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?