ESPN NBA 2K5 (XBox) help

[Guest John Cena]

I have a general question about gameplay. Every time I get a player in the paint, sometimes backing down the defender, (let's say I am playing as Shaq) I don't have a problem scoring. But the thing is they always do these layups when often times I'd like them to go for a dunk. How do I do that because I can't for the life of me figure out how and it's a bit annoying. The only time I can pull off dunks of any kind are on fast breaks.

[thuganomic]

I would try hitting Turbo while doing the layup.

[Guest John Cena]

Hmm, I coulda sworn I tried that but I'll give it another go

[Guest John Cena]

No, holding turbo didn't work :-\

[thuganomic]

Who are you using? Maybe they just can't dunk.

[Guest John Cena]

I'm playing an association as the Miami Heat and this is Shaq we're talking about :-\...

Every time I'm in the paint and I back down the defender, then I hold turbo and press the shoot button and he just turns around and shoots the ball.

Edited December 31, 2004 by John Cena

[thuganomic]

Are you going in the direction of the basket? :-/

[apsham]

Maybe the butoon just isn't that responsice, try hitting it a little bit before you usually do, and make sure you keep moving, in my experience with basketball games, you can run into players and get stopped in your tracks, making you shoot not dunk.

[EWRFan]

I have the game for the PS2 and the same thing always happens to me. I think you cant do it. I have tried with the likes of Shaq, Duncan, KG and Yao and nobody does it.

[Guest John Cena]

well the thing is i am pretty sure i did it once or twice a long time ago but haven't since. plus the computer does it to me all the time (let's not comment on the fact that i play bad defense )

[Psicosis]

Hold Turbo then press shoot once (pressing it twice will do some sort of fancy lay-up). Also as thuganomic said, some players will never dunk (Steve Nash is one that comes to mind).

[Guest John Cena]

so i just press shoot once, not hold the button down (cuz that's what i've been doing)?

[thuganomic]

I know that if you push shoot and then shoot during the dunk, it changes to a layup. Maybe that has something to do with it?

I just played, and I dunked fine with Eddy Curry, Chandler, and Antonio Davis

[Guest John Cena]

im gonna have to try all this stuff tomorrow as im tired now, thoroughly confused and i need to think

[Guest ch1ppy08]

Make sure everything's pretty much clear on the way to the net. It doesn't help going: because if you swing around a defender, you're gonna end up laying it up. Trying driving straight down the key!

edit: John Cena, I love your sig. We relly hate those Yanks here in MN!

Edited January 1, 2005 by ch1ppy08

[Toe]

Also, hitting Y drives to the lane, and doing that and then doing the turbo and shoot thing will usually lead to a dunk. Backing down a defender almost never gets you a dunk unless you become open, because you need to shoot around or over that defender. Using the crossover then hitting Y, I dunk every time with Emeka Okafor on the Bobcats. Just be careful and hitting Y when not driving to the hole will lead to a travelling call.

[Guest John Cena]

Ok, I think I've got all that down so I'll try it out a bit later.

ch1ppy08: I'm a Sox fan so naturally everybody needs to kno that I hate the Yanks