I just realize, upon visit of this thread and seeing my post, I placed all the cheats NBA Live 2005 played on you to defeat your team when you got ahead.
The other part to complete is, that to try fool you into trying again, it does cheats in your favor if you've found it hard to get past AI's defense, so when the end approaches, and until one minute and half or two after getting ahead for first time, the AI team starts to miss a lot of shots and you find that your favorite play with your pivot that didn't work mysteriously begins to work and that the period of wrist back when releasing the button means the shot will go in lasts for a lot of the jump, making it very easy to start chugging 3pointers.
So, what's the way to win matches?. Let the AI get ahead, by more than 10 points, then at some point near the end, some time in the last five minutes, start the three pointer and slam fest. But careful, you shall not get ahead until the last minute, or the AI starts the cheats so you lose.
It's so true that in superhuman, level at which the cheats work, I only won the matches I had trouble to keep up and lagged more than ten points behind.
So yeah. NBA Live will never return to my computer.