Basically every game he plays in, Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry will make a ridiculous shot that will make you shake your head. Curry can literally cross half court, pull up and swish a shot from well beyond the arc. This is basically impossible to defend and is even creating problems for the developers of the popular video game series NBA 2K.
At times during games, Curry seems like he is in "video game mode" and because of this, NBA 2K developers are actually having a difficult time coding him because of what he does in real life.
From Forbes Magazine:
So if you’re a basketball game developer, what do you do? You spend years developing a system that rewards good shot selections and punish players for taking ill-advised long range shots, but the real-life Steph is taking and making these supposedly terrible shots. If Wang and his team allow digital Steph to do these moves (meaning, take 25-foot bombs off the dribble) in the game without check, then that would just open the door for cheese again.
So yeah, Steph has the 2K guys somewhat stumped for now.
“To be completely honest, we are still looking for ways to better translate his game into NBA 2K,” says Wang. “He’s a ‘rule breaker’ when it comes to jump shooting … he becomes a problem in the video game world where we’ve been trying to train our gamers [to know] that certain types of shots should be rewarded versus others.”
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“We’re going to have to invest even more time in future iterations to really let Steph be Steph in future versions of NBA 2K.”
As we all know Curry is just unreal. He is shooting 45.5 from three and is on pace to surpass his own NBA-record of 286 three-pointers this season. He is virtually unguardable and it is pretty amazing that Curry is even hard to comprehend in a video game.
So until NBA 2K developers are able to figure out Curry, always pick the Warriors when you have to settle a score via 2K16. And if your friends complain and say that using Curry is cheating, just inform them that the game is simply trying to mimic real life.
