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NBA 2K14: the Euroleague question

Posted on July 3, 2013 at 05:20 AM.

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The 14 teams of Euroleague in NBA2K14 are a great idea, anticipating a future where the NBA will be global and perhaps placing some European teams.

However, in my view, the extra teams, like the classic teams or how, precisely, these Euroleague teams, must be placed within a challenge, as in NBA2K11 where classic teams were within the Jordan Challenge, recreating the atmosphere of the ' 91 Finals against the Lakers, or the challenges against the Bad Boys, or those against Utah and so on.

I played a lot with Bulls classic teams in NBA2K11 because there was the challenge. I have not played at all with classic teams at NBA2K12 and NBA2K12 because there was no challenge. Just friendly matches.

European Basketball is very different from the American one: not only do 14 Euroleague teams, but this is done so that it is recreated the climate of European challenges. In Europe fans are EXTREMELY HOT, don't eat hamburgers as the American one placidly sitting on chairs. In Europe there are the "curva", a portion of the stadium where there is rooting more unleashed, where there's smoke, banners and choruses, for each player for each team, as it happens in soccer.

This is the Euroleague

So the idea of putting 14 Euroleague teams in NBA2K14 is phenomenal, however would be incredibly powerless Cassie in a challenge, for example, between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Barcelona, there was in the stadium an audience unmoved that simply say an American "Defense, Defense". This would ruin everything and it would not make sense in a European context.

So I hope that with these 14 Euroleague teams have the opportunity to make a challenge, where he recreates the hot and noised European stadium climate. It would be great if, like challenge, we could be playing the Euroleague Final Four. With smoke, banners and choirs in the palace. The European fan is totally different from the ameican one and in the context of sports, this simulation for the Euroleague is crucial.

Comments

# 1 Barbatrucco @ Jul 3

I hope this 14 team are only the begin of something big will happen in the next few year, i mean something like Red Dead Redemption-Undead Nightmare.
In October NBA2K realease the NBA version and in spring, when in Europe there are the Euroleague Final Four, release a stand-alone game about Euroleague.