[Offballer4life]

Here are my D settings. Minor adjustments can be made during the game to adapt.

On-ball press...Tight
Offball press... Shooters-tight/deny, bigs-auto, others moderate/tight
Force direction...middle. Bigs-baseline
On ball screen...over (under on bigs w/o range)
Hedge...Catch
On-ball screen (center) ...Ice (under on bigs like above)
Hedge center...Catch
Offball screen....auto
Post....3/4 bottom
Double perimeter...manual
Double post...manual
Prerotate...No
Screen help...help and no rotation (auto on bigs)
Help rules...Help...all

Sorry for the lame format above. On my phone.

The adjustments for bigs are very important. Playing on screener in PnR game is HUGE. Especially for tree-feeders.

Making adjustments to deadeye big men is imperative.

Proper defense and defensive settings can turn a diamond squad into mush. I just faced a collector with reward kiki and held the team as a whole to 19/42 (45%) fg and 3pt to 4/14 (29%). Not awful numbers, but considering the squad, I was impressed w myself.

IN-GAME SETTINGS:
Neutral Aggression.
Some Crash/run or Crash. (i NEVER USE RUN)

I always play man. Zone is too easy to exploit.

Switching offball to cover AI is a necessity. There are no perfect settings.

When someone is under the hoop, right stick and R2 only. Saves from Intense-D L2 auto-block....and fouls/and1s.

Don't mash the steal button. Just don't. Flip the right stick. Less fouling.

If someone wants to turbe cheese, I'll go for a halfcourt trap. I NEVER play half court press to stop turboing like 2k16. If you are keen on this crap, setting up to take a charge is easy.

I start every year focusing on D. I would rather do this first and learn how to handle the cheesers (that start the year learning the best cheese), and then focus on my offense....which is where I'm at now.

Properly played defense is greatly rewarded this year. And poorly played D is punished appropriately.

Hope this helps someone.

Tl;dr

Edit ......thanks to SamPham for getting me started with some of his settings and helping me understand what each does. He truly is a gem in the 2K community. His videos are fantastic learning tools.


Edit2
Also very important....EVERY CHANGE OF POSESSION....NO MATTER WHAT....GET YOUR C BACK TO THE FOUL LINE. Every time. Keep the ballhandlers defender in the corner of your eye just to make sure dumb 2K ai doesn't leave curry on the 3line