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Tyrese Haliburton: ‘A lot of my hoop knowledge in knowing how to play comes from video games’ (hoopshype.com)

submitted 10 months ago by EarthWarping@alien.top to c/nba@nba.space

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[–] TatersTot@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (10 children)

I forgot which big man said they learned block timing from playing 2K

But gamers deadass knew the value of spacing by like NBA2K8 years before the actual league

[–] DarkSoulsDarius@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

I always want to say this but feel like I'd be mocked lol.

It is just a game so it wasn't realistic, but 5 out with heavy rotations on defense and aggressive help defense to force turnovers was always my jam in the 2000 2k days. It's just that I found it unrealistic for them to do in real life until they did it. I'm not sure it was a talent thing as much of a coaching thing that teams didn't go down this route faster.

Similarly playing 2k like Presti does.

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