I have been watching the NBA games and playing and adjusting NBA 2k3 and have come to a realization... Why we have the problem with realism. Movement in the game is the problem. In the nba teams collapse much more than in 2k3. They protect the paint giving up the outside almost daring th ball handler to shoot and taking away the ability to drive. this allows for better movement around for the offense and open jumpers. These two things reduce drives to the basket. So i tried setting defensive pressure on low except for the post positions and double team in the paint for both human and cpu but kept post position. Now I left the precentage settings the same except for dunk and medium shot I raise both of these. I took some ideas from Arenas's settings and I have to say the movement in the game is now almost perfect. I don't have my xbox with me so I can't give u all of them. But the the drives were hard to come by and I was trying to force it to test my theory, what I found was the defense colapsing opening the passing lanes to cutting teamates or to wide open jump shooters. the blocking from Arenas makes forces you think twice on just forcing drives also. I know people are gonna say the shooting percentages are gonna be high cause the are open but honestly they don't hit open shots all the time, just like in the NBA.
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Re: Low pressure Stops human player drives
I agree, and I'd also go low pressure on some post players. If you're going against say McGrady with weak post players I'd play loose on the post b/c the defender gets to the lane to help if TMac drives. Personally I also set the CPU team to do the same against me for better gameplay. -
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Yeah thats exactly what I mean. When I put the cpu settings on low and double in paint it plays almost like a real life game with better player movemnet. Sega should have made low pressure the regular def pressure. Because thats how defense is played in the NBA. The paint is sacred land they don't let anyone enter and force jump shots because there is a lack jump shooters but a whole and i mean a whole lot of slashers.Comment
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It actually tells you this in the manual too, lol.
The problem (IMO) is we don't know what AUTO pressure is which is the default. I'd feel more comfortable if it were explained. Do they pick it based on the guarded player's skills, is just regular no matter what, does it change (whether we notice it or not) throughout the game? The manual is much better than NFL2k3's but still has a ways to go.Comment
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What kilss me is the time they take to explain crap that isn't even that important to the game but dont give better instructions on sliders and and things like thatComment
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I'm wondering if these same ideas could be applied to Live. Obviously, you can't choose to double only in the paint, but maybe playing loose defense could thwart drives to the cup? I'll try it out tonight...Comment
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I was playing the game at work with my co worker. He is not a big B-Ball fan but he knows sports. Well I tried the low pressure and double in the post trick and it shut the inside drive down. He picked hometown team Hornets and kept forcing it with baron davis and Mash it into the hole and but the pacers defense led by Jermaine O'neal and Brad miller shut things down. He had open jumpers a good amount of open threes but couldn't hit them at least not constantly the defensive switching was on point. I told him to try the low pressure defense but he said he wanted to keep it the same. So I drove on him not all the time but it was open and when i did i would dish to the open man. It seems to work i'm going to keep experimenting with these settings and see how they goComment
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hmm...sounded like a good theory until I actually tried it...the weird thing is that it works, and at at the same time it doesn't work. This is something that has to be done accordingly, no game ever would you set pressure on Jordan to LOW, thats ridiculous, basically this theory invites you to shoot the J, ok and if you can shoot it then what? All day Js cuz your guy is 10 ft away from you. If you can't shoot it its actually easier to drive now because the guy is far from you, I can take Larry Hughes, do a crossover, hesitation or whatever, and the guy is just there flatfooted, and Larry will get around him. As far as DT'ing in the post, they don't rotate over fast enough to be effective. Basically the DT'ing in the paint part of this theory only works on a actual post up, not this talk about driving by your man and somoene picking you up when you get to the basket because that is non existent. Once you get close to the basket, layups...this is a good theory, it actually lowers shooting %s and points, i'm gona play some more with it to get a better feel for it, but its funny because it does work, but it doesn't accomplish what you set out to accomplish which was stopping the driving and forcing players to shoot Js. Let me play with it more, and if I'm wrong, I will take back my statements...Comment
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one thing u need to make sure of is that ur shooting precentages sliders remain as close to default as possibleComment
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one other thing i forgot was the Def Awareness make sure that it is all the way up, that might be why you had those problems, with the awareness up they seem to rotate faster I do play with the center alot as the last line of defense. try these suggestions and let me know.
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the only problem with NBA Live and this theory is the high precentage that players make shots even that are contested, so unless u have lowered the shooting ability it probably won't work. But 2k3 is pretty accurate on shooting, and if you put the defense awareness up plus blocking they still contest shotsComment
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if playing on all star, moving def awareness up makes the D go for pump fakes EVERYTIME...when I was doing my sliders, this is one conclusion i came to...and lowered it little by little into finally realizing the D wont go for so many fakes if they slider is just 0.Comment
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I understand what you are saying about the pump fake but the low pressure combined with the double team in the paint helps this way is u pump fake and drive u will most likely have to pull up for a mid range jumper cause the help D comes upComment
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so what have you huys done exactly to make the game more realistic? what is the pressure and who double teaming?Comment
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I don't have 2K3 and haven't tried this, but it makes sense. Think about how you play ball when you actually play against someone. If they are a shooter, you get up in their face. So, guys like Reggie Miller, Ray Allen, etc., you're going to give them nothing and force them to drive. Someone quick like Iverson, you want to lay off and make him hit his outside shots. Like I said, I don't have the game, but before you play, look at who you're playing against and set your individual pressure accordingly. The reason why guys like Kobe and T-Mac are so good is that they are great at driving to the basket so you gotta lay off them, but they can nail the outside shots too.Comment
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