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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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(/u/yyy2k)

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.