My Player Attributes or Abilities???

[Bobby Baseball]

Which is more important, attributes or abilities? As far as I have noticed, attributes seem to be more influential. With my point guard, his jumper wasn't good at all until I boosted his mid range attribute. His stepback jumper ability is still Poor, but he can still hit the stepback jumper just fine. How important are abilities?

[WinkingWesley]

The attributes are the first thing I would upgrade till u feel u have kind of rounded out ur guy the way u want and then go get the abilities u want... Both do affect u but first priority would b attributes then abilities

[Angel_G]

I was manually updating some players attributes on an older roster, from the new 2K roster and I realized that having "Great" in abilities increases the overall. Ex: Gortat in new update is 80, without ability edits he is a 77.