When you inbound the ball, wait for a defender to come up to you. While you still have your dribble, hold down R2 and press the direction pad as if you were dribbling up court. After you let go of R2, quickly press square, and then dribble up court the opposite way that you did at first. The defender will be faked out, and you will have an open path to the hoop!

There's a way to have the announcer announce your created player's name. Sort of. If your player's last name is the same as one already in the game, the game already has the sound file for that name and it will play it. For example: Ricky Pierce for Indiana is already in the game, so if you make "Paul Pierce" the rookie for the Boston Celtics, the announcer will say "Pierce does it again" or something like that.

When playing a game, if you hit triangle and circle (jump and shoot) when you have the ball down by your basket, you should do a hook shot.

To get the announcer to say a created players name then you must have the same name as one of the producers. To find out who the producers are, just create their team. Yes, you heard right. At the custom team screen enter your CITY as "Hitmen" and the NAME as one of these:

"Idlers"

"Earplugs"

"Pixels"

"Coders"

Type these names at the custom team screen:

Hitmen Rebounds

Hitmen Idlers

Hitmen Pixels

Hitmen Earplugs EA Europals

And this will activate these teams.