@Gillie2kstone Your pro am point is super true, ranked pro am is a bunch of stinkers. Red plate squad rec gets you playing against professional teams. Especially in Europe, you’ll face a bunch of kids in ranked pro am, then in rec you’ll face against a 3x eFIBA champion 🤷🏻♂️
@Gillie2kstone That’s pretty cool to hear! There’s a whole community on 2k26 called ‘PC Refugees’ a bunch of players who played European 2k on PC and did like rec and pro am. Now they’re a crew and they’re pretty good. Maybe you know some of them 🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
@Gillie2kstone In Europe, ranked pro am is dead most of the year bc of there being no reason to play it. Takes longer to find a game, higher difficulty and what do you get for this? Nothing. Fire jerseys tho. Proving grounds same thing here, abundance of options make sq rec easier to jump into
@Gillie2kstone I have to add, I’m a European player. All the good teams would rather run squad rec than ranked pro am, because you’ll face more bums in ranked pro am than full red plate squad rec. In most games there is an extra incentive for playing ranked (rewards based on ranking up)
@WLRjbleg The main problem is not being rewarded for being at the top of the food chain. If the game is giving you tougher matches, why not get better rewards aswell? More rep, more vc? Reward a player for being good, then SBMM will feel rewarding.
@yxrick@weluvtc@Beluba@NBA2K It’s like being a couple of MS away from the green window. You’ll usually see it when you time a contested shot near perfect. The green window shrunk because of the contest, but you were inside ur ‘open’ window. Then it’ll show slightly (late/early)