Why does it seem like off-ball D is universally shunned? [serious]

[start it up]

Quote: Originally Posted by 2_headedmonster

No one is forcing anyone to do anything. If a person decides not to play a mode because others dont want to play by their rules, by their own free will, they can take their proverbial ball and go home.

Take my ball, go home, and let the lesser players ruin the game? No Sir. The only reason to advocate off ball D, is because you probaly can't play on ball. In real life teams that can't play defense don't win. Why don't you take your ball and go back offline?

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[ProfessaPackMan]

So the ones who do play off ball majority of the time or don't have an issue with it, that means you don't get upset or are cool with users turbo-ing or PnR their way to easy baskets then, right?

[nova91]

Quote: Originally Posted by start it up

Take my ball, go home, and let the lesser players ruin the game? No Sir. The only reason to advocate off ball D, is because you probaly can't play on ball. In real life teams that can't play defense don't win. Why don't you take your ball and go back offline? Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

LOL. How is someone playing off-ball defense ruining the game?

[Blackhail92]

Been waiting for a thread like this. This is all my opinion but anyone who doesn't play on ball 80-90 percent of the time gets NO respect from me. Especially if your using a tier 1 team and playing offball. I play user defense as well as box out for almost every rebound, this is rewarding and when I win I know the opponent knows and understands I am clearly better than them. Now if your just trying to get a win then by all means pick a tier one and run away the whole game and rack up the wins. Since 2k is very fluke in its ways wins don't mean much to me since the comeback methods are so easy. I prefer to earn everything myself rather than the computer stop midway through the pass to pick off a pass no one knew was coming except the cpu and me(since I passed it). Why not just play against computer if you will just run away from whoever I pass it to?

You can't call yourself a good 2k player and your sitting around waiting for someone to drive past the cpu(which rarely happens) so you can block it. It can't possibly be rewarding. Again if your method is to win at all cost and you do this then more power to you but I just don't see the reward in it. Every other 2k game rewarded users for playing on ball defense but in this game it is encouraged to play off ball because for some reason the cpu is the only one who can succefully tip passes and retrieve them. what's ironic enough is in this 2k it is easier to play on ball defense yet less players play on ball. Smh
If I am using a tier 3 team and can play on ball defense how can someone with a tier one or two not show the same respect?

[start it up]

Quote: Originally Posted by nova91

LOL. How is someone playing off-ball defense ruining the game?

Because some who plays of ball 80 percent of the time, would more than likely would lose playing on ball. Playing off ball let's them compete without having to play defense.

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[rawdog805]

95% of the guys that play 100% on ball defense go into the Options anyway and turn the Defensive assist slider up to 100 and the Box Out assist slider up to 100% and turn auto shot contest on anyway. So essentially, the CPU is still playing defense for you.

SN:::: We used to call offball defense "computer love" lol.

[jfsolo]

Now I don't play against other people, and I only play on ball defense because it's just more fun, IMO, but this thread is hilarious. You've got normally reasonably talking folks just acting like dicks because of some mano a mano pledge that some people apparently didn't realize that had to sign. Too funny.

[AshamanCarnage]

Quote: Originally Posted by OldManBalla

But I guess it's not OK for others to judge....hmmm, wonder who plays offball? .

I play MyPark and Pro-am so...not me?

Anyway, if you pay to play against a person but don't want to play MyPark or Pro-Am then you can just quit every game until you play against someone who plays on-ball.

I also recommend messaging every person you play who defends off-ball and let them know how much you don't respect them.