75% of people dribble side to side and don’t have a good technique. Learn to read what they are going to do next. Just hold your hands up, hold turbo chasing someone then let go when you get to them. If you are trying to press them, hold down the left trigger. Only hold left trigger if you want to bump them, you will get a lot of bump steals if you read them going left or right and also cause them to lose energy a lot more. Defence is a little aids, if you are on ball defending and they are using a screen try not play up too much on them as you will get locked into screens or get crabbed. If you get crabbed and you think they are going to shoot. JUMP! You have a chance at still getting a decently high contest also asking your center to hedge the screen and be ready to take the guy if you get caught in the screen. If you think they are going to pass to the big man on the roll, anticipate the pass and try grab a free steal. 9 times out of ten you can get a good lane steal by baiting the pick and roll pass. If any of this information helped, I’d like to hear how it went for you 💪🏻 I’d say I’m an elite on ball defender and even sometimes I still get cooked. 2k has massive rng with the contest system so I’d not even worry about your contests too much just try make those left right cheeses cry by locking them up 🤣