How can I increase the effectiveness of a hand in the face?

[quasigenx]

I love the new slider system, but my #1 gripe about Live 2004 is that I can't seem to find a satisfactory slider setup that rewards you for taking the open shot while penalizing you for shooting with a hand in your face.

Of course, the game tends to gravitate in this direction out of the box, but I wish to make the difference even more extreme. Ideally, neither the CPU nor myself should be able to shoot over 10% with a defender jumping right in front of the shooter.

I play on superstar, and it seems that the CPU is too often making shots with a hand in their face, while I am too often missing wide open shots. This is not so much a problemn with "big scorers", but rather with the little guys.

For example, I don't have a problem hitting open shots with my 3 best shooters, but I would like the big man or the power forward on my team to be able to hit 40% of their WIDE OPEN jumpers. Meanwhile, the CPU is hitting all kinds of trash with any player, even when I am right up on them.

Anyone know what sliders to adjust? I have tried man-to-man defense, and of course the various shooting sliders. But these alone don't seem capable of simultaneously lowering the frequency of people hitting shots with a defender in their face AND also raising the wide-open shooting percentage.

[weed manus]

Increase the 'Shooting Foul' slider to your liking...start at 55 & if that's not enough increase by 5 each time...you'll begin to get fouled more when he throws his hand in your face...Good Luck!!

[Null17]

i dont think he wants to get fouled more when he takes a shot. i think the slider he's looking for concerns the shooter being less effective when a defender's hand is in the shooter's face. but i don't think such a slider exists

[weed manus]

Try raising the "Off. Awareness" for the player/s you're having problems hitting the shot with...

[Null17]

i think he's trouble with the ineffectiveness of the defense not the offnse

[Gripni]

lower offensive awareness for all players and raise fg

[Guest]

Get a black marker and write "AIRBALL" on the palm of your hand.
Forget adjusting the sliders and player ratings and just play the game, otherwise u will drive urself mad tweaking the sliders everytime u miss a shot or lose a game. The answer to ur thread question is height, simple.

If the cpu didnt hit all them crazy shots it would never win any games and almost certainly be any competition. Cos at the end of the day theres no such thing as 'AI', play the game enough and u will see the game is SCRIPTED as is every single other game ever invented. Bigger games equal bigger scripts and therefore seem a lot more lifelike and realistic, but at the end of the day, some programer somewhere has sat down and generated random code for every possible action or reaction that the game can take! My point is if the cpu dint, do shit, that left u dumb struck (like JKidd banking a half court double teamed shot to win Finals in an 82 game season i been playing for 8 months) then the game would be boring, theres no money in the cure, only the medicine.
Heres the worst and most frequent liddle script, 3rd quarter comebacks, oh yeah,,,u all know it, it goes like this..... they down 20, then off comes the glasses and there goes Clark Kent and YOUR team has turned into the pg tips monkeys, just stood around scratchin there asses and getting hit in the face with the rock, missing 15 wide open layups and then bingo, there back in the game. I know you think this happens in real life and it does, but not like that. In the real game the winner beats the other, by playing DEFENCE and NBALIVE cant do that cos its a program(its called that, because its been programed), all that happens is ur values go down and the cpu/losers go up.
You all know that your not really playing basketball, RIGHT

Ok, whos 1st?