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I noticed in my games (and yours as well) that Outside isolation usually leads to great amount of assists. Much more compared to basic offence. And it is quite strange. As it is not so isolated as it should be :) Yes, it is common that isolated player makes an assist after drive. But still. In this offence everyone makes assists like crazy.

However, large number of assists did not improve the offensive flow. Can someone explain why?

I was told that the offensive flow is dependent on how good you team's assists / my players' assist abilities are.

Here are my games: (53015398) (49722654) (48947925) (46422811)

However, large number of assists did not improve the offensive flow. Can someone explain why?

I was told that the offensive flow is dependent on how good you team's assists / my players' assist abilities are.

Here are my games: (53015398) (49722654) (48947925) (46422811)

It sounds like you're looking at it backwards. Offensive flow is simply the handling and passing skills of your team - increasing this makes you more likely to increase the number of assists you have. But the calculation only works in that direction - if you have awful offensive flow but are playing a motion offense against a 2-3 with atrocious OD, you may rack up 30+ assists but that won't mean your flow will go up.

One thing to keep in mind is that in most offenses, passing on your big men doesn't really show up in the flow, but good passing on bigs in a look inside can lead to a lot of assisted buckets on passes from one big man to another (or to a driving guard). The best way to look at it is that the ratings displayed after the game are a nice approximation of your overall team abilities but the game at its core still looks at each individual player's skill set and the matchups matter most there.

I noticed Outside Isolation tactic works good with a passing big on SG or SF. He has to have some HA though. Also great Passing on C spot is needed. PG with bad shot will drive a lot, which is a good thing. With correct distribution of player's skills, this can be a great tactic where most scoring comes from SF and PF.

basic instruction

Inside isolation attack:
-need all around C/PF (HA,DR,PA...),especialy passing
-need guards with good JR
-strong inside/outside attack,but hard to create workable team for this tactic

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My game with Outside defence... didn't work at all ....

My opponent has guards with really bad id but in the other hand my guards have great is.
Which attack will exploit this advantage better,patience or inside iso?(i am mostly concerned about the effect of inside iso).
Thanks in advance!

over the last 6 seasons, I analyzed almost every offensive tactic in BB. my result about Iso Outside is that your PG or SG starts the attack. there are two possibilities here: 1) he has only one defender and he creates his own shoot or 2) he draws more than one defender by his side and pass the ball to the inside.

I played Iso Outside with the german U21... our last game against Ukraine showed both, the strengths and weaknesses of Iso Outside. During the first half our guards fed our PF and C with balls and these guys scored on a high level. our FG% in the second quarter was 65%. the PGs and SGs took only a few shoots. but after the halftimebreak and the ajustment of the engine, the ukrainian guards stopped our ones and there were no possibilities for passing the ball to the inside. our PF Miesslinger, who scored 22 points in the first half, had only 3 shooting attempts in the second half. but our guards took a lot more (compared to the first half). and if you can't score from the outside you are messed -.-

the same goes for iso inside but only the other way round. your bigs start posting up, creating their own shoot or passing the ball out to the free guards.

in my opinion, both tactics are pretty cool. but you need the right players. but if you have them and start rolling it's pretty hard to stop it.