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NBA 2K: Should Zone Defense Be Removed?

06:00 PM - April 29, 2014 by RaychelSnr

From the YMCA to the NCAA, zone defenses have become a go-to strategy for many amateur basketball teams.

But at the sport's highest level, the National Basketball Association, true zone defense remains as rare and successful as a Zach Randolph 3-point shot.

No current NBA team uses zone as its primary defense, and excluding outliers like the Golden State Warriors, Dallas Mavericks and Toronto Raptors, who utilize zones in no more than 10 percent of their defensive possessions, few NBA squads show much interest in the scheme.

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# 21 VDusen04 @ 04/30/14 03:18 PM

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Originally Posted by TheRealHST


	As long as its legal in the REAL NBA, No it doesnt make sense to remove it. Because a bunch of causals fans cant beat a zone doesnt mean, hey lets remove it for them. The zone can be beat. Gamers are lazy as hell

I think the question a lot of gamers may have is whether the 2K zone is regularly and consistently beatable by employing proper and amply available NBA strategies. Or, is beating a zone in NBA 2K more about "gaming the game", i.e. discovering a video game way of exploiting something people are trying to use and exploit themselves?

For instance, and I ask this sincerely because I do not own NBA 2K14, does this year's 2K offer various effective offensive sets designed specifically to counter any zone that may be employed? Moreover, does a zone defense in 2K have the same shortfalls we'd tend to see if it were used in a similar manner in real life (defenders slow to recover, fatigued if just running about with their heads cut off, offensive intelligence putting themselves in correct positions, passes with enough snap, and a realistic success-to-failure ratio of steal attempts)?

Admittedly, some of the few times I've hopped online in previous 2K's, there's been instances where I've been able to handily defeat gamers abusing zone defenses, but none of it - not their strategies and not my solutions - felt like real, strategic basketball. And to be clear, that is not a blanket statement on all gamers who use zone defenses. Rather, again, I think some folks just believe the zones, in their current state, are open to being used and abused, while the realistic tools to dismantle and defeat an opponent's scrambling double teams, spamming of the steal button, and speed recovering, are limited.

# 22 STLRams @ 04/30/14 03:25 PM

Wouldn't bother me at all if 2K removed zone defense....

# 23 Law504 @ 04/30/14 09:08 PM

its sad to see online people abuse it, cause it just shows us that they dont know what theyre doing, lol, we all know how to break zone easy and get a open jumper why do everyone keep doing it. Yes they should take it out playing man to man will make everyone a better player if zone are not in the game.

# 24 Greatness @ 05/01/14 08:04 AM

Yes, zone defense should be removed from NBA 2k.

# 25 cmehustle @ 05/01/14 02:27 PM

1-3-1 zone in 2k wins by clogging the paint and reacting phonomenly to cross court passes with deflections or blocking corner shots. Also it prevents offensive boards by clogging the paint and prevents most down low or in the paint shots. In real life, downsides of the 1-3-1 are offensive rebounds, corner threes, and most of all big men down low due to the 1 defender. So in 2k things work exactly the opposite of real life.

# 26 RealMogreen28 @ 05/02/14 04:58 PM

Me personally I hate using zone defense, I only use it when I have too, But it's the only defense against 2k's constant offensive exploits. Only chance of stopping the top 40 players rated 85 or higher from just blatantly driving to the rack from the foul line dunking over my center. I'm a nuggets fan so I mainly use denver, so I have guys like Kd,Bron,Iggy, Rudy Gay, Westbrook etc. begin their 2-step drive and just dunk over Javale Mcgee and Mozgov 7/10% of the time -__-. Or the continual crossover back and forth until I eventually make I make a mistake or 2k's stupid tripping animation occurs and you get an easy shot(most likely a 3). Until they can fix those issues and a few others the zone in nba 2k has to stay no matter what.

Honestly I think Sports games should have a 2 year development cycle with 4 title updates with minor updates during the 2 years. Paying $60 for games with a few minimal improvements every year is really starting to suck.

# 27 JerzeyReign @ 05/03/14 01:26 PM

Removing zone isn't fixing the underlying issues of why its so strong. Fixing things like the slow passing, passing trajectories, passing animations and defender's hustle, defender's reaction time and defender's awareness should be looked into.

Removing zone - a very realistic scheme THAT EVERY team runs - is like putting a band aid on a gunshot wound.

# 28 Dmac1991 @ 05/03/14 07:02 PM

For 2k to remove zone defense and FORCE everyone to play man to man, they'd have to fine tune the hell out of it to where we actually have a chance of staying in front of the other player

# 29 jyoung @ 05/10/14 02:47 PM

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Originally Posted by iki319


	Dont know if im the only one who noticed but why are the all star jerseys sleeveless in the main photo?

I believe it's because that screenshot was taken while the 2K servers were down, so I was stuck using the default on-disk roster. You can see further evidence of that by the fact that Gortat is still on the Suns.

I don't think you can use any of the new jerseys without downloading 2K's roster update.

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