Most of your ideology is right, for press they cannot chose match ups like man to man is pg v pg, the only thing you can do against press Is limit turnovers, when you limit turnovers at least in my exp I tend to win against it, feed it to your best ball handlers and passers regardless of who is matched up.
With zone some coaches will run a 2-3 +2 which you can actually score inside and run a balanced offense. So watch for defensive positioning because a 2-3 and even +3 can ruin a perimeter game in some cases and the same goes for 3-2 -3. Rebounding becomes pretty big against zone in a lot of cases. It becomes more of an offensive battle to score than a defensive. Think of where the opening will be, remember this is an engine and not real life