WTF, thanks for giving us a voice!
I'm loving the game because the servers are actually great online! I have a few gripes with the game, most of which can be fixed this year through patches or updates!
Things like no floater controls cannot be fixed this year I'm assuming, whereas things like tipoffs always going to the PG or full court passes being impossible to manually steal can be tweaked to work more realistically.
In my view, the most important things to patch up this year are:
1. Weekly roster updates - Synergy stats should help pinpoint players overperforming or underperforming their Live counterparts. It's seriously frustrating to only play with my favorite team (Jazz) and see the ratings are so off. Things like Kanter having better post defence rating than Favors who is a defensive beast... Rudy Gobert never getting blocks or even altering shots, just jumping up looking goofy as can be contorting his body every which way... Enes Kanter and Trevor Booker with <45 3pt shot ratings when they've been shooting good percentages all year... Ingles no face, low passing rating when that's the only skill he has that allows him to play in the NBA. It's hard to play to a team's real life strengths when the in game ratings are like that. The big market teams are rated pretty fairly though...
2. Editable playbooks. Or at least let us change playbook to another team's. Quick playcalls are pretty worthless except for calling postups for your PG,SG,SF if you have a mismatch. So give us the option to bring in other plays and customize our team's playbook or let us pick another team's playbook at the team selection screen.
3. Paint defence. Paint defence is pretty underwhelming right now. Even with Rudy Gobert and Derrick Favors at the 5 and 4 and packing the paint with dpad it's too easy for a star guard to drive inside and complete the 3 point play. So basically, help defence from big men need to slide into charge position a lot more responsively than what they do now. I don't know how the post defence and block ratings work together, but some animations by my shotblockers when trying to stop a driver are just absolutely ludicrous.
Overall I'm loving this game because it allows me to play head to head without lag issues. Post moves are deeper than most realize, I can do everything I can in 2k, just can't decide which side of the basket for some animations. Pick and rolls work great and feel great. ESPN camera is glorious. Colors, crowd, sounds are all fantastic. I will be playing this a lot all season long, so I truly hope you can implement some of the improvements I suggested above in patches this year. For NBA Live 16 add floaters, editable playbooks, better paint D, less full court BS passes, fix tipoffs to pg, and NBA Live will be the best bball game ever!