Good stuff. Small note: the first Post D contest is not a vertical contest, just the regular Y contest. #2 is a vertical contest, you can see the difference.
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great vidz by sam. he explains the no hedge better. its important that u play the on-ball D for no hedge and he didnt necessarily go over all the time.
if anyone keen can check on it.
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Ok, so I was experimenting, playing HoF on default sliders (those can make HUGE difference when you put them to Sim).
And to be fair, I hold my own vs HoF on defaults. Sure I will lose some games, but win ~75% of games. Now when you put sliders to Sim, whole game feels like a huge CHEAT in AI favor. I swear. While on default game is FUN and offers challenge, on Sim it becomes frustrating.
Also will mention this, people are over estimating AI. It's not smarter than human and it will never be. Thus leaving most Defensive settings on Auto won't really do you harm vs AI.
It has came back to me, how I was successful in prior games (vs AI not humans online!). Well, in those, I watched YouTube videos from best defensive players in the World (LT Shookya for example). When I applied his tactics to the game, I struggled. I won't negate the fact his settings probably helped a lot of people, but didn't click for me. There I said to myself, why not try Auto logic. You know what? It worked.
Kept at Auto since then. On 2k15 only bared in mind to change POE aka Points of Emphasis as those really DO make difference and in Controller settings, changing Defensive assist strength (surprisingly I play best on 0/0 for both :P).
Now I won't negate this thread. It's beneficial for knowledge and will definitely HELP when you go online vs other humans. There I find those not a necessity but a MUST BE CHANGED. For individual players and knowing patterns (ie. how you would play with said team usually helps, understanding how someone else might play).
Right now, I decided to go with Auto vs HoF AI for most part, but change Hedge, Hedge (Center) and Pre-Rotate.
Seems to work.
However, I did change Coach settings to ALL manual, so he won't switch.
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And to be fair, I hold my own vs HoF on defaults. Sure I will lose some games, but win ~75% of games. Now when you put sliders to Sim, whole game feels like a huge CHEAT in AI favor. I swear. While on default game is FUN and offers challenge, on Sim it becomes frustrating.
Also will mention this, people are over estimating AI. It's not smarter than human and it will never be. Thus leaving most Defensive settings on Auto won't really do you harm vs AI.
i havent tried HOF on default. i may try that after i finish off the raptors and see if i can get to the Finals.
i've done enough testing and confident to say leaving auto does not help me playing decent on-ball in sim sliders.Comment
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Played the Lakers in PNO offline using 'Protect The Paint".
No doubt Kobe is slower on his feet, he has Roy Hibbert to back him up. I'm sure you have fun playing D with the Lakers.Comment
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Defending Chris Bosh is never easy in NBA 2K16. He has excellent range, he can shoot, quick and a solid post player. Sometimes u can't just stop him alone.
I was playing against the Miami Heat and led in the final quarter. Then AI Heat changed their offense focus to Chris Bosh in the last 5 minutes. I had Anthony Bennett on him for a few possessions, and he struggled. The AI then switched James Johnson on him (I left the auto AI Coaching ON). 6'8 Forward against 6'11 Forward/Center, not too bad.
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I can beat the HOF CPU on sim sliders not changing any defensive setting playing on ball.
I set the POEs to manual and leave them that way the entire game.
The key to playing on all auto is scoring on offense.
If you can score on offense and stay in front of the ball on defense then you don't have to worry about settings vs the CPU or other people.
When you can't score on offense is when the all auto settings approach struggles and your guys really tend to break down on defense more because of it.
Good luck on your championship run!
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here I am again, thanks to your suggestions now I can defend the perimeter in a decent way, i have more success in slowing down their transictions and defending the pick and roll, but now they are killing me in the paint. The problem is that it's too easy to score under the basket, there is no contact, even when I have 3 defenders with their hands up they score most of the time. What do you do to create contact under the rim? how can i make their shots more difficult defending the post? vertical contest sometimes works well but i'd like to have a more physical game in the paint, tried also sedtting POE on protect the paint and physical defense with same poor resultsComment
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What do you do to create contact under the rim? how can i make their shots more difficult defending the post? vertical contest sometimes works well but i'd like to have a more physical game in the paint, tried also sedtting POE on protect the paint and physical defense with same poor resultsComment
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probably i have found the solution to what is my problem, and I found it by chance in this thread http://www.operationsports.com/forum...p-defense.html
double teams are set to manual by default, right now I'm trying to play a game with double teams on auto and actually i can see a substantial difference, now my help defense is much reactive, my teammates are ready to double under the rim making life more difficult for my opponents..... I really hope this is the solution. Waiting for your feedbacks.....
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probably i have found the solution to what is my problem, and I found it by chance in this thread http://www.operationsports.com/forum...p-defense.html
double teams are set to manual by default, right now I'm trying to play a game with double teams on auto and actually i can see a substantial difference, now my help defense is much reactive, my teammates are ready to double under the rim making life more difficult for my opponents..... I really hope this is the solution. Waiting for your feedbacks.....
yup that thread was meant to resolve the lack of double team by cpu bug pre-patch. they are meant for us to adjust the cpu settings to auto so that double team from cpu comes into play. post patch 2k has it solved.
i prefer to double manual. oh yes putting on auto for yor team definitely can help. keep it going!Comment
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yup that thread was meant to resolve the lack of double team by cpu bug pre-patch. they are meant for us to adjust the cpu settings to auto so that double team from cpu comes into play. post patch 2k has it solved.
i prefer to double manual. oh yes putting on auto for yor team definitely can help. keep it going!
let me understand, you are saying that the problem has been patched? so related to that the cpu DT didn't work because of the switches setted to manual?
Before a game I tried to change the team but switches are still on manual, for the user instead has remained completely unchanged? I have to put myself DT on auto?Comment
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let me understand, you are saying that the problem has been patched? so related to that the cpu DT didn't work because of the switches setted to manual?
Before a game I tried to change the team but switches are still on manual, for the user instead has remained completely unchanged? I have to put myself DT on auto?
yup. after the patch, u still see manual if u switch to control the cpu team. the DT however still works. teams (cpu) play DT differently. sometimes, u get a lot of DT from the cpu opponent i.e. on-catch. sometimes, DT happens when yor star player is at the post.
so if u want yor team to auto DT, u need to set it in the settings i.e. on catch, pn drive etc. it saves u from the hassle hitting the left trigger to double.Comment
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I have a question. Is there anyway to stop unnecessary help from corner defender. When opponents drive inside, my corner defender comes to help so I gave too much unnecessary wide open corner 3s.
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Yes. to achieve that, u need to be able to play on-ball D effectively on the ball handler. anytime the cpu drive past u with a slight opening (or simply a cross that makes u over commit), the opponent cpu helf defense will trigger.
the concept applies both cpu isolating u or running a pnr. especially if yor big man leaves his big to do a soft or hard hedge, the ai detects an opening and weak side help will come even with klay in the corner.
if u arent able to stop some players usually the case when there is mismatch, switch to off-ball and get ready to cover the 'over-help' instances by yor ai teammate.Comment
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