NBA Academy: Part One
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One of the most intriguing additions to NBA Live 09 is the NBA Academy. While this hasn’t gotten much fanfare after going through some of it at the community event I believed many people would find it to be extremely valuable. One thing that hasn’t been done is producing a full list of drills and showing how they are run so that is what I plan to do over the next few days.
The following drills are available in the NBA Academy: Fast Break Offense, Fast Break Defense, Pick and Roll Control Offense, Pick and Roll Control Defense, Offensive Rebounding, Defensive Rebounding, Low Post Offense, Low Post Defense, Quickstrike Offense, Quickstrike Defense, Offensive Lockdown, Defensive Lockdown, 5 on 5 Full Court Team Practice, 5 on 5 Half Court Team Practice, and 5 on 0 Half Court Team Practice.
An issue that remains from back at the event is that the players defaulted to for the start of each drill are random. Even though I was using the Blazers in the practice gym each time I loaded up a drill it was different players from different teams. In some cases the players involved don’t make much sense for the type of drill being run. This is something I was told would be fixed but apparently wasn’t.
In this first set of videos I’m showing the Fast Break Offense, Fast Break Defense, Pick and Roll Control Offense, and Pick and Roll Control Defense drills.
September 29, 2008 at 11:35 am
Sucks I can no longer see the videos from my work Comp. but NBA Academy sounds like it might be kind of coo….kinda like the Basketball camp that College Hoops had on it….
September 29, 2008 at 11:39 am
The academy reminds me of the drills from Madden…CAN be very useful. I’m digging Live’s animations. They are MUCH better than the previous year’s. I’ll have to try both Live and 2K9 this year.
September 29, 2008 at 11:40 am
how is this incorperated in franchise mode?… are these some of the drills you can go through to progress a player?
September 29, 2008 at 11:42 am
Nice videos
September 29, 2008 at 11:42 am
sounds cool cant wait to get your overall impressions of the final game hopefully before the release date lol!
September 29, 2008 at 11:46 am
I believe they are available in franchise, at least the team practices are. I’ll try to figure out for sure how they tie in.
September 29, 2008 at 11:57 am
Pasta, could you please list the team usa roster? And can you edit international rosters? Thanks!
September 29, 2008 at 11:59 am
Hey Pasta I played a couple more games on the demo and it seems it still doesnt really matter when u release on the shoot the animation will still be the same, I even held it sometimes without releasing the shoot button and shoots were still going in. Was there any change from the demo to your copy? Thanks in advance..
September 29, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Yeah I think so, I mean they’re going to have their sig shot regardless of how long you hold the button. I think however that shot trajectory is affected by that. Its tough for me to say at this point how much the timing affects shot success. I just played my first full game and pretty much got my ass kicked. The CPU shot something like 57% to my 38%.
September 29, 2008 at 12:15 pm
this is something that i really like about 09 i cant wait until i play it
September 29, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Game seems gimmicky to me. Instead of all these drills, which might be useful for some, Seems they should have focused on gamelay. Gameplay is better but it’s still a long ways away from from true B-ball IMO.
I promise you once everyone starts getting the bugs are gonna come in masses. Heck the demo has bugs. I’ve had players still playing OOB’s, seen a couple of weird ducks. I want Live to be good but I don’t no if I can take the $60 plunge until I know huge bugs don’t exist. Thanks for the Videos though, it helps some of us make a decision who might otherwise still be undecided.
September 29, 2008 at 12:25 pm
USA roster:
Dwight Howard
Amare Stoudemire
Lebron James
Kobe Bryant
Chris Paul
Chris Bosh
Dwyane Wade
Carmelo Anthony
Deron Williams
Jason Kidd
Tayshaun Prince
Michael Redd
September 29, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Pasta, since so much has changed in the nba since nba 2k9 was produced..do you think there will be a roster update…on October 7..any demo information and r you gettin 2k9 early 2..??
YO
September 29, 2008 at 12:32 pm
[quote comment="38866"]Yeah I think so, I mean they’re going to have their sig shot regardless of how long you hold the button. I think however that shot trajectory is affected by that. Its tough for me to say at this point how much the timing affects shot success. I just played my first full game and pretty much got my ass kicked. The CPU shot something like 57% to my 38%.[/quote]
Thanks for the reply.. By any chance will u be posting a full game today?
September 29, 2008 at 12:38 pm
Pasta, I haven’t played Live in a few years (except the 09 demo) and wanted to know what I can expect from the All-Star weekend stuff. 3pt Shootout and dunk contest? And is there an All-Star game to play during my franchise with the players voted in that I’ve been killing it with??? Just curious how EA does it. thx-
September 29, 2008 at 12:39 pm
One more thing…if you can put up a full game video, can you do it w/the baseline high camera angle? It’s the best perspective IMO………………………
September 29, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Thanks Pasta! Seems all accurate except for Amare! Last question, can you edit those “Special” FIBA and All-Star teams roster?
September 29, 2008 at 12:49 pm
So they didn’t put Boozer? Amare instead? Weird!
September 29, 2008 at 12:55 pm
pasta when u gonna put up some games (chi vs miami)
September 29, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Pasta,
Can you please list the songs of live or atleast some or the good ones?Thanks
September 29, 2008 at 1:09 pm
So Pasta is the game play a step up from last year? How do you feel about the game?
September 29, 2008 at 1:12 pm
I’ll have up a full game tonight. Also a Be a Pro video.
Yeah its improved, I still have mixed feelings about it though. I’ll lay those out within the next few days.
September 29, 2008 at 1:22 pm
Is 2k9 even releasing a demo this year? It has a release date of next week and still no demo.
September 29, 2008 at 1:30 pm
only ? I hav 4 PASTA ia can still play a SEASON using / playng wit ALL 30 TEAMS
I hate bein stuck wit 1 TEAM
I like 2 jump in & out of games like in the old lives I had
September 29, 2008 at 1:31 pm
actually game will B out thurs so DEMO def WON’T B out B4 da GAME
if it comes it will B afta da game
September 29, 2008 at 1:39 pm
Pick and roll defense controls drill has been taken down.
September 29, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Game comes out next week, the demo could come this week.
September 29, 2008 at 1:49 pm
@ di NOT 4 me i’ll hav BOTH games by this Friday
September 29, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Hey pasta, i just wanted to know if GO TO MOVES are still in the game?
September 29, 2008 at 1:59 pm
well for us regular people lol.
September 29, 2008 at 2:44 pm
dont listen 2 him DI he stay liyin, he get it from his man Jeremy.
September 29, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Pasta, in previous versions of Live it seemed that the game was more fluid in the practice gym than it was in the actual game. For example, in Live 07 the moves were pretty fluid when starting the game and shooting around in the practice gym but as soon as you hit the court for an actual game…..Well you know the rest. Do you get the sense that it’s like that this year meaning is the game more fluid in the practice gym than it is in a game or is it pretty consistent?
September 29, 2008 at 2:50 pm
First full game (tonight) I have will be Bulls @ Heat
Second game (tomorrow) will be Warriors @ Clippers
September 29, 2008 at 2:50 pm
HA HA HA DUTCH U STUPID he just MAD
cuz he CAN’T get it early like me i’m sorry ya’ll got it MAD LATE in TAMPA
September 29, 2008 at 3:05 pm
That pic is so gay, u should really change it =)
September 29, 2008 at 3:32 pm
So Pasta are you saying that the players that you use in NBA Academy are random and you can’t choose who plays the drills? Thanks…
September 29, 2008 at 4:29 pm
@ pasta curious as 2 why you deleted da last couple of post
itz NOT like any1 wuz arguin I just sed me & its britney are related
September 29, 2008 at 4:52 pm
nba2k on September 29th, 2008 3:19 pm Quote
Its Britney B!tch wrote:
That pic is so gay, u should really change it
=)
so iz urz
I didnt know pics of women were gay, rthanks for the heads up
September 29, 2008 at 7:27 pm
SARCASM FTW lol
September 29, 2008 at 7:42 pm
A ghey DON’T run on my side of da fam Britney wuz adopted lol
September 30, 2008 at 3:21 am
i dont mind random players for drills. how about the 5 on 5 scrimmage? is it random also?
September 30, 2008 at 11:40 am
this whole academy thing is such B.S.
anyone heard of the 2k Association Mode, they have had drills since nba 2k6.
January 18, 2009 at 11:16 pm
This would've been cool if the rebound drills weren't buggy and the low post defense weren't impossible to pass beyond level 1.