I've read the in depth review of Live 08 yesterday by Shawn Dotar. I practiced first, noticed that superstars doesn't miss a shot in practice mode, maybe 9-10. so I had a hunch of playing a big player with sub par stats. I picked E. Batista on the free agents. His stats FG-50 3PT-0 FT-below 60 or so. So I started to shoot from 3 point range which is out of his HOT ZONES range according to the charts. hehe

In fact his zone is all blue. Meaning he can't shoot from anywhere. What do you think would happen? He wound't make a shot from 3 points isn't it. Almost every shot i took from 3 went in, maybe 7-10. Oh my goodness theres a bug here?! And to sum it up I played a 1 on 1 game last night, E. Batista from the free agents versus Duncan. guess what happened, I drained 3 consecutive shots from 3 to start coz he ain't guarding me there at first. but after that he started to guard me from anywhere which made me miss, the scores got close 10-10, i went in and out offensively whatever his defense gave me. last posession win by 2 points he left me open again. SWISSSHHH!! I made the clutch 3 point shot, nothing but net. You woudn't think that would happen in the real thing though. not considering a player Overall of about 50 beating a player of 95+ overall. Yep. EA does it again... ALL FOR THE PROMOTIONS OF ADDING A NEW GAMEPLAY BUT ISN'T ACTUALLY TRUE. THEY FIXED THE BUGS OF LAST YEAR YEAH, primacy is good but the thing is they don't miss a shot almost like last year. Unstoppable layup underneath the basket is you stayed there and back down your opponent even with the point guard like Daniel Gibson against all of the SPURS defense.
this answers the average of players scoring heavily. primacy of superstars are high. so they take a lot of shots. It's hard to stop them, even if u jump in their face they'd still make the fade away shot. no time for defense, AI guards always double team big men down low. 1 open pass from any player outside the 3, swisshhh. Like E. BATISTA. Power forwards 50 overall, NO HOTZONES but still manages to drain shots. Big man assists so well, now you know why. Did you notice it's easy to steal the ball in bounds now. Just been playing for a few days and a lot of bugs, what more when i play the dynasty for a season. whew, waste of time. it doesn't feel good to drain a winning basket with a sub par player against a superstar defender. talk about HOT ZONES men.
SORRY FOR THE LONG POST, i hope i figured out most of the bugs.
I still like NBA LIVE '05. graphics and gameplay is so good, defense is good. Hard to win against a human player with a good team VERSUS a sub par team. even with the AI.