You're not alone. In that era, EA Sports does a lot of good for amping up tv style presentation. NBA 2K was always in a class of at least the same level but all those 360-PS3 EA Sports games just felt more polished, more authentic. To this day I far far prefer NCAA College Basketball to the 2K College Hoops series.
I would love to play one of those as long as updating rosters could be easy and if it could have lots of classic teams.