De’Aaron Fox, the Kentucky freshman phenom point guard drawing John Wall comparisons, has a secret weapon in his training regimen. In addition to training every area of his game on the court, he’s been training his mind using NBA 2K17.
Kentucky’s De’Aaron Fox is training for the draft by playing lots of NBA 2K
Pick up the sticks kids, you got work to do.
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That’s right, Fox uses 2K — the same 2K your boy won’t run back after he beats you with the Warriors — to master aspects of his game that are looking more NBA-ready by the day.
”A lot of people don’t believe me, but I tell everyone that that PlayStation helped him get where he is today,” his father, Aaron Fox, said to Bleacher Report. “He’d play that PlayStation, and he could master it in no time. He learned pick-and-rolls. He learned how to roll off a ball screen.”
It makes sense when you watch his style of play. His court speed, strength, and passing vision, along with the ways he’s able to contort his body, lend his play to video game animation. I’ve seen some of these layups in 2K.
Now I see why my hoop dreams died. Didn’t make NBA 2K a serious part of my workout regimen. It’s going to be a tweak when he’s able to play as himself.
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