I Need Help (Basic Strats Of Basketball)

[nick]

This sounds stupid but, I wanna play college hoops 2k8, but I know shit all about basketball, absolutely nothing. When I play its awful and anyways, I was wondering if it wasnt too much, could someone explain like the different offenses and how they excel? I wanna run a specific offense (like Princeton?) but I dont know how to even recruit or how to effectively run it.

D I can kinda handle. 2-3 zone or man to man I can live with.

I just wanna know the differences like say Spread vs Pro in football. It doesnt have to be great detail .. Just how theyre run and how to recruit for them (PG pass first or shoot, slasher SF or 3 pt shooter etc)..

I would greatly appreciate it.

[NCSUholmey]

If you want to go with the Princeton, you want shooters / passers over athleticism / rebounding. This allows you to spread the court, leaving the other team to play out of position or you have the open shot. Not to say you dont want height at all, but you can switch out rebounding skill for passing.

From what I remember from that game though, if you had a tall PG, you could cause alot of problems on defense. Check out the NC State roster, it had a 6'3+ PG and I was able to hang with the people playing as memphis and unc easily. From purely a video game standpoint, they had good combo of players

[shel311]

Lincoln shot

[nick]

Lincoln shot

I hope he recovers

[nick]

If you want to go with the Princeton, you want shooters / passers over athleticism / rebounding. This allows you to spread the court, leaving the other team to play out of position or you have the open shot. Not to say you dont want height at all, but you can switch out rebounding skill for passing.

From what I remember from that game though, if you had a tall PG, you could cause alot of problems on defense. Check out the NC State roster, it had a 6'3+ PG and I was able to hang with the people playing as memphis and unc easily. From purely a video game standpoint, they had good combo of players

thank you. I just always ruin my team whenever I recruit. I dont know how to run proper set plays or what offense does what and its forever a disaster. Princeton sounds good tho. Thanks Holmey.

[VeniVediV1ci]

if you face a 2-3 zone the 3pt shot is an equalizer, if you face a zone you want to be more athletic or bigger

...reverse that and you'll have defense

[cdub21]

love that game so much. tight man to man maybe a press and get an athletic fast break team going is always fun. i usually would stick to 2-3 zone on d, mix with 1-3-1. on offense motion usually cause its basic and you just need your avg type players at each position. on that game always get a 7 footer if you can, no matter what star. a 7 foot 1 star at shitty school will be sick by his sr year.

[nick]

thank you guys. Ya I am gonna do career mode so I expect to be at a crap school with 4 yr type players. I just dunno what the fuck im doing so I go up and chuck 3s lol. So set plays or anything. my teams go as follow

PG - tall/pass
SG - 3 pointers
SF - slasher
PF - rebounder/scorer
C - block/rebound

seems straight forward lol