By year three, after improving some of his characteristics, he’d be dunking on everything in sight, dropping 35 a night and banging five triples a game.įun fact: I’m completely obsessed with everything and anything that has to do with Steph Curry, no joke.
His combination of size and strength, along with his fluidity, made out to be a nightmare that no one saw coming.Īnd if you ever started a franchise with him? Forget about it. He was another one of those players that people put up 60-70 points with and there was NOTHING you could do to stop them. Once he heats up, it’s hard to get him to cool down. Midrange, three, anywhere on the court, it was good to go. Gay puts up solid numbers, but usually at the expense of a low shooting percentage. Rudy Gay falls into the category of players that had amazing 2K games that left you confused as to why he didn’t perform this way in real life. Combined with his improved jump shot from midrange and deep, Russell Westbrook was primed to be a threat everywhere on the court in 2K12. Count on getting a bunch of and-1s too, because he would dunk on everyone and get the blocking foul called every time. You could score 50 just dunking with Westbrook. I can’t count the number of people I’ve made quit in the first quarter because all I had to do was go coast-to-coast with Westbrook every time. You could have a defender waiting to pick him up and he would roll right by him to the rim for a slam. Bringing the ball up the court with Westbrook is just unfair. I don’t think there’s a player in 2K12 that has the speed of Westbrook, combined with his power. Here we find Kevin Durant‘s counterpart in 2K12. I would’ve DIED for the 2K13 version of Andre Iguodala in real life. I’m a Sixers fan and watched him for many years. Iguodala rarely scores over 20 points a game, but his virtual game makes it hard to NOT score 20-plus with the guy. Iguodala can throw it down, but not at the rate that he does in 2K13. Iggy has long been a video game terror, going all the way back to the years where guys would morph to the hoop from like 15 feet away. His jumper is way more reliable than it is in real life, and in 2K13 he has the ability to dunk over anyone and everyone. No knock on the guy, but he’s crazy in 2K13. It’s kind of insane - he definitely falls into the list of players whose video “game” is better than their actual game. In real life, Andre Iguodala plays like a poor man’s LeBron James. With the release of the NBA video games for 2013-14 just around the corner, I compiled this list of the best NBA 2K players from my 2K playing days, some of them being virtual players that were a lot better than their real game suggested. Remember all those arguments back in college when you’d face off with a roommate and he’d refuse - flat out REFUSE - to use any other players? And then you’d look at the stats at the end of it and it’d be something like: LeBron James – 68 points.
The teams that your friend (who never played before) used and almost beat you. Those players that your friends considered cheating if you used… yeah, those guys. This being said, we all can think of players that pop into our heads that were virtually unstoppable in a video game. Video games are supposed to be a virtual adaptation to the product we see on the court, especially in basketball.