Let's be honest if it would be totally new or improved a lot all of this guys would say something about it because it would stand out especially when you playing on headphones.
He only mentioned it because we spammed about it in this thread
NBA 2K18 Questions Thread: Hands-On Gameplay Aug 3rd.
And yea i would love to be wrong on that but i remember last year early impression and they were saying same things that crowd was great.