Hey everyone! It's everyone's favorite inactive mod here! Just getting back into speedrunning and I want to start with one of my favorites, Street Vol. 2. What have people found to be effective teams to run with? I see newer runs going with Dallas which I thought was interesting. My first guess when creating the page was Lakers were defacto best team, but I'd love to hear opinions!

So Dallas has a couple of key advantages.

First is that they're right at the top of the menu, only one input away, where as a team like the Lakers are a little further down. Now while that wouldn't be too bad once, the fact that you have to reselect your team each division means you're having to scroll to LA 5 times.

The other thing is the teams themselves. Nowitzki, Finlay, and Nash versus Bryant, Shaq, and Fisher. Both teams are similar, almost equal. You have 2 blocker (Dirk/Finlay, Kobe/Shaq), 2 decent stealers (Finlay/Nash, Kobe/Fisher), but the main difference I see is Dirk v Shaq. Dirk, while inconsistent, can drain 2 pointers. Shaq is even worse from long range. In some offline testing I did, I shot 100 shots with both players. Shaq shot 55%, Dirk 71%. I then timed what the typical missed shot cost, time wise, to be about 12 seconds. 16 more missed 2's at 12s each equals 192 seconds, or 3:12 minutes, in lost time.

Just my thoughts on the matter.