NBA 2K22 CPU Defender Plays tight on ball defense on everyone (regardless of shooting

[Dione2014]

This was an issue that has come back from NBA 2K19 and it was never patch back then. The CPU plays everyone close like you’d expect for Steph and Dame… but not Shaq and Ben Simmons

I ran some quick test. You can see what I mean for yourselves.


Shaq being defended and even double teamed 30 feet out.

https://youtu.be/G9aAzPbDeAI

Ben Simmons being played 30+ feet from the basket.

https://youtu.be/rzmwvImQmck

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[alabamarob]

Re: NBA 2K22 CPU Defender Plays tight on ball defense on everyone (regardless of shoo

This was an issue that has come back from NBA 2K19 and it was never patch back then. The CPU plays everyone close like you’d expect for Steph and Dame… but not Shaq and Ben Simmons

I ran some quick test. You can see what I mean for yourselves.


Shaq being defended and even double teamed 30 feet out.

https://youtu.be/G9aAzPbDeAI

Ben Simmons being played 30+ feet from the basket.

https://youtu.be/rzmwvImQmck

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When every defender is Gary Payton mixed with Champ Bailey the AI will guard Simmons or Shaq 30 feet out. There is no downside to it.

I can press people full court with Trae Young and make them pick up their dribble. Once they get the speed right this should help against the Nolan Richardson coached AI.

[VictorMG]

Re: NBA 2K22 CPU Defender Plays tight on ball defense on everyone (regardless of shoo

Somebody tweet Czar about this. I'm sure he'll at least look into it if it can be patched.

[Dione2014]

Re: NBA 2K22 CPU Defender Plays tight on ball defense on everyone (regardless of shoo

When every defender is Gary Payton mixed with Champ Bailey the AI will guard Simmons or Shaq 30 feet out. There is no downside to it.



I can press people full court with Trae Young and make them pick up their dribble. Once they get the speed right this should help against the Nolan Richardson coached AI.

Yeah it really does suck that the defense doesn’t have to give up anything. It seems like people don’t even care that this issue exists.

You can see they’re complaining about things like there being no mid range game and no way to run drop coverage, but the reason these issues even exist is because the CPU is running everyone tight.

Definitely gonna try to get this issue looked at by the Czar.





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[vannwolfhawk]

Re: NBA 2K22 CPU Defender Plays tight on ball defense on everyone (regardless of shoo

When every defender is Gary Payton mixed with Champ Bailey the AI will guard Simmons or Shaq 30 feet out. There is no downside to it.

I can press people full court with Trae Young and make them pick up their dribble. Once they get the speed right this should help against the Nolan Richardson coached AI.

LMAO! Greatest post ever had me at champ Bailey and Nolan Richardson AI!!! Hahaha

[RainZ]

Re: NBA 2K22 CPU Defender Plays tight on ball defense on everyone (regardless of shoo

Any updates on this guys its really grating on me as an offline player... CPU defenders are seemingly playing everyone tight/smother and also even worse they actually always pick them up from just about half court no matter who it is...

Like...guys shouldn't be playing up on someone like Kyrie and not getting blown by.. Have no idea what has happened here would love if the big Czar can chime in.

[AIRJ23]

Re: NBA 2K22 CPU Defender Plays tight on ball defense on everyone (regardless of shoo

Can you go into the other team’s settings and manually make them play looser off ball?

[poulka]

Re: NBA 2K22 CPU Defender Plays tight on ball defense on everyone (regardless of shoo

I am seeing this issue too. I have played 5 myNBA games and cannot even score because I cannot pass anyone open or ball fake a clearance. Pump fake gets a defender in the air but the whole animation sequence on my player is so slow that the defender recovers and resumes his tight coverage. I tried tweaking the on ball setting by dropping it to 40 that helped at least get a few more open shots and drives to the goal.

[alabamarob]

Re: NBA 2K22 CPU Defender Plays tight on ball defense on everyone (regardless of shoo

I am seeing this issue too. I have played 5 myNBA games and cannot even score because I cannot pass anyone open or ball fake a clearance. Pump fake gets a defender in the air but the whole animation sequence on my player is so slow that the defender recovers and resumes his tight coverage. I tried tweaking the on ball setting by dropping it to 40 that helped at least get a few more open shots and drives to the goal.

I was having the same problem with the pumpfake drive by initially. If you pumpfake and try to triple threat by the defender you will get stopped. If you pumpfake and simple drive to the right or left of the defender you can get a clear lane to finish. I have no idea why the triple threat held me back, but it did.

[RainZ]

Re: NBA 2K22 CPU Defender Plays tight on ball defense on everyone (regardless of shoo

Just tried again this morning in a quick game from main menu. Switched controller to the opposite team and changed coach settings for all onball to gap. Then changed controller back and nothing changed...

Guys are still picked up near half court, give the ball to a centre (any position actually) and the D will smother him out to halfway...

Anyone actually had success fixing this? I don't believe the gap/tight/etc onball settings are working at all for the CPU at this stage.

[Gosens6]

Re: NBA 2K22 CPU Defender Plays tight on ball defense on everyone (regardless of shoo

This is how the game was designed. The defense was so trash in past games, they had to do this to overcompensate for the fact.

If it wasn’t like this, it would be an easy blow by to the rim like last year. It’s unrealistic and ugly to watch, but guys don’t care because defense is “challenging” instead of being realistic.


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[JoFri]

Re: NBA 2K22 CPU Defender Plays tight on ball defense on everyone (regardless of shoo

This was an issue that has come back from NBA 2K19 and it was never patch back then. The CPU plays everyone close like you’d expect for Steph and Dame… but not Shaq and Ben Simmons

Spoiler

I ran some quick test. You can see what I mean for yourselves.


Shaq being defended and even double teamed 30 feet out.

https://youtu.be/G9aAzPbDeAI

Ben Simmons being played 30+ feet from the basket.

https://youtu.be/rzmwvImQmck

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Yup. So on one hand, if u call a ISO 5OUT play, u'll see the paint more 'open' than ever bcos the CPU is so damn close to their man ...

For me the CPU help defense would just sag the moment I attack the paint (or run a play with good screeners to free up cutters) and my shooters in the perimeter gets open eventually. So it's not really an issue after a while.

Nevertheless, more gap for off-ball defense is definitely better as this can trigger help faster without super unrealistic lightning speed (esp bigs) on closing out the shooters

[Luke Skywalker]

Re: NBA 2K22 CPU Defender Plays tight on ball defense on everyone (regardless of shoo

If you lower “without ball” player speed in the movement sliders and increase Pass Speed, the game really starts to open up.

[simbayless]

Re: NBA 2K22 CPU Defender Plays tight on ball defense on everyone (regardless of shoo

If you lower “without ball” player speed in the movement sliders and increase Pass Speed, the game really starts to open up.

Do you lower the user speed without balls as well?

[Luke Skywalker]

Re: NBA 2K22 CPU Defender Plays tight on ball defense on everyone (regardless of shoo

Do you lower the user speed without balls as well?

Depends on you. I don’t know your skill level.