Why do people need the "who to guard" arrow

[KehliahoMauiFootball]

imo this messes up my park 'cause instead of rotating and playing defense, guys are staring at their dumb arrow. I turn mine off in the controller settings. if you don't know who to guard or get confused after a few games, then pretty sure you're not gonna understand defense.

[tupacwizard]

Just makes it easier to see where your man is when you're helping on D, especially when there are players on the court that look similar.

[Ownal0t]

the arrow is there to let people know who their man is ,when you get that one guy who feel hes the best defender in the whole game and ruins all the match ups

[DakkoN]

Because it's supposed to be used as a visual aid, NOT a crutch.

It's a God send for people who play on camera views that doesn't always allow you to see your matchup. In 2K view when you have it turned off you could be on the completely other side of the court as your matchup because you can't actually see them until they are long past half court.

Just because there's a mechanic in the game you don't use or don't understand, doesn't make it useless. There's definitely less useful things worth complaining about.

[BellSKA]

Your teammate grade is more dependent on it now too. I agree that you should play help/ rotate defense and not get burned for it, but because of the potential dropping of your grade it almost forces you to not.

[Shady Mike]

Quote: Originally Posted by KehliahoMauiFootball

imo this messes up my park 'cause instead of rotating and playing defense, guys are staring at their dumb arrow. I turn mine off in the controller settings. if you don't know who to guard or get confused after a few games, then pretty sure you're not gonna understand defense.

Why do people feel the need to complain about game mechanics that have no negative effect on anything? You don't know what another player is looking at on his own screen...

[KehliahoMauiFootball]

Quote: Originally Posted by Shady Mike

Why do people feel the need to complain about game mechanics that have no negative effect on anything? You don't know what another player is looking at on his own screen...

I already listed the negative effects. And I've talked to plenty of ballers -- crew, mypark - many of them use /need the arrow. Also check out any 2k15 stream or youtube vid, most use the noob arrow. Not using the arrow is probably in the minority. I just don't understand how someone can call themselves "good" and yet have no idea who they're supposed to guard without needing an arrow to tell them. I understand it's for a visual aid, but you'd think after 10 games you'd get the hang of it right? The problem is some guys never learn how to play rotation defense (case in point: my park) because they're obsessed with doing what the arrow tells them instead of deciding for themselves where to be on the court.

many arrow users are like Knicks or Twolves on defense --> aka "that's YOUR man dude!"

as opposed to a team like the Warriors or Spurs --> constantly switching on defense and not obsessed with "their man", only team defense.

[Shady Mike]

Quote: Originally Posted by KehliahoMauiFootball

I already listed the negative effects. And I've talked to plenty of ballers -- crew, mypark - many of them use /need the arrow. Also check out any 2k15 stream or youtube vid, most use the noob arrow. Not using the arrow is probably in the minority. I just don't understand how someone can call themselves "good" and yet have no idea who they're supposed to guard without needing an arrow to tell them. I understand it's for a visual aid, but you'd think after 10 games you'd get the hang of it right? The problem is some guys never learn how to play rotation defense (case in point: my park) because they're obsessed with doing what the arrow tells them instead of deciding for themselves where to be on the court. many arrow users are like Knicks or Twolves on defense --> aka "that's YOUR man dude!" as opposed to a team like the Warriors or Spurs --> constantly switching on defense and not obsessed with "their man", only team defense.

Uh yea ok, this is a non-issue. You said that you turn it off in your settings so I suggest you just keep doing that and worry about your game instead of worrying about what other people are doing on their screen in their game.