Category Archives: Cavs

Taking a look at how the Cavaliers are rated in this year’s crop of NBA video games

So I’ve got Cavs fever on this sunny Tuesday afternoon. Sue me.

Earlier today we took a look at Kevin Love’s unorthodox free throw form in the recently-released NBA Live 2016 demo. I don’t really know why everyone is so shocked by these glitches, we all know Live hasn’t been relevant since you were bumping to Chingy’s “Right Thurr” while navigating the menus like a decade ago. But whatever. The ratings for this year’s batch of hoops games have all finally been released. Judge away.


 

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NBA 2K16

Players in the top 10 in the game at their positions:

PG

  1. Stephen Curry – Golden State Warriors – Overall 93
  2. Chris Paul – LA Clippers – 90
  3. Russell Westbrook – Oklahoma City Thunder – 89
  4. Kyrie Irving – Cleveland Cavaliers – 87
  5. John Wall – Washington Wizards – 87
  6. Damian Lillard – Portland Trail Blazers – 86
  7. Mike Conley – Memphis Grizzlies – 85
  8. Derrick Rose – Chicago Bulls – 84
  9. Kyle Lowry – Toronto Raptors – 83
  10. Jeff Teague – Atlanta Hawks – 83

SF

  1. LeBron James – Cleveland Cavaliers – 94
  2. Kevin Durant – Oklahoma City Thunder – 91
  3. Carmelo Anthony – New York Knicks – 88
  4. Kawhi Leonard – San Antonio Spurs – 87
  5. Paul George – Indiana Pacers – 86
  6. Gordon Hayward – Utah Jazz – 83
  7. Rudy Gay – Sacramento Kings – 83
  8. Andrew Wiggins – Minnesota Timberwolves – 80
  9. Giannis Antetokounmpo – Milwaukee Bucks – 79
  10. DeMarre Carroll – Toronto Raptors – 79

PF

  1. Anthony Davis – New Orleans Pelicans – 92
  2. Blake Griffin – LA Clippers – 88
  3. LeMarcus Aldridge – San Antonio Spurs – 88
  4. Tim Duncan – San Antonio Spurs – 87
  5. Pau Gasol – Chicago Bulls – 86
  6. Zach Randolph – Memphis Grizzlies – 84
  7. Chris Bosh – Miami Heat – 84
  8. Kevin Love – Cleveland Cavaliers – 84
  9. Dirk Nowitzki – Dallas Mavericks – 84
  10. Paul Millsap – Atlanta Hawks – 83

Top 5 Overall:

  1. James – Cavaliers – 94
  2. Curry – Warriors – 93
  3. James Harden – Houston Rockets – 92
  4. Davis – Pelicans – 92
  5. Durant – Thunder – 91

Full Cavaliers ratings:

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Full 2k16 ratings found here.

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NBA Live 16

Players in the top 5  in the game at their positions:

PG

  1. Paul – Clippers – 95
  2. Westbrook – Thunder – 94
  3. Curry – Warriors – 94
  4. Irving – Cavaliers – 90
  5. Wall – Wizards – 90
  6. Lillard – Blazers – 90

SF

  1. James – Cavaliers – 97
  2. Durant – Thunder – 96
  3. George – Pacers – 90
  4. Anthony – Knicks – 89
  5. Leonard – Spurs – 89

Top 5 Overall:

  1. James – Cavaliers – 97
  2. Durant – Thunder – 96
  3. Paul – Clippers – 95
  4. Harden – Rockets – 95
  5. Griffin – Clippers – 95
  6. Davis – Pelicans – 95
  7. Marc Gasol – Memphis Grizzlies – 95

(Mostly) Full Cavaliers Ratings:

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*#1 team in Eastern Conference

Full NBA Live 16 ratings found here.


 

Agree? Disagree? Let’s hear it @Bottlegate

NBA Live 16 demo features 75 foot free throws from Kevin Love

(Video doesn’t show the end result of the heave but we all know that was buckets)

Woooo! EA Sports really putting the old “no such thing as bad publicity” adage to the test here. Yes I know it’s a demo, the product is unfinished, yada yada yada. That gives you some wiggle room if someone steps out of bounds and it isn’t called, or if a player slides through another on a pick, or if Dion Waters passes the ball. Those are excusable for a basketball video game demo. But short of having the actual basketball missing, a player shooting at the wrong hoop on a FREE THROW is just about as bad as it gets. I was watching a re-run of that Rachel Ray cooking show last night that pits 12-year-old chefs against each other. A twelve year old kid was making rice. It came out too sticky. So he didn’t serve it. A twelve year old knew not to put out a product if it wasn’t up to par.

Free throw development team. One job guys. One job.

“Alright guys…today’s the day. Everyone go through your code. Should we have the only player doing anything at all in this particular moment of the game shoot at hoop 1 or hoop 2?”

“Let’s try……hoop…2?”

“F***.”

This isn’t even close to the only problem people are seeing with the NBA Live demo either. Check out these headshots….

There’s a ton more in this story from the Sporting News. Now I know player likenesses are never perfect. This is a video game after all. But I think maybe hair color and race are realistic goals for NBA Live 17. Shoot for the moon, EA.

Loose ball! JR Smith grabs it….

That’s…..well that’s actually pretty spot-on.

Power Move; Iman Shumpert Will Be Naming His Daughter Iman Shumpert

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Shump’s Instagram– When a man loves a woman how she was born to be loved…procreation is the best blessing you can receive! I couldn’t be more happy than to share my first child with the woman I intended to have my family with. Iman Tayla Shumpert Jr is expected to enter this world “1.16.16”. We want that world to be as pure as possible for her. We people, show the world what we feel the world should see when we want them to see it…something this beautiful had to be announced when we were ready for everyone to know…this is what happiness grows into! I love you @teyanataylor thank you for your sacrifice in starting our very own family! P.s. I know you see my daughter with her hand behind her head and her feet kicked up…😂😂…she’s already daddy’s little girl!!!


Love this move by Shump. Just saying “screw it” to all the social norms and deciding to give his newborn baby daughter the same name as her dad. I imagine his thinking was “if I’m not going to have a son to pass down my name, I’ll just give it to my daughter.” I’m totally onboard with this.

Apparently Iman is a name for both girls and guys according to this random person on Twitter who doesn’t follow me:

Not gonna lie though, this is a little weird, no? It’s like if Riley Cooper named his little girl… Riley.

I assume a few years from now this will cause some problems. Just imagine Teyana standing in the kitchen as the dishwasher is overflowing with water and she screams “Iman, get over here and fix the damn dishwasher!!” In runs little 3 year old girl Iman with a wrench ready to go.

Now kids aren’t in my near future but you better believe Shump just opened the door to name my daughter “Mike” if I ever have one (and no it’s not pronounced like the hot chick in Euro Trip)

Per Shump’s Instagram, this has to be the exact moment little Iman Jr was conceived, right?