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This hurts to say, but I actually quit playing this game altogether at least a month ago.

It's because of the passing--or rather, the CPU defense's inhuman level of anticipation regarding passes. Sticking their arms out to deflect/intercept the pass the INSTANT the pass button is pressed.

More than once, the CPU got more steals this way as a team in a game than the real-life NBA record for team steals.

Yet my first instinct was frustration, not at the game, but at myself.
"AAAAARGH! WHAT AM I DOING WROOOOONG?!"

Yet everywhere I go, people tell me, it's not you, it's the game.

I know it sounds like I want the game to be easier, but there's a difference between difficult and just plain unreasonable.
Think Ghosts'n'Goblins vs. Kaizo Mario.

It's such a shame. I was so, SO hyped for being able to play as an expansion team--a team you could truly build from the ground up, and make it your OWN!
But I couldn't. Not with the game's clairvoyant defense.