Is help defense good this year? Are individual instructions working?

[frank70]

Are there realistic rotations, switches, drop down defense in pick-and-rolls, etc.?

And are the individuell instructions in the coaching menu working (sag off, leave alone, pressure, etc.)?

[GisherJohn24]

Quote: Originally Posted by frank70

Are there realistic rotations, switches, drop down defense in pick-and-rolls, etc.? And are the individuell instructions in the coaching menu working (sag off, leave alone, pressure, etc.)?

I think the AI is good on all the things you mentioned. Teammates seem logically sound imo …But the on the fly defense adjustments of those things are normally easily done by pressing right on the D pad. But it was not working since launch on all versions. You can’t even see it. To change defense settings you have to do it during a time out or press pause to D. gameplan.


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[alabamarob]

Quote: Originally Posted by frank70

Are there realistic rotations, switches, drop down defense in pick-and-rolls, etc.? And are the individuell instructions in the coaching menu working (sag off, leave alone, pressure, etc.)?

Most settings are working this year

[Nathan_OS]

Quote: Originally Posted by alabamarob

Most settings are working this year

Really? I’ve been hesitant making adjustments even though CPU P&R is killing me this year.


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[goma76]

Quote: Originally Posted by Nathan_OS

Really? I’ve been hesitant making adjustments even though CPU P&R is killing me this year. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

P&R defense needs adjustment by the user. The defender cannot try to go throw the screen every time, leaving an easy open three.
Try switch, hard edge or similar to avoid this.

[alabamarob]

Quote: Originally Posted by Nathan_OS

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The key to help defense and pnr defense is the stay attached option for each player.for the first time ever you can pick who will leave there assignment.

I can leave help defense on 50 and still get a lot of help and rotations. Stay attached is what unlocks the entire defense

[Fake Empire]

Quote: Originally Posted by alabamarob

The key to help defense and pnr defense is the stay attached option for each player.for the first time ever you can pick who will leave there assignment. I can leave help defense on 50 and still get a lot of help and rotations. Stay attached is what unlocks the entire defense

This exactly. Even without the stay attached option you can shake off PNRs by using basketball logic if you choose to manually defend them. I think PNRs are quite balanced this year, AI definitely adapts when you're trying to overuse them. Ofc as irl there are instances PNRs are successful and that's fine, you can't defend everything. Fyi PNRs are still the main play in european basketball and 80%+ of the offense is based on variations of it.

[EccentricMeat]

Quote: Originally Posted by alabamarob

The key to help defense and pnr defense is the stay attached option for each player.for the first time ever you can pick who will leave there assignment. I can leave help defense on 50 and still get a lot of help and rotations. Stay attached is what unlocks the entire defense

Thanks for drawing my attention to this. I tend to ignore the Defense Settings entirely (probably because they usually don't work...) but since they are working this year, this is a total gamechanger.

Using "Stay Attached" on the two best shooters alleviates most of the help defense issues as far as elite shooters being left open, and using Hard Hedge on elite shooters helps open up the game a lot more in the PnR and lead to more assists and scramble situations rather than star players forcing up shots too often.