Oh man, I could start to cry when I read what you write in here...
1) IMO the graphic isn't that good...nevertheless being it screens taken as described of a video for PS2. But look at the gear of Dirk an Jason Kidd. Nobody in the Nba has such shorts as Kidd. And Nowitzki looks more like Thomas Gottschalk.
2) Fast-breaks. Look into the stats of a NBA game. You will usually see 7-12 fast-break points by team per match. When I hear now there have been many fast-breaks I get angry. In my 12 min quarter games I got 30-40 points through fast-breaks. And they didn't work on that crap. And that has nothing to do with run-and-gun. Run-and-gun is not a fast-break like you can see it in NBA Live. There always 2-3 man start and are 4 times faster then the defense and get the open shot. Take a look at a whole NBA match and you will see that happening about 5 times for each team. Not like in Live, where every defensive rebound is a potential fast-break with no defender between you and the basket.
3) I wanna play basketball. With that silly play-for-a-headband and those other buying-features playing basketball gets into the background. I simply wanna play ball. A whole 82 games season, with 12 min quarters, realistic results, trades, statistics etc. After that season I want realistic FA signings, trades, player-improvements, rookies, etc. Non of these features was there in Live '03.
I don't want to take away all the anticipation you had, but mine is going to "0". And that is caused by EA. I don't need such crappy new features, where I can get old shoes of Jordan, when Steve or Dahl (no attack on the other patchers, simply two examples), will have to remake them because they look too silly.
I want a basketball game. And I want that since 5 years. And I didn't get it. Despite removing the failures EA makes new crap...sorry, but that's my opinion and don't spend to much hope on the sliders. Ask the people of NHL 2002 that wanted a realistic game. They had sliders. And they helped nothing...
"Thank you" EA
, what a game, i'm not that much bothered by the sliding and stuff, and even less by the 3ft. "box" when the ball goes outta bounds(of curz it's a lil les realistic but heck, u cant have everything), and fast breaks actually happen a lot, no offence to you at all andreas 
, but if everyone is gonna complain with every fast break djeez man, you cant expect to have just one fastbreak in a game 
, this is the way the ballgame is played these years, lots of running and gunning, and also the difficulty was starter i think, so for now i'm satisfied with the score after one quarter even if its only five min quarters. There was one block in the vid though,if im right vince blocked james one time in the 1-on-1, the jumping thing will hopefully be improved but so far the games looks great i think
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, but for one reason i just like the way the game is showed better on such a video then on my own pc(graphics and gameplay), though my pc is quite heavy and up to date(pentium4, enough ram :p, only my gforce is a gforce 2 but ow well 
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and then someone can make a Menu Tweak not the whole thing but make the Live 2003 logo and change it to the nba live 2004 LOGO and change the LEFT SIDE of the Interface and replace that giant Metallic part crap with an NBA Logo! It would make people jealous and go "YOU GOT NBA LLIVE 2004?!" 
