12:38 AM - July 11, 2012 by Steve_OS
During the 2K Sports NBA 2K13 live stream interview with Kevin Durant and Blake Griffin, Ronnie Singh confirmed both of their ratings.
Kevin Durant - 95
Blake Griffin - 87
*Ratings are subject to change.
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12:38 AM - July 11, 2012 by Steve_OSDuring the 2K Sports NBA 2K13 live stream interview with Kevin Durant and Blake Griffin, Ronnie Singh confirmed both of their ratings.
Kevin Durant - 95
Blake Griffin - 87
*Ratings are subject to change.
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As long as athleticism and skills are combined together into one rating, Blake griffin is always going to have an overrated Ovr compared to other nonathletic PF's that are without question better than him.
I must be the only one around here who likes Blake Griffin. He may be a little over hyped, but he's still a good basketball player. 20 and 10 is nothing to scoff at and he should only be getting better.
Even if all he can do is dunk, he's a damn good dunker with hyper athleticism.
Except he can do more than dunk.
He's flashed other abilities too. Things that are coachable and things he should learn barring another injury or setback.
Anyways, overall isn't and hasn't been the be all end all to how they play on the court, or gridiron, or what have you, the individual ratings determine what they do and how they play. So much attention is payed to overall it's getting kind of cliche to get outraged at it nowadays.
Even if all he can do is dunk, he's a damn good dunker with hyper athleticism.
Except he can do more than dunk.
He's flashed other abilities too. Things that are coachable and things he should learn barring another injury or setback.
Anyways, overall isn't and hasn't been the be all end all to how they play on the court, or gridiron, or what have you, the individual ratings determine what they do and how they play. So much attention is payed to overall it's getting kind of cliche to get outraged at it nowadays.
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JerzeyReign @ 07/13/12 06:25 AM
Well, the best thing about 2k's rating is the fact that if you don't know how to use that 'overrated' player, he'll still be average.
Same old complaints every year the ratings are fine, and skill outweighs ratings anyway so it's not that serious
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JerzeyReign @ 07/13/12 09:06 AM
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On offense, he's a nightmare -- on defense, he's just long and doesn't know how to move his feet while trying to play defense with his hands. He looks as if he's playing great defense because teams are hesitant about driving towards Perkins and Ibaka.
Then you have to think about who he goes up against in the West -- I may be overlooking a guy or two but the best one off the top of my head is Rudy Gay. After that you'll have to start mentioning names like Beasley, Marion, or MWP. The SF position out West isn't as star powered like the East. Then you have to think about him being 6'10 and being the height of a power forward -- and inability he has to guard such a position.
But you say he's great at defense? No, he's a member of a great defensive team. On defense, I compare him to Tayshaun Prince on those early 2000s Detroit Piston teams. When you compare the Thunder (on defense) to that team you can see what I'm talking about. Guards that can stay with their man (Westbrook/Billups or Hamilton/Sefolosha) and interior big men who love to be physical (Wallace/Ibaka or Perkins/B.Wallace) -- then you add the long, linky person which would be Durant and Prince.
Now all that was just for comparison reasoning only -- I'm not saying Prince is better than Durant so lets nip that in the bud early.
If you want to say Durant is a good defender, ehhh, I don't agree but don't say he's great. Thats overrating him in an area in which he needs to improve drastically in if he wants to become a true NBA legend.
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bfrombleacher @ 07/13/12 11:01 AM
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Anyway.
How do you compare Melo and Dirk?
Better yet, how about Al Jefferson and Joakim Noah? One's a scorer, one provides defense among other things. How do you justify rating one higher than the other?
How about Iguodala and Rudy Gay? Again, one's defense and the other is offense.
Timberwolves fans...is Beasley seriously "overall" better than every other player under 80? Hell, even Beasley himself questions it (I have nothing but love for him and hope he succeeds.)
I think they do bump up players a little at times to get their ratings up so they could please more people.
Most role players...hell, most players who aren't superstars get screwed by this system.
Removing the OVR completely allows them to just focus on putting the players in the game accurately, instead of having to spend hours meticulously creating a formula where that the more popular players get the higher OVRs and all that political correctness bullcrap. Maybe they could instead develop other modes...say Association...
You really think that in every single case a player is absolutely better than the other (even "OVERALL")?
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thatman003 @ 07/13/12 11:42 AM
Durant's rating is where it needs to be... He does need to improve his strength to keep from getting posted up/bumped on pics but you can't say he does not block shots, play the passing lane, shoot the mid-range and the 3 and he posterizes ppl... Hell, he led the league in scoring for how many years? 3 yrs in a row! He's been in the league for how long??? 5 years... Led his team to the Finals how fast??? 5 years... Sounds like a pretty darn good player to me.
Listen.
Blake Griffin is an 86 or 87 deservedly on 2K. For you guys saying he's, not better than A. Jefferson, Aldridge, etc. just look at who made the USA team. I'm sure Coach K. Doesn't give 2 hoots about Griffins dunking skills. Its was Griffin at the 4 until he tore his meniscus and they throw my guy in there.
Also off topic : Im surprised I'm the first to note this here, anyone else find it odd Griffin got hurt after being announced after being on the cover? D. Rose was already hurt so now this leaves Durant. If Durant gets injured I'm going to say its not an coincidence!
Blake Griffin is an 86 or 87 deservedly on 2K. For you guys saying he's, not better than A. Jefferson, Aldridge, etc. just look at who made the USA team. I'm sure Coach K. Doesn't give 2 hoots about Griffins dunking skills. Its was Griffin at the 4 until he tore his meniscus and they throw my guy in there.
Also off topic : Im surprised I'm the first to note this here, anyone else find it odd Griffin got hurt after being announced after being on the cover? D. Rose was already hurt so now this leaves Durant. If Durant gets injured I'm going to say its not an coincidence!
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I think they have his speed the same as most Power Forwards! Did 2k even watch ANY of Hayward's highlights at Butler, or even in Utah? He's blocking as much shots as LeBron does but they still give LeBron that high block rating and Hayward's is in the 50's.
2k needs to stop this biased B.S., because other guys are getting screwed over as well. Enes Kanter is a much better player than his 2k counterpart. And so is Rajon Rondo even. Mark my words, Rondo is the BEST point guard in the NBA. Hands down. That series against Miami was fantastic. Without Rondo, the Celtics wouldn't have gotten past the 76ers. But yet, they give him NO jumpshot at all! He's a much better shooter than people think, that 44 point game was no fluke.
I just hope that the 2k insider doesn't let us down like he did in 2k12, because those ratings were abysmal.
By far one of the worse ratings in the game is Nick Collison. His defense awareness is like in the 40s or 50s, but AMARE STOUDIMIRE defense awareness is like in the 70s. Thats stupid.
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So your argument on why Blake Griffin is better than A. Jefferson and L. Aldridge is because he made the Olympics?!
THAT'S A CLOWN STATEMENT BRO!!
And to your other ludicrous statement, this isn't Madden, please stop.
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# 76
JerzeyReign @ 07/14/12 06:45 AM
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# 77
cjallure24 @ 07/14/12 07:55 AM
I never put too much stock in 2K default rosters. There will be edited versions with more true to life ratings post release.
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# 79
Rancid Radio @ 07/14/12 02:41 PM
What these ratings tell me is that Scalabrine better be 90+ overall.
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AirJordanFan93 @ 07/14/12 02:46 PM
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