Tony Parker talks about NBA Live 09

[jfsolo]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/index

Top video on the right of the screen. Some mo cap stuff, a few gameplay clips. The interviewer was trying to talking Tony into playing more like a cheese head, but Tony wanted to keep it real and play sim.

[Soda]

here is another video of tony parker and a few others talking about live 09

http://www.thescore.com/Video/Player.aspx?vid=1920

[DakkoN]

The pick and roll near the end of the video is so smooth

[23]

That's almost the exact spot Tony runs to on the pick and roll too. I've seem him and Duncan do it countless times.

The animations look alot smoother which is great. Can't wait to play

[Parasight]

Those animations, specifically the pick-and-roll with Duncan and Parker and the Dirk drive, were incredible. The one thing I noticed though was what Tony said.

"The defense always forces me to go left, so you know the tendencies say I go left a lot. But if I could go right every time, I would."

This is where this kind of system is faulty. It rewards the defense for doing nothing, because the tendency will kick in and the AI will go on their "weak" side. This is where Adaptive AI would be more suited, because the defense should be forced to pick up things like "We better cut off the right side." Instead, the situation sounds like the AI will try to go left due to tendencies instead of actually reading what the D is giving them.

It's just a theory. Maybe I'm wrong.

[23]

I dont know, we just dont know yet. In one video we see Paul Pierce guarding Radman and not so much up on him but watching/guarding a particular space in between the the two of the....

that then takes us to Rondo forcing Fisher to his weak hand (the right) and trying to force him into something that he doesn't want to do, which is smart defense.

I believe the AI will take advantage of if you leave their strong side open for sure, but we'll have to wait and see how it really plays.