Things I want for March Madness 08(long)

[st43]

-Lockdown stick less effective. It is way too easy against the cpu to steal the ball. Online the games are brutal when I play guys I am better than and then I get destroyed by ones better than me. Guys should not be able to stop a man going full speed and steal the ball without fouling. The lockdown stick should be used to keep a man in front of you rather than forcing him out of bounds(which is a foul mostly) and then knocking it loose. When you are using the lockdown stick and hit RT there should be more fouls or nothing at all rather than so many steals. Id rather if they take it out because a lot of the time you use it they are fouling the guy with the ball.

-Less turnovers on passing. This is for presses and passing down low. It seems the ball curves and goes right into the defenders hands when trying to pass through a press, or over the top. Very unrealistic when passing through a trap. THE BEST WAY TO BEAT A PRESS IS TO PASS IT!!!! In 07 you had to dribble through it. Touch passes should be added

-Loose balls!!! Every time there was a loose ball a foul or traveling was called. Not once when 2 guys went for the ball something wasnt called. Very frustrating.

-More shot animations. There are 2 different kinds of shot animations in this game. One for a big man and the other a perimeter player. I know 2k probably has plenty of shot types for the players.

-Ball physics- It seemed the ball would always hit the back of the rim or the sides on misses. I never saw it spin out or anything like that. And there were never deflections when the ball was turned over. Have some bounce passes as well as bank shots.

-Make mid majors play like mid majors. I have won many games online using ECU. The wins may be because of my skill, but I have not seen much of a difference when using ECU than UNC rather than UNC has better shooters. I went undefeated with UNCW in dynasty on the hardest level. Not much of a challenge from anyone. I got a top recruiting class and the only differences in those guys were the shooters.

-Finishing with the contact way too easy. Whenever there is contact a foul is called or you make the basket. I shoot about 30-40 FTs every game. The ability to take a charge has also been taken out. You cant block many shots either so defending a guy who goes up to dunk it is very tough.

-Stated above, ABILITY TO TAKE A CHARGE! A block is called 99% of the time no matter where you are at.

-In game substitutions. Kind of like what 2k has where you don’t have to pause the game to sub. There was also a substation glitch. Sometimes the players would not come in when you tried to sub them. I don’t know why but it happened. Also the cpu should not make subs for you online. This was frustrating when you got 3 fouls in the 2nd half you would not come in.
*This occurs with substitutions for the cpu. When I was playing lace w:st="on">Ohio Statelace>, Greg Oden had 3 fouls in the 1st half and was taking out. Guess what, he was never put back in. It really takes the fun out of the game when the cpus best players are not in the game.

-The crowds were also a little annoying. In college basketball the whole stadium does not stand up and do the cheers and move there arms the same way. Everyone at game is not 18 or 19 years old. There are some fans who sit the whole game and only the students usually do the cheers and stand up. Id also like to see the students do more OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO when jumping up and down. Everyone knows what im talking about.
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-Stadiums. Itd be nice to have at least all of the major colleges stadiums in the game. Also if every college could have there stadium would make the experience much better along with fight songs and mascots.

-Make the game more of a half court slow down game. In basketball its not all about running and gunning. The fast break should not be as effective and the floor general play calling should be put into use again. Teams who slow it down and call plays should get open shots and layups. Guys who want to go one on one should be penalized with misses and turnovers. It’s a team game.
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-CPU play more like there lifelike teams. Each team should have a style of play that the coaches use and the players fit into that style. When playing against duke or nc state they should be a slow it down team and beat you with perimeter shooting, but while playing UNC they will beat you in transition with there athletes. Each player should have a tendency on what they like to do.
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-PG goes backcourt sometimes when you pass to the high post or top of the key. I don’t know why he does it but has caused me to turn it over when trying to pass it back to him.
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-NCAA tournament atmosphere. It should feel different when you are playing in the NCAA tournament and the players should show more emotion.
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-NCAA tournament and Conference tournament arenas. I think each conference should have the actual arena it usually has there tournament at. Each 1st and 2nd round game along with the regionals should have real arenas where games have been played. Another annoying thing about these games, the whole crowd is either for one team or the other. This is not right, because most of the time there are 4 or more different teams at an arena and some people are just there to watch the games that came to there city. Usually in a 20,000 person arena only 5 or 6 thousand or for a certain team.


-More pre game strategy. The ability to pack in a zone or make it wider should be available and if you want to double the low post. Also if you want to deny the passes and if you want to front the low post or play behind it.



Thats about all I can think of now, but Im sure are more.

[gptp20]

and they need to fix the dynasty there are WAYYYYyyyyyy too many highly rated recruits after a couple of years damn near every team is an a plus...