[LorenzoDC]

Mad props to Brother Nelson.

In no particular order for each list below:

Hopes:

1. Improved and deeper free style offensive plays and AI across the board. I feel pretty good that Czar is on this.
2. Hope that coach scrimmage option in MyLeague has full gameplay style, where we can practice all freestyle options against a defense that is also playing sim ball, not run and gun three point chucking. Related to MyLeague --> Coaching, hope that players' hot and cold zones may be editable this year, as draft class rookies seldom got variety or sometimes any hot/cold zones at all.
3. Hope that drafted rookies in MyLeague will have appropriate tendencies to go along with their attributes. This has been broken, especially for bigs, in recent years.
4. Hope that player models for generic players are improved and more varied to sustain something close to the kind of realistic "feel" we can see in today's "Winning" trailer from the scanned reality based players.
5. Hope also that draft classes will show enough variety of play styles and types. Last year was weak on bigs, no 3 and d type prospects, and generally low on any kind of defensive specialists and stars.
6. Hope that animations in the paint for offense and defense are far more varied so that win/lose dice rolls do not so often look OP. Examples are 1) for offense, players driving the lane and knocking down defenders like bowling pins for the successful layup or dunk, and 2) for defense, obvious foul or even flagrant foul animations used to stop a shot, followed by Clark Kellogg commenting that's great defense to stop the layup.
7. Hope that sim based default SS sliders won't need much reworking for solid game play.

Concerns:

1. Concerned in MyLeague that trades may not be possible throughout the entire off season, since I asked that question a few times last week when LD2K was in the threads and he never answered.
2. Concerned, as you are, that defensive movement will remain a much weaker part of the game. Big subject, but I'll leave it at that.
3. Concerned pressure to rebalance shooting from casuals will lead to making shots easier to stop a flood of grown man and young boy tears. Related, concerned that patches will undo things in the game that are good, as happened with 2k15.