Barmelo Xanthony

[Barmelo Xanthony @BarmeloGotBands]

Dribbling and having fun isn’t waste, fraud, or abuse. Are you dumb? The NBA from your perspective must not have any isolation moments. I’m confident you’ve never seen Allen Iverson cross Jordan, Kyrie cross Brandon Knight, Haliburton cross Ausar, Jamal Crawford cross Lance Stephenson. “Dribble spammers” want to have fun and variety. I’ll say this, it’s easy for me to get buckets against TommyTouchdowns123. But when someone with actual thumbs is guarding me, moves don’t work like that on a consistent basis because there’s no snappiness, no explosiveness, quickness, or actual “bop” to the movement. All that “slow it down” and “pace” is not effective against someone who knows what they are doing. I’d love for it to work, but it simply doesn’t. Look, if you want to enjoy your ProPlay fantasies, that’s fine, but it should solely be offline or in PlayNow Online. Forcing realism in a video game isn’t good. Simulation of real life in games can be okay, but only where you’re playing by yourself. When dealing with servers, lag/latency, and other humans who can actively think - every second, detail, and frame matters. So slow dribble moves aren’t good. Combos have to be effective and have variety. Again, no one wants to play meta. But if you want to win, you’re going to play meta, especially if Options A, B, C, and D are taken away from you. Imagine it like this, you’re right handed, but your right hand gets chopped off - what are you going to do? Begin to use your left. Why? Because that’s the Most Efficient Tactic Available - META. But if you could get a hand replacement and it were available for free with no problems, you’d do it. You’d have variety.

[Barmelo Xanthony @BarmeloGotBands]

2K19 Combos
•momentum behind the back
•momentum behind the back snatch
•momentum spin back
•walking sizeups
•double behind the back (Jamal Crawford for example)
•double crossover
•crossover into between the legs
•double between the legs
•between the legs spam (Jamal Crawford could be spammed)
•ability to spam switch between regular sizeup and park sizeup
•park sizeups
•momentum spin back half spin
•momentum hesi
•triple threat sizeup into regular sizeup into park sizeup then spam switching between regular and park sizeup
•behind the back shammgod
•fake behind the back crossover
•fake behind the back crossover stepback
•walking backwards sizeups
•momentum from left/right then crossover between the legs back to left/right (depending on ball hand when you start the move)
•momentum into a walking sizeup

Animation Sets/Layouts In 2K19
Walking Forward Sizeup
Standstill Sizeup/Breakdown Combo
Park Sizeup/Breakdown Combo
Triple Threat Sizeup/Breakdown Combo
Sizeup Moves (Flicking the stick back and forth, not the breakdown combo)
Crossover
Double Crossover
Behind The Back
Double Behind The Back
Hesitation/Running Stepback
Double Hesitation
Double Between The Legs

Tell me what combos I have listed that you can do in 27. These are ACTUAL COMBO MOVES FROM 19. You can’t do this now. So until actual combos come back and variety is restored, defense will continue to get nerfed and offense will run the game. Y’all continuously fail to realize that the more offense gets nerfed, the more defense gets nerfed. If @Beluba brings the offense back to its former glory, then defense can be good

[Barmelo Xanthony @BarmeloGotBands]

You didn’t read did you? Dribblers DON’T WANT to use the same sigs. Go back to 2K19 and watch a @STEEZO_THE_GOD video. Then a @Hankdatank video. Then @BaldCrackhead . Then @colethemanyt . Then @imdavisss . Then @Stahtistics_ . Tell me how many of them had the EXACT SAME layout for their animations. None. Cause there was variety and actual combos that could be learned and required actual skill

[Barmelo Xanthony @BarmeloGotBands]

You just said a whole bunch of nothing. This isn’t about shooting. It’s about dribbling. I can literally tell you dribble combos that have been removed since 2K19!!! The reason for 95% of dribblers playing the same or “cheesing” isn’t because dribblers want to do that, they do that out of necessity to have fun and score. Dribblers have dealt with combos being removed, ankle breakers happening 1 out of 20 games, height restrictions, locked animations, 5-6 moves being usable, button delay, spamming, animations and animation sets being removed, etc. Dribblers haven’t had an actual 2K dedicated to us in YEARS. No dribbler thinks that defense should be bad. But until @Beluba gives us our freedom and 2K19 movement back, we’ll continue to complain about defense, get it nerfed, and then defenders will have to suffer the consequences because Mike refuses to bring back 19’s movement

[Barmelo Xanthony @BarmeloGotBands]

@Beluba REMOVE SPEED UPS, SLOW DOWNS, AND THE WINDOW MOVING. YOU CLAIM TO CARE FOR CASUALS. IF YOU DO, YOU’D REALIZE THAT THIS SHOOTING MODEL HURTS CASUALS. MOVING WINDOWS DO NOTHING TO CHEATERS AND ONLY HURT REGULAR PLAYERS AND CASUALS. STOP FORCING REALISM ON EVERYONE. THIS GAMEPLAY ISN’T FUN. SIMPLE FIXES FOR 27 GO AS FOLLOWS

1. No speed ups/slow downs or moving window on shooting. Shooting either needs to be like 24 Patch 2 or 26 in general

2. Leave defense the same, but fix contests

3. Dribbling needs to be more efficient and effective. I should be getting out of moves quickly. Defense can be considered too good. Dribblers sometimes can’t disconnect or get by defenders

[Barmelo Xanthony @BarmeloGotBands]

@Beluba can that weird secondary behind the back that’s used in place of your BTB escape be removed? Because the way the game is currently set up, you have to get your escape to do a misdirection BTB. Either remove that unnecessary BTB or can we just freely do the misdirection with no escape? @Beluba

[Glock 19 @Glock9teen_yt]

please bring back pro/elite dribble moves and signature styles along with nba animations. these types of dribble moves brought a unique variety to the animations, now we are limited to only nba player animations. as you can see it used to be hundreds of moves that you can use. “ standing sizeup combos” “moving sizeup combos” “park size ups” triple threat size ups” list goes on.. and on top of that you didn’t have to rely on specific animations that you can speed boost out of. for example every guard below 6’5 uses darius garland dribble style because it’s the only move you can burst out of consistently. dribble styles are useless when there is only a couple of decent ones.#nba2k26 #nba2k25 @Beluba @itsEvanCC @CHoops4Life @Da_Czar @Ronnie2K