Despite all the oddities that ruin the game, it's still a whole lot of fun.
It was not a BAD choice, but not far from it. You can enjoy the arcade style of basketball if you can look over the bugs and glitches that are all over the game. I went litteraly through a player once, even the replay showed it perfectly, through the man's chest... Sometimes I was running out of bounds with the ball, no whistle. A whole bunch of lay ups behind the board. Stuff like that that makes you scratch your head and think "how the heck can that happen? is that even possible?"
It has good graphics in HD (no great, good), some cool playing modes (less than 2k8, but still quite a few) and playing a game is enjoyable and fun. Even though sometimes the funniest thing in a game was a weird glitch in the game. The "practice" menu is kinda nice, although the menu itself is a pain to navigate through. If you don't have HD most of the writings are impossible to read.
So you can get a few hours of fun from this game if you're able to stand all those technical errors in the game.
Overall, it deserves a "fair" rating. 6.5 does the trick.