NBA 2k15 team play book thread

[cdk10]

Re: NBA 2k15 team play book thread

The Magic run one play very much like PNR option play Swing Strong 34 Fist and Swing 24 Fist. See them run that quite a bit with Harris. But Vucevic is usually the screener.

Also have seen Swing 53 Give as a 1 dribble handoff from the Mid Range plays.

[vannwolfhawk]

Re: NBA 2k15 team play book thread

Blazers and warriors are now both up on main page.

Jattnanga sent me 5 teams with a ton of notes (in depth and great stuff) so I'm going to review those and start on some more books now. Hoping to have 10 teams done by tomorrow and posted for you guys...

[RipCity71252]

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The Magic run one play very much like PNR option play Swing Strong 34 Fist and Swing 24 Fist. See them run that quite a bit with Harris. But Vucevic is usually the screener.

Also have seen Swing 53 Give as a 1 dribble handoff from the Mid Range plays.

I can confirm this. Ran this action at least 5 times against the Heat on 10/7.

Magic playbook video is up next (already captured and compiled) after I get the heat posted.

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[RipCity71252]

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[Hyperballer21]

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Vann,

Just want to say that the Universal plays have already made a major impact in this game. The off ball action really gives it a true to life feel. Any motion or non-motion is all done with a purpose now.

[jattnanga]

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I've done some more breakdown of the triangle and how we can get it right in this year's game.

After watching a few knicks game from the preseason, I was able to look at what their flow of play looks like.

Between 49 and 60% of possession were freelance triangle with no real agenda at the beginning of the posession. The range is so wide because they may have had a plan on a certain possession, while others were very obviously just reads within the framework but that should give us a good baseline on where run plays should be...in the range of 40-50.

Roughly 15% of their possessions were quick post ups on weakside or solos as they are known in the triangle.

So that leaves about 30% of possessions where they came down with a specific entry looking for a specific player (mostly melo, but others were featured as well). The most prominent calls were center opposite for carmelo and blind pigs ran through the 4 man. Without melo on the floor they used mostly freelance, some pnr and some specials for shooters.

I'm in the process of finding the most appropriate in-game triangle specials that the knicks are using based on their personnel, but I figured this data would be useful to help those wanting to recreate the triangle this year.

[loso_34]

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does this apply to online? the only thing i can edit in time during a game is the play types per player.

if i change the playbook offline will it work for play now matches? thanks and great work van.

[vannwolfhawk]

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does this apply to online? the only thing i can edit in time during a game is the play types per player.

if i change the playbook offline will it work for play now matches? thanks and great work van.

No it won't work for online. We have been asking for saved playbooks online for 4 years now.

[vannwolfhawk]

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I have spent the entire day reviewing all plays for Princeton, elbow, and horns pinch post plays. I've now got them narrowed down for easy inputting for a team philosophy or a team that runs heavy on these sets.

I wanted to lock these down as Cleveland and the lakers are running sets that are hard to replicate but I think I got something together that will get it as close as were going to get.

As you all know in the nba over the last few years almost every team runs or has horns action in their playbooks and everyone runs pinch post and it varies between strong and weak side. I had to dig deep and retest all of these to make sure they are good for user and CPU.

I'd suggest everyone gets used to and practices dribble handoffs this year. It's not easy to do and is a timing issue for the user. Sometimes if not times properly it can look very ugly for a user but when you nail the handoffs it's beautiful. The CPU on the other hand executes them flawlessly and its great to watch and hard to defend. I took out the plays with bad off ball movement before the dribble handoff and kept only the best so because there are so few with great action a lot of teams will see same plays if they run the action.

So let's say team runs heavy horns sets and runs a lot of pinch post action. I can now quickly go to those plays and select best 1-3mid, 1-3 low post, 3pt, cutter, PNR, etc as again there is only a handful of great executing plays here.

Anyways, in the end this is big and was big for me to save me time moving forward.

I can't wait to get final drafts for lakers and cavs up as well as see what jattnanga comes up with for the triangle and the Knicks as these teams will all have completely different styles and philosophies when you play them like they should.

Just wanted to give you guys a heads up as that pushed me way back as I was trying to get 10 teams done by tomorrow. Looking like Sunday now...

[vannwolfhawk]

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Hey guys,

One thing I'm hoping everyone can keep an eye out for and let me know is what system is a team running or what do you see a lot of as far as actions rather than a quick hitter. Quick hitters are easy to find a put in as we see them in the game but I want to be able to mix those in with their main offense.

Things I am looking for mainly and I will mix everything else around is do you see your team running heavy on a few of these offenses or sets...

Princeton (chin)
Flex
Ucla
Horns
Pinch post action
Swing
Flow offense
Elbow
Hawk series
Triangle

Then secondly zipper or floppy action.

Then after that are they running thru action and getting ball out of pg's hands.


I will lock down in way more detail PNR and where these happen from with the final drafts. Although I would like to know if your team runs PNR of double screens where pg has option to go either way off the picks.

The biggest thing for me is find the above offenses before the quick hitters. Again, then I can plug in quick hitters around their main motion offenses.


Let me know what you guys see or find... Thanks!

[vannwolfhawk]

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Here is an example of what I'll do... Let's say a team runs a lot of flex. I will go to my best flex plays with best action in specific categories. Depending on how much they run it will depend how many of these I add to their playbook. Here is best flex plays. There are more but a few don't have great spacing, might be to slow in developing, or play ends after initial look isn't open. The flex plays I want is ones that go through the full motion with at least 2 flex cuts and 2 shooters coming off the down screens to continue continuity.

Rip 1 punch 14 - low post
Horns flex 34 fist - p&r option
Elbow dive 2 - cutter
77 flex 1 quick - mid range
Horns flex 3 quick - 3 point
Horns 1 dive 2 cut - cutter
Tri top 3 dive - cutter
Horns 53 quick - mid range
Horns flex 43 cut - cutter

As you can see I could put 1 play at least in 5 different play types and then go from there.

[PhiPsi1]

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General question for the thread:

When setting up the playbooks, would it be best to simply delete all of the plays in each respective team's playbook and rebuild it as vann has suggested? Or is it better to replace plays? Not sure if it was mentioned if there is some sort of glitch when deleting plays that we need to be aware of.

Any info would be great! Thanks all!

[vannwolfhawk]

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General question for the thread:

When setting up the playbooks, would it be best to simply delete all of the plays in each respective team's playbook and rebuild it as vann has suggested? Or is it better to replace plays? Not sure if it was mentioned if there is some sort of glitch when deleting plays that we need to be aware of.

Any info would be great! Thanks all!

Do not delete plays as there is a glitch that won't allow some playbooks to have all 50 after deleting.

1st add plays to get to 50 then replace them. If you want plays in order and organized to your liking then what I do after inputting all plays is I replace all high post plays for example with plays that are not in the playbook then put plays I want last 1st and the last high post play you pick will now be 1st in your high post plays. I usually put them in order of either my favorite plays in a play type or with action team runs more of than others.

[vannwolfhawk]

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Lakers, bulls, raptors, grizzlies, and rockets rough drafts are done. I will try and post them all Sunday at some point. I'm loving how they all play! Each team has completely different styles which made it fun trying to get different actions. Anyways I'll get them up ASAP....

10 teams down 20 to go...

[jattnanga]

Re: NBA 2k15 team play book thread

General question for the thread:

When setting up the playbooks, would it be best to simply delete all of the plays in each respective team's playbook and rebuild it as vann has suggested? Or is it better to replace plays? Not sure if it was mentioned if there is some sort of glitch when deleting plays that we need to be aware of.

Any info would be great! Thanks all!

There is definitely a glitch with plays being overwritten if you delete a play, however there may be a way around it.

My experience with this is that you can delete all of the plays but the last one. replace that play with a play you have no intention of using, i always just just use the first play on the iso list, so it is separate.

Then you can press Y/triangle and add plays by category entering from the bottom-up. The play you have no intention of using will be overwritten at some point, but it is irrelevant.

This can save a lot of time and ensure that you have the order that you want.

This is what I do and have never had a problem with it to this point, but i can't make guarantees, so make sure you're monitoring the numbers per play category on the right side of the screen to make sure nothing is getting lost.

the issue with this is say you want to add even one play to the playbook, you'll have to remove all but one, replace with random iso play and re-enter all, but it goes fairly quickly once you've done it a few times.