I know this seems like a pretty general question, but does anyone have any tips on running man to man defense? I've always run press, but have recently switched over to man to man.

• When is it a good time to double team?
• Is there a way to match up your best defender against your opponents best offensive player?
• Certain recruits you are looking for?

Any tips or opinions and/or links to good forum topics would be appreciated.

Is there a way to match up your best defender against your opponents best offensive player?

Through the depth chart. Identify their best player, look through previous boxscores to see which position he typically plays, and adjust your starters via your depth chart to put your best defender against him.

Thought, he can certainly counter by doing the same thing with his depth chart to try to match up his best offensive guy against your weakest defender. So there's no guarantee.

Don't know what level you play, but in M2M make defensive ratings a huge priority. No weak spots. Not only for the obvious reasons of having a good defense, but it creates difficulty game planning for your opponent if every defender is good. No easy pickens!

I use double teams LESS on their best player. And MORE based around both overall teams..... ex... an opposing scorer that has 70 ATH, 95 SPD, 99 PER is gonna get his. Let him. Just stick a good defender on him and hope for the best. But double team the second option, the 60 ATH, 80 SPD, 89 PER guy with lower stamina. Or the highest bench scorer.

I know there's a lot of debate on the importance of stamina on these forums, but I feel a double team helps create mistakes/turnovers by lower stamina players.

Thanks for your thoughts.

I play at D2 in Phelan, here's my team - Hoops Dynasty – College Basketball Sim Games - Team Profile

My team has solid defenders, and was pretty successful this year in the regular season, but I am wanting to learn more tips and tricks to help get further in the NT.

For example, on my team, Allee is a much stronger perimeter defender than Good. If I wanted to have Allee guard their PG, and I switched Allee to the PG position on the depth chart, how does this affect me offense? Are Allee's offensive ratings now used as a PG (needs strong BH&P?) Or am I thinking of this all wrong?

I'm a newbie but finding good players for m2m without sacrificing too much on other cores is challenging in d3 and d2. That's probably why you see so many press teams at those levels. Your team's defensive rating seems pretty good for d2. Unfortunately, you just happened to run into another m2m team that also had very solid defensive ratings. Their advantage in athleticism, particularly with their guards, seemed to have given you a tough foul discrepancy to overcome. Looks like you are on the right track though and should have a fun year next year with all those juniors becoming seniors.

Posted by tecwrg on 2/4/2019 8:27:00 PM (view original):
Is there a way to match up your best defender against your opponents best offensive player?

Through the depth chart. Identify their best player, look through previous boxscores to see which position he typically plays, and adjust your starters via your depth chart to put your best defender against him.

Thought, he can certainly counter by doing the same thing with his depth chart to try to match up his best offensive guy against your weakest defender. So there's no guarantee.

I avoid m2m for this exact reason. In a real game, the offense has no say in who guards them. In HD, you're stuck in a Princess-Bride-poison-cup situation when game-planning your own defensive assignments.