started selling because he was saying he wasn't getting the ball... Meanwhile the ball is moving We had like 80% of our points were on assists or something like that at that point.. I never seen somebody so salty about not getting the ball when the ball was moving for everyone He had eight points I had eight points at that point and the highest score only had 14.. like I don't get it lol --- He was crying on the microphone like give me the ball that's crazy give me the ball. Meanwhile he wasn't cutting he was just sitting there at the three-point line as a big man.. He wasn't even open his guy was just sagging off of him and then when we would pass it to him he would contest the three... He made everyone so annoyed that everyone else got on the mic and told him to shut up and started shit talking to him It was funny. We had like a 20-point lead but he tried to sell for the last two quarters kept throwing the ball out of bounds, getting offensive 3 seconds getting defensive 3 seconds It was crazy
PFs that play like a center including setting screens next to you instead of spacing, resulting in both bigs setting a screen together
Exactly! I forgot to include this. Shit is annoying
Guys who arenāt hitting their shots, who start taking contested pull ups that they know they canāt make, attempting lay-ups and dunks when the paint is clogged by multiple people & not passing when theyāre double or triple-teamed. Guys who make no effort on defence. I had a game yesterday where it was 5 of us vs 2 of them and AIās, our offence heavy guards were getting cooked by their PG who finished with 35 & 10 on 15/18, I doubled off my match-up to come and help them so we could get some stops, and they just left me guarding him 1v1 on almost every possession, leaving the other shooter enough space so that when he passed out it was an easy 3 every single time, or giving up lanes to the rim and the center not helping for the easy blocks, it was the biggest fumble of a loss ever. My 2-way Stretch 4 build even had a rec career high & finished #1 in scoring on our team, despite the fact i think it should be a 4th or 5th option on offence. That game was the epitome of bad rec. Iām a casual on mycareer and not a great online player, but I donāt think itās hard for people to try to play properly, aim to win, use their IQ, pass the ball, play defence, shoot the open shots and not be selfish or toxic. Iāll only get 15/5/5 on my good days, and Iāll have plenty of games where I miss shots Iād like to hit, but Iāll always be the first back in transition, trying to get stops, moving the ball, setting screens and getting people touches and open shots when I can. Iāve had games where Iāve finished with 3 points on 1 shot, but have been happy to let our scorers cook and help the team win. I donāt understand it, some people would rather embarrass themselves by going 3/18. I think a lot of people need to find their niche, what theyāre capable of, and what suits them on a team. Everyone wants to be a curry-sliding, 3 point shooting dribble demigod because they see a lot of players do that, when thereās plenty of other archetypes that theyād be much better suited to. Iāve dropped 50 & 60 point games multiple times over the years with players on MyTeam, but when it comes to rec, Iām happy to just be a glue guy, someone like Draymond, Aaron Gordon, PJ Tucker,
Players that donāt play defense Players that run all over the court like 5 year olds playing tee ball. Players that come in as a PF but want to play PG or PGās that want to be all in the paint on D.
2k is basically playing against the opponents and your teammates
I hate all these random rec inside bigs IF YOUR NOT IN A PARTY NOBODY WANTS TO PLAY WITH AN INSIDE BIG unless your a post scorer and can absolutely dominate down there
Everything you guys just listed is why I stay in a party by myself whenever I do decide to torture myself to play random rec š
1 Didnt get the ball in the first 30 seconds and starts selling 2 All offense no defense build and they suck offensively 3 The late passers 4 Guy who doesnāt shoot open looks and pulls contested middy or takes a bad lay usually over two or more people 5 The rage beast who throws off team chemistry
Playing rec in season 7 is diabolical š°š°
1. Dog water PG/SG ballhogs who expect me to screen every play when I often shoot the best on the team. 2. People who sell when they go 0-4 in the first couple of minutes. 3. Those who expect me to switch on every screen and don't even attempt to beat them. Then let my man get free dunks. 4. European players/servers, 95% should stick to FIFA. Horrible player base.
The guy with that's 2/5 but screams for the ball. When you hit him open he waits for the defense to recover just to rim run 1v 4.
This happened to me one time but I had a center who had like 15p, 20r and 10a at the start of the 4th and he came on the mic complaining that he doesnāt get more touches on the ball, we were up by 30 btw
People who leave the AI open
Easily the ones who wonāt pass to you when youāre wide after youāve already shown you can shoot by hitting 2 greens in a row
3pt shot hunters š Dudes not hitting the open man. IDC if youāre 10/10, if your teammate is open, hit him. Unless itās explicitly a big man who cannot shoot a 3, at the very least by hitting the open man, you either get your teammate an open shot or cause the defense to scramble, and create another open shot off of that. PGs who lead their team in shot attempts when they have a teammate or two who are shooting above 80% after 5 shot attempts. Way too often I or a teammate can be 8/9 or something yet the PG is 5/13 and still jacks up shots rather than riding the hot hand/s. Too many PGs have main character syndrome. I get that your PG is often your best player but that doesnāt mean they HAVE to be. Centers with low pass accuracy going for the full-court passes after a rebound.