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NBA Live 2004 (or 2005 I forgot) is the first one for me. Peja is deadass deadly (ofc other than Shaq just dunking every game). Kings is the best team practically mainly due to Peja +White chocolate, it's three for days. The 2nd option is to use smart trading technique to land Peja at Heat, Peja+Shaq is just deadly inside outside combo. Plus Heat should also has Rasual Butler with like 90 3pt also, sure his other stat is shit, but you really only need the 3pt stat anyway. That's your core.

Legit just shot 3’s as a kid in the mid 2000’s because for every two 3’s I made, they had to make 3 two’s

I always want to say this but feel like I'd be mocked lol.

It is just a game so it wasn't realistic, but 5 out with heavy rotations on defense and aggressive help defense to force turnovers was always my jam in the 2000 2k days. It's just that I found it unrealistic for them to do in real life until they did it. I'm not sure it was a talent thing as much of a coaching thing that teams didn't go down this route faster.

Similarly playing 2k like Presti does.

Simulation is a helpful tool in a lot of sectors like aviation and marine, so this shouldn't be very surprising

The second part is pretty crucial. I remember the days where people complianed how hard and inefficient post ups were in Live and 2K series. Guess what, it was also inefficient in RL, just people noticed it a lot later.

Bro I was 12 and in fantasy draft took all shooters and a couple massive dudes to get some boards so I could jack up more triples.

The Magic was starting to form and they were so fun. They were like a prototype for the 3 eccentric game. Even as a Lakers fan I still would occasionally play with the Magic because drive with Jameer kick to Rashard Lewis was deadly af. Then reset it all when Dwight got the board.

I remember starting Jameer, JJ, Hedo, Rashard and Dwight it was literally drive and kick none stop

I was ahead of the curve playing with Steve Nash in Live 2003. I basically had him doing Steph Curry's career back then. He was way too good of a shooter not to just fire away.

The video game counterpart of that 02-03 Mavs team was a modern NBA dream. Dirk obviously goes without saying but Raef LaFrentz was a 3&D center and you legitimately could play 5-out with them. They had shooters everywhere on the wings too.