NBA Live 14 Has Arrived, Post Your Impressions Here

[The 24th Letter]

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too bad El_Poop doesn't post in the NBA forum...

He'd be my next Pick\Donate contestant...

Gotta get that man a better screen name

[WTF]

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Oh, don't recall who mentioned the "saving" animation. I had Lee or Bogut one save one right to me (George Hill) last night I don't see too many actual saves, so I'm thinking they're tweaking it as well. It was a quicker save animation too, versus the moving in mud that I've seen.

Oh, and Steph Curry had a block on Paul George. I was looking through the saves that uploaded to my facebook. I'll have to put them on youtube and post them here. George spun and thought he had an easy layup, but the blocking monster Curry came from behind and swatted it

Sorry loosey101, it was you who mentioned the save animation.

[El_Poopador]

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too bad El_Poop doesn't post in the NBA forum...

He'd be my next Pick\Donate contestant...

Gotta get that man a better screen name

lol well i already had the email address so i made the name here the same just to make it easier.

[WTF]

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In the process of uploading 5 videos that were saved. Unfortunately the last 15 minutes of gameplay was my being in replay mode, looking around the arena and at the different player faces. Have to say, I left it on Steph for a little while during replay, and he looks pretty accurate. Looks really well done in my opinion. I'll throw up the 5 that I've got uploading. One "save", 2 rebound kickouts, 1 feed from the post, and a monster Steph block

[WTF]

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I liked the step back on Iggy's jumper even though it didn't go in. I'm seeing more and more faceup moves from the post

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Here is Paul Georges slick reverse/wrap around dunk that I was talking about earlier

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Here was a pretty slick back and forth, I push the ball up with Granger after a rebound from a Lee miss (2 jabsteps), find PG in the post. PG had 18 pts early in the 2nd quarter (I was cheesing after his hot start last night in the real game), they doubled, I split the double for the 1 handed throwdown. Steph brings the ball up and they end up with the open 3. I loved their offball screen on this one:

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Here is Bogut with the kickout. I guess I said I didn't see any more pump faking underneath, but watching this again Bogut does indeed throw 1 small pump in their:

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And.... Steph swats PG, then pushes the ball up the floor and fires a 3 on the "break". Misses, but still aggressive.

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I played the Raptors yesterday as well with the Bobcats, and was trying to get to the paint with MKG, and Ross and Derozan were constantly blocking me from behind. That was definitely tweaked I know in the last little "patch".

Didn't get a video apparently, but here's an image. They collapsed really well.

[WTF]

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Guess I didn't upload the "save". I'll get it this evening. Have to grab a bite then back to work.

Nevermind, it was still uploading:

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[loosey101]

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Oh, don't recall who mentioned the "saving" animation. I had Lee or Bogut one save one right to me (George Hill) last night I don't see too many actual saves, so I'm thinking they're tweaking it as well. It was a quicker save animation too, versus the moving in mud that I've seen.

Oh, and Steph Curry had a block on Paul George. I was looking through the saves that uploaded to my facebook. I'll have to put them on youtube and post them here. George spun and thought he had an easy layup, but the blocking monster Curry came from behind and swatted it

Sorry loosey101, it was you who mentioned the save animation.

No problem, I hope they tweak it, I see the animation a few times a game and I can think of maybe one time the CPU actually saved it. That's awesome, Curry spotting up and taking the three on the break is the aggressiveness that would make the game even better.

[thatdudetoo]

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I feel for videogame developers when it comes to basketball games. It's easy and often for us to say "This should NEVER happen" then you see things like this ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxlDgn_DdwI

[Pared]

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I don't get hung up on stuff like that. Duncan has hit a number of threes in his career.

However, if he is breaking ankles like Dwight was, then I raise the red flag.

[mythreesons]

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Pretty slick windmill on the break. I had him go baseline for the reverse dunk last night too, but couldn't upload due to the issue above.

I know that I'm nitpicking here, but if you'll notice PG takes 5 steps from the three point line (you can vaguely see it in the video) to the launch for his lay-up. IRL a player his size with his agility takes maybe 2... 3 tops.

This shows part of my frustration with player movement. That was an explosive move, but the animation was slow and jerky. The dunk was awesome the step(s) to gather were not.

[El_Poopador]

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I don't get hung up on stuff like that. Duncan has hit a number of threes in his career.

However, if he is breaking ankles like Dwight was, then I raise the red flag.

well we have seen it happen lol

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jk. it would be cool if they could program the all star games to be more fun and laid back like irl though.

[thatdudetoo]

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I don't get hung up on stuff like that. Duncan has hit a number of threes in his career.

However, if he is breaking ankles like Dwight was, then I raise the red flag.

I'll go with anything once. We've all seen big men get possessed by the spirit of Isiah Thomas from time to time but I'm with those who don't want to see it every other game.

[mythreesons]

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well we have seen it happen lol

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jk. it would be cool if they could program the all star games to be more fun and laid back like irl though.

Notice that Shaq carefully chose to do his dribbling display against Mehmet Okur - Two Wild Hogs

I love it!

[The 24th Letter]

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What's funny about this speed thing is that they made Paul Pierce a snail

[WTF]

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I forwarded the videos onward. We'll try to see if we can get some equality between the two versions. Also hoping to get those types of plays to happen more often.

I know there were a few more kickoffs with at least one make but I didn't have it recorded.

On the steps issue, I agree. Shouldn't be 5 small steps from the 3 pt line to the dunk gather.