Well that's my question. In 2k10
every play initiated with the PG. If you watch the video at about the 4:21 mark Mayo has the ball in his hand. The user wants to run a play for Rudy Gay. He brings up the playcall menu, calls a play and has to pass the ball back to Conley, then Conley has to run to the blue circle. That is why I refer to it as a "rigid" play calling system.
There should be set plays which can be initiated with any player on the court so if Mayo has the ball you don't have to pass it back to Conley to run a play for Rudy Gay. That's what I was expecting to see this year.
Regardless of that I despise that little blue circle also. There's got to be a better way than that to trigger the start of plays.
Based on this vid I'm still not feeling the pace at which plays are ran. The Grizz plays still seem way to slow to develop. I feel the pace of the game slows down too much when the user attempts to run plays. It should slow down, but plays have to develop quickly enough for them to be pertinent, especially in user vs. user gameplay. If they are rigid and way slow no one will use them with the exception of a few money plays and iso's.