Since we have the Offensive Sets listed here, I figured we should post the Defensive Sets as well for anyone who doesn't have the game. See below and let us know if you have any questions.
STRAIGHT - Basic Man to Man Defense with no adjustments
SWITCH - Pick and Rolls will be switched nullifying the pick and roll while possibly leaving a poor matchup.
ATTACK - Defenders will attack the perimeter helping to reduce three point attempts and allowing for more drives to your interior defense.
PASSIVE - Defenders will protect the paint area more by sagging off defenders. This will reduce drives and post passes but allow more outside shots.
Additionally, you can set up to 5 of your players to defend specific players/positions (Perimeter or Post Player) from the opposing teams. This helps if you have strong defenders.
You still have the same sliders available as before: PACE, FCP, DI, ZONE Offensive Rebounding, Defensive Rebounding, etc, but depending on your defensive set it will ignore some of those sliders in favor of that set (i.e. if you play ATTACK and your zone is set to 1 it will ignore that and still zone the other team). We will post more clarity on this during the off-season from our default file testing.
DDS19 Defensive Sets
- emplep7
- Commissioner & CSL Champ 2018
- Posts: 6694
- Joined: Fri Jul 11, 2014 5:06 pm
- Contact:
- Ramcus
- CEO
- Posts: 2305
- Joined: Fri May 24, 2019 12:26 am
- Location: Brooklyn, NY
- Contact:
Re: DDS19 Defensive Sets
That doesn't make sense. If you play PASSIVE and your zone is set to 1, you wouldn't zone the team at all. You'd want to set "zone" to 5 or up, depending on how much you want to zone them up.
And just for clarification purposes, does the game ignore your philosophies if your defense/offense goes against the philosophy? Or do they work together in some way? Specifically, in what way does philosophy and offense/defense sets work together? Is there a priority of sorts, where the game would consider philosophy first, and then scheme? Is it the other way around?
For example, if you play a 9 zone but your defense is "attack," would your team be more likely to zone or more likely to attack?
If you play a 1 zone but your defense is "switch," you'd automatically just play a switch-heavy system with a bunch of man defenders, and no zone. But those aren't necessarily contradictory.
Stay Me7o
NOLA 2022-2030: 292-364
BRK 2030-2031: Interim GM/Coach | CSL Champion
LAC 2031-present
NOLA 2022-2030: 292-364
BRK 2030-2031: Interim GM/Coach | CSL Champion
LAC 2031-present
- andrei
- Chairman of the Board
- Posts: 6779
- Joined: Fri Jul 11, 2014 8:26 am
- Location: Dublin, Ireland
- Contact:
Re: DDS19 Defensive Sets
Would be interesting to see what is the best use of these defenses?
Attack - looks like helps with Perimeter oriented offenses that run whatever offensive sets shoot more from Mid, COR, ATB
Passive - more for teams with good inside game that runs offense high in Post attempts
Switch - Don't get this one. There are multiple offenses, i.e. Perimeter if I remember correctly, that run high pick and roll. But same offense runs a Perimeter game that should be countered with Attack... so which one do you choose and why?
Straight - not sure what this means - just a default setting that you choose and hope for the best?
Attack - looks like helps with Perimeter oriented offenses that run whatever offensive sets shoot more from Mid, COR, ATB
Passive - more for teams with good inside game that runs offense high in Post attempts
Switch - Don't get this one. There are multiple offenses, i.e. Perimeter if I remember correctly, that run high pick and roll. But same offense runs a Perimeter game that should be countered with Attack... so which one do you choose and why?
Straight - not sure what this means - just a default setting that you choose and hope for the best?
Congrats to season 16 ASL champion SoulKey. For the Swarm!
- emplep7
- Commissioner & CSL Champ 2018
- Posts: 6694
- Joined: Fri Jul 11, 2014 5:06 pm
- Contact:
Re: DDS19 Defensive Sets
PASSIVE is the zone defensive set in the DDS19 world, so if you play PASSIVE it wouldn't matter as much what your zone was set to. If you set your ZONE to 9 and played ATTACK, your team wouldn't zone the other team that much and would defend the perimeter.Ramcus wrote: ↑Wed Sep 30, 2020 5:12 pmThat doesn't make sense. If you play PASSIVE and your zone is set to 1, you wouldn't zone the team at all. You'd want to set "zone" to 5 or up, depending on how much you want to zone them up.
And just for clarification purposes, does the game ignore your philosophies if your defense/offense goes against the philosophy? Or do they work together in some way? Specifically, in what way does philosophy and offense/defense sets work together? Is there a priority of sorts, where the game would consider philosophy first, and then scheme? Is it the other way around?
For example, if you play a 9 zone but your defense is "attack," would your team be more likely to zone or more likely to attack?
If you play a 1 zone but your defense is "switch," you'd automatically just play a switch-heavy system with a bunch of man defenders, and no zone. But those aren't necessarily contradictory.
As for your other question, the game prioritizes the Offensive/Defensive Set over the Philosophies, but they still work hand in hand to some extent.
- emplep7
- Commissioner & CSL Champ 2018
- Posts: 6694
- Joined: Fri Jul 11, 2014 5:06 pm
- Contact:
Re: DDS19 Defensive Sets
Correct. If a team is playing Perimeter Focus on offense and is jacking up threes, then ATTACK is how you defend that. If a team has a great front court, but has poor outside shooting, I would play PASSIVE to stop their offense. Switch would help with a faster paced offense such as Seven Seconds or Perimeter Focus since it would eliminate the P&R which is a part of the Offensive Sets now, but will override your defensive assignments at times and Straight just means that you are letting your players take their counterparts on head to head (unless you have specific defensive assignments).andrei wrote: ↑Wed Sep 30, 2020 5:35 pm Would be interesting to see what is the best use of these defenses?
Attack - looks like helps with Perimeter oriented offenses that run whatever offensive sets shoot more from Mid, COR, ATB
Passive - more for teams with good inside game that runs offense high in Post attempts
Switch - Don't get this one. There are multiple offenses, i.e. Perimeter if I remember correctly, that run high pick and roll. But same offense runs a Perimeter game that should be countered with Attack... so which one do you choose and why?
Straight - not sure what this means - just a default setting that you choose and hope for the best?
Each defense will override certain things, so you need to be sure to utilize your Philosophies in conjunction with your defensive set. As stated previously, if you set your defense to ATTACK and your ZONE philosophy to 9, your team won't zone that much and will still allow drives to the paint.
- cb4raptorscb4
- Commissioner
- Posts: 2363
- Joined: Tue Dec 10, 2019 8:19 pm
- Location: Canada
- Contact:
Re: DDS19 Defensive Sets
Still can't believe I went the entire season not knowing you could change the 'philosophies'
Golden State Warriors
Kris Dunn | PJ Dozier | Ding Yanyuhang | Kevon Looney | Chimezie Metu
Devonte Graham | Nimrod Levi | Tariq Owens | Johnny Hamilton
'23: 34-48 (5-8 as GM)
'24: 40-42, 1st Round Exit
'25: 50-32, Championship Round Loss (4-3)
'26: 48-34, 1st Round Exit
'27: 44-38, Missed Playoffs
'28: 39-43, 1st Round Exit
'29: 57-25, Championship Round Loss (4-2)
'30: 48-34, Conference Finals Loss (4-1)
Kris Dunn | PJ Dozier | Ding Yanyuhang | Kevon Looney | Chimezie Metu
Devonte Graham | Nimrod Levi | Tariq Owens | Johnny Hamilton
'23: 34-48 (5-8 as GM)
'24: 40-42, 1st Round Exit
'25: 50-32, Championship Round Loss (4-3)
'26: 48-34, 1st Round Exit
'27: 44-38, Missed Playoffs
'28: 39-43, 1st Round Exit
'29: 57-25, Championship Round Loss (4-2)
'30: 48-34, Conference Finals Loss (4-1)
- wms02a
- CEO
- Posts: 2299
- Joined: Mon May 23, 2016 5:18 pm
- Location: Arkasnas
- Contact:
Re: DDS19 Defensive Sets
This is fake news.... ignore it lolcb4raptorscb4 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 30, 2020 7:38 pm Still can't believe I went the entire season not knowing you could change the 'philosophies'
Dallas Maverick GM
2024: San Antonio Spurs - Southwest Division Champion, GM of the Year, Coach of the Year
2025: San Antonio Spurs - Western Conference Champions
2025: San Antonio Spurs - Western Conference Champions
- Sharkn20
- Senior Vice President
- Posts: 1175
- Joined: Mon Apr 22, 2019 5:48 pm
- Contact:
Re: DDS19 Defensive Sets
How would you play defensively a "Grind" offense?
- Ramcus
- CEO
- Posts: 2305
- Joined: Fri May 24, 2019 12:26 am
- Location: Brooklyn, NY
- Contact:
Re: DDS19 Defensive Sets
I usually just rely on defensive intensity and zone defense for my defense, and use the set as a general default setting.
Want to pack the paint? Go Passive, high zone, and whatever defensive intensity, depending on what you run.
Wanna attack 3 point shooters? There are different ways depending on your personnel. You might want to go attack set, or if you can afford to switch PnR's entirely, just run a switch set.
A straight defense is pretty straight forward, but interestingly it works well a lot of the time.
Want to pack the paint? Go Passive, high zone, and whatever defensive intensity, depending on what you run.
Wanna attack 3 point shooters? There are different ways depending on your personnel. You might want to go attack set, or if you can afford to switch PnR's entirely, just run a switch set.
A straight defense is pretty straight forward, but interestingly it works well a lot of the time.
Stay Me7o
NOLA 2022-2030: 292-364
BRK 2030-2031: Interim GM/Coach | CSL Champion
LAC 2031-present
NOLA 2022-2030: 292-364
BRK 2030-2031: Interim GM/Coach | CSL Champion
LAC 2031-present
Who is online
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 1 guest