CPU Contesting shots

[kwang2k3]

is it me or does the computer never contest dunks, lay ups or shots? they jus t stand there

[Child-Of-God]

What do you play on?

-Supertstar

-All-Star

-Starter

-Rookie


This can directly affect what you are complaining about.

[kwang2k3]

superstar, play wit andrew's sliders

[kwang2k3]

my own teamates i mean by the way

[paradizecityz]

my own teamates i mean by the way

im not sure but i believe on superstar they dont jump because they dont want to fall for a pump fake, but all star, they would be jumping all the time
i play on superstar but every now and then, i see them helping

[Andreas Dahl]

Yea, I got the same thing, and I suppose the best way is to just take control of that player and play defence yourself...

[kwang2k3]

oh, when i played with the clippers they would help and contest but i went to the blazers than no one contest

[Drex]

Is Superstar, it's more difficult than Rookie, when they're jumping all over the place blocking all kind of shots. Like Dahl said, you have to take the players control to block whta you want.

[Indy]

oh, when i played with the clippers they would help and contest but i went to the blazers than no one contest

thats cuz the blazers are too stoned to play basketball

[Andrew]

Throughout the series, your CPU teammates have been less helpful defensively on the highest difficulty setting (especially since Superstar was added).

[Alcoholic]

On superstar they don't do anything, if you let them play D then when the cpu shoots they won't jump, I guess it's to take away from always playing cpu D. Which is why I guess leagues like to use superstar.

[flipz]

u gotta play D by yourself

[Sonic98]

My men try to contest but for some strange reason they hit over 2 or 3 guys all game.

[FendeR`]

That's because on the harder difficulties they have to hit a certain amount of shots to keep it interesting.

[End Boss]

the most annoying thing is when you have a loose ball and you've got 3 of your own defenders standing around the ball like vertical coma patients and then some cpu player 5 metres away starts the loose ball gather animation and picks it up before you can select the closest defender and move one step forward to pick it up..

yeah and with contesting the cpu shot attempts having virtually no effect I hate it when the commentary rubs it in your face as if you didnt just do everything humanly possible to stop the shot attempt..

the sooner it's 10 human players on court the better

[FendeR`]

Trying not to sound boring here, it's about percentages (keeping it close). The CPU has to make a certain percent of its shots to make the game close. That means that a certain amount of the CPU's shots are going to go in no matter if 5 Yao's were standing in his face. The only way to make him miss would be to block it. At least that's how I interpret it.

[Sonic98]

the most annoying thing is when you have a loose ball and you've got 3 of your own defenders standing around the ball like vertical coma patients and then some cpu player 5 metres away starts the loose ball gather animation and picks it up before you can select the closest defender and move one step forward to pick it up..

yeah and with contesting the cpu shot attempts having virtually no effect I hate it when the commentary rubs it in your face as if you didnt just do everything humanly possible to stop the shot attempt..

the sooner it's 10 human players on court the better

Yeah I hate that. They are so slow to react to the ball. you know last I pressed the dunk button and I sware my man when after the loose ball.

[Yami Ron]

I figured out the secret to fix the CPU not contesting any shots. You have to Player Lock on one of the players at the start of the game. That will fix the problem in Superstar mode.