You are the coach and the general manager. Build the roster during the week, then call the plays live on match day.
The club hub
- Squad: tick your 5 starters, check ratings, potential stars, morale and fatigue. Release players you don't need.
- Training: pick a team focus and intensity, optionally set individual focuses, then run the week. Harder sessions give more XP but risk injury and tired legs on match day. Coaches boost gains.
- Recruit / Draft: spend scouting points to reveal prospects' true ratings and potential, sign free agents, hire coaches, and run draft day.
- Match: see the next opponent and tip off. Wins earn more money and XP.
Match controls
- Call a play: Pick & Roll, Isolation, Post Up, Motion, or Fast Break when the chance is there. Your call runs from the next possession.
- Defence: Man, Zone or Press, plus screen coverage (Switch, Fight over, Go under, Drop, Hedge) for man D. The AI reads what you do and counters.
- Speeds: 1×/2×/4× watch, ★ Highlights (fast sim with replays of the big plays), ⏭ To Q4 (sim and take over for the finish) and ⚡ Sim (instant result).
- Timeouts stop a run, ice a free-throw shooter and open a tactical read: insights, shot charts and plus/minus.
- Landscape: tap ⤢ Land for a full-screen court with a slim control rail.
- Subs: tap a court player, then a bench player. Subs go on at the next stoppage. The ring around each player shows energy. Auto-sub lets the assistant handle tired legs.
- Timeout stops play at the next dead ball and refreshes energy. Box shows the full box score.
- On a phone, the court sits on top. Use the tabs (or swipe left/right) to switch between Plays, Defence, Subs, Feed and Stats.
Reaction tags
Players read the defence and react. Tags float over the player when it happens:
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- CUT: a ball-watching defender gets beaten back-door.
- HELP: a team-mate rotates to stop a drive and leaves his own man.
- CLOSEOUT: a defender sprints at a shooter.
- SWITCH: defenders swap men on a screen.
- KICK: the driver passes out of a double-team or help to the open man.
- DOUBLE: two defenders trap a hot scorer or post player.
- The live stats panel counts how often each reaction happened.
Turn tags off, change quarter length, shot clock, difficulty, sound and more in Settings.