v1.08 released...

[Andrew]

Sir Andrew, in case you still have time, maybe you can edit the opening night roster too (i.e. travis best jersey number should be 6 instead of 3, eddie grifin should be 41 instead of 33, bruno sundov should be 14 instead of 41, and shandon anderson should be in the knicks opening night roster). Thanks.

That's something I've been meaning to do for a couple of updates now. I've got it marked down for v1.09, so I'll definitely do it this time.

[doctor j]

the patch is coming out this week ?

[doctor j]

Camby Improved him self lately very much with average of:

14.0 points, 15.7 rebounds, 4.7 assists, 4.33 blocks and 1.33 steals

So I Think You sould consider that...

[!Luol!]

Relax doctor j, Camby has been playing well the last 5 games, everyone has hot streaks.

Andrew, Kenyon Martin is 23rd in the L but has a steal rating of 48, behind Ben Wallace (62 steal rating) who is 27th in the L.

Just thought I'd let you know

[!Luol!]

Sorry, accidentally posed the message without finish . Maybe you could raise Kenyon's steal to high 60s?

Good job though Andrew, keep up the good work

[Jona]

Next time you could edit your previous message.

[Andrew]

the patch is coming out this week ?

Yes, I believe I already said that a few posts ago.

Thanks for the latest suggestions.

[FanOfAll]

Chris Bosh is hitting his jumpers at a 41.7% clip (I've seen him catch, turn and shoot from 17 with hand in face and make it a lot, superb shooter for a big):
FG to 68
Ball handling to 42 (solid big man w/the ball)
OAware to 76
DAware to 68 (not a great defender, but not bad at all)
Quickness to 68 (he loves catching the ball 15 - 17 feet away from the basket and either taking that jumper I was talking about earlier, or pump faking and blowing by his man).
Shooting range to 23.
Dunking down to 72.

[doctor j]

Chris Bosh is hitting his jumpers at a 41.7% clip (I've seen him catch, turn and shoot from 17 with hand in face and make it a lot, superb shooter for a big):
FG to 68
Ball handling to 42 (solid big man w/the ball)
OAware to 76
DAware to 68 (not a great defender, but not bad at all)
Quickness to 68 (he loves catching the ball 15 - 17 feet away from the basket and either taking that jumper I was talking about earlier, or pump faking and blowing by his man).
Shooting range to 23.
Dunking down to 72.

I Disagree on the dunks I think is dunk sould stay 82 or at list 80!

[doctor j]

how come brian cardinal so low in the defense?
is def aware sould be like 80+
and is steal sould be 70+
and so is FG and THREE shot

he is very good player

[y2dan]

how come brian cardinal so low in the defense?
is def aware sould be like 80+
and is steal sould be 70+
and so is FG and THREE shot

he is very good player

He is an okay player. He isn't that great of a defensive player. He's very slow (even for a PF/C) and he doesn't have very good lateral quickness. He doesn't really block shots and I don't think he serves to be a 70 in stealing. And I also think 80 defensive awarness is too high. A rating of 80 or above should be saved for the "elite" defensive players in the NBA, like the Bowen's, Artest's, etc. As for his FG and 3-pointer, they are both relatively high in Andrew's most recent update.

You also got to take into account that he's playing a lot of minutes with Gasol and Swift both injuried. Once both of them get back into the lineup, he'll go back to averaging his 20 minutes a night.

[Jona]

Nazr Mohammed is playing now with number 2, not 13.

[Andrew]

Thanks for the latest. I thought I'd corrected Nazr's jersey # in 1.08, guess I missed it. Easily fixed, of course.

[FanOfAll]

Hopefully I can squeeze in a few more:
Nikoloz Tskitishvilli (sp) is a wonderful shooter. People raved about his shooting at the 2004 Rocky Mountin Revue. From Hoopshype, "Quite skilled on the offensive end... Has good shooting stroke and looks good facing the basket". From his NbaDraft.net profile, "Can shoot from long range". His FG deserves at least a 70 and 3 pt around 62. OReb down to 40, dunking down to 38, ball handling up to 28. Inside scoring to 54 (despite good post scoring in Europe, that game has never developed here in the US). Range to 25.

Pietrus hits his jumpers at 39%. He's a top notch spot up shooter, just struggles creating his own shot. Both FG and 3 pt to 70.

Troy Murphy is a superb jump shooting big man. (41% on jumpers). FG to 66/67, 3 pt (41%, almost 1 made every 2 games), to 58.

Foyle has improved drastically as a jump shooter. The stats might not reflect it, but I've seen him knock down open jumpers numerous times.
FG to 50.
Blocks should be lowered to the low 90's.
Steals increased to 30's - he doesn't get a lot, but he has very active hands that are always tipping balls away or grabbing loose balls.
He's not a great offensive rebounder, so OReb down to 75.
Solid defender, DAware to 65.
Quick + speed to low 50's.

Jason Richardson has hit the last 27 of his 47 3's or some ridiculous number like that. Either way, going back to the Feb 15th game aqainst Dallas, he has hit no less than 2 3's a game (which only happened once) and has shot them at no less than 37.5%!
3 pt rating up to 74.
Also averaging 6.3 boards/game this year and 6.7 last year, so I think his OReb deserves an 8 pt boost and his DReb a 12 pt boost.
Ball handling up 15 points (he has improved this immensely the last 2 years) to 63.
Improved defender (like his shooting, passing, and ball handling, this has improved a lot the last 2 years) and does not merit a 54 rating. Should be around 64.
Strength down to 56.
You can compensate for these numerous increases by lowering his fatigue, since 80 is a very high #.

As well as Baron Davis has played of late, he's been chucking and bricking 3's by the half-dozen. Lower his 3 pt rating to 67 and FG to 75 (not taking off too much because he's still shaking off the rust and getting in shape).

Lower Rodney White's dunk rating to 68.

Andris Biedrins is a center.

Edit: One last thing, Matt Bonner has red hair.

[mvv]

is lebron's rebound rating too high?i always get him at 10 rebounds a game, and only 6 assists a game, for both simulation and actual playing (12 minutes), .but his stats show assist average (7.6) should be greater than rebound average (7.0)..

[Andrew]

It's not too late, still time to squeeze in a few more suggestions and corrections.

[LegoTP]

Andrew, in your Opening Night Roster, Brian Cook is playing with the number 7. He's playing with the number 43, doesn't he ? Or maybe you changed it, because I kept your 1st version of your Opening Night Roster.

And yeah, Matt Bonner has red hair (not too much I think) but it's hard to do it with NBA Live 2005's poor editor...

[doctor j]

Andrew, in your Opening Night Roster, Brian Cook is playing with the number 7. He's playing with the number 43, doesn't he ? Or maybe you changed it, because I kept your 1st version of your Opening Night Roster.

And yeah, Matt Bonner has red hair (not too much I think) but it's hard to do it with NBA Live 2005's poor editor...

he is right is hair is red a bit...

[xplicit]

Butler's field goal and freethrow should be increased. He's shooting .884 percent from charity stripe and his mid range jumpers are deadly. He can knock them down with consistency. Also, chucky atkins is a three point gunner his threes and field goal should be slightly increased. Jumaine Jone's three's and field goal should be increased also because he's the main guy on the Lakers that they defer to for threes, because he can knock down the open threes. Kobe's three should be increased because he can hit those threes with defender guarding him closely. Odom's field goal is way to low for him he can make 20 footers with ease. Kobe's passing should be increased slightly since he's leading the team with assist, can make excellent passes, but chucky has a better passing than him. Odom's hardiness should be increased since he's healthier now and haven't been injured in this season. Odom's and Butler's threes should be in the 60's and chris mihm's field goal should be in the 60's along with raising his inside scoring to about 70 or so. He's not the best center i nthe league, but he's solid. Butler's stealing should be increased to 75 or so and his defensive awareness because he's aware of when to intercept the steals.

[Andrew]

Andrew, in your Opening Night Roster, Brian Cook is playing with the number 7. He's playing with the number 43, doesn't he ? Or maybe you changed it, because I kept your 1st version of your Opening Night Roster.

And yeah, Matt Bonner has red hair (not too much I think) but it's hard to do it with NBA Live 2005's poor editor...

I might have corrected it, but I am going to update the opening night roster in this update.

[y2dan]

You got quite a bit of work ahead of you, Andrew.

Hehe.

[Andrew]

Not really. It's just a matter of reverting the rosters from the current update and changing a few jersey numbers for players who have been traded.

[y2dan]

Another suggestion:

Matt Bonner (Raptors): He's been shooting the ball pretty consistently from the 3-point line all year. Hit 3 of them tonight, I think he could probably use a boost in his 3-point rating to maybe a high-50, low-60.

[Andrew]

Noted.

[King_James88]

is lebron's rebound rating too high?i always get him at 10 rebounds a game, and only 6 assists a game, for both simulation and actual playing (12 minutes), .but his stats show assist average (7.6) should be greater than rebound average (7.0)..

I don't think it's too high. I think it's perfect. Maybe it's the way you play. Maybe you always use him for rebounding, maybe that's why he got many rebs, including the tip-ins.