I'd also be planning on running a motion in D2.  As I find I have the most success with it.

Having played both at D2, I still lean slightly toward press because I think it fits better with the type of team setup and players that I like to recruit and that "look best" to my eye. I don't think either is a "wrong" answer. You can build a solid, consistent program with either defense as your backbone. 

The drawback with the press is you'll have those 2-3 crazy games each season where you suddenly are slap-happy against your opponent and you'll need to have the depth to weather those storms when they do happen. For man, you have the advantage of being able to dictate match ups, but the drawback is that instead of those 2-3 games where you go slaphappy, you get a couple games each season where you scratch your head wondering if the Sim actually paid a lick of attention to the numbers in those match ups. Nothing thrilled me more than to see the 90 defender I rotated on to my opponent's shooting guard get lit up like a Christmas tree in the box score while the 45 defender I rotated onto the small forward instead held his guy to three points in 28 minutes. 

And they wonder why coaches drink so much. 

theOnly : FLEX, MOTION, TRIANGLE : they all have advantages, but I truly do not see a big difference. My observations are these since i play all of them.

FLEX : 2 shooters minimum or your offense will struggle. Mine always struggle cause I am a defensive oriented coach.
MOTION : If you can't pass all-around, it will struggle.
TRIANGLE : you need the outside-inside combo.

I'm going to be this guy again, because this one just bothers me to an irrational degree: the word is versus, not verse.  Versus.

Posted by llamanunts on 6/11/2015 9:43:00 AM (view original):
I'm going to be this guy again, because this one just bothers me to an irrational degree: the word is versus, not verse.  Versus.

sorry about that

Posted by rednu on 6/11/2015 3:11:00 AM (view original):
Having played both at D2, I still lean slightly toward press because I think it fits better with the type of team setup and players that I like to recruit and that "look best" to my eye. I don't think either is a "wrong" answer. You can build a solid, consistent program with either defense as your backbone. 

The drawback with the press is you'll have those 2-3 crazy games each season where you suddenly are slap-happy against your opponent and you'll need to have the depth to weather those storms when they do happen. For man, you have the advantage of being able to dictate match ups, but the drawback is that instead of those 2-3 games where you go slaphappy, you get a couple games each season where you scratch your head wondering if the Sim actually paid a lick of attention to the numbers in those match ups. Nothing thrilled me more than to see the 90 defender I rotated on to my opponent's shooting guard get lit up like a Christmas tree in the box score while the 45 defender I rotated onto the small forward instead held his guy to three points in 28 minutes. 

And they wonder why coaches drink so much. 

thats pretty much 99% of my reasoning for wanting to go press than man.  I'd rather have games where I get slap happy and lose on fouls than lose to a sim team because some 10 ath 40 spd 85 lp defended by a 60 ath 35 spd 65 def manged to score 15 points on me.

Great I can tell by the topic of this thread alone that nothing has changed since I left. As long as you got great athletes and run press then you gonna win.

Except in RL there is no such thing as a true full-court press and ATHLETES ALONE DON'T WIN GAMES!!!! All that's left to do sprinkle in some good IQs after a player has been on the roster for 3 and a half years, and you got a team that not even Jordan himself couldn't beat.

Posted by ettaxpress on 6/11/2015 9:03:00 PM (view original):
Great I can tell by the topic of this thread alone that nothing has changed since I left. As long as you got great athletes and run press then you gonna win.

Except in RL there is no such thing as a true full-court press and ATHLETES ALONE DON'T WIN GAMES!!!! All that's left to do sprinkle in some good IQs after a player has been on the roster for 3 and a half years, and you got a team that not even Jordan himself couldn't beat.

Shouldn't it be "that not even Jordan himself could beat"?  Or "that even Jordan himself couldn't beat", leaving out the "not".  You're right, nothing has changed.

Since you're still so vehemently opposed to how the game is set up (key word being "game"), perhaps it would be best for your blood pressure and overall stress level to move on to something more your speed, like Candy Crush or Pac-Man.