All real shooters shoot off the feel. I know exactly how my jumpshots feel, look and sound (down to the sound the button makes when pressing it). You just use your visual cues so that your brain knows when the animation begins and ends. OP should’ve added to shoot with no meter to really learn the feel of the animations.
So I been at it for 2 months now, switching jump shots, switching builds, trying to figure out how to get wet wet to no avail UNTIL I took my hotspots seriously and got em all up to hot AND got my lethals AND all my shoot like badges maxed BEFORE playing against anybody other than CPU.
Obviously it can be done other ways but from now on I highly recommend first things first with your build. Find a shot you like in the Gatorade gym, set the gameplay setting to whatever you comfortable with against CPU to where you can hit a high % off your shots from all over, and make it a point to ensure you are hitting at a high percentage and getting those hotspots.
Max your badges. Get your lethals. Then go play h2h.
Forget which YouTuber or tiktoker it was that said it but they said “You’re doing the community a disservice by NOT doing these things.” And i find that to be true.
Even after you do all this, you still have to play very well to shoot 60-70%. The game is not easy. And obviously, you’ll have off games due to input lag/latency or even sometimes your teammates have 25 passing accuracy and lead you into double teams all game causing horrible shots.
Bruh I did all this on my 6’8 draymond build with a 78 three point and 84 middy and I’m shooting about 70% my mate thought I had a 90 something three ball
Ya I didn’t realize how important the hot spots are or even just playing against the CPU a fair amount to learn the moves better. From now on if I can’t rack up 40 in 5 minute quarters on HOF against CPU then I got work to do.
I was violently stoned after over-serving myself on some gummies and playing MyCareer because I was scared to play online.
For some reason I started focusing on the arch of my player's back during a jumpshot, instead of the ball. Kept hitting shots so started doing stupid heat checks and those went in too.
Was so thrilled at the discovery I took it online and it worked exactly the same.
Now I dont watch my player's hands with the ball at all. My shot cue is when my player's back is fully arched and he's at the top of his jump. Way, way, way easier for me to time.
Tried it out on other builds with different jumpers and it didn't translate. Found a jumper base that was similar, with a good jump and an arched back, and that worked better
Dunno if this would work for anyone else but it sure did make me better
pretty sure it was the tmac base. not 100% though. not at my house and, as mentioned, I was violently stoned so not sure which of my two guard builds it was on off the top of my head
*abysmally high and lose my superpowers
AKA stoned
Stick to bright green sativas with lots of crystals for good head high/superpowers.
Also taking all strain superpower suggestions.
Blue Dream a nice one
I’ve always used either Kobe’s jump shot or Kevin Durant’s since 2k13. However, I haven’t played a 2k game since after 2k17 until this past year when I started playing again with 2k23. I heard it was like a “meta” things to have a jump shot with a quick release for a point guard build so I would have to double check but I think I since I found that out I started using Steph Curry’s shot
I still can not shoot with Currys shot to save my life. I haven't played since 2k23 but Klays jumper is just pure, the animation jasmt changed much. Wether it's a center or guard it's automatic for me
Ya y’all really gotta stay off YouTube. I understand you don’t got time to try out every jumper just hit art of shooting and rock wit what looks good to you and feels smooth. Promise you will be a better shooter than forcing a YouTube jumper to work. Also pay attention if you are early or late a lot you gotta switch yah release
Agreed I use what works for me and what I like sort of an off meta warrior lol I have noticed during lets say a rough stretch of games I'll be slightly early and miss a lot i tried to tweak it a bit here and there just small changes nothing big.... So any suggestions on as you say switching release? 6'8 SF (90 mid 82 three)
Yeee i use Tmac - Kobe - Oscar Robinson sometimes not all the time I swap to T Ross idk why but I hit with his lol also I'm just a casual trying hard here n there so my build is not optimal i dont think I literally made it just what I like didn't look anything up so
6'6 ? Really? To me 6'6 is just to middle of the road in terms of numbers and ability... With 6'7 I can commit to a direction of the build better for my style or build. 6'6 I'll have to try it out tho and with set point how do you determine your set point just practice shots I'm assuming?
So what I go by is animation and 6’6 is not a small guard. 6’5 and under is small 6’6 and over is big. That’s just my personably line. I use set point for all my builds but due to naturally smaller wingspan on smaller builds the jump shots are fast even if a 6’4 and a 6’7 have the same exact jumpshot they won’t be the same. A lot of people go release shot timing for smaller builds. Again I would just go shoot 50 shots in art of shooting. If you don’t green most of them change the timing to whatever you miss at (slightly early or slightly late).
I see and I understand this is SG world however as stated before I'm running SF but I'll apply this to my build and see what happens. The problem is on occasion during rough stretches of games or even during a game I'll be slightly early alot and miss alot just seems out of nowhere then I'm back to normal hitting and etc etc
Latency is never gonna make u miss any way but slightly late or slightly early, it’s a difference of a few milliseconds. if ur hitting very early or very late u can’t blame that on anything but you bricking tbh
>it’s a difference of a few milliseconds.
Both the latency and the release are a difference of a few milliseconds.
If your green window is 30 milliseconds long, and your latency is causing a 5-7 millisecond delay, you're fucked.
Then let's say you get used to that latency, so you release it 5-7 milliseconds earlier. Well next game there's less latency or even no latency and now you're 3-5 milliseconds out of the green window. You're fucked.
Unless you're one of the rare people shooting 80% because you've got it down to the literal 10millisecond "pure" green window, latency is gonna throw you off.
It's insane that this is still in issue on next gen in 2024, 2k is a billion dollar corp that refuses to fix it and it's even more insane that people keep defending it and pretending it's not a problem.
I shoot 52% but that doesn't mean the latency doesn't completely ruin my game every 3rd match. Sometimes I can't even fucking dribble properly and you wanna pretend everyone should be able to shoot perfectly fine through latency? 🤦😂
Nah latency can definitely make u miss, but I doubt that being off by single digit milliseconds will give u a red “very late” or “very early” shot timing ever. People see others complaining about latency and blame it for everything when they can’t shoot, all I was saying is that hitting very far off your timing is not latency’s fault. I have legitimately never hit very late or very early on an open shot in multiplayer with anything but a 60 ovr, it takes some very fucked up timing to manage that.
I think I'd mostly agree with you tho I still think it's possible but not because of latency.
I think it's possible because I personally think the shot feedback is completely broken.
I've legitimately held it until the ball left my hands and it still says slightly early or some shit so I don't really trust it personally.
No there’s something that I think is a bug, you can get “very late” on wide open stand still jump shots.
I shoot 58-60% on all my builds, I know 70% shooters and we’ve all experienced this shit. I know how to time wide open standstill shots, did it 10,000 times. But on certain times, not sure why, but no matter if I’m early, on point, I get a very late. It’s honestly unexplainable to me cuz I will be set, no movement, no defense, no tough pass/catch, then it’s some weird flat ass shot.
It feels like that first Gatorade gym shot, no matter what you shoot, it says very late. Tell me if you’ve felt this yourself or other ppl
I can’t really make sense of shooting, even tho I shoot 55-60% from 3 depending on the build. I feel like meta jumpers always helped me though, if my buddy found a meta jumper and he’s shooting lights out, I copied it n then improved my %s right away.
I’ve been using the same tmac shot for months now with little improvement but can’t complain because I’m happy w 55-60%
At various stages of the game, I would try to stick to a jumper and very little % improvement. BUT if I switched to a new jumper that felt “natural” to me, I would see the results immediately in rec. After that I’d say it just took a short amount of time to get a bit consistent, but after that it’s like a flat plateau. This happened switching to JT thor, then Ben Sheppard, then Tmac. And these were significant % improvements I couldn’t make staying on the same jumper.
. I can’t break that 65% barrier now after months on this jumper, thinking about mixing up my releases next.
It’s weird, practice and sticking with a jumper hasn’t helped me but finding the right jumper/releases did all the work. Now I can shoot self created 3s off the usual behind the back, kemba escape, snatch backs etc.
I think it’s kinda ridiculous that based on my experience, majority of it comes from finding the best green window jumper/releases. That was my method in 2k23 shooting 55%, now also in 2k24. Meta jumpers and little practice have me enjoying the game, besides those random games where I can’t hit shit and they give those “very late” wide open jump shots, that’s when I know I’m fucked, can never shoot that 80% on those games.
Well that’s why I said I can’t make sense of shooting, because I feel like I should be shooting higher% , and if I can’t improve my %s anymore with sticking to the jumper/practice, I wanna try something out.
Maybe it’s my fault? But then I also took the same approach when I was at 20%, 30%, 50%, now 60%. I was always looking to improve, and have been lucky that it seems changing jumpers was the key for me each time.
Honestly once you hit those percentages you need to start taking higher volume or more challenging shots to improve your game. OR use your gravity to open up more looks for teammates
I hear that, but I know some buddies who shoot 65-70%. I do take some challenging shots, I can self create iso pull up 3s, I can shoot fades but only reserve them for late clock necessary buckets. I’d say half my 3s are self created but I gladly take wide open spotups n leak outs.
I take medium volume because I usually run with friends and don’t wanna take all the shots, they are also capable shooters 55-70%. I average 19-21 ppg depending on build. I can find my own shot, 3 or middy fade.
That’s another reason I wanna up my % to at least 65-70, don’t wanna be taking so many iso pull-ups if I’m only hitting 58-60%.
There's this thing called, "human error." If you're shooting 65%, you're shooting insanely well. You're making nearly 7/10 jumpers. You're human. You're going to miss-time a shot inevitably because of it, regardless of skill.
7. (Biggest Tip) Use a wired connection and not wifi, if you can, will dramatically lower your latency
8. Turn off the shot meter, just trust me, there are a lot of reasons why
9. Use a shot with B+ speed or higher, wide open shots vs open shots are everything
10. Use a jumpshot with a high release so you can easily see the visual queue
11. Pro tips, turn off the perfect green animations and make shot emotes. Slightly helps reduce input lag
I hope 2k offer two shooting options in the future. Sniper and Rating.
Sniper being like how it is now for those who do have fast connections and can perfectly time shots. Essentially green or miss.
Rating being for those who aren’t perfect at timing shots but even with perfect timing you can still miss.
Anyone get inconsistent bases sometimes tho? Like u could be shooting perfect one game then the next ur jumper looks weird and off and end up with very late animations
Yep, I’ve noticed there’s a strange “very late” shot animation. I can be standing still, wide open, no defense, no bad pass, no matter how I time it I get a very late. Sometimes I even think it’s perfect, or accidentally release early, but it’ll say very late. I am a capable shooter too, 58-60% on most my builds.
It reminds me of the first Gatorade gym shot, no matter what you release, it’s “very late”. And other good shooters I know told me they experienced same shit. Not sure if it’s a bug or just sudden lag spike… but I also notice if I get that animation, my shooting is waaaay off that game.
I remember 2k16 when pure sharps were shooting 0/10 and at the same time they added boosts in the park. You could go 0/5 as a sharp and watch the glass cleaner on the other team hit a contested 3 for game. Shooting always been broke.
Since Season3 patch, shooting has been alot more consistent, however it still has outliers.
I'm shooting 72% from 3ball in Rec with 93mid/86 3ball. I could go 9/9 from 3 one game, and then proceed miss my 10th shot with takeover with same timing/visual cue. I kinda just hope its latency/lag and not built into the system for me to miss.
Also with all bases, i noticed there are 2 types of loadups, 1 is your regular load up, and one is a really fast loadup. The fast one occurs randomly and has no real reason for it, it just happens. Also contest system is broken, there are times i'm 30-50% contested but my guy goes through his regular shooting motion. Then there are times i'm barely contested and my guys is shooting some weird shot.
I knew it about that fast load up!!!! You can be standing still wide open, then suddenly your jump is weird, you get a “very late”. I’ve been trying to figure how to avoid it, but it seems to happen every 3rd game or so, then I’ll be brick city that whole game…
And I feel the weird contests also, I thought contests no longer affect shot timing…but like you said, sometimes it seems to take forever for your guy to go thru his motion thru a light contest, but other times smoothly thru a heavier contest…make it make sense
None of this is relevant when you chuck up bad shots like 95% of the low IQ people do in this game
The “sauce” for shooting is, wait for it, PASSING! Swing the ball to the open man, that’s the “sauce” my boy
The game is super inconsistent. There are games where I'll shoot 3/3 in Park etc and then the next game I'll do exactly the same thing and can't hit shit.
Although if I start missing I start playmaking more or rim running.
All real shooters shoot off the feel. I know exactly how my jumpshots feel, look and sound (down to the sound the button makes when pressing it). You just use your visual cues so that your brain knows when the animation begins and ends. OP should’ve added to shoot with no meter to really learn the feel of the animations.
Seriously, I’ve shot thru lag/skips because I know how the animation plays out. Yet with latency, it fucks me up so bad because I know how it should play out, but it doesn’t. Some games are a brickfest, other games I can go 10/10 and it feels easy as fuck…
what i’ve done for every 2k if i put that hoe on and i’m splashing with it first game i’m sticking with it. if it don’t feel right first game i’m going a different route. n i also use 2k labs
3 More things:
1. BE CONFIDENT!!! I cannot preach this enough! A lot times I see people who miss 2 or 3 in a row and just give up. SHOOTERS SHOOT, KEEP FIRING…unless you 0/5-0/7 then find a different way to impact the game the ball will eventually find you play the right way.
2. DO YOUR HOT ZONES. That’s it.
3. Try to hunt open shots the open shot are a lot easier to green.
Im 6’8 with a 78 three using David Roddy base, default upper 1, and klay upper 2. Fastest speed, I forget the blending off the top my head tho. It’s something like 65 klay/ 35 default or something close to that
Lowkey wanna try that with Thor base ngl. Roddy base is good but it can be better. The thing I like about it is the legs swing forward a lil, and while using push release, I let it go when the legs swing starts and it works good, but it can be better bc sometimes it won’t give me it even if I release it the exact same. Imma try Thor with that upper now that u say it, I feel it’ll be more consistent
I say the best way to learn your shot is in game, park rec, and definitely pro am. IMO the timing in Gatorade gym is severely different from actual online gameplay.
I have to disagree with this one. I agree that the facility is close to the same as park but with my career to park, no. I had to stop playing MC bc of the latency in park. Jumpshot timing is definitely slower going from MC to park for sure.
Right 67 percent from 3, and i don't use any youtube jumper. I tried em. Tried 2klabs biggest green window all that. for me, I have to see the hands above the head not in front of the face.
The worse your internet is the more of a moving target that cue is. I’ve been experimenting with different internet configurations (not for 2k reasons) and I’ve seen my percentages be all over the place. Now that my internet is back to how it was two months ago I’m above 70% through 25 or so games with my lowest shooting attributes
I have gig speed internet standard in my house but I was messing around with power line extenders and running long cat6 cables into separate rooms but my best shooting performances comes from just hard wired router to PS5.
I also maybe had issues with my computer monitor vs my TV but I’ve yet to troubleshoot that
I was tryna setup to start streaming (figured as much as I play let’s make a lil $$) but my shooting percentages were dropping trying to configure the internet in the room I wanna stream from lol
For me it’s not the jump shot, it’s everything but the jumper. Just trying to position is tough because the display time difference. Trying to play defense if you don’t have a Rythm can be just as hard. It’s tough when you can see the game at a speed but can’t play to that speed because you are constantly waiting for the game to catch up to you. I played my first game since 2k23 and I hit 2/2 from the corner which was fuckin awesome but getting to the corner when I wanted to while trying to shake your guy to get open all at once feels so clunky.
I’ve basically never really been able to shoot as a big man since playing 2k, until I saw someone on here tell me to get rid of the jumpshot meter and just learn the timing of the release. I’m shooting like 43% from 3 in MC while taking 4-5 a game on HOF.
Honestly i only be changing jumpshots when i wanna spice things up in a game or i find that jumpshot chicken in a diff build. But it is good advice for ppl who use 1-3 builds that arent very similar
play mycareer on hof difficulty. the timing is more strict there than it is in rec/park so if you can shoot there you literally won’t miss when you play online
its season 6 shooting has gotten so easy through all the changes that if you cant shoot 50 percent from 3 consistently these things will not improve your game
So I been at it for 2 months now, switching jump shots, switching builds, trying to figure out how to get wet wet to no avail UNTIL I took my hotspots seriously and got em all up to hot AND got my lethals AND all my shoot like badges maxed BEFORE playing against anybody other than CPU.
Obviously it can be done other ways but from now on I highly recommend first things first with your build. Find a shot you like in the Gatorade gym, set the gameplay setting to whatever you comfortable with against CPU to where you can hit a high % off your shots from all over, and make it a point to ensure you are hitting at a high percentage and getting those hotspots.
Max your badges. Get your lethals. Then go play h2h.
Forget which YouTuber or tiktoker it was that said it but they said “You’re doing the community a disservice by NOT doing these things.” And i find that to be true.
Even after you do all this, you still have to play very well to shoot 60-70%. The game is not easy. And obviously, you’ll have off games due to input lag/latency or even sometimes your teammates have 25 passing accuracy and lead you into double teams all game causing horrible shots.
I shoot 60% from 3 and I’ve been changing my jumper since beginning til I found the right one. I was shooting 20%, then 30%, then 45%, etc til 60%.
Each time I improved, I tried to stick w that jumper to “improve” with practice. Barely happened, maybe a few % til I settled in. Then I change jumper and it’ll be an immediate magically 10% increase…then I stick with it and again no improvement.
That’s why when I was shooting badly it was frustrating, I was a good shooter in 2k23 and know how to time jumpers, but it just feels so inconsistent still game to game.
I agree with everything he said for the most part and I shoot around 80% from 3. I found and created my shot starting with Eric pascal base. I don’t play park at all but I have some recommendations that helped me go from 23% season 1 to 80% now in rec and around 70% in pro am 5v5. My wife purchased me a monitor(I love it) I’m using a cable and not WiFi, I play with my controller Wired. My green window is so big it’s like all I have to do is tap that mf sometime. Turn off that meter please! It’s delayed like a mf.
Gatorade facility is trash af it’s slow and laggy and latent af
mycareer is smooth but not realistic cause of rec latency but upping the difficulty gets you to focus on getting your shot right and superstar mycareer is harder than the rec so if you hit it there then you’re good
My guy, appreciate the sauce for shooting this all really helpful. Now we need the sauce for dribbling! Someone put me on please. I only played regs 5s controlling whole team with good ball movement.
To new players/shooters, GET A SMOOTH JUMPER. Even if the attributes are worse, being able to clearly and smoothly see that point of release can help tremendously if you’re new.
You shoot 65% from three. Ok black plate lol
I shoot 65% from three but I’m purpled up… don’t know if I believe you. Overall you had some decent points
They gotta change it to find the right base tho, that’s the tough part. I went from jt thor, to ben shepp, to tmac. Each change I improved my shooting % significantly. What works for you doesn’t work for 100% everyone else.
If I didn’t change, I wouldn’t be shooting 60% and having a blast right now. I say if a jumper isn’t improving and you don’t like it, it doesn’t hurt to try others. It’s just a mental thing, you can switch back to your previous jumper no problem.
I’ve been an elite shooter/scorer since 2k18. I used the same jumper from 2k18-2k23 and had to change it for 24. The BEST advice I can give anyone (that hasn’t already been mentioned here) is to remember that the central nervous system is a complex machinery linking our brains and muscles. The best thing to do to train your brain to execute a precise movement the same exact way every time is to first:
1. (Pro tip) Position your hands the exact same way every time, specifically for catch n shoot shots. This creates a “shooting position” and trains your brain to perform that movement one way almost robotically.
2. Do NOT hold the x button prior to receiving the ball.
3. Turn your meter off. You should be focused on the animation itself, not the meter.
4. Shoot using the right stick. The devs have been trying to ween players off of the x button for years, because the right stick is designed to be a lot more intuitive and fluid.
5.(Pro tip) jumpshot animations can generally be broken down into 2 equal parts: cocking back(pressing the x button in or pulling the right stick up/down) and firing (the release of either the right stick or x button). For musicians this translates to 2 1/2 counts
Watch your cue ! Anytime I start missing alot I notice I’m not focusing on my cue
Right, same here. I'm timing them not watching it
I be shooting that bitch off the feel sometimes like past 2ks lol
I miss that. Felt more natural
All real shooters shoot off the feel. I know exactly how my jumpshots feel, look and sound (down to the sound the button makes when pressing it). You just use your visual cues so that your brain knows when the animation begins and ends. OP should’ve added to shoot with no meter to really learn the feel of the animations.
Lmao “why i miss that one?!? Oh ya I wasn’t laser focused on my 50ms release point” 😂😂😂😂 That damn 50ms green window crazy tough
Real shit lol I know it's just not what I like to look at lol
So I been at it for 2 months now, switching jump shots, switching builds, trying to figure out how to get wet wet to no avail UNTIL I took my hotspots seriously and got em all up to hot AND got my lethals AND all my shoot like badges maxed BEFORE playing against anybody other than CPU. Obviously it can be done other ways but from now on I highly recommend first things first with your build. Find a shot you like in the Gatorade gym, set the gameplay setting to whatever you comfortable with against CPU to where you can hit a high % off your shots from all over, and make it a point to ensure you are hitting at a high percentage and getting those hotspots. Max your badges. Get your lethals. Then go play h2h. Forget which YouTuber or tiktoker it was that said it but they said “You’re doing the community a disservice by NOT doing these things.” And i find that to be true. Even after you do all this, you still have to play very well to shoot 60-70%. The game is not easy. And obviously, you’ll have off games due to input lag/latency or even sometimes your teammates have 25 passing accuracy and lead you into double teams all game causing horrible shots.
Bruh I did all this on my 6’8 draymond build with a 78 three point and 84 middy and I’m shooting about 70% my mate thought I had a 90 something three ball
I probably his 80 plus on catch and shoots it depends on your shots to
I shoot 67 percent my g trust this is good advice
Ya I didn’t realize how important the hot spots are or even just playing against the CPU a fair amount to learn the moves better. From now on if I can’t rack up 40 in 5 minute quarters on HOF against CPU then I got work to do.
What do you mean? Like on the player itself?
Yea like literally watching my player hands release the ball
I was violently stoned after over-serving myself on some gummies and playing MyCareer because I was scared to play online. For some reason I started focusing on the arch of my player's back during a jumpshot, instead of the ball. Kept hitting shots so started doing stupid heat checks and those went in too. Was so thrilled at the discovery I took it online and it worked exactly the same. Now I dont watch my player's hands with the ball at all. My shot cue is when my player's back is fully arched and he's at the top of his jump. Way, way, way easier for me to time. Tried it out on other builds with different jumpers and it didn't translate. Found a jumper base that was similar, with a good jump and an arched back, and that worked better Dunno if this would work for anyone else but it sure did make me better
Lmao what shot you figure that out on
pretty sure it was the tmac base. not 100% though. not at my house and, as mentioned, I was violently stoned so not sure which of my two guard builds it was on off the top of my head
Lmao i feel it. Love when a weed high gets me superpowers w gaming. Other times im abysmal and blow my high
*abysmally high and lose my superpowers AKA stoned Stick to bright green sativas with lots of crystals for good head high/superpowers. Also taking all strain superpower suggestions. Blue Dream a nice one
Man share that jumpshot
Clearly didn’t read #2
Same
well do when I'm back at my own place.
Number 5 is it. I've been using Klays shot since 2k17, never fails me
#2 for me because I can’t hit shit with Klay’s jumper on my player lol
I’ve always used either Kobe’s jump shot or Kevin Durant’s since 2k13. However, I haven’t played a 2k game since after 2k17 until this past year when I started playing again with 2k23. I heard it was like a “meta” things to have a jump shot with a quick release for a point guard build so I would have to double check but I think I since I found that out I started using Steph Curry’s shot
I still can not shoot with Currys shot to save my life. I haven't played since 2k23 but Klays jumper is just pure, the animation jasmt changed much. Wether it's a center or guard it's automatic for me
Ya y’all really gotta stay off YouTube. I understand you don’t got time to try out every jumper just hit art of shooting and rock wit what looks good to you and feels smooth. Promise you will be a better shooter than forcing a YouTube jumper to work. Also pay attention if you are early or late a lot you gotta switch yah release
Agreed I use what works for me and what I like sort of an off meta warrior lol I have noticed during lets say a rough stretch of games I'll be slightly early and miss a lot i tried to tweak it a bit here and there just small changes nothing big.... So any suggestions on as you say switching release? 6'8 SF (90 mid 82 three)
pretty sure you get t macs base? that’s the start lol i’ll grab a specific one for you in a bit
Yeee i use Tmac - Kobe - Oscar Robinson sometimes not all the time I swap to T Ross idk why but I hit with his lol also I'm just a casual trying hard here n there so my build is not optimal i dont think I literally made it just what I like didn't look anything up so
I think 6’6 plus set point is the best
6'6 ? Really? To me 6'6 is just to middle of the road in terms of numbers and ability... With 6'7 I can commit to a direction of the build better for my style or build. 6'6 I'll have to try it out tho and with set point how do you determine your set point just practice shots I'm assuming?
So what I go by is animation and 6’6 is not a small guard. 6’5 and under is small 6’6 and over is big. That’s just my personably line. I use set point for all my builds but due to naturally smaller wingspan on smaller builds the jump shots are fast even if a 6’4 and a 6’7 have the same exact jumpshot they won’t be the same. A lot of people go release shot timing for smaller builds. Again I would just go shoot 50 shots in art of shooting. If you don’t green most of them change the timing to whatever you miss at (slightly early or slightly late).
I see and I understand this is SG world however as stated before I'm running SF but I'll apply this to my build and see what happens. The problem is on occasion during rough stretches of games or even during a game I'll be slightly early alot and miss alot just seems out of nowhere then I'm back to normal hitting and etc etc
Height applies to every position
2K changes the latency though so I look at my cue but then it says “very early”
Latency is never gonna make u miss any way but slightly late or slightly early, it’s a difference of a few milliseconds. if ur hitting very early or very late u can’t blame that on anything but you bricking tbh
>it’s a difference of a few milliseconds. Both the latency and the release are a difference of a few milliseconds. If your green window is 30 milliseconds long, and your latency is causing a 5-7 millisecond delay, you're fucked. Then let's say you get used to that latency, so you release it 5-7 milliseconds earlier. Well next game there's less latency or even no latency and now you're 3-5 milliseconds out of the green window. You're fucked. Unless you're one of the rare people shooting 80% because you've got it down to the literal 10millisecond "pure" green window, latency is gonna throw you off. It's insane that this is still in issue on next gen in 2024, 2k is a billion dollar corp that refuses to fix it and it's even more insane that people keep defending it and pretending it's not a problem. I shoot 52% but that doesn't mean the latency doesn't completely ruin my game every 3rd match. Sometimes I can't even fucking dribble properly and you wanna pretend everyone should be able to shoot perfectly fine through latency? 🤦😂
THANK YOU
Nah latency can definitely make u miss, but I doubt that being off by single digit milliseconds will give u a red “very late” or “very early” shot timing ever. People see others complaining about latency and blame it for everything when they can’t shoot, all I was saying is that hitting very far off your timing is not latency’s fault. I have legitimately never hit very late or very early on an open shot in multiplayer with anything but a 60 ovr, it takes some very fucked up timing to manage that.
I think I'd mostly agree with you tho I still think it's possible but not because of latency. I think it's possible because I personally think the shot feedback is completely broken. I've legitimately held it until the ball left my hands and it still says slightly early or some shit so I don't really trust it personally.
No there’s something that I think is a bug, you can get “very late” on wide open stand still jump shots. I shoot 58-60% on all my builds, I know 70% shooters and we’ve all experienced this shit. I know how to time wide open standstill shots, did it 10,000 times. But on certain times, not sure why, but no matter if I’m early, on point, I get a very late. It’s honestly unexplainable to me cuz I will be set, no movement, no defense, no tough pass/catch, then it’s some weird flat ass shot. It feels like that first Gatorade gym shot, no matter what you shoot, it says very late. Tell me if you’ve felt this yourself or other ppl
not true. the cue is always right regardless of latency.
figure which shot timing works well for you too… been runnin push all year and it’s worked for me but that don’t mean it works for everybody
push is money, i couldn’t hit shit on any other setting. even on play now i play with no shot meter now because the visual cue on the push is so easy
I can’t really make sense of shooting, even tho I shoot 55-60% from 3 depending on the build. I feel like meta jumpers always helped me though, if my buddy found a meta jumper and he’s shooting lights out, I copied it n then improved my %s right away. I’ve been using the same tmac shot for months now with little improvement but can’t complain because I’m happy w 55-60% At various stages of the game, I would try to stick to a jumper and very little % improvement. BUT if I switched to a new jumper that felt “natural” to me, I would see the results immediately in rec. After that I’d say it just took a short amount of time to get a bit consistent, but after that it’s like a flat plateau. This happened switching to JT thor, then Ben Sheppard, then Tmac. And these were significant % improvements I couldn’t make staying on the same jumper. . I can’t break that 65% barrier now after months on this jumper, thinking about mixing up my releases next. It’s weird, practice and sticking with a jumper hasn’t helped me but finding the right jumper/releases did all the work. Now I can shoot self created 3s off the usual behind the back, kemba escape, snatch backs etc. I think it’s kinda ridiculous that based on my experience, majority of it comes from finding the best green window jumper/releases. That was my method in 2k23 shooting 55%, now also in 2k24. Meta jumpers and little practice have me enjoying the game, besides those random games where I can’t hit shit and they give those “very late” wide open jump shots, that’s when I know I’m fucked, can never shoot that 80% on those games.
Bro if you shoot 65% why would you change? You aren’t being rationale bro…
Well that’s why I said I can’t make sense of shooting, because I feel like I should be shooting higher% , and if I can’t improve my %s anymore with sticking to the jumper/practice, I wanna try something out. Maybe it’s my fault? But then I also took the same approach when I was at 20%, 30%, 50%, now 60%. I was always looking to improve, and have been lucky that it seems changing jumpers was the key for me each time.
Honestly once you hit those percentages you need to start taking higher volume or more challenging shots to improve your game. OR use your gravity to open up more looks for teammates
I hear that, but I know some buddies who shoot 65-70%. I do take some challenging shots, I can self create iso pull up 3s, I can shoot fades but only reserve them for late clock necessary buckets. I’d say half my 3s are self created but I gladly take wide open spotups n leak outs. I take medium volume because I usually run with friends and don’t wanna take all the shots, they are also capable shooters 55-70%. I average 19-21 ppg depending on build. I can find my own shot, 3 or middy fade. That’s another reason I wanna up my % to at least 65-70, don’t wanna be taking so many iso pull-ups if I’m only hitting 58-60%.
There's this thing called, "human error." If you're shooting 65%, you're shooting insanely well. You're making nearly 7/10 jumpers. You're human. You're going to miss-time a shot inevitably because of it, regardless of skill.
63 max was only 1 build, I wanna break thru 65% tho. I am 55-60 on my others but the inconsistency bugs me, so I am just looking for improvements
The sauce for shooting is making the shooting bar large . You should never miss
Nah. The secret is turning the bar off. That shit is a crutch
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You never knew you can change the bar size ?
7. (Biggest Tip) Use a wired connection and not wifi, if you can, will dramatically lower your latency 8. Turn off the shot meter, just trust me, there are a lot of reasons why 9. Use a shot with B+ speed or higher, wide open shots vs open shots are everything 10. Use a jumpshot with a high release so you can easily see the visual queue 11. Pro tips, turn off the perfect green animations and make shot emotes. Slightly helps reduce input lag I hope 2k offer two shooting options in the future. Sniper and Rating. Sniper being like how it is now for those who do have fast connections and can perfectly time shots. Essentially green or miss. Rating being for those who aren’t perfect at timing shots but even with perfect timing you can still miss.
https://preview.redd.it/6sy0mvvmi8wc1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=eb432768a7e15766f1c1e6e202521ec19f921661 Shooting really ain’t that hard
Dropped a 102 shooting 100%, Yeah you went crazy👊🏾
Anyone get inconsistent bases sometimes tho? Like u could be shooting perfect one game then the next ur jumper looks weird and off and end up with very late animations
yeah u not alone
Yep, I’ve noticed there’s a strange “very late” shot animation. I can be standing still, wide open, no defense, no bad pass, no matter how I time it I get a very late. Sometimes I even think it’s perfect, or accidentally release early, but it’ll say very late. I am a capable shooter too, 58-60% on most my builds. It reminds me of the first Gatorade gym shot, no matter what you release, it’s “very late”. And other good shooters I know told me they experienced same shit. Not sure if it’s a bug or just sudden lag spike… but I also notice if I get that animation, my shooting is waaaay off that game.
I remember 2k16 when pure sharps were shooting 0/10 and at the same time they added boosts in the park. You could go 0/5 as a sharp and watch the glass cleaner on the other team hit a contested 3 for game. Shooting always been broke.
7. Recreate your player into a myEra and practice taking contested shots in the practice plays mode
My shot trash
Since Season3 patch, shooting has been alot more consistent, however it still has outliers. I'm shooting 72% from 3ball in Rec with 93mid/86 3ball. I could go 9/9 from 3 one game, and then proceed miss my 10th shot with takeover with same timing/visual cue. I kinda just hope its latency/lag and not built into the system for me to miss. Also with all bases, i noticed there are 2 types of loadups, 1 is your regular load up, and one is a really fast loadup. The fast one occurs randomly and has no real reason for it, it just happens. Also contest system is broken, there are times i'm 30-50% contested but my guy goes through his regular shooting motion. Then there are times i'm barely contested and my guys is shooting some weird shot.
I knew it about that fast load up!!!! You can be standing still wide open, then suddenly your jump is weird, you get a “very late”. I’ve been trying to figure how to avoid it, but it seems to happen every 3rd game or so, then I’ll be brick city that whole game… And I feel the weird contests also, I thought contests no longer affect shot timing…but like you said, sometimes it seems to take forever for your guy to go thru his motion thru a light contest, but other times smoothly thru a heavier contest…make it make sense
Just realize a lot of people got that zen plugged in, once you understand that you’ll realize you’re doing fine.
fax
None of this is relevant when you chuck up bad shots like 95% of the low IQ people do in this game The “sauce” for shooting is, wait for it, PASSING! Swing the ball to the open man, that’s the “sauce” my boy
i swear these guys arent human, like who would ply to lose😂
Latency is one of the culprit.
The game is super inconsistent. There are games where I'll shoot 3/3 in Park etc and then the next game I'll do exactly the same thing and can't hit shit. Although if I start missing I start playmaking more or rim running.
nahh fax i felt that, ion understand this
All real shooters shoot off the feel. I know exactly how my jumpshots feel, look and sound (down to the sound the button makes when pressing it). You just use your visual cues so that your brain knows when the animation begins and ends. OP should’ve added to shoot with no meter to really learn the feel of the animations.
Seriously, I’ve shot thru lag/skips because I know how the animation plays out. Yet with latency, it fucks me up so bad because I know how it should play out, but it doesn’t. Some games are a brickfest, other games I can go 10/10 and it feels easy as fuck…
what i’ve done for every 2k if i put that hoe on and i’m splashing with it first game i’m sticking with it. if it don’t feel right first game i’m going a different route. n i also use 2k labs
Same bro. If a jumper is good, you feel it in the first game. Then I stick w it, if it feels broke af I change it up. I might give it 2 game try
3 More things: 1. BE CONFIDENT!!! I cannot preach this enough! A lot times I see people who miss 2 or 3 in a row and just give up. SHOOTERS SHOOT, KEEP FIRING…unless you 0/5-0/7 then find a different way to impact the game the ball will eventually find you play the right way. 2. DO YOUR HOT ZONES. That’s it. 3. Try to hunt open shots the open shot are a lot easier to green.
fax i hate when people flop because somebody miss honestly i keep passing because nobodys perfect, and eventually they shot will start dropping
Im 6’8 with a 78 three using David Roddy base, default upper 1, and klay upper 2. Fastest speed, I forget the blending off the top my head tho. It’s something like 65 klay/ 35 default or something close to that
i use the same release, with thor base
Lowkey wanna try that with Thor base ngl. Roddy base is good but it can be better. The thing I like about it is the legs swing forward a lil, and while using push release, I let it go when the legs swing starts and it works good, but it can be better bc sometimes it won’t give me it even if I release it the exact same. Imma try Thor with that upper now that u say it, I feel it’ll be more consistent
Terrance Mann what im currently using they both good but its a lil quicker on Terrance Mann
I say the best way to learn your shot is in game, park rec, and definitely pro am. IMO the timing in Gatorade gym is severely different from actual online gameplay.
no gatorade is the same as park, and pro am and rec is similar to mycareer, its usually smoother
I have to disagree with this one. I agree that the facility is close to the same as park but with my career to park, no. I had to stop playing MC bc of the latency in park. Jumpshot timing is definitely slower going from MC to park for sure.
My career to rec and pro am\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*
It’s almost may, if people still haven’t figured out shooting it’s a lost cause
Not everyone got it when it came out
You right I’m forgetting it got discounted / free
Right, I just started and needed this info
Right 67 percent from 3, and i don't use any youtube jumper. I tried em. Tried 2klabs biggest green window all that. for me, I have to see the hands above the head not in front of the face.
I started playing play now online and found out OG Anunoby and DeAndre Hunter work well for me so i use their jumpers on my builds now
The worse your internet is the more of a moving target that cue is. I’ve been experimenting with different internet configurations (not for 2k reasons) and I’ve seen my percentages be all over the place. Now that my internet is back to how it was two months ago I’m above 70% through 25 or so games with my lowest shooting attributes
Hey, no idea what you mean but what suggestion for this? I’m willing to try anything to improve my shooting
The more stable your internet the more consistent your jumper will be, this year more than most years
Oh I get that, I meant what configurations did you make to improve this ?
I have gig speed internet standard in my house but I was messing around with power line extenders and running long cat6 cables into separate rooms but my best shooting performances comes from just hard wired router to PS5. I also maybe had issues with my computer monitor vs my TV but I’ve yet to troubleshoot that
Lmao all good…the things we do to play 2k 🤦♂️
I was tryna setup to start streaming (figured as much as I play let’s make a lil $$) but my shooting percentages were dropping trying to configure the internet in the room I wanna stream from lol
For me it’s not the jump shot, it’s everything but the jumper. Just trying to position is tough because the display time difference. Trying to play defense if you don’t have a Rythm can be just as hard. It’s tough when you can see the game at a speed but can’t play to that speed because you are constantly waiting for the game to catch up to you. I played my first game since 2k23 and I hit 2/2 from the corner which was fuckin awesome but getting to the corner when I wanted to while trying to shake your guy to get open all at once feels so clunky.
I’ve basically never really been able to shoot as a big man since playing 2k, until I saw someone on here tell me to get rid of the jumpshot meter and just learn the timing of the release. I’m shooting like 43% from 3 in MC while taking 4-5 a game on HOF.
Honestly i only be changing jumpshots when i wanna spice things up in a game or i find that jumpshot chicken in a diff build. But it is good advice for ppl who use 1-3 builds that arent very similar
I honestly thought s6 ruined my ability to shoot, but it came good again. Hope that helped.
Exactly I hate when I hear “jump shot 30 is the best” it might be the best for you but doesn’t mean it’s the best for me
Agreed. I personally hate the t mac base. It doesn’t agree with me at all
Facts!!!! Glad someone said this. The shooting is not that hard this year literally just takes practice. I shoot 74% from the field and 70% from 3
play mycareer on hof difficulty. the timing is more strict there than it is in rec/park so if you can shoot there you literally won’t miss when you play online
its season 6 shooting has gotten so easy through all the changes that if you cant shoot 50 percent from 3 consistently these things will not improve your game
So I been at it for 2 months now, switching jump shots, switching builds, trying to figure out how to get wet wet to no avail UNTIL I took my hotspots seriously and got em all up to hot AND got my lethals AND all my shoot like badges maxed BEFORE playing against anybody other than CPU. Obviously it can be done other ways but from now on I highly recommend first things first with your build. Find a shot you like in the Gatorade gym, set the gameplay setting to whatever you comfortable with against CPU to where you can hit a high % off your shots from all over, and make it a point to ensure you are hitting at a high percentage and getting those hotspots. Max your badges. Get your lethals. Then go play h2h. Forget which YouTuber or tiktoker it was that said it but they said “You’re doing the community a disservice by NOT doing these things.” And i find that to be true. Even after you do all this, you still have to play very well to shoot 60-70%. The game is not easy. And obviously, you’ll have off games due to input lag/latency or even sometimes your teammates have 25 passing accuracy and lead you into double teams all game causing horrible shots.
I shoot 71% from 3 with an 85 3 ball and I have used the same jump shot since the beginning of the game.
I shoot 60% from 3 and I’ve been changing my jumper since beginning til I found the right one. I was shooting 20%, then 30%, then 45%, etc til 60%. Each time I improved, I tried to stick w that jumper to “improve” with practice. Barely happened, maybe a few % til I settled in. Then I change jumper and it’ll be an immediate magically 10% increase…then I stick with it and again no improvement. That’s why when I was shooting badly it was frustrating, I was a good shooter in 2k23 and know how to time jumpers, but it just feels so inconsistent still game to game.
Use PUSH. It’s the most reliable visual que.
I’ve been on push for months now too, I use to use release.
I agree with everything he said for the most part and I shoot around 80% from 3. I found and created my shot starting with Eric pascal base. I don’t play park at all but I have some recommendations that helped me go from 23% season 1 to 80% now in rec and around 70% in pro am 5v5. My wife purchased me a monitor(I love it) I’m using a cable and not WiFi, I play with my controller Wired. My green window is so big it’s like all I have to do is tap that mf sometime. Turn off that meter please! It’s delayed like a mf.
I’m shooting 78% now and I’m still complaining. I think we just expect so much back since we put actual money in this game
Gatorade facility is trash af it’s slow and laggy and latent af mycareer is smooth but not realistic cause of rec latency but upping the difficulty gets you to focus on getting your shot right and superstar mycareer is harder than the rec so if you hit it there then you’re good
Play 24/7! 2K24 is a full time career.
I see a lot of Zen users online since MIke Wang can't stop them.
i can nvr tell tbh
My guy, appreciate the sauce for shooting this all really helpful. Now we need the sauce for dribbling! Someone put me on please. I only played regs 5s controlling whole team with good ball movement.
Don’t picc a fuccing cue because of a Tik tok or YouTube you saw , they had me using release shooting shitty now i shoot jump and am 70% three shooter
lol my 3point % at 67% rn and I feel like a failure
We’re in April. If you still can’t shoot you need to find a new game to play.
To new players/shooters, GET A SMOOTH JUMPER. Even if the attributes are worse, being able to clearly and smoothly see that point of release can help tremendously if you’re new.
You shoot 65% from three. Ok black plate lol I shoot 65% from three but I’m purpled up… don’t know if I believe you. Overall you had some decent points
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My number one pet peeve is people who always change their jumper. The second I find a base I keep it for the entire year
They gotta change it to find the right base tho, that’s the tough part. I went from jt thor, to ben shepp, to tmac. Each change I improved my shooting % significantly. What works for you doesn’t work for 100% everyone else. If I didn’t change, I wouldn’t be shooting 60% and having a blast right now. I say if a jumper isn’t improving and you don’t like it, it doesn’t hurt to try others. It’s just a mental thing, you can switch back to your previous jumper no problem.
fax
I’ve been an elite shooter/scorer since 2k18. I used the same jumper from 2k18-2k23 and had to change it for 24. The BEST advice I can give anyone (that hasn’t already been mentioned here) is to remember that the central nervous system is a complex machinery linking our brains and muscles. The best thing to do to train your brain to execute a precise movement the same exact way every time is to first: 1. (Pro tip) Position your hands the exact same way every time, specifically for catch n shoot shots. This creates a “shooting position” and trains your brain to perform that movement one way almost robotically. 2. Do NOT hold the x button prior to receiving the ball. 3. Turn your meter off. You should be focused on the animation itself, not the meter. 4. Shoot using the right stick. The devs have been trying to ween players off of the x button for years, because the right stick is designed to be a lot more intuitive and fluid. 5.(Pro tip) jumpshot animations can generally be broken down into 2 equal parts: cocking back(pressing the x button in or pulling the right stick up/down) and firing (the release of either the right stick or x button). For musicians this translates to 2 1/2 counts
I shoot 80 percent. This is definitely facts
I SHOT 90. facts. definitely.
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You realize not everyone got the game immediately on release...right?