Too many assists!

[carmelo]

How to reduce assists? Is there any slider for doing this?

And for game with 8 min quarter which is the appropriate game speed in order teams to score approximately 100 points?

[teakobe]

i don't think you can do that.... CPU's PG is born to assist..... you can leave him wild open ,and even that he still wait for a chance to pass the ball

changing the game speed is not that obviosly to effect the game scrore...

[Kieran]

You just have to try and D up a bit better, I have the same problem. Watch what happens off the ball, look at the players that are making a move and be ready to switch controls to the guy guarding the moving player and attempt to put them off their shot. If you can pre-empt the play a bit it helps alot in denying the basket, just like in real life.
But I agree, there are too many. Steve Nash dished out 19 on my T'Wolves last night

[dragonsrule]

Turn down the CPU's offensive awareness, raise the mid range tendency, lower the close shot tendency and put the size-up move and triple threat tendency up to 100. This goes a long way to cutting down on assists and having the CPU isolate more.

[Kieran]

Dragons, I tried your suggestion with the settings but it hasn't worked. Deron Williams just dished out 25 assists on me. The only reason it wasn't more was because I quit the game in disgust and simmed to the end.
What level do you have set for each of the settings because clearly I haven't set mine right.

[Patr1ck]

What difficulty setting do you have it on, and post your sliders along with it.

[Kieran]

My difficulty is on All Star
I've got the CPU's size-up and triple threat tendancy to 100 as suggested and I've reduced off. aware and take close shots to 40. I've increased 'take mid-range shot' to 70 also.

[Patr1ck]

First and foremost, assists are recorded too easy in this game, so even if the gameplay reflects an nba style, the assist count would still be higher. You can pumpfake, backdown a player and perform some isomotion moves and still get an assist from the previous pass.

What I did was changed the difficulty to Pro. Once you do that, those quick passes into players under the basket are reduced alot. The play passing lanes slider can actually cause more of this, because it gets you teammates to play more of a deny defense, which allows more backdoor passes. Also, turning down the defensive pressure has your temmates back off the players a bit, which should close some of those passing lanes, but it will also give them more room for jumpshots. If you really want to use allstar difficulty, you may have to turn offensive awareness down even more.

I play 9 minute quarters, and I have game speed and player speed set to 75. That gets me anywhere from 70 to 90 shots depending on my tempo. The cpu tempo is another thing. To get realistic numbers, you need to increase the rate that they shoot the ball. To do that, you need to increase the cpu tendency sliders. I have most of their shooting tendencies at 53, with attack the basket at 52. Having that lower than the shooting sliders seems to encourage passing off of dribble drives, especially when the help defense collapses. Since you are using 8 minutes, you might want to go a little higher. The problem is, if you go too+ high, players who should not be shooting certain shots will shoot them. From what I have seen, at 60, poor 3 point shooters will shoot 3's all the time if you back off them. You can also lower the "run plays" slider for the cpu teams in the coaching profiles, that way they won't use so much clock setting up plays, and it encourages some one on one play.