OT Merged: NBA2k17... Anyone having luck with the Blazers in this game?

Are you always the Portland Trail Blazers in this game or do you try other things out as well?

 

Harkless despite being rated at only 72 and having a 70 open three point shot is a great three-point shooter in the game when not contested. I dropped 28 pts with him the other day, plenty of joy.

 

Broke down and got the game for PC during the Steam Autumn sale.

I traded Plumlee, Evan Turner, and Aminu for Brook Lopez and Kenneth Faried in a three team trade. There were two other bench warmers I had to add to the roster to make the trade work and I may have sent out a draft pick as well I c.

Lillard - Napier
McCollum - Crabbe
Harkless - Layman
Faried - Davis - Vonleh
Lopez - Leonard - Ezeli (inactive)

 

I just hope Neil Olshey plays this game before the trade deadline rolls around.

 

I'm 11-0 or 12-0 right now. Can't remember offhand. Closest game was a 15 point win. Dame, CJ, Turner, Crabbe, and Vonleh are all out with injuries and we're still humming along. I signed Nate Robinson and he has been a help with all those guys out. If I stay focused, I think 82-0 is possible.

 

i created lillard on nba 2k10 and he is killing it. won mvp as a rookie.

 

You get a like for the Weird Science geek reference!

 

It's such a joy after they've updated Harkless to 76 and gave stats updates across the league. Being Blazers in MyLeague it's possible to trade for DeAndre Jordan (any of 1 or 1.5-star players plus two first round picks does the trick) and Paul Millsap (you need to give up on Turner plus two or three picks), but I don't like the line up with two of them. I've gone for something much less realistic than that and traded Ezeli + two first round picks for Myles Turner and traded Evan Turner plus two first round picks for Embiid. This is probably the best frontcourt you can possibly get, both are very good rebounders and shot blockers, both have great mid-range and can play well near the basket. I don't mind losing first round picks because I can just trade for some of them later on, and from second season onwards you can just get some free agents and trade them for picks after 4-6 months.

Lillard 38 / Napier 10
McCollum 34 / Crabbe 14
Harkless 26/ Aminu 22
Turner 32 / Davis 16
Embiid 33 / Plumlee 15

This is incredible.

 

Has anyone tried trading for Serge Ibaka yet?

 

I just changed Lillard to be 6'10''.

 

It's easy. Orlando give him up for almost anything as long as one pick is involved. It can even be 2020 1st rounder.

 

Try playing Denver after the update which took Jokic to 86 rating. The most fun team in the game, only one true star with 80+ rating but you basically have 7-8 very good players between 75 and 80 and the bench is very close to first team. In some positions it's the same. Jokic is immense though, does everything extremely well and is the best center in the game IMO.

I am doing Start Today with them now. Going to take them to the playoffs and then cause some mess there.

I will also take Start Today with Portland but only after Trade Deadline has passed. Depending on what we do I'll either try to save this season or skip it altogether and start over with the draft.

 

Nurkic is a beast!

 

I was in the 20/21 playoffs (I was strictly simulating), dame had just won his 2nd straight MVP, blazers are 3 time defending champs, and my starting lineup was:

Dame
Greek freak
Zion Williamson
Harry Giles
Embiid

With Bol Bol, Malik Monk and Jarret Allen as the main subs.

Bol Bol is nasty, 85 rating, 7'1" sf averaged 9/9/9/2/2 as a 20 year old. Giles was like 87 rating putting up 18/8. Zion Williamson was 1st team all defense.

So...I'm just done simulating the conference finals, swept every team on the way there, going for the 4th straight title when all of the sudden it kinda glitches and all of the sudden it is "start today" of the current season....I'm like whatever, exit out to the main menu, and when I go to load my "my gm" file, it saved over my blazer file with the "start now" file.

Wtf! I had 4 #1 draft picks, I was looking to stockpile and pick up Lebron James Jr. in a few years.

 

Started over, my lineup in 2018/19 is

Dame
CJ
KCP
Nurk
Mohamed Bomba

With lonzo ball, Eric Bledsoe, isiah hartenstein on the bench. Made it to conference finals last year. Have 7 #1 picks next year to try to nab Zion and Bol again.

 

@Sarni thought over here might be better to talk this.

I have Xbox one so I'm not sure if I can get his class, but I'll take a look. Dmor is the most downloaded I think, but yeah, half the players are over 80 when they come in.

Have you tried to make your own class? Can you edit someone else's?