So, my conference is dominated by two teams that are built and run exaclty the same.  Extremely high defense and athletism, ignoring all other ratings, and a full court press.  When you play them, even if you don't get shut down by their defense and turn the ball over a ton, they still end up at the line aroudn 40 times, and you foul out at least 3 of your guys.

So, I guess if I'm going to keep playing this stupid game, I need to learn how to defeat this style.  And don't say join them, I won't.
Any ideas?

IMO, the weakness of FCP teams would be that they get tired early.  If you have the players then you should be able to raise the tempo and get them tired and to start fouling.  If you can't do that, then you have to slow it down.  The key issue for recruiting, usually is turnovers.  You must have very good PG(s) to beat a good pressing team.   You can't make up for lack of BH and Pass by gameplanning.

If your fouling out playing M2M defense, then the issue is probably lack of DEF rating for your team (or lack of stamina).  You can play slowdown and "+" on the gameplan.  That would limit your fatigue and fouls, but will make you vulnerable inside.   Over the long term, there is no substitute for high defense ratings on a M2M team (ATH really helps too).

If you are whining about the FCP now, you would have hung yourself if you had to play against it +10 seasons ago when it was REALLY broken.

and on the 2nd page... wisjournal.com/forums/Posts.aspx

You also need to recruit better. Your team ath/spd isn't up to par for a D2 team and will lose to those 2 teams under any system. 

Posted by tianyi7886 on 9/29/2011 10:29:00 AM (view original):
You also need to recruit better. Your team ath/spd isn't up to par for a D2 team and will lose to those 2 teams under any system. 

Well...I did make it to the final 4, so I guess I'm not recruiting THAT bad.  By the way, the two FCP teams that beat me in division both bowed out in the early rounds.  I guess its a rock/paper/scissor thing....FCP is the paper to my rock.

And I did beat one of my nemesis FCP in division teams after my initial posting of this thread.  Instead of trying to change what I was doing to try to stop them, I just played my game, but slowed it down so I wouldn't have guys fouling out.