i just have to ask the question. does any other game make you feel as good for getting in a guys shorts and shutting him down?????
the answer for me is hell no. when i first began this journey called nba2k3 the opposing teams point guards were wearing me out like a dollar whore in las vegas with a convention in town.
so i had to buckle down and learn how to d up in this game. i have never seen a cpu jab and pump fake with bad intentions like they do in nba 2k. try it.. try guarding one of the cpu's top wing or point scorers and see what happpens to you. they pump you and if you don't go they shoot it, then they will double pump you , which i go for on occasion and then they take you too the rack. why are their pump fakes so effective you ask????
becasue if you don't jump to challange shots it goes in. simple and plain. i can't explain how much depth this adds to video game hoops. then throw into the mix their use of the jab step and you can forget it, back off iverson and see what happens??? push up on iverson and see what happens, and i guess that is my point. finally i get to face the problems that other nba teams have... if a guys is on it's going to be a long night. and i for one love it.
but this brings me to the point of this discussion how do you play great defense in nba 2k3 well like my main man wwharton said why listen to a guy who is 9-15. hehehe
first off you need to pick your poisen and i am mainly referring to man to man d with you guarding the person with the ball. Make up your mind in the beginning of the game how you want this guy to try and beat you tonight. usually you want to make shooters put the ball on the floor so play them tight. and penetrators you want to make them take the straight up jumper. all night long cause the percentages will be on your side even if they get hot wether the storm and those swishs turn to clanks and you goal is not to hold iverson or who ever to 0 pts but make them take a hell of a lot of shots to get it, cause that means rebounds and that means transition or more shots at the rim.
if you make the decision to give allen the jumper instead of watching him blow past you all night you must fight like hell to make sure that happens and don't ever abondon your strategy just cause he hits a few shots on you. when this happens your in for a long long night .
he wants you to run up on him after he hits a few j's so he can get to the basket and keep it rolling. trust me if by the end of the night all he has taken are jumpers and no layups and fast breaks then you have a much better chance of winning than the other way around.
now you must learn to use the analog stick to be effective on the defense, this year you can use the stick to defensive slide without crouching down with the defensive slide button this help you to change direction quicker. okay when he recieves the ball move your defender so he is shading the scorer on the side of his shooting hand. don't give him a lane the other way but be slightly more on his shooting hand side. ( if you challange a right handed shooter on the left side you minimize your effectiveness of making him miss... you'll see playing on his shooting hand side will also increase you blocks , and fouls unfortunatley
)now keep your fingers ready with that turbo button and the defensive crouch button . when he tries to explode to the rim do not move forward or to the side he is trying to goto. .. this is a super tip here .. move back at an angle to where he is trying to get to. with the turbo and crouch both tied down you will beat him to the spot.
this takes some time to get used to cause at first you will fly right past him. after the cut off be ready for a pump fake or another change of direction and you should successfully cut of their direct access to the basket. then don't forget to challange the shot on the shooting hand side don't jump past him on that side but get on that side between him and the basket and tell me your not screaming out loud saying get that s--- out of here... okay maybe that is just me but i'm getting help
until you perfect this let the computer guard him on loose and take all the double teams off cause they usually do it at bad times then scout them and see who is averaging the least amount of points or shooting the worst percentage and when they iso for the scorer double him with this guy on the side he shoots with and don't worry about him scoring cause their gameplan is to have the main scorers beat you ...not scott polard or theo ratlif or michael curry. if you force these guys to take more shots than normal that means less shots for the star guy which is much better for you cause it takes the other team out of their rythm espicially come crunch time
learn to direct switch so they if someone cuts to the rim you can switch to you big man and rotate.
but for criminey sakes keep him out the paint.
a good defensive team gives a jumper before they give up a layup . they alwayls protect the paint, but a great defensive team goes a step further both protects the paint but also challanges all perimeter shots.
if you give up tons of layups the reason is you are moving forward or to the side to cut off the defense but you can't move sideways and backwards at the same time which is why you get beat to the rim.
happy hooping
the answer for me is hell no. when i first began this journey called nba2k3 the opposing teams point guards were wearing me out like a dollar whore in las vegas with a convention in town.
so i had to buckle down and learn how to d up in this game. i have never seen a cpu jab and pump fake with bad intentions like they do in nba 2k. try it.. try guarding one of the cpu's top wing or point scorers and see what happpens to you. they pump you and if you don't go they shoot it, then they will double pump you , which i go for on occasion and then they take you too the rack. why are their pump fakes so effective you ask????
becasue if you don't jump to challange shots it goes in. simple and plain. i can't explain how much depth this adds to video game hoops. then throw into the mix their use of the jab step and you can forget it, back off iverson and see what happens??? push up on iverson and see what happens, and i guess that is my point. finally i get to face the problems that other nba teams have... if a guys is on it's going to be a long night. and i for one love it.
but this brings me to the point of this discussion how do you play great defense in nba 2k3 well like my main man wwharton said why listen to a guy who is 9-15. hehehe
first off you need to pick your poisen and i am mainly referring to man to man d with you guarding the person with the ball. Make up your mind in the beginning of the game how you want this guy to try and beat you tonight. usually you want to make shooters put the ball on the floor so play them tight. and penetrators you want to make them take the straight up jumper. all night long cause the percentages will be on your side even if they get hot wether the storm and those swishs turn to clanks and you goal is not to hold iverson or who ever to 0 pts but make them take a hell of a lot of shots to get it, cause that means rebounds and that means transition or more shots at the rim.
if you make the decision to give allen the jumper instead of watching him blow past you all night you must fight like hell to make sure that happens and don't ever abondon your strategy just cause he hits a few shots on you. when this happens your in for a long long night .
he wants you to run up on him after he hits a few j's so he can get to the basket and keep it rolling. trust me if by the end of the night all he has taken are jumpers and no layups and fast breaks then you have a much better chance of winning than the other way around.
now you must learn to use the analog stick to be effective on the defense, this year you can use the stick to defensive slide without crouching down with the defensive slide button this help you to change direction quicker. okay when he recieves the ball move your defender so he is shading the scorer on the side of his shooting hand. don't give him a lane the other way but be slightly more on his shooting hand side. ( if you challange a right handed shooter on the left side you minimize your effectiveness of making him miss... you'll see playing on his shooting hand side will also increase you blocks , and fouls unfortunatley
)now keep your fingers ready with that turbo button and the defensive crouch button . when he tries to explode to the rim do not move forward or to the side he is trying to goto. .. this is a super tip here .. move back at an angle to where he is trying to get to. with the turbo and crouch both tied down you will beat him to the spot.
this takes some time to get used to cause at first you will fly right past him. after the cut off be ready for a pump fake or another change of direction and you should successfully cut of their direct access to the basket. then don't forget to challange the shot on the shooting hand side don't jump past him on that side but get on that side between him and the basket and tell me your not screaming out loud saying get that s--- out of here... okay maybe that is just me but i'm getting help
until you perfect this let the computer guard him on loose and take all the double teams off cause they usually do it at bad times then scout them and see who is averaging the least amount of points or shooting the worst percentage and when they iso for the scorer double him with this guy on the side he shoots with and don't worry about him scoring cause their gameplan is to have the main scorers beat you ...not scott polard or theo ratlif or michael curry. if you force these guys to take more shots than normal that means less shots for the star guy which is much better for you cause it takes the other team out of their rythm espicially come crunch time
learn to direct switch so they if someone cuts to the rim you can switch to you big man and rotate.
but for criminey sakes keep him out the paint.
a good defensive team gives a jumper before they give up a layup . they alwayls protect the paint, but a great defensive team goes a step further both protects the paint but also challanges all perimeter shots.
if you give up tons of layups the reason is you are moving forward or to the side to cut off the defense but you can't move sideways and backwards at the same time which is why you get beat to the rim.
happy hooping
i'm alwayls looking for the advantage. leave ratlif if you dare 
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