NBA 2K22 comes with a lot of new moves for players to master. You’ll have to adapt these moves into your gameplay quickly to gain the upper hand when you’re on the court. The most important of these are dribbling moves, which have been upgraded in this iteration.
In this guide, we will cover all the dribbling moves and controls in NBA 2K22 so you can quickly become familiar with them. Before getting into 2K22’s dribbling moves, we must review dribbling controls and jargon to familiarize you with ball control.
How to do Dribbling Moves in NBA 2K22?
- Signature Size-up: For a standing dribble, move and hold RS stick up from a stand dribble.
- Signature Park Size-up: From a stand dribble, continuously hit the L2/LT button.
- In and Out: When dribbling with the right hand, you must quickly move and release the RS. This allows you to feint a crossover but keep the current trajectory, which is great for fooling defenders.
- Hesitation: When dribbling with the right hand, you have to move the RS right and then release it quickly. Performing a hesitation dribble may force defenders to stop and give you space to wriggle through.
- Momentum Hesitation: When dribbling with the right-hand press, hold R2/RT, move RS towards the right, and then release it quickly.
- Hesitation Escape: When dribbling with the right hand, Move and Hold RS towards the right.
- Crossover: Move RS up left and then release it quickly when dribbling with your right hand. Sudden changes in direction can help you get past defenders. It’s better not to do this immediately close to defenders because they can easily steal.
- Momentum Crossover: When dribbling with the right-hand press, hold R2/RT, move RS towards the up left, and then release it quickly.
- Crossover to Hesitation Escape: Move and hold the RS towards the up left when dribbling with your right hand. This gives you some much-needed space from the defenders.
- Between Legs Cross: When dribbling with your right hand, move RS left and release quickly. Helps you against more aggressive defenders.
- Momentum Between Legs Cross: When dribbling with the right-hand press, hold R2/RT, move RS left, and then release it quickly. This helps against defenders trying to cut you off by making your body the shield.
- Between Legs Escape: When dribbling with your right hand, move and hold the RS towards the left.
- Behind the Back: When dribbling with the right hand you have to move RS down left and release it quickly.
- Momentum Behind the Back: When dribbling with the right-hand press R2/RT, move RS down left, and then release it quickly.
- Behind the Back Escape: For this, you have to move and hold RS down left when dribbling with the right hand.
- Explosive Behind the Back: You have to move and hold RS down left and then hold the LS up and left of your nonball hand. This is helpful if you want to lunge from a stationary position.
- Stepback: For this, simply move RS down and then release it quickly. This is a very handy move for making those 3-point shots or when you can’t find the space to get close to the basket.
- Momentum Stepback: Press R2/RT, move RS down, and release it quickly.
- Spin: When dribbling with the right hand, rotate the RS clockwise and release it quickly. This is handy against defenders going all-out to stop your momentum.
- Half Spin: When dribbling with the right hand, you must rotate RS in a quarter-circle from right to up and release it quickly.
- Hard Stop / Stutter: When you need to change speed quickly, just hit L2/LT once.
- Hold Off Defenders: Hold L2/LT to perform this dribbling.
- Signature Combos: Hold the R2/RT and flip the RS to get the signature combos. Each combo may vary depending on the player.
- Split Dribble: Hold R2/RT and aim RS down to the right or left of your non-ball hand, then hold LS up to the left or right.
- Fake Drive Snatch Dribble: Aim RS down to the right or left of your non-ball hand, and then hold LS up to the left or right of your on-ball hand. This is a very hard move that requires a lot of practice to master, but using it will leave the defenders in a daze as you rush by.
All Dribbling Animations in NBA 2K22
Dribbling moves are a set of animations that you have in 2K22. It allows players to have unique aminations of fun or useful nature. You need to go to Edit Player and select the Signature option from the list below. Here, you will see many types of animations and moves.
Here, you will find different signatures. For the dribbling animation, you can select Signature: Ball Handing and then select what you like.
The available moves are:
- Dribble Style: Quick – Magic Johnson
- Moving Crossovers: Pro 8 – Pro 2
- Moving Behind the Backs: Pro 3 – Pro 5
- Moving Spin: Basic 1 – Pro 4
- Moving Hesitations: Pro 3 – Pro 5
- Sig Size-Up: Irving – C. Paul – T. Hardaway
- Park Size-Up: Park 13 – Park 5 – Park 11
- Basic Size-Up Packages: Pro 6 – Pro 5
- Size-Up Escape Packages: Pro 2 – Pro 4
- Triple Threat Styles: Normal 2 – WNBA 4 – Normal 1
- Park Flashy Passes – Wizard: Flashy Passes, between the legs or fake passes, etc.
- Signature Combo – K. Irving: Signature low dribbling style of K Irving. One of the best Signature combos available to you in the game.
- Moving Stepback—K. Irving or K. Walker: Side hop, creating more space between the defender and you.
For all the animations, there are more than two options and we recommend you try them all one by one and find the one that best suits you.
Some moves will have a major impact on games like Moving Crossover Pro 2 or Moving Spin Basic 1.
On the other hand, some animations don’t majorly impact the game, and it all depends on preference. Do keep in mind, though, that having good dribbling animations will not have a huge impact on the game, and there might not be a noticeable game improvement.
Of course, it depends on how you use these dribble-move combinations to your advantage and on how much effort and work you put into the game.
