Wide open shots miss more than contested shots

[jtdribbles25]

Quote: Originally Posted by DaoudS

It is all percentages. The game will play exactly the same whether there is defense or not. It has strict percentage boundaries that it abides by no matter what. If Live continues with this sort of DNA, I hope they add percentages for contested shots and what not.

they have percentages for that allready...

[michaeljordanjr]

I'm definitely not making this up.

Even online I see my opponent missing wide open shots. It's gotten to a point where I see him shoot wide open and I don't care because I know most of the time he'll miss.

For some reason it's either the releases that are random and don't have a good release point due to the addition of multiple shots or its DNA that's messing it up.

NBA players mostly ALWAYS make wide open shots. And if its Ray Allen, he NEVER misses wide open.

This is an issue if we get enough people testing it out you'll see.

[DaoudS]

Quote: Originally Posted by oOausarOo

I'm not sure I buy that. How did you reach that conclusion?

until i tweaked with the sliders, % would always be the primary target. There were atleast 20 games, before sliders, that i noticed I would miss 5 WIDE open shots after ball movement and play calling but I would end up hitting 2 afterwards in which the defender had me draped. The % just wanted to work themselves out.

It feels very scripted. If you start the game off slow, you can be guaranteed that at some point later in the game you will string together a bunch of shots - or vice versa.

[loadleft]

I don't buy the % theory, if that was the case guys wouldn't be able to exploit the fade away 3pt shot online because the player would always shoot to his real life %. Also I've played enough human vs. human games on the same console that I know my nephew has shoot 80% from 3pt with Rondo against me (before I knew how to contest).

I do know that the release point varies depending on several variables like: Was he standing still, was he facing the basket, did he step into the shot, etc. Live is very "timing/position dependent" which is why you had guys thinking they were contesting shots but still having the shooter hit, or why sometimes you jump for a rebound and the ball goes right through your hands to the guy standing behind you, LOL, all because you didn't press the button at the exact right time or you weren't in the exact right position.

[NC State-31 UNC-27]

I don't know about missing wide open shots, but I do know that it's darn near impossible to make a 7 foot jump shot with anyone

[Chairman7w]

Heh - that's realistic. Shoot, give me a layup or a 15-footer, but that SHORT jumpshot just aint happenin.

I can hit a 10-foot floater, or maybe fade it away, but a standing 10-footer? No way.

Quote: Originally Posted by NC State-31 UNC-27

I don't know about missing wide open shots, but I do know that it's darn near impossible to make a 7 foot jump shot with anyone

[Aleman]

Totally agree with this.

Playing ranked games online, I notice that a lot of people have terrible release, most commonly releasing when their guy is on the way down.

I did an experiment last night as the Bucks playing away against some dude that picked the Celtics. I used Michael Redd and only took wide open shots with releases that looked natural. Result: 30% FG average. The other guy shot ~70% with Ray Allen even though nearly all shots were contested and all releases were pretty much way too late.

It also seem like PG's have way too high shooting percentages and tend to make lots of goofy fade-away shots at abnormally high frequencies.

It might have something to do with the Playoff atmosphere and home team advantage....

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I don't know about missing wide open shots, but I do know that it's darn near impossible to make a 7 foot jump shot with anyone

Agreed, especially with big men.

[ehh]

Are you guys using sliders or playing default? I'm still on default All-Star and don't see this it all. I run and gun with the Knicks and get tons of open J's and knock down plenty of them cept for the games where my team is ice cold - which is nice and realistic since the Knicks shot 7-41 and 5-31 from 3 in two preseason games.

For the most part I'm hitting though, gone 6-8 from deep with Wilson Chandler in a game and 4-6 with Gallinari.