Weekly Challenges have been revamped for MyTeam this year. Every week of challenges completed nets you a token. 3 Tokens and get a reward. The first reward is a Saphire Robert Pack!
Robert Pack is super black! Im talkin’ high top fades, high top dunks, and high speed! He also is a great example of one of my favorite things that MyTeam does; they highlight really good, fan favorite players from the past who are probably not Hall of Famers or had a short span of relevance. Pack is a perfect example of this, he started in junior college, went undrafted and had an avg. rookie season in Portland. He then goes to the Nuggets and becomes one of the best PGs in the league for a 4-5 years period, peaking with an avg. 18 points per game in the ’95-’96 season.
He would never achieve those numbers again declining every year after that, eventually playing over seas and becoming an NBA coach. There is no way you could have watched the NBA in the ’90s and not been hype watching Robert Pack play. Those Nuggets teams were awesome! They pulled off some great play-off upsets and just exemplified fun basketball.
His card is SO NASTY in NBA 2K17 MyTeam! He’s fast and doesn’t turn the ball over. 2K still has this issue where if you dribble near other defenders the ball will dribble off their foot. It’s like NBA guards can’t handle ANY pressure. If they don’t lose the ball they pick it up. Pack can keep his dribble. He dunks HARD and he makes his lay ups.
Pack also has a high steal rating so he can get the ball without fouling on players as good as Westbrook. Pack’s biggest weakness is that he is a C three point shooter. He will hit the open three but he is not pulling up like Curry. Pack is also a great free throw shooter. He can slash inside and draw contact and get you easy buckets. For 2K this year, that skill is invaluable. If you shoot more than 3 three pointers and 10 free throws you earn MT by the % of shots made in those 2 categories instead of just getting MT for made shots.
He also has a dope hairstyle. The high top fade with the part is nothing new in the NBA these days but there is something special about it when Robert Pack is rocking it and that’s because he is wearing it as a current style and not a throwback.
His cards also just look awesome!
All that said the final challenge to unlock Saphire Robert Pack is a beast. You need to beat the New Jersey Nets on All-Pro and hold them to 50 points or less total in a 6 min Quarter game. Winning the game is not too hard, the issue is holding the Nets to under 50 points. This probably took me 10 attempts. My issue is that everyone on the team can hit an open 3, and Lin/Lopez run a devastating pick and roll. Jeremy Lin plays like John Stockton in this game and Brooke Lopez plays like Karl Malone, it’s so frustrating. If you play man to man, go under the screen Lin will hit the J. Lin will also drive and always draw the foul. Lopez will pick and pop and hit everything with a hand or 3 in his face. The issue here is the defense starts to sag inside leaving a myriad of open 3’s. I tried a 2-3 zone and No. They shot me out of the zone asap. What I ended up doing was choosing very specific personnel, turning off auto computer coaching and ran Man to man defense with the “No three’s” call. J.J. Hickson owns Lopez and Jay Williams/Doug Christie kept my defense solid. Derrick Favors is killer on offense and rebounds extremely well! The most important things you need are rebounding and somebody who can guard Lopez. I also had Q, J.J. Redick, and Robert Horry hitting 3’s for me as well. Aaron Brooks was my bronze card of the bench. He’s very fast, and can shoot.
On offense at first I tried to be sllloowwww. I would run the shot clock down to 3 seconds and dump it into the post to score. The problem I would have is that the game would slow down but the computer would be hyper aggressive. I would score in 22 seconds, the computer would score in 7 seconds. If they went on a run it was almost impossible to make up ground. What I learned is that all you need is one good quarter that keeps the computer off pace for 50. Play normal, try and get as big a lead as you can in the first half and then clamp down and slow the game down in the 3rd Quarter.
Hold the computer to 25-30 in the first half and then shut them out in the 3rd. No more than 6-8pts. Control the possessions. Take 4 seconds to throw the ball in, the clock runs. Foul bad free throw shooters on the Nets to keep them from hitting easy shots. Take all the shot clock you can to score, miss shots grab boards and spend another 24. You can use a minute in 1 possession with a good offensive rebound. If all goes well the computer will play desperate in the 4th and start jacking contested 3’s. You win. Enjoy Robert Pack. You earned him.
UPDATE- New weekly challenges. Complete the newest round to get that 3rd token if you haven’t already. Final challenge is rough. You must beat the Mavs and hold them to only 8 three-pointers or less. I suggest going into the menus (coaching) and turn off help defense and adjust man pressure to tight. Put your best defender on Dirk. Keep the game close. Closer score, fewer desperation threes. Otherwise you can try the 3-2 zone but I don’t think the players rotate well and you get killed in the corners. Be careful running the break, the computer pulls up a lot. The computer also refuses to shoot mid-range J’s. They are always stepping back so be aware! and Good luck!
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