Defense needs to be the MAIN focus of development in NBA2K18

[GrimaceZ7]

When you consider how much they make off this game from microtransactions, and then you realize how little they pay the developers relatively speaking, there's no reason why they couldn't hire a 5-man team charged with overhauling the defense. You could more than pay for it just by releasing new content through the Draft rather than just stopping after the playoffs. People would continue to play the game and buy content if there were more content to buy. Madden does, and people still buy it well past the Draft.

[2_headedmonster]

The main problems with the defense from a head to head aspect is the bigs and lateral quickness are too slow, and interior passes are too easily completed...compound the last issue with the OP standing dunks and things get out of hand quick..

Now an expansion of the contact system to remove dead spots where offensive players disrespect defensive positioning, cutters can be shadowed better and contact catches in the paint would be nice

[Rockie_Fresh88]

Standing dunks are comical this year . They are too successful in traffic. The bumping and sliding out of place is a problem on defense also .

[cablexdeadpool]

Defense is the reason why I don't play PNO...

It is trash and has been for a while.

[trandoanhung1991]

They really need to improve help defense and rotations. No point having all these fancy stats that don't mean anything.

Also they need to implement defensive systems or styles per team. Not all teams defend the same generic way. Some will go man-to-man, others will switch every time, still others are a lot more dynamic.

One thing I'd like to see added for defense is the ability to call what kind of defense should be played on a screen, and the ability to call for a switch. Giving the player the ability to interact in these situations, instead of just relying solely on the system working, will help out defense big time. It'll also encourage on-ball defense, instead of what we have now where most of the good defensive players won't play on-ball D, but off ball to allow them to react and disrupt plays, as well as taking advantage of sticky AI on-ball D.

Also, defensive stickiness should be toned way down. It's not fun to not be allowed to move around on the court, and this also slows down the tempo of the game in a very unrealistic way. Plays shouldn't take 10-15s just to set up.

[alabamarob]

Quote: Originally Posted by Rockie_Fresh88

Standing dunks are comical this year . They are too successful in traffic. The bumping and sliding out of place is a problem on defense also .

The standing dunks are ridiculous. The dunk ratings of people like zbo may be to blame also. I have no idea why his standing dunk rating is below 30

[Yesh2kdone]

If they did focus on defence, then within a couple of weeks there'd be a patch to correct it. 2k16 park at the start of the game was good for defence, and they soon stopped it when the tweets complaining came rolling in.

[VAWereWolf65]

Quote: Originally Posted by Rockie_Fresh88

Standing dunks are comical this year . They are too successful in traffic. The bumping and sliding out of place is a problem on defense also .

I actually see standing dunks being missed more than they should. I made a thread about how there should be a dunk in traffic tendency for each player. And i think the "Contact Dunk" attribute shouldn't just affect how likely a player is to get a contact dunk animation, it should affect their overall dunk in traffic.