I think I may have to retract my earlier post; I think Sam Pham may have found the "solution" to the defensive headaches. From the limited test samples, it seems like what Sam Pham cooked up works. Still a trial run for the time being. I still need to test out what happens when I do switch to playing off-ball and on-ball defense.

Played two games (12 minute quarters, hall of fame, broadcast camera, play now games) with Sam Pham's new setting. He didn't mentioned whether or not ACE should be off or on. I turned ACE off. With ACE (ON), the CPU sometimes who automatically change my matchups (i.e. Durant on Tony Parker, etc), which sometimes would confuse me on who I was suppose to be guarding (since I was playing point guard). Honestly, it wasn't that bad with ACE (ON) using Sam Pham's new setting (still need to give ACE (ON) a full game test run though).

I purposely controlled the point guard position and let the game handle all my other teammates off-ball coverages. Wanted to see if my teammates would play absurd defense. Fortunately, I didn't see any questionable tactics.

(Note: I am one of those claiming the game pre-Sam Pham settings had questionable defense, where players would purposely run away leaving their man wide open for shots, and simply not pick up their assignment. I had the impression the game was simply more challenging because it was absolutely necessary to play both on-ball and off-ball defense, which in hindsight, was NOT because of a smarter CPU offense in a manner of speaking. It was simply because my offline hall of fame teammates were playing questionable sketchy defense.

Pre-Sam Pham settings, I needed to control off-ball defense because my teammates were simply playing questionable elementary defense if you would even call it that. The implementation of Sam Pham's setting no longer requires me to monitor any of my teammates on the floor. I could if I wanted to, but the two games I played back to back didn't require me to touch my off-ball defenders.

NBA2k17 with Sam Pham's new defensive settings now makes the game playable and pushes the fun factor to a 15/10. Now, I can legitimately start a MyLeague file without having to wait for a defensive patch.

Still a trial period, but Sam Pham seems to have resolved the defensive concerns.
I still need to test out what happens when I do switch to playing off-ball defense and on-ball defense.

However, this doesn't resolve some of the questionable opposition CPU defense. It happens infrequently but it does happen with the CPU.

I also just tested out, at least I think I have the proper settings in place, and it just happened with Kevin Durant running from one side of the court to the other. I was using Curry. Durant decides to mysteriously come over to help. Was extremely excited to see a possible fix, but unfortunately, it didn't resolve it.

For whatever reason, it actually worked better if I kept everything on out of the box default setting and simply follow what Vni suggested, sort of. I simply kept off-ball pressure (tight) and on-ball pressure (tight). I played a full game and didn't get strange things like that happening, or at least I have yet to come across it. Still a trial and error period.

Did I miss something in Sam Pham's video.

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Vni's Video
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