What are recommend coach settings for the game this year. My guys never seem to stick to who they should defend
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Re: Coach settings
What do you mean by that? What exactly are your players doing? -
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Re: Coach settings
I don't think there are any universal settings if you are referring to gameplan. Its going to depend on matchups.
Do you mean your players keep switching on defense when you don't want them to? Without details and more context its tough to diagnose, but a few general tips:
1. What is your help slider set to in coach settings? If it is too high it leads to "over helping" which then leads to rotations (i.e. switching). I think the consensus is 75 is a good value, not sure if going above 80 is wise.
2. Check coaching>>gameplan>>Switch rules. I've never really had to change this, but I play in Kobe era where "switch everything" lineups weren't really a thing. Maybe check to see if you accidentally set it to switch everything?
3. Coaching>>gameplan>>stay attached. Be VERY careful with this. You can set it to make the defender always stick to their man, but this should mean they don't play help or rotate. Theoretically you run this against a guy who you absolutely don't want being left open (i.e. Steph). On the other hand I typically set this to "never" for opposing big men. I want my 5 helping every time.
4. I can't remember which menu it is in, coach settings maybe? But try turning on communication for defense only. This will show text over your defenders letting you know what they are doing and expect you to do, sort of like text bubbles for them calling out stuff (PnR coverage).
5. I sometimes have issues in slow transition of my defenders switching when they really shouldn't. For example if I'm playing the Celtics I am not worried about picking up Rondo early; if he wants to pull up from 3 with 18 left on the shot clock be my guest lol. But my teammates sometimes think otherwise and if I play him too soft when he brings it up court one of my dumb bigs will switch to pick him up early. So I need to pick him up early until my big dumbs commit to guarding the opponent bigs and then I fall back. Still burns me two or three times a game because they switch in transition.
(don't know if I did a good job explaining this, basically other team gets a defensive rebound but its not a fast break situation. For guys like Rondo I am not worried about them on the perimeter so I think I'm picking him up at the free throw line. But then one of my idiot big men go "oh no, Rondo is uncovered 30 ft from the basket, I better switch to guard him and let my point guard try to handle Kevin Garnet in the low post!" Normally happens if the opponent big is trailing. So I try to remember to rush my pg forward until all bigs are in the frontcourt then I can play Rondo soft)
Anything more than that requires more info and contextComment
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Re: Coach settings
I’d sell my soul for the leave open setting to actually work.
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Re: Coach settings
I don't think its as simple as it not working. I think it may be working as designed, but what that design is is questionable. I would expect "leave open" is to give them the Rondo/Simmons/Westbrook treatment, but it seems leave open is the same as gap with an added emphasis of play help D every opportunity. For example if you have your coach help D at 65 and set a guy to leave open he's going to gap him AND behave as if help D is set to 75.
Thats what it looks like is happening anywayComment
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