I Tried To Build The Best Defensive Team Of All Time 

Day 29: The Rooks Idea: Turn every NBA player back to rookies. Do a fantasy draft and win the championship in 3 years. You could also simulate further to see what the league looks like. Good luck Kenny!

Kenny you could have also tried to set the coaches pace to being slower so that it slows the game down, and the other team gets less opportunities to score.

Jonathon Isaac not getting picked up in a defense challenge is wild

You could do it if you switched between paint focus defensively and perimeter based on the other teams strengths, but that would take way longer to do.

There was no 3-point line in that season for the Bullets so the fact that you got close at all is incredible Edit: The best defensive rating since the 3-point line was added was the 03-04 Spurs with 94.1 so for what it’s worth you beat that! Edit 2: Electric Boogaloo: That was earlier in the video you ended up with 98 so still not there but point stands.

Kenny you can probably do this challenge but you need scorers on your team too. The more shots you miss when you're on offense, the more scoring opportunities you give the other teams. So mix in more two way guys with the defensive studs when you run this one back.

I’ve been sick the past day and this man has entertained me the whole time

@FlashSpiderman That was a really fun challenge and I'm impressed how close you got. I do wonder if it is possible with other slightly different strategies. Maybe worth just testing different ideas for another video if you're ever willing? Keep being awesome!

Bout time we got a defensive typa video. Can't wait to watch🔥

Please bring back the Nets series on Kennytoo!

Shit i never knew Kenny had a kid, congrats bro! Hope you’re all happy and healthy ❤

Kenny, you never disappoint with your videos

challenge idea: make a team with best 3pt -best playmaking best rebounding and best defense and see who wins the chip

@ThunderMateria It's super impressive to have that big of a gap between 1st and 2nd DRTG. The 74-75 Bullets were only 3.1 ahead of the Bulls that year.

2:17 mobley only being a 86 interior defense and a 74 perimeter defense is insanely disrespectful

Kenny the thing you missed is you had your offensive tempo at neutral. Slow offense = less possession = less opportunity to score Run it back , it's definately doable with the team you built

@keplin1000 The "on second thought" challenge: turn off trade deadline build a great regular season team (go for the record) Then on the very last day of the season trade 1-14 on the roster Fire the coach and hire a new one with a completely different system Flip the entire team and the coach then win the championship.

That Bullets team was pre 3 point line so less point in general. Kerr also had a better coaching defensive rating. Great video!

@tarishgt Honestly given how the NBA is so geared towards 3pt shots these days, that defensive score is incredible! A great change of pace from the usual rebuilds. Super fun to watch!

I would have also turned the offensive tempo to a minimum so less points are scored :)

@legendofwade it might've helped if you tried making offensive tempo slow so the other team would have less possessions

Amazing as always King Kenny

STOP IGNORING THE MIAMI HEAT KENNY😭😭 we’re having a crazy run and you’ve not made 1 video cmon now at least kenny for real

Steve Kerr would've provided the type if defensive coaching you need, but he also would've brought out the most offensively for your players

@sosuperjavi i love these type of challenges its always great to end my day watching a kenny video Keep Up The Work 🙏🏽

@schaafmatteo amazing video as always, don't know how you come up with certain challenges! you're a legend Kenny

its the pace kenny!!!

Day 1: the great equalizer challenge. Try to build a league of 30 teams where every single team goes 41-41.

Run this one back! Love this idea

@EverettFlouder another banger vid as per usual🔥

@WDPig1 Close but no cigar. Always appreciate you going outta your way to take on actually hard challenges lol, that’s what makes you a legend!

@iraqsandtoast if you did the defensive plan specific to each team you might have been able to do it. When you lost to Beal and dame you could have focused on perimeter instead of the paint and it may have helped also maybe double team the stars

@thesznn You’re the goat KENNY. Keep going

Hold this Kenny 👑

The fantasy draft made teams with multiple great scorers like the one with dame and Bradley beal. I'd love to see this tried again with regular teams over a few seasons.

Thank you for finally doing the video i asked you for on my account I will always love your vids

feel like it couldve been done if you changed from protect the paint and protect the 3 depending on the roster of the opposition, game where you gave up 75, the team had no shooters and the game where you gave up 138, had dame and beal.

@aideng03 Got excited seeing some of the low scoring games, one I would like to see you take another crack at. Something else that might be fun to try is creating a team that scores the most free throws

when u fail a challenge u should sim it at the end w the best possible team to see if it woulda even been possible in the game. for this vid for ex. shoulda did a re sim at the end w giannis ad gobert lebron etc all together to see if they coulda done it

@gianshhh much love from Italy, been watching your videos for the last 4 years

The Remote Rebuild Challenge: Choose a team from either conference but don't take control of it. Then choose a team from the other conference and do take control of it. Without having any influence on them it's now the goal to turn the team you don't control into NBA champions by aquiring the players yourself and then trading them over to the other team, building a championship roster for them. If this seems too easy the goal should then be to also rebuild your own team and having both the team you control and the one you remotely rebuilt meet in the finals to see if you can take down the surefire roster you gave them.

One thing you could try, that would be super annoying, is constantly change your defensive strategy for each opponent. Protect the paint against bad shooting teams, and try and make the shots harder against good shooting teams

Another great vid

You could have gameplanned for each team individually. You could have set it so where you packed the paint for teams like the pelicans with scottie and mobley, and then defended the perimeter heavily against teams like the pacers with beal and lillard, and do this for every team.

PART 2 PLEASE

Really love the idea of this challenge Kenny! Given how the league rules have changed to empower offenses, and the subsequent rise in offensive rating (League average was 107 in 1986, 103 in 2004, and 115 in 2023), I’m not sure how possible it is to break into the 90’s, though I do think it’s a worthy goal to shoot for. If you do decide to go relative to the league, the best mark ever is from the 2004 Pistons (with Rasheed Wallace), who posted a mark 13 points better than league average (90.9). I also think you could beat the Wizards given they are about 7 points ahead or he league.

Quick question to Kenny, where do the jerseys come from that you get, just curious how you do that kinda thing

@DatsonOf2… Cuz Kenny .. Come on man lol 😂

Grit and grind offense would help a lot too

For something like this I gotta look at their defensive tendencies too and try and find players wit like an 80+ shot contest along with the A+ interior/perimeter defense rating

Hi Kenny, love the vids as always, got a challenge for you: In NBA history, only once had the Finals MVP been won by a player on the losing team (Jerry West, 1969). I want you to try and do it again.

@jcohen999 This is a great challenge I don’t know if 2k sim will truly allow a defensive rating so low but this will certainly make me try it out myself!

@genoishim definitely should do this challenge again cool to see how important defence is even in 2k

thumbnail goes hard

Needed to make the offense patient so they do get as many opportunities

@KOBPaddy Was hyped during that run of 70s and 80s in the middle, round 2 time

You good I think you should run the big man

@attta5 i recently started watching you and its so entertaining.

og anunoby's defense is so underrated in 2k

You should try to get every starting on your team to an all nba team. It could be an all defensive or all nba as you prefer

“97 year old lebron James” 😂😂

@zeeeeeeeej that was so close yet so far LMAOO

Day 1 of asking Kenny to do a reversing nba history sim. Basically you start in the magic vs bird era and you reverse the classes so instead of 84 draft class u would do 2022 and would sim like this with draft classes reversed until the 2022-2023 season

Bigjeff2708 always love the content keep grinding

@user1dmg when u fail a challenge u should sim it at the end w the best possible team to see if it woulda even been possible in the game. for this vid for ex. shoulda did a re sim at the end w giannis ad gobert lebron etc all together to see if they coulda done it

@BrownTanyon Need more historic challenges like this!!

@29choppas I really wanted u to win this Kenny ngl 😂😂

Challenge: do 14-15 fantasy drafts and build a team with the last overall picks of each draft

In the league meeting change the shot clock to longer

Kenny’s dyslexia is showing super hard in this vid

@Bruefinn video was fire

i had no idea you had a kid, wishing blessings

Gotta do an 8th seed NBA championship run video

@PaddyP_9 Luka is a defensive beast in 2k as well, but it would be more difficult with the cap space except for smart and Draymond maybe

Watching this video for the first time and seeing Jrue on the Blazers just hours after he was traded there is a crazy coincidence lmao

Love your videos kenny, best offense next @MacWorth3

@leaf_lgn You probably could’ve done something with your offensive tempos to further limit the possessions the other teams get against you.

@SNQ_OShayskii great challenge my guy 🫡 great meeting the squad in Philly too! Haven’t stopped smiling since lol 💯

Do a team of the biggest players in NBA history and see how good they are

We gotta get a highest offensive rating video now

Eugene looks like he has seen some things. 13:29

@gauzeny IDK if youve done this for offense or not but I think that'd be a pretty interesting video aswell!

LLOVELATLNAS cavs vs warriors finals will always haunt us lmaoo 19:47

need the offensive rebound to no one crash, just go back some crash some go back will leave the bigman behind on defense and it tires them too

@jodaehlin , even tho you failed the challenge the video was still fire Kenny

All u have to do is force non start. Don't change his position, go to edit player, then go to vitals, scroll to the bottom, and there u should c the force non start

Do this challenge in the Jordan era (Fantasy draft)

@NElstorp Great video, already looking forward to the next challenge

18:24 “97 year old LeBron James” Accurate

@ZacMc44 Definitely a fun one to retry but may be a bit difficult given the changes in the modern era.

Challenge idea: the Chamberlain challenge. 3 seasons to get a player to get a quintuple double. Fantasy draft, trade for and build a team around your guy. Every year you get to add 10 badges of your choosing but you can’t touch there stats.

You still gotta try the alphabet challenge where for the first 41 games of the season the first player starts with A the second with B and so on. The for the last 41 games you have N and then O and then P and so on.❤❤

@logicalokcfan Shoulda just put offensive rebounding on limit transition and gotten more guys with high perimeter and interior defense

I try to do a few defense oriented rebuilds and everytime those teams are elite with nothing but mid 80s and we dominate winning 90-85

@poopin__pasta You never disappoint👊👊 Keep doin what u doin🔥🔥🔥

Dakoddaa 🫣

Kenny need to start playing more in the MyEras so it’ll be more realistic and “Easier”

It’s okay Kenny, you’re still rebuild god.

You need Wembi on that team hehe

@camronwn I can’t believe how close you were the first half of the season. Maybe a slightly better head coach would help a little bit? Either way, super impressive. Love the videos Kenny!!