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Quote: Originally Posted by Pokes404

The main thing I will say is that, judging from a few mins of gameplay, it looks like you're attempting to take everything away, and that's an extremely difficult thing to do against a competent player. You need to either get up and be physical on the ball handler so he doesn't have the room to yo-yo you into a crossover. Or, you need to be selling out to stop the drive. You risk giving up the drive with the former, and the pull up jumper with the latter, but you need to dictate to the offensive player what he's going to do and challenge the shot/drive as best you can. If you give him the option of either, you'll be scrambling all game long. Also, it looks like you're sliding straight left and right trying to cut off the drive. If you can do that, then great. However, this is very hard to do, and you pretty much just have to keep guessing correctly to make this kind of defense work. Once you guess wrong, it's over. What you need to think about when your guy starts making a move is to RETREAT and slide to where the ball handler is going. Use angles to your advantage. Now, if he starts pulling up and hitting jumpers, then you'll have to adjust. But long jumpers are better than layups. I prefer to make my opponents prove that they're willing to take and make those shots first. After that, it's all about learning your opponents tendencies and adjusting. People typically have a certain style that they want to play. If a guy likes to drive, force him to prove that he'll shoot some pull up dribbles. If a guy wants to shoot jumpers, over play him on the perimeter until he proves that he can drive the paint. And when you play someone who mixes up their style and adjusts to whatever you're doing on defense, well, sometimes you just have to tip your cap to your opponent. Lastly, any time there's an on-ball screen, always, always, always send the ball handler into the pick. Whenever an on-ball screen is called, your defense is setting up to stop the pick-n-roll. If you let him cross you up and go the other way, you're sending him away from all of your help. The trick is to put yourself in the best position possible to fight over the screen, while making sure that the offensive player can't cross back over the other way. At the end of the day, defending online is very challenging. Hopefully some of these suggestions help, but I may not be saying anything that you didn't already know.

Sir this stuff is gold ^_^ (Sam Pham fist dap)

I will learn it and apply it to my online game. Thanks man