Live 18 wasn’t too bad, not as good of a “simulation” as 2k, but much less focus on mictrotransactions. Live 19 looks like it’ll be pretty good so that’s what I’ll probably go with.
Screw 2K. I've owned nearly every 2K since Dreamcast. Consensus is the 18 gameplay isn't nearly as good as 16 and I wholly agree. Shot meter on fucking layups now?? There are so many missed layups now it's fucking stupid. You can barely finish through contact. The play assignment is STUPID... I feel like I'm forced t play since I paid money for it... Go YouTube "Agent 00" . He's the foremost knowledgeable on all things 2K.
We didn't spend $5.3 million on Nik Stauskas. We signed him to a 1-year min contract of $1,512,601. He makes less than Layman, Baldwin, Swanigan and Simons. The only player on the rooster making less is Trent Jr. - a rookie 2nd round pick. Regardless of what we paid Stauskas, we could have still kept Ed. We held his Bird rights. The decision to let Ed go happened before we signed Stauskas. BNM
I'm still waiting for Sega to come out with the Deamcast 2. Rumor has it that Sega is making a new system. http://gaming.ebaumsworld.com/artic...console-and-it-might-be-dreamcast-2/85636676/
I believe NO had no intention of bringing back Ed, which blows my mind, but I don’t think Stauskus, or Curry’s contract effected that at all. I just think NO has hitched his wagon to Zach and is clearing out competition for Zach’s minutes - It’s like the passive aggressive way a GM tells a coach to play someone, by making it so there really isn’t much of an option.
That's just more proof that Olshey sucks. Stauskas critics aren't really criticizing Stauskas' mediocre talent. Between the lines, they're saying 1) Olshey destroyed our frontline (Davis) and replaced Davis with a bunch of low-level guards like Stauskas, when guard was already our strength. But hey, it's part of the plan to lose now and win in the Golden Future. In only 3 years, Collins (7.5 PER, 10th-highest of our 10 players with at least 1000 minutes last season) may or may not be as good as Ed Davis is right now (15.5 PER, 4th-highest, higher most of the season till he played hurt). 2) The team is at a stage in which it needs experience to get over the hump, not newbies with an 80% chance of not even lasting in the league as journeymen, like Stauskas. Olshey himself said so, got both friends and critics onboard, then within a month, did not have the talent to follow his own announced plan. 3) Stauskas was Olshey's #1 summer target, a pitiful goal. Olshey got to him first thing in the morning after free agency began. How low can Olshey sink. At least he and Paul Allen didn't stand on Stauskas' house porch at midnight, as they did in past years for Olshey's horrific free agent choices, who soon flopped with their new teams after spurning our smelly salesman Olshey. 4) Olshey defenders here keep saying that Stauskas fit into salary requirements, he was cheap, poor Olshey was painted into a corner by financial constraints, etc. without saying that Olshey is both painter and paintee, the narcissist self-portraiting Renoir of GMs.
I remember 2k on Dreamcast! I used to always make threes from the other side of the court at the end of regulation to win the game. Most of the time with guys eho didn't even shoot threes. Pissed my friend Bryan off so much. He thought he had won, a second or 2 on the clock I inbound it, chuck it up and in it would go. Funny shit.
Also used to play soul caliber. Would fuck with my friend some more. I'd go to the settings and put his life all the way down to like 1 shot kills when he wasn't paying attention and then keep killing him with one hit. He'd get so pissed. Then I'd tell him. Funny shit. I miss being a kid.
The fact that a few hours into Free Agency our GM had told our best bench player to leave for another team on a cheap contract and had “targeted”, Nik Stauskus is pretty crazy. The only defense that made any sense at all is that they thought they were getting cousins. Here’s the thing though, he didn’t get the cousins thing done so one way or another it’s boils down to, NO failed yet again to get it done. How many times can the Blazers just be “close” to doing something and never actually get it...
I don't think the decision to move Ed had anything to do with signing Stauskas. I think it was done to make more room for Collins to play. Stauskas was signed on a vets' minimum contract as a guard/wing who can maybe give spot minutes that opened up when Pat was let go. Either he earns those minutes or Trent does. I don't think it's worth worrying about the end of the bench.
