Anyone having a problem with SG and SF shot blocked often?

[alsldls]

Ive been using the Lakers in franchise mode and in every game Devean George and Kobe keeps getting blocked by the opposing SG and SF. last game I played the Grizzles, Mike Miller blocked Kobe 11 times!! and James Posey blocked George's shot 6 times. Its not like im being guarded by 6 ' 11" forwards but everytime these guys gets a hand up they block the shot. What am i doing wrong. I shouldnt have to shoot a fade away every time with kobe just to shoot the ball over an average defender without getting it blocked. By the way whenever I play Phoenix and Marion is guarding Bryant I might as well forget about shooting jump shots or he would probably lead the league in blocks.

[Colin]

that happened to me a lot with cpu shot control, I suggest trying out user and getting used to it if you have been using cpu.

[alsldls]

thanks for the tip, hope it works.

[AznBBoyX]

I hope you are not just trying to pull up and shoot right in their face without doing any moves or anything. Try fadeaways and crosses before you shoot.

[alsldls]

Ive tried it all fade aways, stutter steps , step back jumpers, free style and Picks but it seems any guard with decent height 6"5 + can block my shot and since they recover so lightning quick 80% of the time its a block.

[wangster]

I've been struggling against this also, so now I've just resigned to taking ONLY open jumpers. I've given up trying to shoot over defenders, even though it's an important art in real-life basketball.

[no.47]

i don't have that problem. maybe you don't give yourself enough space,when you shoot.

[1CenT]

this is an obvious problem.. just adjust your sliders to lower shot blocking to about 10ish .. i set mine at about 25..
shot blockin and layup/dunk blocking r diff sliders soo its all good..

i mean.. i'm using paul pierce/mcgrady/kobe and mike miller is blocking me when i hang and shoot over them.. now i'm limited to open jumpers which kinda makes my shooting % a little high and make games a little easier and not as realistic.. have you seen kobe/mcgrady/iverson/pierce shoot only open jumpers in a game ? or have 1/2 of their in the face jumpers blocked? o well

[fgrep15]

yea and i even tried using pull ups like crossover then press shoot in the middle of it but you still get blocked......the defenders just jump too quickly to contest jumpers

[bballer22]

yeh thats the problem with NBA lives the players have too much balance, but if u look at NBA games there are not many shots taken by cossing over a guy, usualy the offencive player is moving and get the ball and jusy shoots it, if its a case of Isolation well then this is where balance comes in. For eg when TD get the bal in the low block (in NBA) and waits to see what the D will do, and if the D will try to go for a steel TD will just spin off that, but in NBA live the D CPU has such fast hands that u cant wait for nandyting!

[EGarrett]

If you can't get the computer off of you try upping your Freestyle Effectiveness sliders or lowering the computers On-Ball Physical Defense and Fakeout Discipline.

As said you can also lower shotblocking.

I usually go all the way to the basket or post-up and fade before shooting.

[sccommish]

I was having the same issue. I reduced all blocking and jumping ratings of all players. This seems to have helped the issue. I used the 2003 toolkit to change the ratings. It did not seem to affect the abilities when on offense, so I'm satisfied with the changes. I hope this helps.

sccommish

[EGarrett]

Wouldn't it have been easier to just drop the shotblocking sliders down? I don't understand why you wouldn't do that first.

[Dave C.]

Wouldn't it have been easier to just drop the shotblocking sliders down? I don't understand why you wouldn't do that first.

I have the same problem with the blocks altough i set my blocking slider to 0.
Blocks even with real shotblockers like big ben is no issue for me (inside even with a high block slider setting) but everytime i'm on the wing tryin to shoot a jumper my sg gets killed (usually get blocked in a match about 5-7 times)

Think i'll reduce the jumping rating for all too , thought about that too and hope that will help me

[oboeguy]

I play in lowly All-Star mode and don't have that problem. Once in a while the CPU gets a ridiculous block when I dish from the post to a wide-open man, but it's not like it happens every game (and that's even when i play with the Knicks, were I shoot jumpers 80% of the time).

[EGarrett]

Did you set the CPU shotblocking slider to 0?

If you do that...adjust your freestyle moves to be more effective and still can't get a shot off you need to play at a lower difficulty level.

[sccommish]

Reducing the blocking sliders did not really address the issue, for me at least. It was only after I adjusted the ratings in the .dbf file that I got staisfactory results. Players like Kobe, Carter and McGrady still get some blocks, but not almost every time. I'm satified with my adjustments.

sccommish

[Dave C.]

Reducing the blocking sliders did not really address the issue, for me at least. It was only after I adjusted the ratings in the .dbf file that I got staisfactory results. Players like Kobe, Carter and McGrady still get some blocks, but not almost every time. I'm satified with my adjustments.

sccommish

Same for me have the block slider raised at 20 and lowered the jump rating and now its just fine .

Anyways the problem is that even if blocking is at 50 i have no problem with the blocks inside just on the outside.
But the jump rating solved my problems.

[alsldls]

AS far as this game goes " getting a hand in the face" means a blocked shot for the CPU guards/forwards. I can't do any catch and shoot with my guard inside the 3 point arc. Just to test this I tried a bunch of catch and shoot attempts with Kobe during a game against detroit going up against Rip Hamilton. Hamilton had 13 blocks!!, Im like WTF this guy is not a great defender or shot blocker and he was even blocking fade aways. I really dont know what to do its just so annoying.

[Dave C.]

AS far as this game goes " getting a hand in the face" means a blocked shot for the CPU guards/forwards. I can't do any catch and shoot with my guard inside the 3 point arc. Just to test this I tried a bunch of catch and shoot attempts with Kobe during a game against detroit going up against Rip Hamilton. Hamilton had 13 blocks!!, Im like WTF this guy is not a great defender or shot blocker and he was even blocking fade aways. I really dont know what to do its just so annoying.

I had the same problem.
Blocking slider i have at 20 and lowered all jump ratings about 30 points.

Not a great method but it solves my problem , and good shotblockers (inside) get still their blocks.

[Leander]

I agree, SGs getting blocked is annoying. Allan Houston should be the Knicks' leading scorer but it is difficult to score with him. You can even fake, the defender jumps, take the shot while he is in the air but even then the shot gets blocked as the defender lands and jumps again within a tenth of a second...it is so ridiculous.

[berisimo]

with all the players i have been playing so far
radmanovich is the best player for 3 point(finished the season with 50 %
and got maybe 3 blocks in all season!!!!)
try him youll be surprised.
i didnt changr cpu/user slider at all

[fieroavian]

when was the last time you saw Jason Kidd having 17 blocked shots?

that's what he had on my Chauncey Billups and Chucky Atkins...

and to add insult to injury, the player would stand like an idiot for a second, after he got blocked ...... rrrrrrahhhhhhh...

[Ruff Ryder]

Maybe your not releasing your shot at the best point.

[Colin]

Maybe your not releasing your shot at the best point.

That's probably it, you probably release it when your player is at the top of the jump, so he actually releases it on the way down, try releasing a little bit earlier.