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NBA Live 15 Player Ratings Revealed - Top 5 Defenders

02:59 PM - October 2, 2014 by Steve_OS

EA Sports has just released their NBA Live 15 player ratings for the top 5 defenders in the game. How does your top 5 list look compared to this one?

Kawhi Leonard - 95 DEF
Tony Allen - 95 DEF
Patrick Beverley - 95 DEF
Andre Iguodala - 92 DEF
LeBron James - 91 DEF

Below is the release date schedule for the rest of the ratings and links to those that have already released.

9/23 - Top 5 PGs (Released)
9/24 – Top 5 SGs (Released)
9/25 – Top 6 SFs (Released)
9/26 – Top 5 PFs (Released)
9/27 – Top 5 Cs (Released)
9/28 – Top 5 3Pt Shooters (Released)
9/29 – Top 5 Dunkers (Released)
9/30 – Top 5 Ballhandlers (Released)
10/1 – Top 5 Shot Blockers (Released)
10/2 – Top 5 Overall Defenders (Released)
10/3 – Top 5 Scoring Threats
10/4 – Top 5 Rookies
10/5 – Top 5 Passers
10/6 – Top 5 Rebounders
10/7 – Top 5 Steal Threats
10/8 – Top 5 Fastest Players
10/9 – Top 5 Dynamic Duos
10/10 – Top 5 6th Men
10/11 – Full Team Ratings (Atlantic Division)
10/12 – Full Team Ratings (Central Division)
10/13 – Full Team Ratings (Southeast Division)
10/14 – Full Team Ratings (Northwest Division)
10/15 – Full Team Ratings (Pacific Division)
10/16 – Full Team Ratings (Southwest Division)

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	Player ratings in NBA LIVE 15 will be updated throughout the regular season; and player tendencies, powered by Synergy Sports Technologies, are updated after each game throughout the NBA season. These updates allow NBA LIVE 15 to provide an experience that is constantly evolving as a player’s performance evolves based on what is happening in the real-world NBA.

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# 1 ifitbeginsitends @ 10/02/14 03:03 PM

Judging by the look in the players eyes theyre just as tired of this process as the rest of us. #GameplayPlease

# 2 NoTiCe_O @ 10/02/14 03:14 PM

LeBron's Body on Point.

# 3 The 24th Letter @ 10/02/14 03:19 PM

Oh, so you're just going to regress and throw some back shots in there shots Live?

I see how it is

# 4 da ThRONe @ 10/02/14 03:32 PM

Man that Patrick Beverley is crazy accurate.

# 5 titans321 @ 10/02/14 03:43 PM

Got so pumped to finally see a Grizzly and.......

# 6 nick_sr @ 10/02/14 03:56 PM

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Originally Posted by titans321


	Got so pumped to finally see a Grizzly and.......

A few more weeks lol #GritNGrind

# 7 Jano @ 10/02/14 04:14 PM

Now I'm having a hard time NOT assuming they are showing screenshots of player's backs because the faces aren't accurate

Oh Tiburon... smh

# 8 Rockie_Fresh88 @ 10/02/14 04:24 PM

Man Iggy is so on point.

# 9 Chocolate Chip @ 10/02/14 04:45 PM

no jimmy butler!!?

# 10 snocone @ 10/02/14 04:58 PM

Weird how there is only a generic defensive stat, would have prefered it to be broken down into more defensive sub-types since some guys are good at team defense, but terrible at man-2-man, etc

# 11 jdogg5807 @ 10/02/14 05:28 PM

No Paul George? What a joke.

# 12 BiggD @ 10/02/14 05:30 PM

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Originally Posted by jdogg5807


	No Paul George? What a joke.

I'd put him in the Jimmy Butler bracket.... Could easily replace either of those 2 with Iggy on this list

# 13 _Fernando @ 10/02/14 05:33 PM

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Originally Posted by snocone


	Weird how there is only a generic defensive stat, would have prefered it to be broken down into more defensive sub-types since some guys are good at team defense, but terrible at man-2-man, etc

We have a 'Help Defense' rating.

Which could be viewed as a team defense rating.

And the top 5 looks different for that list.

# 14 _Fernando @ 10/02/14 05:35 PM

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Originally Posted by jdogg5807


	No Paul George? What a joke.

PG was on the list but was removed due to injury.

I'll ask them to make a note of that.

# 15 Jakeness23 @ 10/02/14 05:38 PM

MKG should be up there. But I love how this game looks up close, I just wish it looked good from a broadcast angle. I also wish they didn't rate a bunch of people so high with their overalls. Seems like they just want to make the players happy with their ratings instead of making them more realistic. But if they play like their real-life counterpart, I guess that doesn't really matter so much. If they continue to build from this, then Live has a bright future, but for the love of everything, don't scrap it all and start from scratch AGAIN, whatever you do.

# 16 _Fernando @ 10/02/14 05:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Jakeness23


	MKG should be up there. But I love how this game looks up close, I just wish it looked good from a broadcast angle. I also wish they didn't rate a bunch of people so high with their overalls. Seems like they just want to make the players happy with their ratings instead of making them more realistic. But if they play like their real-life counterpart, I guess that doesn't really matter so much. If they continue to build from this, then Live has a bright future, but for the love of everything, don't scrap it all and start from scratch AGAIN, whatever you do.

I could see why you would think players are high but, we're only showing the best players.

Looking forward to your feedback when the season starts up.

# 17 snocone @ 10/02/14 06:54 PM

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Originally Posted by NBALIVE_Fernando


	We have a 'Help Defense' rating. Which could be viewed as a team defense rating. And the top 5 looks different for that list.

Thats good to hear, the attribute just being called "Defense" made me wonder

# 18 @marcusjiles @ 10/02/14 07:04 PM

I hope to whatever almighty power that they used this extra time to implement roster editing. Please oh please. The things I could do with this. WEW! lol

# 19 thedream2k13 @ 10/03/14 12:23 AM

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Originally Posted by NoTiCe_O


	LeBron's Body on Point.

Supposed fellow rocket fan and your comment is on lebrons body? Do you NOT see our guy Beverly right there??

# 20 Playmakers @ 10/03/14 12:41 AM

So since everything is being handled by Synergy I wonder if EA is taking this kind of data and utilizing it to rank the defenders

This was in reference to Chandler Parsons

"According to Synergy Sports, Parsons ranked 190th as an overall defender last season, allowing 0.88 points per possession. He ranked 219th in isolation (0.93) and 204th in post-up situations (0.94). Parsons was well above average guarding pick-and-roll ballhandlers, ranking 70th and allowing 0.74 points per possession."

This probably won't get a feedback but I'd love to know if Synergy will handle some of the defensive data in Live 15 (like it will for the offense)

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