Love the sliders but I agree about defensive awareness. I can easily blow by defenders and sprint past them and score in the paint. I’ve actually raised defensive awareness of the CPU to 100 and it’s yielding much better results and not as easy to just run past a defender or even at times seeing a CPU defender standing there not defending.
May also have something to do with hustle. So I also changed hustle to a 65/55 setting. Felt it was still good in terms of fast breaks but not too easy.
Lastly, I played around with global tendency edits and raised contested shot 3 by +40 and shoot 3 to a global 75 for every player and it also helped the flow better without allowing for a disjointed game in terms of shot selection or any unnatural play.