Yesterday, I went to my local Best Buy and noticed that they had ESPN NBA 2K5 on sale. On sale???!!!! The game is already $20.00 and it was on sale for $15.00. So without hesitation I decided to pick it up. When I got home I played a couple of games offline and then jumped into the online arena. The first couple of challenges that I received were from people who wanted to play as.........You guessed it newly crown NBA champs the Detroit Pistons, as a matter of fact, the first 4 challenges I received were from people who were using the Pistons. It's not that I am scared to play against the Pistons, but the fact that people wanted to play the "new guy" with a 0-0 record and use the current NBA champs against the New look Lakers is absurd. I have been a Laker fan since I was 13 and I am now 27 and when the constructed their "Supersquad" last year I purposely didn't pick up ESPN NBA 2K4 because I will not use another team and I didn't think it would be fair to use a team online as stacked as the Lakers were, it just wasn't fair. When I finally got into a game it was my Lakers against some guy or gal name playin4life and their Supersonics. The game started off pretty good as we traded buckets. All of a sudden in the 2nd quarter he proceeded to shoot nothing but 3 point shots with Ray Allen and the worst part was he hit three out of every four he put up. I still tried to hang in there though but once my starters had to go out because of fatigue he was up by ten. When I got my starters back in he still shot those threes. To make an already long story short I lost because when he knew he wasn't going to blow me out he started shooting unrealistic threes because he knew the shots would fall, and this problem plagues many online games. People just have no sense of Sportsmanship now does make it fun to play through that nonsense and come away a winner, but you get sour when people do it eveytime you get in a match. Another perfect example is Guilty Gear X2 #Reload, for some reason 75% of the online matches you will run into will be against people using Ky-Kiske or Sol Badguy. It's true they are very noob friendly, but it's also true esspecially in Sol's case that their unbalance in comparison to the rest of the cast. People like this and the one's who use cheat devices online need to stop and save that for their offline games.