[KANE699]

I remember when we were working on these in M11 and 12, there were always problems here and there with a players animation be it short or long having the ball come out through the hand or 2 yards away from his hand and it always had to be fixed per animation.

I honestly think they ditched it mostly just to save themselves time and heartache. Clearly they were not up to the same level as 2k is when it comes to dealing with signature animations, perhaps the issues lie somewhere else, maybe it was testing?

Can't honestly say I know for sure but I do know when you had to go test these issues you had to throw short medium other mediums and long passes just to make sure the animations functioned correctly.