How do defense sliders work? (Collision freq. and strength/gather sliders)

[petz_e]

Hi,

Can somebody explain how the DEFENSE category sliders work inside the slider menu?

So, do the USER defense strength, gather and contact frequency sliders improve your the defense against the CPU or is it vice versa?

Here is my current setup:

USER strength/gather: 100 (<= this should improve my defense against the CPU)
USER inside/driving contact freq: 100 (<= this should improve my defense against the CPU)
CPU strength/gather: 0 (<= this should drive my shooting % up)
CPU inside/driving contact freq: 0 (<= this should make my drives to the basket easier by lessen inside collisions)

All other shooting sliders are at 50.

Resulting shooting percentages by quarter of my last game (User/CPU):
1q: 52% / 48%
2q: 24% / 69% !!!
3q: 22% / 82% !!!!!! (I got outscored 37 to 4)
4q: 53% / 57%

So, it looks like these sliders have not the effect I was hoping. Do they even work or am I getting it wrong?

[DatIsraeliGuy]

I second this question, it always drives me nuts because I know some of the sliders are "backwards" (as in raising, and this is intentionally wrong, raising help d strength to actually lower it or where User is actually CPU etc), but not sure which ones or whether or not it has been changed.

So far I have all on 50 except jump shot contest (gather and release) on 40 for both CPU and User.

[chron275]

This will probably help (I don't think anything has really changed between 2k18 and 2k19) --> forums.operationsports.com/forums/nba-2k-basketball-sliders/842866-shot-defense-strength-sliders-explained-8.html

[Bahnzo]

Quote: Originally Posted by chron275

This will probably help (I don't think anything has really changed between 2k18 and 2k19) --> forums.operationsports.com/forums/nba-2k-basketball-sliders/842866-shot-defense-strength-sliders-explained-8.html

However, someone recently posted a video about this, and Da_Czar commented that it was backwards and had been fixed.

Just to confuse things a little more....

[chron275]

Cool, do you have a link to the video that explains how the sliders really work?

[petz_e]

Quote: Originally Posted by chron275

Cool, do you have a link to the video that explains how the sliders really work?

I think the video is in that post chron275 was mentioning (very first post).

[Bahnzo]

If you follow the link that chron provides, you'll see a VERY good, in-depth explanation by the post's author. It's for a 2k18 I think, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's still valid for 19.

Keep in mind, it's only his thoughts.. But it seems he really did a lot of work and testing, and I'm going to certainly give it a try. His ideas on how the differences between gather and release seem to make a lot of sense.

[sanmarco]

Quote: Originally Posted by Bahnzo

However, someone recently posted a video about this, and Da_Czar commented that it was backwards and had been fixed. Just to confuse things a little more....

shadymikegaming i think, found out about this. he said nobody believed him in this forum.

link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB7yeVRrTWE