NBA 2K24 Best Inside Out Playmaker Build For PG

How to set up an Inside Out Playmaker build

Playmakers serve as the linchpins of offensive strategies for many teams in NBA 2K24. Their primary objective is to create abundant scoring opportunities for the team, allowing their teammates to showcase their best skills.

To craft this playmaker build, we’ll allocate 89 points to Driving Dunk, primarily to unlock the coveted Pro Contact Dunks Off Two. Additional badges like Posterizer are the icing on the cake, enhancing your dunking prowess, especially following rebounds.

In terms of shooting, we’ll distribute 75 points to Mid-Range Shot, 89 points to Three-point Shot, and 68 points to Free Throw. This allocation opens the door to valuable badges like Limitless Range and Catch & Shoot, significantly boosting the range and speed of your passes.

As a playmaker, defensive prowess isn’t our strong suit. Instead, we employ hit-and-run tactics, seeking the path of least resistance. Avoiding physical confrontations with sturdy defenders, we rely on our speed and precise shooting abilities to efficiently distribute the ball. To achieve this, we’ll invest 87 points in Pass Accuracy, 93 points in Ball Handle, and 83 points in Speed with Ball. This stat distribution unlocks skills such as Bail Out for more accurate mid-air passes, while the overall emphasis on Pass Accuracy and Speed with Ball ensures your passes reach their intended targets, while also granting superior dribbling capabilities.

While pure defense may not be our forte, defensive skills geared towards ball retrieval align with our role as playmakers. Allocate 76 points to Perimeter Defense and 60 to Steal. This unlocks the Clamps badge, amplifying the effectiveness of your bump attempts against ball handlers and increasing your chances of regaining possession for your team.

In the physical attributes category, distribute 82 points to Speed, 91 points to Acceleration, 60 points to Strength, 79 points to Vertical, and 96 points to Stamina. This well-rounded distribution, especially in Strength and Vertical, unlocks valuable dunk packages like Aerial Wizard and Fearless Finisher. The remaining attributes enable quality badges like Handles for Days, enhancing energy efficiency and ensuring you can navigate the court with a high stamina cap before fatigue sets in.

Best Badges for NBA 2K24 Inside Out Playmaker build

Badges hold significant significance as they amplify specific facets of your build. The badges featured here provide substantial utility to this Inside-Out Playmaker Point Guard build in NBA 2K24. It’s worth noting that investing more points into specific attributes allows you to unlock higher-level badges.

S-Tier badges

• Fearless Finisher (Bronze): You can capitalize on incoming passes into successful contact layups more efficiently.
• Giant Slayer (Silver): You gain considerable advantage in making layups over defenders taller than your character (in this case 6’2”).
• Clamps (Bronze): While on defense duty, bump hits become much more effective against the ball handler, potentially allowing the ball to switch sides with this defensive badge.
• Handles For Days (Gold): Since you lack in defense and strength, this badge reduces your energy depletion, leaving spare stamina for fancier dribbles to avoid having to directly contest stronger defenders head on and get around them instead.
• Posterizer (Silver): Improves your chances of getting past your assigned defender and making a successful slam dunk.
• Slithery (Silver): Makes it harder for enemy defenders to pin down the player, thus improving your control over the ball and making it easier to break through defense, ending straight into a finish at the basket.
• Blow-By (Gold): Allows the player to juke their defender more easily and breach the opposing team’s paint.
• Speed Booster (Gold): Allows for a short speed burst when trying to break away from a defender straight to the paint, or in specific situations when trying to reclaim the ball from the opposing team.
• Killer Combos (Gold): While mixing up your opponents, their defensive ability can be compromised in several ways, making it easier to get the ball through. Also grants an evasive bonus when combining multiple dribbling techniques, further boosting your success in breaking past defenders.
• Unpluckable (Gold): Boosts your overall ball control, making it harder for defenders to get it out of your possession with some stray blocks, steal attempts etc.
• Bail Out (Bronze): When jumping, your pass has increased accuracy and more of a chance at reaching the specific offense member.
• Blinders (Silver): Decreases the penalty on jump shots when a defender contests on time.
• Limitless Range (Bronze): Increases the range of your 3-point shots for a higher frequency of sniper basket scores.
• Deadeye (Silver): One of the best shooting badges, with Deadeye your jumpshots suffer a lower accuracy penalty due to late contests by defenders.

A-tier badges

• Precision Dunker (Silver): Can apply successful skill dunks with greater ease.
• Physical Handles (Bronze): Makes your movement more free form and precise while dribbling, allowing you to quickly change directions when defenders try to intercept you.
• 94 Feet (Bronze): Increases team defense capabilities by allowing defenders to tail and interrupt ball handlers who make a break towards the perimeter, into the backcourt.
• Work Horse (Bronze): Loose balls can be passed over opponents with greater ease. It also boosts your speed attribute, allowing for easier disengagements from stronger defenders.
• Hyperdrive (Gold): Reduces the time it takes to complete a dribbling animation while moving, allowing you to safely navigate the court.
• Ankle Breaker (Hall of Fame): Can confuse defenders via special dribbling techniques, allowing you to put a dent in their defense and breakthrough from that sliver of opportunity.
• Needle Threader (Silver): Improves your chances of getting difficult passes through tight defenses, straight to an open teammate.
• Agent 3 (Silver): Strengthens your pull-up shot game, making it easier to score from the three-point range, bolstering your risk factor as you become a deadly adversary on both close and long range.
• Interceptor (Bronze): More oriented for defensive play, when the ball isn’t in your hands, you gain an increased chance at successfully getting in between a pass by opponents, boosting ball stealing capabilities.
• Dimer (Silver): When in the half-court, assist passes made to open teammates will improve the accuracy of the shot that the pass receiver will make.
• Pick Dodger (Bronze): As opponents create screens to have more offensive leeway, this badge will improve your ability to navigate around those screens and prevent them from gaining more ground.
• Fast Feet (Bronze): Launch and cut timings are noticeably sped up, minimizing downtime, and allowing you to tail ball handlers more efficiently.
• Challenger (Bronze): Contests with excellent timing have an increased chance at shutting down perimeter shots.
• Ankle Braces (Bronze): Your focus threshold increases, allowing you to avoid getting confused and suffer ankle injuries from complex dribbling maneuvers and intercepting them.
• Green Machine (Silver): Increases the size of your Green window after a few consecutive excellently timed releases.
• Catch & Shoot (Gold): After receiving a pass, the next jump shot you perform will be significantly stronger and more accurate.
• Guard Up (Silver): When defenders fail to time their contests, your jump shot will gain increased accuracy.
• Space Creator (Silver): Upon disengaging from a defender, your shots will gain a buff and your cross up capabilities will be greatly improved as well.
• Spot Finder (Gold): Improves ability to get open and receive a pass in the heart of the opposing perimeter.

B- Tier badges

• Acrobat (Bronze): Improves the success rate of difficult close ranged basket shots / layups.
• Bunny (Gold): You can pull off successful hop step layups and dunks more frequently and easily.
• Float Game (Silver): Floating shots will be easier to perform.
• Pro Touch (Gold): Gives an additional boost on your shots for timing your layups properly.
• Scooper (Silver): You can perform quick scoop layups with greater ease.
• Whistle (Silver): Increases chances to get more free throws when creating contact at the rim or during jump shots.
• Triple Strike (Gold): Improves ability to counter the opponent’s triple threat by covering their shooting, dribbling, and passing routes.
• Touch Passer (Silver): Speeds up player pass timings after immediately receiving a pass from a teammate.
• Special Delivery (Gold): Flashy passes will boost the receiver’s stats, allowing him to dunk the ball in the basket either directly via Alley-oop pass, or have more success in raw shots after receiving the pass.
• Corner Specialist (Gold): Gives a boost to shots taken from the corner of the court.
• Middy Magician (Silver): Pullups and spin shots, specifically from the mid-range area, receive a great boost in accuracy.
• Open Looks (Silver): Your ability to shoot accurate wide open jump shots greatly increases.
• Guard Up (Silver): Improved chance to make jump shots when defenders fail to properly contest, however, must make sure that the defender is in close proximity for the contest to count.
• Comeback Kid (Gold): Improved ability to make shots while trailing.
• Claymore (Gold): Increased chance to knock down shots made by opposing shooters from the perimeter.

C-Tier badges

• Aerial Wizard (Gold): When a teammate’s shot misses the post, your ability to capitalize and turn the rebound into a score via a dunk or alley-oop is greatly improved.
• Slippery Off Ball (Gold): Improves your ability to navigate around an opponent’s screen.
• Break Starter (Gold): After grabbing rebound shots, your next pass will be much stronger.
• Off-Ball Pest (Silver): Your Bump hits become more effective, and you are more efficient in preventing opponents making a breakthrough to your paint.
• Relay Passer (Silver): Provides a shot boost to the shooters who receive a pass from you.
• Free Points (Bronze): Improves your ability to shut down free throws during the game.
• Spin Cycle (Hall of Fame): Improves ability to make higher level spin layups and dunks.
• Two Step (Hall of Fame): Improves dribbling capabilities to make Eurostep and cradle layups / dunks more feasible, adding to your dramatic finisher repertoire.

Best animations for Inside Out Playmaker Point Guard

For our Point Guard in NBA 2K24, we recommend going for the following animations:

• Base: Victor Oladipo
• Upper Release 1: Oscar Robertson
• Upper Release 2: Markelle Fultz
• Release Speed: 100%
• Animation Blending: 100%/0%