Cheap NBA 2K10

Maybe it's because I've been an NBA Live guy for most of my life. But after playing halfway through a season on 2k10, I hated the game so much I just threw it away. The gameplay is baffling in its clumsiness. So much so that I don't understand how this project made its way pass the experimental phase. Pass the ball to a player, and the player doesn't actually receive the ball at that spot he was standing. Instead, he moves to some other spot ... not by your own control ... which can, at the least, upset your plans through the flow of the game or, at worst, lead to unwarranted turnovers. I've had players receive the ball by the baseline only to immediately run out of bounds and turn the ball over. Repeatedly, I'll try to move a player two steps only to have him take three or four and run out of bounds. It looks like the designers were trying to give the avatars a semblence of dramatic action, something like, "Whoa! I'm moving so fast I can't keep myself within bounds!" or "That pass was thrown so hard I had to take two steps just get it under control!" The effect ranges from silly to shotty. On defense, if you bump your opponent when he's close to the halfcourt line, you can literally push him back across the line and get a backcourt violation with no foul. But just realize, you can have that done to you too. Most fouls are called simply for jumping straight up when your opponent is taking a shot, and replays often show little more than a finger grazing the shooter. It's as if defense is strongly discouraged. And for some reason, making lay-ups are extremely difficult, despite the fact that it's a little too easy to get into the lane. (Should I really be doing crossovers and spin moves with Chris "Birdman" Andersen?)And there aren't any alley-oops either, at least as far as I can tell. If basketball isn't really a game you're passionate about and you just want to play something set on easy just to kill time, I can see how NBA 2k10 can fill that need for $15 or so. That's not a bad deal. Otherwise, its gameplay is amature at best. I'd rather play Live 95 on the original playstation before wasting anymore of my life with this game. At least the antiquated technology of the first PS will allow me to understand why I feel so underwhelmed when I'm playing.Get more detail about NBA 2K10.