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All my oponents in league play look inside offensive. The problem is that most of their points came from small players, sg, sf, pg. I have no problem stopping their pf or centers. Which defense tactic is the best 2-3, not to let their small players to get ball, 3-2 to have tighter inside, 1-3-1 or man to man? i have 4 competitive teams just like me with similar players stretgh, they all play the same, use the same tactic. What kind of players do i need. Last season i was winning against these team, this season i upgrated my pg and sg, decided to fire my sf. The result first 2 matches losted.
My first game:
http://www.buzzerbeater.com/match/85769716/boxscore.aspx
My oponnent had slightly better players, but i was playing at home, and my players overrall rating was better than oponent in all positions except pg. Whymy pf player ian baker with 1 outside shooting would shoot nine times 3pt., he has 6 passing skill so he is ok to pass ball to someone.
My second game:
http://www.buzzerbeater.com/match/85769724/boxscore.aspx
I biggest mistake was to put on tactics take it easy(done it accidently than was changing team lineup). Even with it my overall ratting were better than my oponent.
How is it possible my pg with 30k salary played worster than his pg with 3k. salary? And my sg last season was playing in second division league against better team was scoring 22.9 pts per game. his jump shot is 19(collosus), this game was playing not against super goood player was outplayed.
Any comments are welcome.

From my experience 2-3 doesn't work against an inside offense in this game, obviously in real life it does, but here it doesn't for some reason.

Some people think that 3-2 zone works well against an inside offense, for this it helps to have good outside defense on the 3, PG-SG-SF, and good shot blocking on the 2, PF-C.

Also, if a player has low passing he will sometimes take bad shots because he doesn't have the ability to pass out of a bad situation, so throws up a poor shot as a result. 6 passing isn't terrible, but it's not great, maybe good division 3 passing would be at least 10?

Your point guard played better didn't he, 13 points, 14 assists to your opponent's 5 points, 6 assists.

Also, obviously if the play an inside offense every game predict 'Inside', I'm guessing you already know that though.

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3-2 zone with SB on your bigs and good OD on your 1-2-3 position. Also ID on your guards helps. Using game day preparation helps too. If all that fails, maybe you should just look to get better players yourself.

Thanks a lot for advice, my center has 10 Sb, pf 8, sg 11 od, pg 13 od. . I just need better sf in defense. Thank you very much.

Have you considered trying Box+1?

From what I've heard, Box-and-One doesn't work like it's supposed to.

I played a version of Box and One all of last season. I found that it is great for rebounding, but you don't get as many steals or blocks as you do with Man to Man. I actually switched to it because of my teams rebounding woes. If everyone is playing Look Inside and you have a decent inside defender, Inside Box and One is pretty good at slowing down the scoring of their best inside scorer. If they have more than one option and your other defenders are not up to the task, you can still lose. Just not by as much.