Team Defense Must Improve in NBA 2K17

[ChaseB]

NBA 2K17 will soon be upon us (as Mike Wang’s recent gameplay blog shows), but there’s one topic I have to talk about before release season officially arrives: team defense.

This past year I’ve talked a lot about multi-man interactions and defensive situations, but one thing I haven’t really talked about is how an entire defense works together. Team defense can be very hit or miss in NBA 2K16. At points the rotations are great, but other times team defense breaks down every step of the way.

So after the jump, I’ll dive in with some GIFs that try to detail the good, the bad and the ugly of NBA 2K16’s team defense.

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[Jhawkfootball06]

[Vast]

Quote: Originally Posted by Jhawkfootball06

It looks like #27 shouldve been on Love and Draymond on Lebron but there was a miscommunication. Happens in the NBA all the time during transition.

[extremeskins04]

This is the one gameplay aspect that I'm worried about and it's the team defense and defensive mechanics which were extremely broken last year.

If I set up my defense so I want them to play tight coverage on shooters and for them to NOT help defense and NOT leave their man, and when a pick happens and my teammates start leaving their man wide open for a 3 because they felt the need to come help me on a pick play, then it's a problem.

And this happened way too much last year to the point of where it got frustrating. There were a ton of videos on it, even Sam Pham discussed it alot.

I'm not saying that a bad defender with poor basketball IQ won't make mistakes, but this was happening on players like Kawhi and it shouldn't.

Hopefully it's fixed this year.

[alabamarob]

Great Post. I think the key is in the Individual defensive settings options. If 17 gives us a way to control what players we help off of, then i will be satisfied. We shouldn't have to faceguard/deny a guy to not help off of him. If we control who we help off of, then we control our own rotations. Thus, the help defense logic would be user and not AI dependent.

Settings like "Dont help" or "1 foot in the paint" would take defense to a whole new level. When someone runs an Iso with Harden and Capella is standing beyond the 3 point line wouldnt it be nice to have the big guarding Capella keep "1 foot in the paint." Or wouldnt it be nice to play moderate off ball pressure on Klay but "dont help" on the Curry/Green PNR.


Seems easier to make the rotations user controlled as opposed to making the cpu help defenders react a certain way.

[LorenzoDC]

Quote: Originally Posted by Jhawkfootball06

That video was played on Pro Default difficulty, by the way.

[ch46647]

Hoping for a blog from OG and Czar this week!

[YungGun]

Quote: Originally Posted by Vast

It looks like #27 shouldve been on Love and Draymond on Lebron but there was a miscommunication. Happens in the NBA all the time during transition.

True that it happens a lot during transition, but just look at the way Draymond just slides out of the way so the CPU can get an open cut to the basket. This was a major problem in 2K16 and as we see might be a problem in this years game as well. This is inexcusable. Plus stuff like this only happens against the User's team.