I need help on defense

[HARTSTOPPER]

This is getting ridiculous. The defensive player movement is so clunky while the right analog dribbles are smooth as can be. This puts defense (or at least me) at a HUGE disadvantage because I like to play on ball defense as myself. Is the only way to play defense in this game by playing off ball defense? I'm only facing the cheese teams because nobody else wants to use their favorite team. I'll admit it that I suck at this game. I just lost to some dude who scored 42 points and scored 38 of them with Chris Paul because he would do crossover after crossover and then either drive to the hoop or pull up a jumper at the free throw line. However, every steal attempt I made was whistled for a foul, or if I tried to play on ball defense my guys would just stiffen up and not be able to contest the shot. What are some tips you guys can give me?

[thedoob]

Dude, don't reach. Especially against CP3. You will get nowhere reaching against the best point guard in the league. Don't continually hold the left trigger. Use left trigger to contest shots, use the sticks to stay in front of your man. Slap the right stick whichever way your man goes to cut him off, while using the left stick to stay in position.

In my opinion, online is all cheese. Some people dig it, I don't mess with it anymore because it's constant cheddar.

With that said, try these defensive moves and be sure to make adjustments. If you can't matchup with your favorite team, be sure to find other teams to use. Don't keep banging your head against the wall. Your head bleeds, the wall don't.

[SaylaB]

I agree with you. At times, it feels like the defensive movement isn't nearly as responsive as the offensive movement. I've noticed that my guy will feel like he's stuck in sand, even while holding the sprint button to keep up with an offensive player. I've also noticed that on defense, my player's keep their shoulders square way too much. Even when I have the left stick pressed all the way in a direction, my player will often still have his shoulder's square to the ball handler, or to the guy I'm guarding off the ball.

That's my biggest gripe with defense this year. Responsiveness isn't nearly the same as on offense. Even when I hold turbo and press to move in a direction, there's a lag from what I pressed, to the actions on the screen.

With all that said, I've found the best way to play defense is to treat the left-stick as pressure sensitive. Meaning, you should match what the opponent is doing with regards with their movements. So for example, if a player is moving quickly from side to side, you should react by moving your stick just as quickly, but not too quickly or you'll over pursue and get burnt. If you move it to slow, you'll get burnt as well.

To me, defense is a delicate process this year and by far the most frustrating part of this game. Even when I play good defense and match my man stride for stride, I'll get caught in some bogus animation where I get thrown way off of my trajectory course and get blown by, even though I've done nothing wrong. I haven't found a way to consistently stay in front of my man. When I get thrown off course, I can't recover quick enough because of the lag I referred to earlier.

I have decided to stay away from using intense defense except on close outs.

Maybe I'm going about defense all wrong, but that's just what has worked for me. I'll get burnt probably every third possession or so, but I've gotten good enough at defense to at least force bad shots on most possessions, instead of wide open shots time after time.

If you took the time to read this, I hope it helps.

[BearClaw]

Know what the ball handler is good at and know where your help is. If they have a not-so-hot jumper but can drive, take a step back and move to where they're going to be. If you immediately move left or right you'll be following them instead of being in front of them. If they have a good jumpshot along with a good ability to get to the rack, try to bump them and force them towards your help. If they can only shoot HANDS UP!!!

[HARTSTOPPER]

I appreciate the help guys. I'll attempt to apply some of it in my next game. I'm calling it a night for now though.

[BeggsyCFC1888]

I need some vital help on defence on my career I try to steal the ball and I am successful less than 10% of the time with the other 90% resulting in reach in fouls. I hold the LT and track my man but I can never seem to stop passes to him or stop alley oops, I dont have a clue how to defend on this game at all, this is the first NBA game I have since Ballers. If anyone want to add me on Xbox and give me one to one training then feel more than welcome, some easy wins for you.

Gamertag : BeggsyCFC1888

[demfl]

Quote: Originally Posted by SaylaB

That's my biggest gripe with defense this year. Responsiveness isn't nearly the same as on offense. Even when I hold turbo and press to move in a direction, there's a lag from what I pressed, to the actions on the screen. To me, defense is a delicate process this year and by far the most frustrating part of this game. Even when I play good defense and match my man stride for stride, I'll get caught in some bogus animation where I get thrown way off of my trajectory course and get blown by, even though I've done nothing wrong. I haven't found a way to consistently stay in front of my man. When I get thrown off course, I can't recover quick enough because of the lag I referred to earlier. Maybe I'm going about defense all wrong, but that's just what has worked for me. I'll get burnt probably every third possession or so, but I've gotten good enough at defense to at least force bad shots on most possessions, instead of wide open shots time after time.

There's simply not enough tools with man defense to keep up with the offense this year, that is a fact. I been calling man defense broken and not rewarding since October but the haters will quickly flood me with talks of how great they're with man defense etc.

-Man defense works great against scrub players
-Man defense works great against the CPU, Rookie or HOF level
-Man defense works great if you can change the sliders
-Man defense also works great when your opponent is only using the turbo stick to drive the lane, you can easily get the animations that cuts off the drive.

That its!

Quote: Originally Posted by SaylaB

Even when I play good defense and match my man stride for stride, I'll get caught in some bogus animation where I get thrown way off of my trajectory course and get blown by,

I have stated a million times about the game not rewarding good man defense and that's why I stopped playing strictly man.