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Details on Each Drill in Team Practice
What to Do During Team Practice Shootaround
Non-Playing Options During Team Practice
Of the many things you can do in MyCareer in NBA 2K24, Team Practice may not be the most exciting, but it's worth doing. It doesn't involve playing anyone else online, it doesn't rack up points for your MyPlayer, it doesn't increase your popularity. But it does help you fine-tune some of the important skills you need to succeed across MyCareer in the game, whether that's in Career games, at the Rec, or any of the other game modes at your disposal.
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There are lots of things you can do in Team Practice. Check out each practice drill, what you can get from open shootaround, and other things you can do during Team Practice.
Details on Each Drill in Team Practice
The primary purpose of Team Practice is Drills, where you can hone your skills and gain Badge Points for your MyPlayer. Each Drill has a level — Easy, Medium, or Hard — and you will receive Badge Points when you finish the Drill based on the difficulty level and your success in the Drill.
Drills are broken up into four sections, each corresponding to a Badge type for your MyPlayer.
You can only do four Drills in each Team Practice session and must play a Career game before another Team Practice session.
Many drills give you ten attempts to complete the assigned task, and your points total increases with each successful attempt.
Team Practice Finishing Drills
Drill Name | Difficulty | Description |
|---|---|---|
Floating | Easy | Practice floating layups and shots. |
Putback Finishing | Easy | Practice putbacks at the rim. |
Lob Finishes | Easy | Practice lob scoring. |
Post Moves: Up and Under | Easy | Practice post moves under the rim. |
Pick & Roll | Easy | Practice pick and rolls and scoring off them. |
Relentless Finishing | Medium | Practice scoring at the rim. |
Fatigued Finishing | Medium | Nine attempts to score as much as possible with a defender below the basket. |
Contact Finishing | Hard | Practice attempting to dunk. |
Contested Finishes | Hard | Practice attempting to score with an acrobatic finish. |
Team Practice Shooting Drills
Drill Name | Difficulty | Description |
|---|---|---|
Work on Your Game: Corner 3s | Easy | Practice three-pointers from the corner by the baseline. |
Pick & Pop | East | Set a pick then get to a marked spot to take a jumper. |
Contested Midrange | Medium | Take a pass and go to the top of the key and try a contested jumper. |
Work on Your Game: 3PT Top | Medium | Practice three-pointers from the top of the three-point line. |
35 | Medium | Three shots each from five different locations just in front of or behind the three-point line. |
Contested Long Range | Hard | Similar to Contested Midrange, but from further back. |
Work on Your Game: 3PT Deep | Hard | Similar to other Work on Your Game Drills, but from a few steps behind the three-point line. |
Free Throw Golf | Hard | Practice free throws, with points given based on the attempt: +3 for a swish, +2 for makes that hit the rim, +1 for a make that hits the backboard, and 0 for a miss. |
Team Practice Playmaking Drills
Drill Name | Difficulty | Description |
|---|---|---|
Magic Passing | Easy | Attempt to convert a flashy pass in 3-on-2 and 2-on-1 fast break scenarios. |
Alley-Oop Passing | Easy | Practice passing an alley-oop to a teammate. |
Rack Attack | Medium | Attempt to score from inside the paint against a defender. |
Pick and Roll: 2-on-2 Passing | Medium | Complete two passes of each type, with five attempts for each type, must complete all passes to finish. |
One Man | Hard | Grab a rebound, convert a 3-on-2 fastbreak for a score. |
Outlet Passing | Hard | Make outlet passes to three different zones. |
3-on-3 Pick and Roll | Hard | Attempts at pick and roll, basket only counts if pick and roll is run first. |
High Pick and Roll | Hard | Same as above, except pick is set at the three-point line. |
Team Practice Defense/Rebounding Drills
Drill Name | Difficulty | Description |
|---|---|---|
Gauntlet Rebounding | Easy | Attempts to get the rebound over an opponent, difficulty increases through the attempts. |
Lock Down | Medium | Practice stopping an offensive player from scoring. |
Pick Reaction | Medium | Get to a highlighted circle around a pick before time elapses. |
Charge | Medium | Practice taking charges. |
Protect the Tin | Medium | Stop a player from getting to the basket and scoring. |
Gauntlet Pickpocket | Hard | Get as many steals as you can against increasingly more challenging ball handlers. |
Chase Down | Hard | Practice chasing down a defender to stop them from scoring. |
Team Practice Coach-Initiated Drills
Coach-initiated Drills occur randomly. They do not happen at each Team Practice session and may come at the beginning of a session or in the middle of partaking in other Drills.
Many of these Drills are team-based, like mini-scrimmages or practicing defense or scoring as a unit. These Drills will give you twice the normal amount of Badge Points.
You cannot control when these Drills come and what type of Drills they are.
What to Do During Team Practice Shootaround
When you first enter Team Practice, you are given the opportunity to just shoot around. Doing this is fairly easy.
Simply go up to a ball, which your MyPlayer will pick up. Then you can go shoot at whichever basket you want, however you want, from wherever you want. You can also call for a pass from a ball boy, which keeps you from chasing down every shot and rebound.
Some shootaround achievements will give you MyPoints or VC. Some of these achievements include: making consecutive shots without dribbling or moving, making five shots in a row, making a shot in each basket within 10 seconds, and making a dribble move into a made shot.
Shootaround is a good time to practice mastering the shooting meter you have set for your MyPlayer.
You cannot practice shooting against a defender in an open shootaround but can do so in the Team Practice Drills listed above.
Non-Playing Options During Team Practice
The Team Practice session also has a few fun things you can do that have nothing to do with shooting or completing Drills.
Most of these are automated interactions with items in the gym, like the water fountain or water bottles around the court. You can also do stretches against a wall pad or greet the ball boys below the basket.
The most important non-playing thing you can do during Team Practice is a media Interview.
In the back right corner of the gym, from where you walk in, you will see two men in suits with phones in their hands. If you walk up to them, you will see an option to conduct an Interview. You won't be able to control what you say (or even know what you say), but simply doing the Interview will give you 500 Fans, which contributes to your Sponsorships.
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