Soo tbh whith you new players there is no hope if you dont want to spend money on this game, soo take prob close to 500$ lone from the lone shark or work ur ass off for minimum wage either way the best option is to get a lone from the shark, Now lets get to the good part of the game. THERE IS NONE. Lets skip to the braindead part aka the ones that dont pass bc they think they are kobe and curry combined those type of players are bad sooo alt+f4 and go back into another match. And we cant forget if you miss once you will never get the ball back sooo try to go to open spots on court to shoot the damn ball but we all know even if you do that you might miss that ♥♥♥♥♥. Lets go to ability cards now these cards help you whith 3s normal movement speed and much more but its ass if you open a plat pack you might get a gold or a bronze or a silver soo dont get ur hopes up bc its rigged. Now for P-buffs these actually help alot but the downside is you have to have those characters that help for normal moving speed and 3s but some of them are not that good sooo look out for those AND THOSE ONLY. Now lets get in depth of the gamemode ranked expect some rim running people and PF or C or SF if you get them in ur match u already lost. Now thats it thats all you need to know for new players or players coming back. :)