Re: Defensive Settings Completely Removed from Next-Gen.
[QUOTE=hapa17;2045781171]If the main concern is the play tight/deny feature, then couldn't there be a compromise rather than stripping out the whole system? Couldn't we keep the PnR settings (over/under, and hard/soft hedge and double/switch)? Or perhaps there could be a "defensive style" switch: "simulation" to set all your matchups manually or "quick" to use the PoE system. Perhaps with the sag/tight/deny setting, maybe you reintroduce it with "help off of" and "don't help off of" as the options, which simply makes it so the defender doesn't drift to help as much; not necessarily to cheat the passing lane. Perhaps each defender's D-Awareness rating (or create a "D-Help" rating) could affect how well they follow the "Help" setting. Good team defenders (like, say, Battier) have a higher "Help" rating so they will stay with their assignment rather than help. Poor team defenders (like, say, Kobe ... sorry, but it's true) will tend to drift more and get caught with their pants down on a long skip pass to their assignment. Bottom line, I don't need my defenders to jump passing lanes, I just need them not to help off of specific dead-eye shooters. I was calling for this for a year or two before the manual defensive settings were introduced years ago.
I recall in the book "Seven Seconds or Less," the Phoenix coaching staff said Nash wasn't a terrible defender one on one, he just had a tendency to drift, thus hurting the team defense (correct me if I'm wrong; it's been a while since I read it). This is the kind of nuance that a help/team defense is based on and would be awesome to have in the game.
Building on the idea of making the defensive settings toggle-able, maybe make it a coaching setting, similar to auto-subs. The way I use auto-subs is I will let my players auto-sub until the 4th, at which point, depending on how the game is going, I may take over. In a similar fashion, perhaps you make PoE the sort of "auto" setting where you can make general strategic decisions, but let the computer make the fine adjustments. When you take it off of the PoE setting, then you're taking the manual fine control back from the computer (with the changes I mentioned above with the "Help off of" settings). This could be something I let the computer control for the first three quarters, then take back in the 4th. I'm suggesting this because I could see how layering PoE with Defensive Settings could be conflicting or hard to integrate over each other.[/QUOTE
The only thing is that these settings where actually in the game before the 1st patch, which no one really knows what covered or why 2k decided to remove them in the 1st place.
[QUOTE=hapa17;2045781171]If the main concern is the play tight/deny feature, then couldn't there be a compromise rather than stripping out the whole system? Couldn't we keep the PnR settings (over/under, and hard/soft hedge and double/switch)? Or perhaps there could be a "defensive style" switch: "simulation" to set all your matchups manually or "quick" to use the PoE system. Perhaps with the sag/tight/deny setting, maybe you reintroduce it with "help off of" and "don't help off of" as the options, which simply makes it so the defender doesn't drift to help as much; not necessarily to cheat the passing lane. Perhaps each defender's D-Awareness rating (or create a "D-Help" rating) could affect how well they follow the "Help" setting. Good team defenders (like, say, Battier) have a higher "Help" rating so they will stay with their assignment rather than help. Poor team defenders (like, say, Kobe ... sorry, but it's true) will tend to drift more and get caught with their pants down on a long skip pass to their assignment. Bottom line, I don't need my defenders to jump passing lanes, I just need them not to help off of specific dead-eye shooters. I was calling for this for a year or two before the manual defensive settings were introduced years ago.
I recall in the book "Seven Seconds or Less," the Phoenix coaching staff said Nash wasn't a terrible defender one on one, he just had a tendency to drift, thus hurting the team defense (correct me if I'm wrong; it's been a while since I read it). This is the kind of nuance that a help/team defense is based on and would be awesome to have in the game.
Building on the idea of making the defensive settings toggle-able, maybe make it a coaching setting, similar to auto-subs. The way I use auto-subs is I will let my players auto-sub until the 4th, at which point, depending on how the game is going, I may take over. In a similar fashion, perhaps you make PoE the sort of "auto" setting where you can make general strategic decisions, but let the computer make the fine adjustments. When you take it off of the PoE setting, then you're taking the manual fine control back from the computer (with the changes I mentioned above with the "Help off of" settings). This could be something I let the computer control for the first three quarters, then take back in the 4th. I'm suggesting this because I could see how layering PoE with Defensive Settings could be conflicting or hard to integrate over each other.[/QUOTE
The only thing is that these settings where actually in the game before the 1st patch, which no one really knows what covered or why 2k decided to remove them in the 1st place.
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