i dont know if superstar would be better or not, but i DO know that my team (as it is now) can't hit outside shots that are contested AT ALL. unless i am wide-open, i'm normally not going to hit a shot. now against dm, it was a bit the other way, but i'm still not confident in any type of mid-range game.
i think that alone makes the game WORSE on superstar. i guess its 2 extremes. either you deal with great outside shooting even by mediocre players (superstar) or you have absolutely no outside game and it becomes a "who can get the most fast break points and dunks" game.
i dont know about you guys, but if someone triple teams my center, i should be killing people from outside. this is not the case. i'm not bitching about this or complaining (cause i'd do it too), but the last few games all anyone needs to do against me is pretty much triple team shaq down low and 1 of 3 things will happen:
1. ball is "stolen" on the entry pass
2. ball gets into shaq, then he is "tied" up, and by the time the pass gets to the open man, the D is there to smother him as well
3. ball gets to the open man, but he misses anyways
this isn't realistic to me. i'll admit the majority of my scoring came from fast breaks and lucky 3's. it's not even that shaq is "so dominant" stats wise. they modeled him terribly: he doesn't throw the ball down, he has no power downlow (i have posted up everyone from vlade divac to mike bibby and he can't move them back at all), and the "shot animations" the game chooses for him are simply ricockulous.
call this bitching if you like (it is), but that's the reality of the situation. i think sliders could fix most everything, but i guess that isn't a possibility. as it is now, shooting has nothing to do with skill but more of a luck game. doesn't seem like being opened or covered has much to do with it at all.
p.s. when shaq can guard T-mac at the 3 point line, and not only prevent him from driving, but strip the ball from him, guess what? the defense is broke as fizuuuuuuuuck