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In my last game, the opposing team played patient, and one player took > 50% of the shots. While this is to be expected, the fact that he played at center while 18 of his 54 shot attempts were 3 pointers was not expected. This player is a shooting guard, with 11 JS, 10 JR, 5 IS, guarded by a player with 6 OD, 11 ID.

While I will allow for the ability of a coach to try and create mismatches, if a C is allowed to play more or less the same role as a SG (at least from a shot selection perspective), I need to have a way to defend that. Ideally, I would be able to choose who guards who, but without knowing their lineup ahead of time, I think that's pretty much impossible, at least without locking lineups 12-24 hours before the game. So I'm thinking that the ingame coach should be able to control defensive matchups as well.

This would be useful in other circumstances as well, say that both me and my opponent have one good guard who can play both SG and PG. If he guesses correctly and I guess incorrectly, i.e.his guy plays PG and defends PG, while mine plays PG and defends SG, then he is at a big advantage based on nothing but luck, or rock-paper-scissors strategy at best. In a real game the coach would make this adjustment before the game even started.

if you had the same matchup at C, i believe the scoring of the SG would be quite different. Yes he can take shots, and 18 three pointers are a lot and not only to explain with thelast second shots - but in my experience these off position shots where affected a lot more from the team rating then the normal ones.

Excellent strategy! Your rival it is a crack! I have players with similar skills. I can´t wait to play patient to see what happens xD.

In fact, i usually try the oposite strategy. Noy my SFs are training as PG to rise OD but they have already completed their inside training. I play LI with a guy(SF) playing as PG that don´t have many OS but a hight IS. I is incredible how many inside attepts he makes in a match. Badly defended by a PG, he is one of my best players.

Training SFs has to have some advantages! this is just one of them.

Last edited by Gragamel at 3/18/2011 2:05:34 AM

I definitely agree with you...

I think I like the NBA 2K11 strategy for man to man defense:

Basically you set each position to whatever position should guard what position but you can also assign certain players to always be the one to guard another certain player. That way, when one player is on the court, the defensive matchups switch.